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Archives for February 2015

Wedding Reception seating cards – letterpress & gold ink

February 26, 2015

My Olivia hand calligraphy is so versatile and really is a stunner on these place cards for a Hawaii wedding for a Japanese couple.

Letterpress and foil printing done by Bella Figura.

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Modern Rose Gold Wedding Invitation 

February 18, 2015

another stunner from my collaboration with Bella Figura. Love the rose gold foil & the Fleur de lis


Completed with my Hayden hand calligraphy.

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Bella Figura Love Invitation

February 15, 2015

I adore this personal calligraphy take on the popular Bella Figura invitation.

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In my modern Mitty hand calligraphy.

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Penmanship Classes – Dallas Calligrapher

February 10, 2015

Bella Figura so kindly featured my penmanship class on their blog this week and it turned out so pretty that I needed to share the post with you all!

Post below:

Our Designer of the Month Nicole Black recently offered a penmanship class with Southern Fried Paper, and she’ll be offering more classes again soon! Today we’re sharing details on what Nicole’s class entails, along with some quick tips for how to improve your own penmanship. We love how the class began: out of a love for beautiful, heartfelt words, carefully crafted with patience and pride. We’ll let Nicole take over from here!

This is a traditional penmanship class.  One that will teach you how to write with the grace of our grandmothers or great grandmothers. To slow down and think about each letter and each word and make them count to make a meaningful statement that the recipient will enjoy reading.

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We spend some quality time on the foundations: doing warm up drills and learning the basic hand motions. Lower case and capital letters are covered in this class so you can leave able to write notes. Not to leave you hanging there, we go over connecting letters, making words, writing sentences and how to write a traditional letter (by hand!).

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Everyone gets a one-on-one progress review to help work out any trouble areas. For those afraid you will forget what we have learned — a wonderful class booklet is provided along with a pen, notepad and pencils. 

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We end the class with a pen round table where the participants get to test out different pens to find their favorite… because what works for your neighbor may not be your favorite. 

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Quick and easy tips for improving your penmanship at home – slow down! Develop a rhythm of writing and stick to it, slow down with the pen and you will see an ease of flow with the letters develop. Also, it is okay to write on lined paper.  I’m a seasoned letter writer and still use guides to keep my lines straight. If you want to write on unlined correspondence paper – just place a piece of notebook paper underneath and follow the lines.  When you are finished, you have written in straight lines without them being there and your recipient will be soooo impressed!

Many thanks to Nicole for sharing a peek inside her penmanship workshop! Looks fun, doesn’t it? Be sure to check out Nicole’s designs this month – they’re on sale through the end of February (and Bella Figura customers save on calligraphy addressing from Nicole, too!).

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Modern Wedding Calligrapher – Wedding Invitation Names

February 10, 2015

I love that I get to work with Bella Figura and provide custom wedding calligraphy to so many couples.  Everyone makes it custom with their own selections.  This one is so great with the fun envelope liner and using my Hayden style.  Today, I am totally crushing on it!

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