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General Categories => Introductions => Topic started by: valerie a. on March 15, 2016, 12:04:34 PM
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Hello everyone and thank you so much Erica for letting me in ! I'm valerie, i'm French and i'm left-handed (that pretty well sums it all up ;)). I've loved handwriting for a long time (did study uncial years ago) but i only just started studying Copperplate calligraphy and brush lettering on my own and found an amazingly creative and sharing community on Instagram, which led me here. My wish/objective this year is to study, practice and keep learning from you all !
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Welcome, Valerie!
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Bonjour, Valerie! Welcome. Last year, around this time, I discovered Melodies Graphiques in Paris- what a wonderful shop!
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Thanks for your kind words Bianca ! I know this shop very well, the former owner, Eric de Tugny, is a wonderful calligrapher (left-handed too ;)). He hand-lettered my wedding invitation in 2003. I'll post it if you'd like to have a look at it !
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Welcome, Valerie!
Thanks Ev !
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Salut Valérie la gauchère :D
Bienvenue à FF!
Eric de Montréal
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Hello Eric de Montréal, merci de ton accueil ;D
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Bonjour Valerie! Glad you were introduced to us! Welcome! ;D
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Thanks for your kind words Bianca ! I know this shop very well, the former owner, Eric de Tugny, is a wonderful calligrapher (left-handed too ;)). He hand-lettered my wedding invitation in 2003. I'll post it if you'd like to have a look at it !
OH, please - I know many of us would just love to see it! :)
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Welcome Valerie! Lovely to have you here. I'd love to see that invite too :)
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Salut Valérie ! et bienvenue sur le forum, tu y trouveras plein de bonnes âmes prêtes à discuter d'encre et de papier sans relâche !
Je suis Sybille, de Belgique ;)
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Bienvenue Valerie! Happy Learning :)
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Thanks again for the welcomes !
@Sybille : je te "connais" déjà (forum Encre et Lumière, je crois, puis Instagram. Tu m'as "fait" acheter le livre de C. Mediavilla ;))
@Bianca and Leanda : Here you go, hope you won't be disappointed, that damn thing of a wedding invitation is so difficult to photograph and i only have two mock-ups left so the printing quality is quite poor. I just can't put my hands back on the original calligraphy piece, must have put it away very carefully so it wouldn't be lost. We've moved house twice since then...
But back to the invitation. We created and made it ourselves, but for the calligraphy by E. de Tugny which we scanned and printed. The idea was to have the piece made as a booklet. We used a variety of papers: mulberry paper as the outside cover, premium blue-gray tracing paper (calque in French) as the inner cover, and "cloudy" white translucent paper for the inside where the invitation was calligraphed. We wanted our "faire-part" to be understated with a calligraphy twist, and we were all about transparency (so the recipient would literally "see through the inner pages". Hope that makes sense. The envelope was translucent too.)
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And here are the piece itself and a close-up pic of Mr. de Tugny's beautiful hand-wirting (once again, this was way more beautiful IRL, printing was low-res here as this was a mock-up i made for positioning).
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Thank you so much for sharing that! I just got totally lost looking at that beautiful handwriting, and variations in the ink... gorgeous. I love the book concept, too, and the paper choice!
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I just died...that is beyond gorgeous!!! thanks so much for sharing!
and welcome to the forum!!!
awesome to see you here!
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Bonjour! Bienvenue sur le FF!
Beau; Je lisais pour voir si je comprenais tout ça! Mon français est très rouillé. lol
Did any of that make sense?! lol
Anyway, welcome! ;)
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@Bianca : Thank you, i'm glad you like it ;)
@Estrella : Pas si rouillé ;D And it did make sense indeed !
@Joi : thanks for the nice words Joi ! So glad i'm here and a bit intimidated too. Enjoy your vacation and don't you feel too sorry about algorithms, smart users will find a workaround!
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Bienvenue à toi aussi Valérie ;)
Ca fait plaisir de voir que je ne suis pas la seule parisienne et française sur le forum !
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So beautiful! Thank you for sharing! ;D
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And here are the piece itself and a close-up pic of Mr. de Tugny's beautiful hand-wirting (once again, this was way more beautiful IRL, printing was low-res here as this was a mock-up i made for positioning).
Woah this looks awesome!
Welcome to the forum :D Hope to see more of your stuff!
- Yana
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Bonjour and welcome Valerie! Merci beaucoup for sharing your beautiful wedding invitation. The calligraphy, papers, and colors were all wonderfully chosen and put together! I have been to Melodies Graphiques twice and own some lovely things from there. Wonderful memories!
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Thank you Yana, i'm learning and practicing so i'm afraid i don't have much to show ;)
@Suzie L Thank you very much! And yes Mélodies Graphiques is a nice little shop. Eric de Tugny is no longer the owner though and the shop has been taken over by someone else as of February. I was lucky enough to see E. de Tugny one more time before he left at the end of January, and to be given his new address and phone number. He now lives in the south-east of France.
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Hi Valerie! Sending you warm welcome from Doha, Qatar! Welcome here in the forum. I'm pretty sure you'll have lots of fun reading posts, learning from members and sharing your pieces. Have a great day! :)
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Hi V!
Welcome to the forum!! and thanks so much for sharing those pictures!! ;D BEAUTIFUL!!
xoxo
Kay
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GORGEOUS wedding invitation!!
Welcome to the forum. ;D
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Bonjour, Valerie and welcome to one of the coolest and nicest places on the internet! I loved seeing your beautiful invitation--thanks for sharing!
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Thank you guys for more warm welcome words, this forum is a nice place to be indeed :D