Calligraphy Greeting Cards Course

1. Welcome!: Hello, I'm Alena from Creative Field Designs. Welcome to my calligraphy greeting card course. I always said that it's so much more fun to practice when you're making some projects, where you're making some end result. And that's what this course is all about. We'll create some really beautiful card designs. I'll walk you through the process. It's going to be step by step. And you walk away with some really, really beautiful cards in your portfolio that you can create again and again for so many different occasions. So we'll mainly be focusing on dip pen calligraphy and brush calligraphy. We'll do a bit of watercolor and, like, hand drawn elements in the background as well. So get all of your creative tools ready. It's going to be a good mix of different supplies. So I hope you enjoy it. I hope this allows you to get creative and just do something relaxing for yourself. So grab your supplies and let's get started. 2. Birthday Card: Sweet Pea Design: Hello, everybody. Today, I'll be sharing this super fun tutorial. We're going to create this beautiful birthday card. We're going to do some sweet pea drawing and coloring. There's going to be a bit of flourishing, a bit of coloring. It's going to look beautiful. So probably take around 25 minutes, I'd say, depends on how much you want to add to it. It's really up to you. And also depending on what size you're doing it in. So mine's quite big. It's an A five. You could also do this. A bit smaller, if you like. It's such a wonderful card. I hope you enjoy it. I've loved love, loved making it. And I com it. Yeah. So let's get started. So just getting all of the tools ready, I'll be using my pen holder with a nip and some ink. I'll make sure to add all the links for all of the supplies. We'll also need some colorful pencils and also just, like, a regular pencil, just to draw some guidelines, and that's actually going to be the first thing we do. So whenever I have, like, a blank card, I love adding some sort of line or a few lines to kind of give me a bit of guidance. So maybe I'll just do the center line just so we know where the middle is. And let's also do these little lines on each side. So again, just to help us keep everything a bit more balanced. So let's start drafting our pray. So we're going to let a happy birthday. And let's just focus on having our entry and exit strokes really, really long because those will be the stems for our flowers. So I've done the first word, and you can see how long those strokes are. I'm doing the second word, and I'm just focusing on that really long stroke again. It is the fast draft. You can always erase and try again. I'm just looking at my second word, and I'm not quite happy with the word bath day. I think there's something odd about letter H and D. I'm just going to make this entry stroke a bit more straight. So it's going to be like a stem of the flower, and I want it to look quite horizontal. So there we go. I might also just check my lettuce. I'm not 100% happy with my bottom word. So I'm just eraising the end of it, and I will reposition my letter So I'll just make a bigger gap between lettuce D and and this is going to help the position, the letter D, a better spot as well, and just make this ward look a bit more balanced. So there we go. So I'm just erasing some previous lines I had there. And I'm going to get rid of these center lines as well. So I'm trying to erase as much as I can at this point. I actually love doing this one. I just run over everything with my eraser, and this will kind of keep the guidelines there, obviously, but they won't be like in your face. So it'll be just so much easier to erase later. And now, I want you to take your time here because everyone's pace is really different. I'll speed this up a little bit, just so you can see the process and, you know, so you can refer to each letter if you need to. But I want you to remember to dip your pen probably a bit more, especially if you're doing this in quite big calligraphy. So I also noticed that I'm not dipping enough here. I mean, I am dipping enough, but it's quite hard to do, like, big calligraphy. So, yeah, you just want to pay attention on your ink flow. My ink, I think is a little bit too thick. I've been lettering a lot, and I think I've left it out for too long. So it has definitely become a little bit thick. So I'm struggling with ink flour a little bit. You know, you can always go back and color windows, blank strokes that you get when you run out of ink. So yeah, I'm going to speed this up so you can refer to the finished look of this, but take your time. So once your calligraphy is done, it's time to draw some beautiful sweet pea flowers. So I'm going to start with this right side. I'm going to use this exit stroke as a stem of the flower. So I'm starting by drawing these little leaves at the base. And then I'm doing this big fast petal. So let's try and keep the drawings fairly thin. So once you do your first petal, you can then build on it. So you can do another one kind of at the back and then do the third one like this, maybe squeeze in one on the side as well. So this one's quite buffy looking. I think it looks quite