More Meri Meri place cards

Just wanted to show the latest cute cards from Meri Meri. They have such a great imagination. Also a shot of my ink wells. It must be the holidays if you have red, green and black inks at the ready.

Three Pieces

This week I needed to complete 3 different "pieces" for 3 different ( and I mean different ) clients.
One was for a someone who wanted to give a gift to her friend that has a horse, one was for a girl who wanted wall art for her boyfriend about greed (Yikes!) and one was a gift from a man to his ex sister in law
who gave him one of her kidneys!!  I don't usually like these jobs because I actually have to think and most
of the time what people want to write about is strange to me but I am glad they like what I do but the hardest part is when they first see it. Will they like it:? Will they hate it? You calligraphers out there know what I am talking about....and then you wait while they read it and you are hoping you didn't miss a word or spell something wrong. Whew!
   On a side note, the one with the horse, the client specifically asked for the font "Legend" designed by

Ernst Schniedler. I never did it before. It is in the book "Written Letters" by Jacqueline Svaren.

The Difference

Living in Southern California, it never occurred to me that my greeting cards with horses saying Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas may have looked a little funny..they are standing in green grass...duh!

So I changed some of them to standing in snow and it looks a lot more like the holidays.

The most Original Place cards

The company Meri Meri does the cutest place cards. These I just did for someone's Thanksgiving
dinner. They come up with the best designs. Anyway, happy Voting Day! So glad the commercials are

over and the phone will stop ringing unless it's a calligraphy job of course!!

Escort Cards

This week I had 4 different escort card jobs. They were all relatively small ( around 80 per )

Each one was different. Italic in black on a black tent card. Copperplate in brown on a small thin card, Copperplate in black on a small square envelope and Rook in black on a large textured card. It just shows how different people's tastes are!

Custom Greeting Card

Wow I can't believe how fast the time goes. It's been over a month since I posted! Thanks to everyone who
comments. It means a lot!
Someone asked me if I could do a greeting card with their Yorkies on it and even though I can draw horses, I never considered trying dogs. She sent me some photos and here is the finished product.

Zentangle Fun

I have been having a lot of fun between jobs these days with this. It's fun because anything goes!