Could I be more analogue???

I wish, I wish, I wish I had the confidence, time and energy to invest in owning and learning creative software; but I have worked out that I really don't get value for money out of owning or subscribing to it; I just don't use it often enough. 

So whenever I need to prepare stuff it all gets done by hand until I can hand it over to somebody who can digitise it for me and make it into the files necessary for what I am hoping to have done with it. 

So I had done some writing, and had a few tidy up bits to do so I wrote it again, and then traced it. By hand. And then I did the rub the pencil over the back of it,

 before turning it over and tracing over the writing again.

 Which leaves me with an outline, which I then have to trace around with a black pen. By hand.

Having done that I had planned to put a bit of a base plate under the lettering, but I couldn't tell whether some of the letters with a baseline (like the E) would simply sink into the base and look like an F... I just couldn't visualise it from the hand drawn bits. So I decided to cut them out. By hand, of course. 

I was at home and on the dining table I used a dreadful knife and cheap photocopy paper and a tiny cutting mat.

I think the base of the E holds, because next to it you can see pretty readily where the top of the base is (under the F). But the hand drawn lines were still distracting me. 

So I turned it over. And tried to envisage reading backwards and wondering if the lettering made sense, until I had an ah-ha technology moment.

I photographed as it was turned over; then on my phone I flipped it! 

So now I had the back of the words reading as the front. Yay for tech.

As I looked closely at it, I thought the G didn't look quite G enough; so I trimmed the base vertically a tiny bit and now I think it reads more as a G.

Now I know that I think the design will work; I will scan my originals and send them off to be digitally tidied up and then sent off. Fingers crossed.