September Hand Lettering Challenge About Taylor Swift
Practicing hand lettering in September? Need some ideas for your bullet journal or planner? Here are 10 lettering styles for September hand lettering as well as a lettering challenge with Taylor Swift words and quotes.
10 September Hand Lettering Styles To Practice
Hand lettering is a way to enjoy the unique parts about us and the things we are enjoying in our lives. For the September theme, I originally was going to do Fall. But you know what? I don’t like Fall. Lots of people love it. However, I don’t enjoy the colors, the weather, or the flavors. It’s just not me. But you know what I do love? Taylor Swift. Because of this, I got really excited when I started coming up with a Taylor Swift Hand Lettering Challenge.
How Hand Lettering Helps US Love The Season We’re In
Like I said, I don’t like Fall. It marks the end of Summer which is my favorite season. I don’t like the cool, brisk weather. I would rather have bright, vibrant colors instead of muted neutral earthy tones. That’s just my personal preference, so getting through Fall can be tough for me.
Luckily for me, hand lettering helps. I can choose what themes I’m hand lettering. If I don’t like Fall, I don’t have to do Fall themes in my journal. For example, this month I chose to do a Taylor Swift theme and it already makes me so much happier. It still won’t fix the fact that I have to start wearing sweaters and pants, but I can choose to enjoy the things that I do have control over.
10 Ways to Hand Letter September
Your hand lettering is yours. So when you’re practicing, you get to choose what to practice and how. You get to choose what styles you like. There are so many different styles and none are right or wrong or better or worse than others. It’s all about what feels fun and exciting to you.
Here are 10 specific styles to get you started:
- Tall and Narrow
- Short and Wide
- Quirky Print
- Simple
- Open Faux Calligraphy
- Flourished Loops
- Straight Print
- Round
- Bouncy
- Bouncy and Wide
These styles describe the corresponding words in this picture: (you can find these practice worksheets here)
Here is my video with 10 ways to hand letter September. The pens I’m using are Marvy LePen Flex. They’re great small brush pens. I hope these styles give you some inspiration!
September Words to Letter
Need some inspiration for September words to practice hand lettering? Here’s an A-Z list of 31 words from Taylor Swift albums (pretty amazing that she has a song/album for every letter of the alphabet!):
- Anti-Hero
- Afterglow
- Black Dog
- Cruel Summer
- Daylight
- Evermore
- Enchanted
- Fearless
- Folklore
- Gorgeous
- Haunted
- Innocent
- Jump Then Fall
- Karma
- Lover
- Long Live
- Midnights
- New Romantics
- Ours
- Peter
- Question…?
- Reputation
- Speak Now
- The Tortured Poets Department
- Taylor Swift
- Untouchable
- Vigilante Sh**
- Wonderland
- Exile
- You Are In Love
- Lavender Haze
Hand Lettering September Quotes
Taylor Swift has so many good quotes to practice hand lettering. Honestly, I could make a list for each of her albums. So in this list, I chose some of my favorite lines that I’d like to hand letter, but of course there are many more good ones!
“As far as I’m concerned you’re just another picture to burn.” -from Picture to Burn on Taylor Swift Debut album
“And I don’t know how it gets better than this.” -from Fearless on Fearless (Taylor’s Version)
“I like the way you’re everything I’ve ever wanted.” -from Jump Then Fall on Fearless (Taylor’s Version)
“I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you.” -from Long Live on Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)
“Everything Has Changed” -from Red (Taylor’s Version)
“We never go out of style.” -from Style on 1989 (Taylor’s Version)
“All you had to do was stay.” -from All You Had To Do Was Stay on 1989 (Taylor’s Version)
“Are you ready for it?” -from …Ready For It? on Reputation
“You play stupid games, you win stupid prizes.” -from Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince on Lover
“Then one magical night I forgot that you existed.” -from I Forgot That You Existed on Lover
“But it would’ve been fun if you would’ve been the one.” -from The 1 on Folklore
“When I felt like I was an old cardigan under someone’s bed, you put me on and said I was your favorite.” -from Cardigan on Folklore
“There’ll be happiness after you, but there was happiness because of you.” -from Happiness on Evermore
“Long story short, I survived.” -from Long Story Short on Evermore
“It’s me. Hi! I’m the problem, it’s me.” -from Anti-Hero on Midnights
“You’re on your own, kid. You always have been.” -from You’re On Your Own, Kid on Midnights
“Me and karma vibe like that.” -from Karma on Midnights
“I can do it with a broken heart.” -from The Tortured Poets Department
“Who’s afraid of little old me? You should be.” -from Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? on TTPD
More Lettering Style Inspiration
If you liked the styles in this post, and you want to practice, I have a hand lettering worksheet bundle that includes hand lettering September and all the months and other words in 10 styles. Get the 10 Ways to Letter worksheets here. Use code “HELLOLETTERING” for 20% off just for reading this post. 🙂
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