Crafts: Calligraphy and Brush Lettering

  • End Of Summer Thank You Card With Hand Lettering

    They say the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, which is sometimes true, and so I’m very happy to report once again, that my daughter also loves creativity and does hand lettering effortlessly! And while this card looks like brush markers, whoops, I forgot that on the trip we only had watercolors, so this…

  • DIY Brush Lettering And Watercolor Rosh HaShana Card Craft

    DIY Brush Lettering And Watercolor Rosh HaShana Card Craft

    Wishing everyone a Shanah Tovah U’Metuka! A new year filled with good health and success in all you do and of course filled with creativity and a big huge dose of kindness to all. The good news is that you can still make Rosh HaShanah cards to wish loved ones a wonderful new year, it…

  • DIY Birthday Centerpiece With Pink Apples!

    DIY Birthday Centerpiece With Pink Apples!

    For my daughter’s 19th birthday on the last day of the Jewish month of Tammuz (fortunately just before the 9 day of mourning, during which time I could not throw a festive party no matter how simple.) I needed to make something new to shower her with a bit of love, and the painted apples…

  • How To Draw A Botanical Border For A New Baby Card

    How To Draw A Botanical Border For A New Baby Card

    A new baby means a new baby card, and all that sketching or rather doodling in my sketchbook means it is time to put that practice to work in the form of a handmade card! And, why not do the artwork on a separate piece of paper, in this case notebook paper, and simply glue…

  • Brush Lettering With Crayola Marker Paint Drips Background

    Brush Lettering With Crayola Marker Paint Drips Background

    Thanks to my teenage daughter’s love of brush lettering and faux watercolor backgrounds, I have yet another great idea to share with you! I will admit, this piece is actually the back of the brush lettering birthday card I shared with you yesterday, and I thought it was just too lovely not to get its…

  • Brush Lettering With Faux Watercolor Background Birthday Card

    Brush Lettering With Faux Watercolor Background Birthday Card

      It is true, here at CJM headquarters the little ones are now teens and tweens, so not a lot of kiddy crafts going on, but fortunately my daughter is picking up the slack with her creative endeavors. She just loves brush lettering and especially creating faux watercolor backgrounds for her lettering, which I’ve shared…

  • DIY Wrapping Paper From Brush Lettering Practice Sheets!

    DIY Wrapping Paper From Brush Lettering Practice Sheets!

    Dear readers, now that I have shown you how to make adorable wrapping paper, there really is no excuse not to invest a little bit of time in learning brush lettering, and in this case actually brush lettering using Crayola markers, which is called crayoligraphy, or something like that. Brush lettering is all the rage,…

  • Brush Lettering With Watercolor Background Passover Craft And Birthday Card

    Brush Lettering With Watercolor Background Passover Craft And Birthday Card

      Thanks to the handiwork of my 15 year old daughter, I now share with you her latest brush lettering project, a birthday card and a Passover sign that fits into the theme right now, which is to figure out how to get it all done without going crazy! Cards like these are really quite…

  • Crayola Calligraphy Is A Great Way To Learn About Brush Lettering

    Crayola Calligraphy Is A Great Way To Learn About Brush Lettering

    As it turns out there are no brush markers to be found in our neck of the woods, so while we await a visit from my nephew in a few weeks (and the brush lettering pens that I had sent to him in New York) we are making do with supplies that we do have…

  • 10 Tips For The Beginner Interested In Learning Brush Lettering

    10 Tips For The Beginner Interested In Learning Brush Lettering

    This post contains affiliate links. Before we get started with this post, I just wanted to make it very very clear that this lettering is not mine, but rather the work of my 15 year old daughter! While she has not been exposed to all the brush lettering one might see living in the USA,…