Happy New Year!

This is a little piece I did for my Belgium Snail Mail Pal, Nele. Instead of sending her Cmas wishes this year, I waited a bit to send her bday wishes as hers is in early Jan (AND she remembered mine this year, AND her goodies arrived nearly right on time for me!)  😊

I wanted to do my lettering collage I learned in L Doctor's class. I tried doing this for her booklet I sent (see my Snail Mail blog) but it was a bit of a fail. (and you can see my 6 is lopsided as well for I planned it poorly.

The rainbow left column is a small poem I found online that says, "May your troubles be less and your blessings be more. Let nothing but happiness come through your door."

On the right I just lettered "Happy New Year" over and over in diff. pp hands with gold ink. Then I painted over with some sumi.

And added a few 3d embellishments

And here is part of her book:

These are lyrics from "Seasons of Love" (RENT musical)

Lettered 525,600 Minutes in white on velum

Then HNY on the last page with the same quote as on the 2026 insert.

Merry, Happy C'mas!!

Want to redo this too but for now...

 

Cmas Eve! 2025

Don't know why but it looks like "Your Better Not..." -- ??

i could have gone a few different ways with this (and still want to redo) but for the sake of time, am posting this flawed piece.

Thick altered K Caps

Version 1 (w/metallic black ink)

Version 2, which I accidentally smeared.  :(

So mad as i loved the top of my last U.

 

Merry & Bright (K Caps)

Did this as an insert for Maggie (as a ty for my bday env.)

Altered K Caps with pp

Candle

 

Mistletoe

Starting to mix things up more! (just a tad)

 

Mulled (wine)

Not bad. (although the "n" in wine looks like an "s")