My final verdict on “Modern Calligraphy” by Molly Suber Thorpe?: I. Love. It. If you want to be inspired, you’ve got to buy this book {it’s the best $15 you’ll spend on your calligraphy skills}. When I look through this book, I get so fired up to try making some new, innovative pieces with interesting materials.
All of the “Gawkerverse” sites are essentially a hyper-polished, categorized, and filtered Pinterest that showcase tutorials and ideas. That’s wonderful for the person seeking ideas, and as a blogger, it’s ideal for you as a person peddling ideas. If you have a blog or are planning on starting a blog, I highly recommend submitting photos to one of the “Gawkers” — whichever site most closely aligns with what you are blogging about {my personal choice is Craftgawker}. Through my own blog’s story, I’ll illustrate why.
DIY washi tape is for those of you who have amazing paper or fabric that you’ve looked at and thought, “Huh. I’d love to have some washi tape that looks like that.” It’s for you all who need washi tape at this very moment and don’t have access to it, don’t have the time to go get some, or are trapped in a zombie apocalypse and can’t leave the house.
Whether it’s a hand-written letter or a beautiful wedding suite, we essentially are wrapping up little gifts every time we seal an envelope. It’s human nature to want to decorate a gift, and vintage stamp collages are a beautiful way to decorate an envelope containing your “gift”.
These handmade Valentine’s Day cards are incredibly easy to make. You can apply the technique used to make them to any material: a business card, a heart-shaped piece of paper, a journal page — anything! All you need is an old toothbrush and a piece of junk mail or a magazine.