Happy Monday, friends! I am hosting this week's Make It Monday challenge over at Papertrey Ink. Hope you'll join in the fun!
Lately I've been fascinated with "dangles," which are doodled jewelry-like embellishments for hand lettering. Two artists, in particular, pop up regularly on my Instagram feed:
Joanne Fink, creator of Zenspirations and author of a book called Zenspirations Dangle Designs
--and--
Olivia Kneibler of Olivia and Company and author of a soon-to-be-released book called The Art of Drawing Dangles: Creating Decorative Letters and Art With Charms.
I thought it would be a fun challenge to stamp and doodle dangles onto sentiments, so that's the topic of this week's video and challenge!
I hope you'll play along! Link up your creation HERE on Nichole's blog.
Hey there, friends, I've got a special post for you today! I'm hosting my first-ever Make It Monday video & challenge with Papertrey, called Faux Brush Lettering.
Some of you all will know I've been interested in calligraphy and lettering since high school. Off and on, over the years, I've played around with lettering, and even addressed friends' wedding invitations on several occasions. (The price was right -- free! Actually, it was usually my gift to the bride and groom, so it worked out well.)
Most of my lettering has been with ink and nibs, but in the past year, I've become more interested in brush lettering, both with markers and with an actual watercolor brush. It's not easy, though, and takes lots of practice!
As I was preparing for Papertrey's April release, specifically Betsy's Paper Clippings: Thank You stamp set, I wondered if I could add some ink shading to my stamped sentiment to make it look like watercolor brush lettering. Today's Faux Brush Lettering Make It Monday video & challenge is the result of that experiment. Hope you'll give it a try!
All of the challenge details are posted HERE on Nichole's blog.
And here's the video:
In the video, I mention that you can also try this technique with Copic markers or watercolor markers. The following card, which I posted here on my blog last Thursday, was done with Copic markers:
I've been busy with Papertrey's April release and was out of town for the last few days (on a super fun high school orchestra field trip), but now that I'm back, I can't wait to try this same technique with water-based markers (Zig Clean Color brush markers, Distress markers, Tombow Dual Brush Pens, for example).
Also, in one of those "great minds think alike" coincidences, I saw that Sandy Allnock recently posted a faux watercolor hand lettering tutorial. I highly recommend watching her video as well. I especially like that she's blended multiple colors, instead of just shades of the same color.
Can't wait to see your take on this challenge!
Here's another look at my Faux Brush Lettering sample:
