With Purpose & Passion: Heavens to Betsy

with passion and purpose

I’m starting a fun, new little blog series called With Purpose & Passion. I read an inspiring, encouraging, and grace-filled book this summer called Your Beautiful Purpose by Susie Larsen. That book showed me that there are times in life when I will be running wild with purpose and passion, and other times will feel a bit more stale. But as long as my true purpose rests in God alone, I will bounce between those other places of passion and purpose with ease and confidence.

So in the spirit of celebrating the purpose and passion of others, I wanted to periodically feature some of my favorite people who inspire me.

heavens to betsy calligraphy

A couple of years ago, I met the beautiful Betsy Storey. She is such a sweet friend, and now she is a mama-to-be.

Betsy recently launched her calligraphy business, Heavens to Betsy Calligraphy. She is creating the most beautiful, personalized address stamps with her custom calligraphy.

I knew that I just had to have one for the new house. We hope to be moved in for Christmas, and I just can’t wait to stamp this gorgeous stamp on the back of all of our Christmas cards this year!

Heavens to Betsy Calligraphy_Carroll Fmaily

 

Carroll Family_display

*Heavens to Betsy created a mock up address stamp for promotional purposes for us. This is not our actual address. 

I also really wanted to order some little stamps with just the boys’ names on them. I thought they would be good to stamp onto gift tags and calling cards and cards sent to grandparents for holidays. I absolutely love the way they turned out, and I know we will get a lot of use out of these.

Heavens to Betsy Calligraphy _ Carroll Boys Stamps

My heart still flutters a little extra when I see my boys’ names like this. I can’t believe they are ours!

I asked Betsy to share with you a little bit about why she loves calligraphy and she found passion in calligraphy.

I’ve been obsessed with handwriting since I was little.  My mom has that perfect, teacher handwriting and I was always trying to emulate her.  Over the years, I’d do funky lettering for notes to friends and make signs and banners for special occasions. My friends and family would comment “You have such nice handwriting” or ” I wish I could write like that”  It always made me wonder if I could do something more with my “nice handwriting.”
 
I came across the opportunity to take an online calligraphy class with Melissa Esplin. I have to admit I was skeptical–could I really learn calligraphy via the web?! But her class was wonderful and after A LOT of practice, I had a real working knowledge of the craft once I was done.
 
I love calligraphy because it’s got such an heirloom feel about it and I love creating something timeless, that just might stand the test of time. I enjoy being creative in a way that’s totally different from my (equally awesome) day job and generating a little extra income for my growing family!

So that’s my friend Betsy and her beautiful calligraphy stamp business. If you are in the market for an address stamp, I highly recommend contacting her. She’s a joy to work with!

 

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Comments

  1. says

    Love that stamp – so pretty! We are moving in the next few months, so I don’t want to order right now, but am definitely bookmarking her site for when we find our next home! The little gift tag stamps are precious too!

    PS: At first, I was thinking that the address on that envelope was your new address, and I was so worried at the thought of you posting that online!!!

  2. says

    What a wonderful series!! I am a huge fan of Betsy’s calligraphy as well! One of my fave stamps ever if the return address stamp she created for me! Such talent and such a sweet person too!! Happy Thursday!! Xoxo

  3. says

    I really love this! 🙂 I love the idea of your kids names, too – GENIUS! I’d really like to have some of these myself – thank you for sharing!!!

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