good. Now, you can also just kind of add in some little kind of spirals. I love these. So, you know, sweet bees, they've got these beautiful, like, spiral stems coming out. They look really kind of like light. They are very delicate and light flowers. So these are really beautiful. You can also add some leaves. So I'm just drawing some really simplistic leaves. I'm doing the outline of the leaf and then adding in a little a little line in the middle just for a bit more detail. And I'm just adding more of these little swirls. They look so fun, like so much fun. Remember to keep them thin. You want to try and focus quite hard on your pen control. Obviously, I love thinking of my index finger when I do it. I feel like my index finger is like guiding my pen. That helps me see if it helps you at all. Now I'm just adding in some lines, trying to think of the actual flower and maybe how the shadowing would look. And I'm just adding these little lines on each petal. We are going to color them in, so don't worry too much about the detail right now, but it's just nice to show a little bit. Now, let's continue. So I'm just adding more of these leaves, and I'm going to start thinking about maybe doing another flower. So you could extend some flower heads from this main stroke or you could start like another stroke. So I'm just adding, like, a line here and then starting to do a tiny little flower head here. So this time I'm starting from the center, and I'm just doing these, like, wiggiy lines around it and trying to represent like a bud. So this flower hasn't opened just yet. I think it looks really good. And again, more of these little spirals. So see if you can make them really light looking. So very quick movement. Try to keep them really thin. They should look really airy. Remember to add some maybe leaves at the base of the flower head. Let's keep going. I'm just extending another little stem, and I might draw another flower here. So drawing with the name is so much fun. I love, love, love it so much. So I'm just doing another flower, and I think I'm just going to do three petals for this one. So one on each side, and then one in the middle and just adding some leaves again, kind of at the bottom at the base of the flower. And just kind of decorating again with these really thin delicate lines, adding in some leaves. Don't be afraid to go quite close to your lettering as well. So you want to make it look quite balanced. So from time to time, just kind of check in, have a look where you're at, see if you need to add anything else or which direction you need to, like, stretch your strokes into to make it look a bit more balanced. So there. So I'm just adding some little lines at the bottom of each petal here. And I'm starting to think about the other side. So we're going to do pretty much the same thing. You can, of course, position your flowers differently, like, from different perspectives. So I'm also trying to vary them so they don't all look the same. So I'm starting with this little petal in the middle. Then I'm doing, like, a really soft thin like wavy line on the right, and then something on the top here, just building, building on and seeing where else I can add some lovely strokes. So doing another one now, so focusing on the ward birthday, and I'm going to do another little bud. So this is going to be quite closed. And I just think it looks quite pretty this way. And there we go. So we're just going to decorate this side in exactly not exactly the same way, but in a very similar way. So just adding some spirals, some leaves. And we're going to do something else at the top and the bottom of, you know, the actual phrase as well, just to fill in the card a little bit more, and I'll come back to that. So keep going, keep adding more leaves, more of these kind of, like, question mark shapes. I love calling them that and just keep going until you're happy with the way it looks. So once you're finished with your entry and exit strokes, let's add in some little florihes at the bottom of the phrase. So the trick here is to try and make them look like they're open. So just notice how I'm doing one of these question mark shapes on the left and then doing another one on the right, and then one in the middle. So that's kind of like the shape you want to try and follow. You can also do it differently, of course, but I think this just works so well. It looks so pretty. So have a go. So I did add some thickness there on my down strokes, and I'm just blending in, like, a thicker, like a mirror stroke inside or the outside of each of these shapes. Also, some dots can look really pretty. So just experiment a little bit. So you can add some dots around the flowers as well. You can also use a metallic pen. Oh, I'm actually thinking that would be really nice to decorate with some gold or copper. Ink, that'll look really pretty. I'm thinking about the top now, so I'm just trying to decide and obviously, be careful, try not to smudge anything. So I'm just checking that my flowers are dry before putting my hand there because that could be quite dangerous. So if you do smudge anything DeVore, you know, you can always draw something on them. But I'm trying to do this little kind