Art meets practicality in this wonderful little tutorial! Dedicate a few minutes this weekend to making these unique DIY key tag labels, and you’ll enjoy the benefits for years to come.
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Today’s tutorial doesn’t require any special tools besides watercolor, a pencil, and a black pen. What it does require is a little bit of time and patience! If you have an hour or so, give this birthday card and envelope pair a try. You’ll absolutely love the artistic results!
If you enjoy lettering and want to learn how to write eye-catching letters with vintage flair, you’ll enjoy the video tutorial in this post! This post also links to the newly released Circus Lettering Exemplar, which provides detailed instructions for writing each character of the alphabet plus numbers.
Today, I’ll teach you how to make a fun lettering style inspired by vintage circus posters! You can use it for anything from signs to bullet journals to mail art in order to make a word or a message stand out.
Today’s mail art tutorial has three benefits: first, you’ll learn how to use a dip pen and ink to draw. The technique is simple, and utilizing it will help you to build an illustration foundation that you can keep adding to! Second, after completing the tutorial, you’ll be rewarded with a unique piece of mail…
Lindsey Bugbee
designer + illustrator + calligrapher
The Postman’s Knock is a blog focused on teaching creative techniques and offering guides to learning modern calligraphy and illustration. I hope you enjoy reading my blog as much as I enjoy writing it!
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