Tonight I finished up all of the Nice Certificates for some students of my future-sister-in-law. She is a special education teacher in a town near where I work. I wasn't satisfied just making stuff for Preston & Hailey, so I asked her if she wanted to have her students write to Santa. Each of her students got a personal reply letter and an Official Nice List Certificate. I also opened it up to my friends on FaceBook. Anyway... here we go:
It's safe to say that I am adoring the stamp sets that I bought {blogged about here}.
The airmail stripes have to be done twice, once red and once green, but I like it so much better with the double detailing. That stripe, and the postmark waves and the green stamp frame, all came from the postal-themed stamp set.
Looks legit, right?
I am using some Crane stationery and envelopes that a friend had bought me for Christmas two years ago now.
I wrote the name myself. The letters are not perfect but calligraphy takes a lot of practice and I have not been practicing. Over the summer, as some of you know, I took a calligraphy class from a wonderful fellow dog-lover by the name of Jane Parillo. She has a shop called Scribe {website here}.
This is the actual "certificate". The center black text is all on one stamp and I wrote in Preson's name. The bottom right is two separate stamps. The Naughty / Nice boxes & text are one stamp, the checkmark is a second, and "You've been:" is a third. You can actually make a note to Santa by changing to the stamp that says "I've been:"
On the top half, so that it didn't look so plain, I stamped Santa's face and what is intended to be the bottom of Santa's letterhead. I still much prefer the letterhead by the LWA, so I used it this way instead. To add some color, I rubbed in some chalk colors that I already had using a q-tip.
So that's it on the certificates. I will feature some "real" photos of the mail from Santa in the next few days.
These are seriously gorgeous. I am jealous of the kids receiving them!
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