of like a flourish again at the top, and I'm just going to continue in a similar way, really. And you can use a pencil to, like, plan it out a little bit, or you can just follow my example here. But I am kind of thinking on the go, Oh, no, I did manage to smudge it on the right. We'll see what I can do about that. But yeah, we'll see. It's not too bad. I might actually just trim my card. So that's one way of doing it. But I think we've all been there. Oh, my goodness, just let me know if you tend to smudge your work as well. It's quite annoying, isn't it? But it is what it is. So I'm going to speed this up again. So you try to get creative here. You can refer a little bit. And just now how I am thickening my downstrokes here a little bit. So see if you want to do the same, add a bit more dimension to this, especially to the top and bottom part. Once your collector fy is completely dry, we can start coloring in the flowers. So I'm just using some colored pencils, and I'm starting with this lovely purple color. And my pencil isn't, like, 100% sharp. It does want to be a little bit blunt, so you can do a bit of mixing and so that you can control the saturation of your pencil. And I'm trying to do the top part of each petal, a little bit darker here, and try my best to gradually blend like a lighter lighter purple at the bottom of each petal. So try to kind of press harder and then transition into, like, lighter pressure to achieve, like, a more of a translucent look. But I think this looks really good. And I'm just kind of going with it, trying to think of the flower itself as a whole, and maybe adding a bit of shadowing here and there. But yeah, generally, I'm just kind of doing, like, the top of the bet bit darker at the moment, and it looks really good with the black line details. We've added that, I think. So that looks quite nice. I'm going to do this little bud in red, and I might actually blend in some other pencils kind of on top later on. I'm thinking of orange. I think that'll look quite nice. So keep coloring in, play with pressure. Keep going. You can do different colors, but I think purple, red, maybe orange and yellow just look really, really good. So I'm trying to stick with this combination, but I would love to see what pencils you end up using. I really hope you'll share this. This is such a beautiful design, and I'm actually really, really pleased that I'll have our little birthday card undergo because I always run out of them. And even though, you know, you might be thinking that I probably have hundreds of them lying around, I don't. They do run out really quickly, so I feel like birthday cards are just wonderful. They're such a wonderful project, and I'll try to do more of these with you guys as well. So I'm just moving on to the next side. So for the previous flower, I tried to do like, a darker middle of the flower. So try to vary, again, like adding a bit of translucency and a bit more saturation. At certain places will definitely make your coloring look a bit more professional here. Have a go yourself. So take your time here, of course. I'm just showing you that I'm also doing some leaves. I'm just using this, like, brighter green, but also going over some darker greens. You can definitely blend pencils, and you might want to, like, very gently go over your little flourishes, your little spiral shapes. So I'm just doing it really gently. It doesn't even have to be on the black line. I just want to show some more lightness and more movement and keep them really delicate and airy. And that's what I'm trying to kind of show. So by adding some really translucent lines down, you'll not only get a bit of color do, but yeah, it'll also add a bit more buffiness like softness, I'd say. There we go. So I'm just coloring in all the leaves, and that's been much, you know, the last step. You can take as far as you like. You can keep adding in more green. You can even do some more flower heads if you like. I actually like that this is a bit simplistic in a way. You know, it's not like overloaded with flowers and overloaded with flourishes. Although, let's be honest, you can't have too many flowers. So yes, I do love this, and I think it's a perfect, you know, it doesn't take a to make, which is also nice. You can still enjoy it. It's not going to tire you out. But the end result is really, really pretty. Just to show you remember when I said about blending, so I'm just adding a bit of red into my purple, and this just adds a whole new look to it. So when you combine two pencil colors together, it's just so beautiful. I definitely just looks a bit more illustrated in a way. So it doesn't just look like, you know, it's a children's book and you've done some coloring. It definitely adds a bit more dimension in there, and I think it's a really good trick. So pencil blending isn't something you probably think about a lot. So I was also surprised to kind of learn these techniques, but I really, really love it, and I think you should try it, too. You can blend some orange maybe or some red into orange, actually, that might look really good. Obviously, you don't want to blend two colors that are really contrasting. You do want to stay within, like, similar