As I mentioned in last week’s tutorial over how to make a wifi password sign, Hernán and I recently remodeled the apartment in our basement. We purchased our house in April, and at that time, the basement felt a bit sparse and too modern for a house built in the 1950’s.
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Hand-Lettered Printable Birthday Card
Today’s printable birthday card encompasses two fantastic things: adult coloring and intricate hand-lettering. If you’ve got 15-20 minutes this weekend, it’s a very worthy project to spend time making! After you create it, you can tuck the card away somewhere until someone’s birthday comes up.
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“Stitches” Printable Hand-Lettering Exemplar
If you have read this blog for any period of time, then you know that I’m all about dip pen calligraphy. That said, I think it’s important to give yourself a creative challenge by switching up mediums and styles! For that reason, I’ve recently been experimenting with new hand-lettering styles. One serendipitous day, I was doodling in my planner, and I came up with a dot-studded lettering style that “stitches” together.
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“George Style” Printable Hand-Lettering Exemplar
The other day, I was in Whole Foods, which is this sort of hip grocery store chain in the US/Canada and the UK. As I was perusing all the beautiful food labels and the advertising throughout the store, one thing stood out to me in a big way: hand-lettering. Whole Foods is big on ambiance, and a lot of their charm is thanks to hand-lettering!
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Three Fresh Lettering Styles to Try
Every single day, you are confronted with hundreds of lettering styles in the form of logos, text in magazines and websites, posters, mail, and social media posts. And yet, when you sit down to make your own letters, inspiration can be slow in coming. This blog post will give you some direction in your lettering endeavors with three fresh, new lettering styles to try!
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