My plan is to take photos of the inside of the letters, too- but I sealed these ones before I decided to create this blog. Watch this space!
This piece of mail is going to Ontario, Canada. Alysia is a new penpal from the Postal Society. She chose me because we are the same age, both unmarried and without kids (which becomes rare when you are in your mid to late 20's.) I went for the standard brown cardstock because it' nice and thick, and I think always looks good. Also, the stock is thick enough for me to use my new Derwent water colour pencils I got for Christmas.
The back of the letter to Alysia. I'm new to using wax seals- my boyfriend bought me some traditional red, flexible wax from Notemaker for Christmas. It's quickly becoming my new favourite site! Bill also made me my own stamp, out of a 3/4 inch copper tap washer (he's an ingenious plumber!). He used a metal stamp kit to imprint my initials, and used a sharp tool to etch an envelope shape (though the envelope doesn't show up so great, so he may have needed to etch a little deeper.)
I've seen lots of handwritten fonts similar to this, so I thought I would try it too. I like the gold gel pen- it shows up just enough on the brown cardstock to lift the plain outlined text. It's just a cheapy gel pen from Typo. This envelope is going to my new friend in France, Celeste.
I used my new wax seal kit for the first time on Celeste's letter- note to self: practice first! What a shame. You can see I was anxious to use the stamp and didn't wait for the wax to be completely melted. The silver wax looks good, I think. It's only a cheapy hard wax from ebay.
Late last year I got a postcard from Mel, from the US. She had my address noted down in her Postable account, and wasn't sure if she had written to me or not. I can certainly relate- I way overcommited when I first started writing to penpals from the xojane thread and am still unsure on who is still waiting on a letter! I like that she was willing to send a note to double check.
I'll be sending these on their way tomorow, and I look forward to hearing back from these new friends!
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