hues, and that's going to make it look really good. So adding some maybe yellow into orange there and a bit of red into yellow as well. Devi Co guys. I hope you enjoyed this at Torville. I loved filming this so much. It's definitely one of my favorite probably projects of the month, and I hope you feel the same. And I would love, love, love, love, love to see your work. So please share I always say this. Just remember that our Facebook group is such a safe and friendly community to share with, and it might just, you know, make someone else's day. It might inspire someone else to pick up their supplies. So yeah, it's just nice to share. So I can't wait to see yours. Don't forget to raise your pencil lines when everything is dry. And Devi GoGuys I really hope you enjoyed it. 3. Birthday Card: Floral Design: Hi, guys. So I just dropped into the studio to make a last minute birthday card for my niece, and it's looking really pretty. So she's just turning 16, so I wanted to go for something really, really bright and pretty. And I think this will do it a job. So, it says, Let's celebrate you. So I think I'm a bit bored of just, like, doing the regular happy birthday. So I'm trying to do, like, different phrases that are birthday related, as well. So yes, so come along and let's do some drawing together and create this beautiful, beautiful, beautiful card. I hope you enjoy the process. Let's get started. So let's just quickly run through the supplies. So we'll need some sort of a fine liner pen to draw the flowers with, and I'll have two. So one's a bit chunkier. So this one here, I'll add the link to this. And the other one is a micron pen, and it's a bit thinner. We'll need some pencils and, of course, some sort of a pen like a brush pen that you'll do calligraphy with. And a pencil will be helpful as well, just so you can do a nice draft together. So let's start by using a pencil and just plan out our design. So the freddo letta is, let's celebrate. And I'm thinking of doing it on two light. So the flag just going to say, let's celebrate, and then we can do a nice underneath, okay? So just doing it in pencil, adding a bit of bound or red a just focusing on the style of the lettuce, but obviously not doing calligraphy. Now for the flowers, we are just going to draw a couple of circles and ovals. So we're going to do a little circle. And then do like an oval shape next to it. You can do it in a corners like I'm doing here. And maybe you can squeeze in, like, a third one at the bottom. And we're going to start filling in this circle with petals. So we're thinking of the center of the flower being in the middle. And then there we go. And then we are just kind of working around the center. And the reason we have an oval, as well is because we can create different perspectives of the flower. So for the center of this one, I've done, like, a half circle and kept some of the petals be shorter. So the petals at the front are definitely shorter, and it just creates like a different perspective. It can look really, really good. And I'm quite tempted to just add another little circle in there. So I'll do another one, maybe a bit bigger. And you just fill it in with four petals. You can also do five if you have enough room. And then from there, we can start decorating with leaves. So you can just do a few branches and do like an oval, like a round kind of shape with, like, a pointed tip, so like a leafy shape. They don't have to be super accurate or anything. And remember, this is your first draft that we can always build upon. So it will definitely be probably a bit different from your actual pencil, sorry, your actual pen drawing. So there we go. You just do a couple of leaves, a couple of branches, kind of facing different directions. And if you did go a bit too close to your lettering, don't worry. We can always change the lettering as well. Now, I'm going to do the same thing at the bottom, so just filling in the circle with petals. I'm thinking maybe to do, like, a really, really short one here at the front and then build a pon so I could maybe do some bigger petals in the background. So I'm just really thinking about the process and, like, going around, imagining how this flower position. You know, when I look at it, I imagine all the details. So there we go. So we could do something like this, so this is a bigger flower. I'll look really nice. Now, let's do this oval one. So starting with a half circle, doing some shorter petals here and there to create a different perspective. And let's just do this little circle, as well. So I might actually just do, like, a closed off flower. So I'm just doing, like, longer petals that connect at the same base at the bottom. And then filling it all in with some more leaves, this is going to look really pretty when we go over the pen and color it in it's going to be really nice. So having this plan, having this like, little pencil sketch is so helpful. And it also makes the process so much more fun because, you know, you've done it once now, and then when you go over with the pen next, you can actually refine. I'm going to actually erase. I'm going to rub out my calligraphy here because it was a bit too high. So this is