I was going to call this post “Typography Art Tutorial”, but then I realized that this post, like my last blog post over chalkboard design, is more of a “this is how I did it … and you can, too.” Ever since the dawn of Pinterest, I have been seeing ridiculously cool designs utilizing type and ornate design/illustration to get a small phrase across. When my brother asked him to design a small logo ASAP for his new business, I was inspired by typography. His business is Professional Fencing {he specializes, of course, in constructing fences}, so I made an illustration of a stylized “P” and “F” surrounded by barbed wire.
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Chalkboard Calligraphy Calendar with Henna
I hesitate to call today’s blog post a “tutorial” on chalk design or chalkboard calligraphy because it’s less of a step-by-step and more of a “maybe you can garner inspiration from what I made” post. Basically, we’ve got this chalkboard hanging in the corner of our living room. It’s a wonderful, big chalkboard that my mom made with chalkboard paint and an old painting acquired at a garage sale.
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Watercolor + Calligraphy Desktop Wallpaper
A few months ago, I was fortunate enough to stumble across Posta Via Gufo, the calligraphy-centric blog of a gifted artist named Gioia. I really enjoy Gioia’s blog and work, and I reached out to her hoping she would be willing to share something on the TPK blog. Much to my delight, she agreed! The result of her generosity is this amazing desktop wallpaper, which she created using watercolor and her original calligraphy. You can use this background on your phone, computer, or even just print it out and hang it on the wall.
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Flourish Formal Style Calligraphy Worksheet
Since I published my first free calligraphy worksheet — the Amy style — I’ve been receiving a lot of questions about calligraphy via email. I love these emails and am always happy to hear from any and all of you because the questions show me what I’m glossing over, or what I should explain better! Hopefully I answer more and more of your questions in each post.
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Kaitlin Style Calligraphy Worksheet
You’ll have to forgive me for dropping the ball on posting this weekend; we have fallen victim to the Game of Thrones epidemic. Yesterday, all we did was lie in bed, eat mochi, and feed our newfound addiction via binge-watching. Needless to say, no work got done — but that’s okay because I’m making up for it today with a free calligraphy worksheet for you!
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Persian-Inspired Gold Foil Wedding Invitations
I am confident that my friends have been avoiding me this month after discovering my zeal for these gold foil wedding invitations. They’re all I have talked about the past couple of weeks — I am utterly and completely in love with them, and I gush about them to anyone who will listen. Luckily for my friends, I have a blog where I can write about this sort of thing, and I’m going to let it all out here!
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