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craftgasm, week 3
All birthday cards, all the time! My general MO to send birthday cards on time is to sit down with my perpetual birthday calendar about a week or so before the next month starts, and write out each of the birthday cards in advance. I then stamp and address them, and put a sticky note on each one with the date I'm to mail it (usually between 7-3 days before the person's birthday, depending on where they live). They are in chronological order in my things-to-mail pile, so when the date on the post-it comes around, I just peel off the note and drop it in the blue box on my corner.
These February birthdays are all pretty similar, with a bicycle theme. The border stamp of different cycles on the bottom of some of the envelopes was handcarved for me by Bethany of TeaOlive, who does amazing work. I carved the larger step-through bicycle on numbers 17 & 19 myself, and the rest are commercially available stamps. I promise the blue ink shows up a lot more in person; the scanner light just washes it right out.
14/365, sent to Joe in Virginia Beach.
15/365, to send to Beth in Tampa.
16/365, to send to Steve in New York.
17/365, to send to my grandfather in Florida.
18/365, to send to Jessica in North Carolina.
19/365, to send to Billy in Chicago.
20/365, to send to Mindy in Maryland.
These February birthdays are all pretty similar, with a bicycle theme. The border stamp of different cycles on the bottom of some of the envelopes was handcarved for me by Bethany of TeaOlive, who does amazing work. I carved the larger step-through bicycle on numbers 17 & 19 myself, and the rest are commercially available stamps. I promise the blue ink shows up a lot more in person; the scanner light just washes it right out.
14/365, sent to Joe in Virginia Beach.
15/365, to send to Beth in Tampa.
16/365, to send to Steve in New York.
17/365, to send to my grandfather in Florida.
18/365, to send to Jessica in North Carolina.
19/365, to send to Billy in Chicago.
20/365, to send to Mindy in Maryland.
#118; Moustaches (envelope)
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I apologize for the lack of quality in the picture. I only had my phone at the time to take a picture of this one. Isn't that moustache stamp the cutest thing though? :-)
Sent to my pen-pal Maria in MN.
