ID: Louis Braille
Mailing Due Date: Jan 12th, 2007
4.5"w x 4"h
I used
Bazill cardstock (Aloe Vera) and folded it over to the back
holding it closed with a green flower brad and a piece of taupe
linen thread. Note: most of the products used for this mingle
can be found at Quietfire Design's website. I wrote the quote
with gouache and Sakura Souffle pens. The word "Blind"
was done with a small flat shader brush and white gouache, when
dry went over it with green gouache. The rest of the quote was
done first with the green souffle pen, making sure I got nice
juicy lines, when dry used the black souffle over them but
trying to get thinner lines so there was a light green shadow.
(see detailed image below)
For the vellum overleaf I used a greenish tinged vellum, wrote the quote using a stylus to impress my dots on the back so they would be raised dots on the front. I attached it with a couple pieces of linen binding tape that I painted with my Pentel color brushes in shades of yellow and green, then gave it a coat of Dorland's wax, love that stuff, then slipped it through some slits I made to attach to the back. Added a border of copper tape.
