Absolutely splendiferous!

As for your performance anxiety, I understand the impulse to look to a de-burqafied heroine to provide the necessary courage. But perhaps owing to my deep and abiding cynicism, I generally take a different tack: I tell myself that there are plenty of hacks out there vandalizing $10 sheets of paper (well, paper isn’t my medium, but you know what I mean), so why am I not entitled to avail myself of the good stuff since I’m 20 times better than them? Try it. It might work for you.

I really like what you did with the paper you had. Rather than the paper you wish you had.

Dontcha see; it’s the paper you used that makes it better? It was spontaneous and inspired, not contrived. The color and texture of the Kraft paper makes it more exotic and the contrast is enhanced.

FInd some hand-made papers in those warm colors if you want to use “expensive” stuff and see what results you get. I’ll bet your envelope piece holds up a lot longer!

Seriously, nice work.

Donna

When I win the lottery I will commission you to cover every surface in my mansion with images.  I will then spend the rest of my life wandering among them and sighing…

Spectacular!  I wish it went on longer.  Had you not told me it was an envelope I would not have known.  Great work.

Gorgeous.  Simply gorgeous.

splendiferous!

Spleconded.

Awe-inspiring stuff, Mrs. Polly! And remember: if the backs of envelopes are good enough for the Great Emancipator, they’re good enough for you! (Ever heard that great Bob Newhart piece on the Gettysburg Address?)

Yes, really nice!  I especially like the young woman in the top left corner.  Have you ever tried making paper?  It’s amazingly (to me anyway!) not that hard and would be a pretty cool medium.

marin, that is the one thing I haven’t tried. And I’m a recovering paper fanatic, too.

Mrs. P. my older daughter who is an artist (ceramics mainly) (although currently making her living teaching English in Korea) has done a fair amount of paper making.  She puts in little pieces of this and that right before she runs the mush through the sieve.  It always amazed me the gorgeous results that came out of the murky ooze in the big pan.  She made me a journal out of homemade paper but I have never had the nerve to write anything in it and mess up those beautiful surfaces!

Truly frabjous!

This honors your teachers wonderfully, and I am a firm believer that easily-startled memories (and prone-to-volatilize-in-direct-daylight dreams) tend to linger longer—or at least call home more frequently—when they are anchored to a sturdy stock.

Mar, that’s it. I’m going to have to try papermaking. Good excuse to get a new blender, and dedicate the old one to art.

Strange, thank you for reminding me; really, we should all have our dreams under UV glass, if we want to keep them.
And you are also right about carefully choosing underpinnings: alas, how many of us have ph-neutral memories?

I can think of a few people whose acid-balance is way off!