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Trying Caligraphy- The Crayola Way!

Okay... so this is something a little new for me! You guys might have seen a recent post I did that was  3 super easy no effort diys ... and this is sort of like that... but this is more about the process of the Crayolagraphy or Caligraphy that I've been doing and a couple very high effort DIY's that I did for it... so without any further ado- let's just talk about it! Why Did I Want To Start Caligraphy?  I like to Bullet Journal. I haven't done this in a long time... but I always see people doing fancy banners and lettering for their bullet journals and I wanted to start to do that! So when I saw that Target had an expanded art section and they had some caligraphy sets... I wanted to try one! Why Did I Get The Crayola Set?  There were a few sets that I had heard about... but the Crayola one seemed the most beginner friendly. It comes with tags and things that you can fill out and kind of a guide to do calligraphy. I didn't actually know much about calligrap...

How To-sday: DIY Birthday Card (Apple Pages)

So today I'm going to a birthday party for my friends boyfriend... and I was looking in the card store everywhere for a card with Corgis on it because I know he loves corgis. And I wasn't even really looking at what type of card it was, I was just looking for corgis... and then I was like "well I doubt they're going to have this specific Corgi card and for it to be for an adult man's birthday..." Plus cards are so expensive now and I don't love the card stores around me as much as I used to... so I was like "meh, I'll make it myself!" And you could do this for anything really, and it gives you a chance to personalize it to what that person likes... and its just easier.  Step 1: Google Pictures  Whatever you want to theme the card on, just google pictures of that! You could even just do regular birthday images on it. Looking up Corgis was really really fun... and I got a little carried away with it. They're just so cute! So that ...