Making a Card: Caligraphy and whatnot.

Hey guys! So my mom really wanted to make a card for my grandmother's for Mother's Day because she didn't trust getting cards from the card store right now. I have other card making posts on this blog... I'll link those right here and here. This is similar to the one that I made for my mom's birthday... but I used actual calligraphy pens this time instead of the crayolagraphy markers and I feel like I now understand calligraphy.

this is the first one I did and you can probably see this has some ink smudges on it... so this one went to my mom. 

So what I noticed was that WAYYY too much ink was coming out of my pen when I was writing the letters and I think that was because I was writing like how I would normally write. In the calligraphy book that I have they show steps to making each letters and that's how you want to make them. You need to do short strokes and not have the pen touch the paper for too long because that's how you get the thinner writing that looks better and the ink won't run everywhere. So that was my main lesson of this. 

I had cardstock that I had bought from AC Moore a long time ago... I think it was around my anniversary because I bought it in my boyfriends favorite color specifically because I wanted to make him a card with it. They sometimes sell these other places too- I used sketch paper with the card I made for my mom's birthday a few years ago... that's very thin- but it is helpful in doing this. I wrote the caligraphy part on sketch paper and then I glued it to the card stock with a glue stick. 

I also used glitter paper and I cut out butterfly wings because I know my grandmothers both like butterflies. It was a little bit hard to cut out good shapes but I did the best that I can. I don't really think it looks that bad... I feel like I've seen hallmark cards that look similar and they're not just cut and pasted onto something. 

I'm probably going to make another one soon because it's my mom's birthday. If I do I'll probably write a post on that also. My mom likes snoopy a lot and I can draw snoopy so I'll probably draw snoopy for her and do some other calligraphy with it. 

Over all this is really fun. I wrote something really nice in my mom's card and I thought I'd leave it to my mom to write something in both of my grandmother's cards... and that's everything! Hope you guys like it- let me know if you're making cards now! 

Bye! 

-Shannon