Monday, June 17, 2013

keith bday - candles

more experimenting with the BIG brush markers from jan. they blend nicely. i didn't think there was a good one to blend with the purple, so i left that one without a second color.

sometimes we feel like we have to stick with a pattern and in this case, if i would have forced the purple to have a second color, it might have bothered me that there was no good combination and i settled for something i didn't like.
so the lesson is to allow inconsistencies when you have a good reason. sometimes having s couple items that don't quite fit is more interesting then everything being very regimented.

bad stamp choice. i have a very bad attachment to my stamps. i had some better ones...but i just couldn't part with them. now i hope that keith doesn't read my blog and wonder why i won't use my really good stamps on him. on the other hand, he has known me a while, so he probably understands why i don't put the primo stamps on some of his envelopes. i think it is because these were experiment envelopes and i was not making it for him from the beginning. he just happened to be the next person on my birthday list. so...who has a birthday coming up?

plus, it was a cheap envelope. i have trouble putting good stamps on cheap envelopes.

2 comments:

  1. Could you tell us(again, probably!) what size and brand these markers are, please? I'm in NY on holiday from Australia and would like to buy some.

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  2. Faber Castell Big Brush or Faber-Castell Big Pitt Brush. If you Google, you will see some nice sets on Amazon. Or they may be on the shelf at one of the art supply stores. I hope you find them, they are really nice.

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