The Graceful Envelope

Each year, the Washington Calligraphers' Guild hosts a competition called "The Graceful Envelope". Calligraphic artists are invited to create beautifully-lettered and illustrated envelopes, and send them through the post to the Guild.

The 2006 winners and honourable mentions are now posted online. Click here to scroll through some truly beautiful and (for me) inspirational examples. I especially like the way that so many of the entries incorporated the stamp as a design element also.

I wonder if I did this Honorable Mention envelope, and sent it off in my sleep or something. Calligraphy and rabbits? Come on, what are the odds? ;-)