I did complete the mariposa lily stamp (AS2005.04) yesterday, after much fussing with the printer. The original design was much darker, but once i had the magenta ink head cleaned, it seemed black was about to go. I lightened up the stamp, added one pixel outlines to the text, but after printing 64 of them, i realize the denomination is hardly legible. Ah, well. I did do a proof of the background image and the stamp, plus the paper airplane cancel — turned out that white was just too pale on the image.
The issue with the black ink causes a hesitation in printing for the actual mailparavion/avionparmail submission. (See address past the jump; 15 Ninthmonth d/l) I did print the almost ATC sized images needed to fill the center pane of some old formal stationary. As i used a cream colored white-out to first obscure the old name, i wondered if men ever doodled the formal married names of their intendeds. Maybe they just don’t get past “Joe+Sue.” I never changed my name, and now Christine’s matches mine.
For these small greeting cards, i put the stamp and cork cancel on the back, along with the title, date, and signature.
These eight cards, FM2005.12.01a-h, (but, argh, this should really be 2005.13) will go out to friends and family for birthdays and such. I’ve three others print outs on plain paper, a little bigger than 3×5, that i may make cardstock cards for. I still need ten to meet all the sendings for the the last third of the year, plus mail art post cards. The mail art cards definitely need to go on photo paper.
I’ve also an ATC to commemorate the new stamp: ATC2005.01.03 .
AVIONPARMAIL
Via delle rose 7
21057 Olgiate Olona (Va)
ITALIA
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