My wedding is officially 5 months from yesterday… That means it is time to get the save the dates out the door, and for me that means its time for calligraphy – hand addressing all of my envelopes!
I love calligraphy. I have done it for years after learning it from watching my dad and his mother. You can see some of my styles here on my facebook page.
Sometimes however, I do not feel like getting out a special pen. That is how I came up with my easy way to cheat yourself to a calligraphy look. I promise you this is something ANYONE that can write in cursive can do! I promise!
First write out what you want in cursive. This could be someone’s name on an envelope, a quote, a gift tag, etc. For the purpose of this tutorial, I did a quote that is special to me. See easy right! My suggestion is to keep it as simple as you can as there is no real need to get crazy with the letters.
Next you will outline the letters, adding “weight” to them – almost where a shadow would fall. I typically do this on the left hand side of the letters.
The final product should look something like this. – Nothing special right?
Then just go in and color in the spaces that you created!
The final product should look like this.
pretty good huh?
I would love to see other tutorials that you have to make easy calligraphy – better yet… do you have any projects that you have done yourself with calligrahy?
Have always loved calligraphy, but never have been able to do it easily. this looks like something I might be able to try. Thanks for the tutorial.
This is a wonderful tutorial. Thank you for sharing it.
Thank you!! Hope it helps you out – we are always here to answer questions!
This is great! Our wedding is coming up as well!!
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Oh great! Good luck with everything! It is an exciting time!!
This is very cool hand-lettering with calligraphy style. If you haven’t tried real calligraphy with ink and flat pen nibs, you should try it! It’s really much quicker and easier than the method shown here. I addressed all my wedding invitations with a calligraphy. The key is making all strokes top to bottom and holding the nib at the same angle.
Thanks Elizabeth! Mandi here and I have done Calligraphy for years now… this was just a quick way for those that are not comfortable with nibs and ink to add style to their own handwriting! Thanks for helping keep the art of calligraphy alive!
Fabulous! Simple but elegant ! Thanks.
Of course! I am glad to help and love that people can use this technique!
Do you have a template for your honolulu font? I ADORE it!!!
Hey there. That is actually just a specific handwriting that I can do. I do not have a template for it. Just one of the styles I use to write with. If you want to do that, i use a standard medium sized nib and write thin letters with a pick up on each letter I can.