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5 Types of Brush Pens for Hand Lettering Beginners
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5 Types of Brush Pens for Hand Lettering Beginners

July 10, 2021July 10, 2021

Your problem is there are so many brush pens out there. What are the best brush…

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10 Hand Lettering Supplies for Beginners | Must-Haves for learning calligraphy!
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10 Hand Lettering Supplies for Beginners | Must-Haves for learning calligraphy!

March 21, 2021June 22, 2021

You’re a hand lettering beginner, sitting down at your desk to letter with your brush pens…

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Hand Lettering and Watercolor: Which Is Better?
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Hand Lettering and Watercolor: Which Is Better?

March 14, 2021March 14, 2021

Why would someone want to learn how to watercolor over hand lettering or learn how to…

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Stabilo Brush Pen Review for Learning How To Hand Letter
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Stabilo Brush Pen Review for Learning How To Hand Letter

March 4, 2021March 4, 2021

Can you believe that Stabilo has brush pens? I had always thought that they carried highlighters…

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How To Do Pencil Calligraphy
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How To Do Pencil Calligraphy

February 24, 2021February 24, 2021

You want to learn calligraphy, but you aren’t ready to invest in all the supplies. Well,…

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10 Ways to Add Shadows to Hand Lettering
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10 Ways to Add Shadows to Hand Lettering

February 17, 2021February 17, 2021

Shadows can make your hand lettering stand out. But how do you add shadows? Here I…

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How To Choose and Combine Hand Lettering Font Styles in Quotes
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How To Choose and Combine Hand Lettering Font Styles in Quotes

February 10, 2021February 16, 2021

How do you know what hand lettering font styles to use together? This is a common…

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7 Hand Lettering Styles for Beginners to Master
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7 Hand Lettering Styles for Beginners to Master

February 5, 2021February 16, 2021

Are you looking for some simple styles to add to your lettering? Maybe you are getting…

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How To Hand Letter A Quote
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How To Hand Letter A Quote

January 27, 2021February 16, 2021

Lettering pretty quotes are one of the most fun parts of hand lettering. However, when you…

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The 5 Best Types of Paper for Hand Lettering Beginners
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The 5 Best Types of Paper for Hand Lettering Beginners

January 22, 2021February 16, 2021

If you were like me when I started hand lettering, you might need help knowing what…

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Why do you letter? 🤗 I’ve been thinking a l Why do you letter? 🤗

 I’ve been thinking a lot about my relationship with instagram. I wasn’t on instagram for almost a year. It was truly healing and I needed that.

I’ve been feeling little nudges to be here again. But it has to be in a way that doesn’t burn me out. Not for money. Not for views, likes, and followers. Not to be seen. But to connect. I want to connect with the amazing people here who also love to letter.

So thank you for loving hand lettering and connecting with me!
POV: I don’t know how to use the “pov” trend POV: I don’t know how to use the “pov” trend. Is this right? 😂 it honestly doesn’t make sense to me! If you can explain it, let me know! I just wanted to share this beautiful song and a few pages from my journal lately!
June!! ☀️ How many of these pens do you recogn June!! ☀️ How many of these pens do you recognize?

I’ll link in my stories the video that says what all these pens are!
Now that we’re almost halfway through May… 😂
How many of these pens do you recognize??
If you don’t know what to letter today, choose s If you don’t know what to letter today, choose some song lyrics you’ve been loving! Do you have a song that just speaks to you? Let me know because I’d love to look it up! I’m always looking for good lyrics to letter!

This song is Saturn by Sleeping At Last. His whole album about each of the planets is really good!
How many pens do you recognize? And how many of th How many pens do you recognize? And how many of these pens have YOU tried?

Here’s the list:

1. Monami Plus pen 3000
2. Pentel touch
3. Tombow Fude
4. Kelly Creates (I think the dream pens? I don’t have these anymore!)
5. Kelly Creates (the ones like fude)
6. Karin
7. Zebra Funwari
8. Sharpie Stained
9. Marvy LePen Flex
10. Faber-Castell

Happy April!! 🌷
Have you used brush pens as watercolor? @karinmark Have you used brush pens as watercolor? @karinmarkers are especially juicy! And I hope this little calligraphy trick helps you get those tiny upstrokes you’re looking for!

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