Ever since I made Liz stationery last week I can’t stop thinking about monograms.  I’ve seriously been staying away thinking about how my friends’ initials might tangle up nicely and what colors they’d like.  Everyone is getting monogrammed notes for their birthdays this year…  There are a lot of rules for monogramming but I quite like the two or three letter monogram with the surname in the largest typeface but not always in the center.

I’m playing around with making some of my own stationary stationery (thanks to Donovan of Letter Writers’ Alliance for pointing out my typo!  So embarrassing.  I love stationEry and am rarely stationary).  Sadly, I’ve got to use MSWord for design (I know, I know)– it is still snowing in DC and I haven’t had a chance to get to a computer with InDesign.  I like where it’s going, however.  The image above is just a screenshot (please ignore the curser and the gray box– my contact info is there in small, gray font.  I just didn’t want to put it up online).  It took me a while to get here but  think this is close.

I like this dark red, dark blue, and burnt orange/brown color scheme but it doesn’t really seem quite right.  I tried a bit with purple and dark teal but it felt too girly for me.