also great because you get to redo it as many times as you need. So I'm going to do that celebrate a bit lower and do the underneath. So I think this looks a bit more proportional in my example. See if you can add in some more leaves just to fill in the background a bit more. You can also add some, like, extra petals in your first flower. Some more leaves, like, really, really natural looking leaves. I'm not spending too much time and thinking about the shape of them, do these, like, rubbly lines, really. There we go. So I think we're ready to go over with a brush pen. So I'm using my tumble for the Nuke brush pen, and I'm just going to pretty much trace the pencil lines. So again, if you feel like going over your pencil lines a little bit, that's absolutely fine. Feel free to do that. If it makes more sense, and obviously, your lettering is a bit thicker when you use a brush pen, so it might actually shift to the right a bit more naturally. So that's absolutely fine. It doesn't have to follow the pencil line. Like completely. So, take your time here. Make it look all pretty. There we go. Don't forget to maybe finish the line with a nice exit stroke. So I'm finishing the letter like a nice little half, oval shape, almost. That looks good, so I'm going to grab my fine liner, and we can start filling in circles, so going over the petals. I'll start with this one, this lava flower. So I'm just starting by going around the petal shapes. And for the center, we can, like, add lots of dots in the middle and also it lines. So it's really up to you. We just want to dark in the area. It wants to look dark. Everything is very compact there, so quite close together. Let's do another one. So going over the petal lined doing the circle in the middle. It's a lot and lots of dots or little lines so dark in the area. Keep going. So the moles you do that the darker will look. And let's do this bigger one. So we're starting with these initial petals that we drew, and we're going to do the outer ones as well. So these are definitely be thinner and like longer. And the center again. So noise little circle, lots and lots of dots. To make it look like there's a bit of dextra there, lovely. So now the next step, we're going to start going over the leaves, and it's so much easier I find to do leaves when you have, like, a rough plan. And you know where you're stretching them, how you're positioning them. So I can truly relax. I feel like I can truly relax into just thinking about the flow of the leaves, the shape. So I'm just doing these fairly quickly. I find that they flow a bit better off and you go a bit faster. So they're definitely quite natural looking. I try to keep them fairly big and round. And do a little line detail in the middle as well, draw the center. See if you can draw them as if they're one line. So when you do a leaf, just go back and do the line in the middle in one motion. There we go. So that starts to look quite nice. Lovely. Let's see if you need to pop in a few more, even if you don't have pencil lines for it. So your composition will start to evolve, you know, when you might find it. Actually, you need something else there. Now, I've grabbed my fine liner that's a bit smaller, so a bit thinner. The tip is a bit thinner. And I'm going to do some shading. So we want to add, like, lots of lines. We want to draw some lines around the center. Imagining these lines, these shadows are coming out of the center of the flower and stretching into each petal. So lots and lots of thin lines. All of them kind of go back to the same base. So you get this little, like, a triangle shape almost. Okay, so you can go over them a few times so you want to shade even more. So they want to be, like, positioned really closely together. And be really, really thin. If you don't have a different size vine liner, you can also just use the one you drew with before. But just make sure that these lines are really thin, otherwise, you're just going to look a bit harsh. So for this bigger flower, it can be a bit difficult to determine where do you want to add shading. So again, think of each individual petal and imagine that these lines are still coming from the center of the flower. So where do you need to position them so that they appear as if they are coming from the center. Even if the leaf is behind, you might just see a little bit, like the top of those lines, which is fine. I'm also just really carefully going over the outline of each petal. I love doing this. I feel like it just gives a bit more contrast, and this looks really nice. Even if you don't go over the same kind of point, it still creates, like, little layers. So even if you just go over your initial petal lines, it'll create a nice little fold effect. If you know what I mean, give it to go and C. If you like that, too. So there we go. So this sars look really nice now. You can also add some nice little lines on each leaf, just so that they appear a bit smoother, a bit more detailed as well. Lots of thin lines in each leaf. Take your time here. So this gonna look really, really effective as well. So I might speed this up, so I'm just going to finish the leaves, and they'll be the last step for this top part. If you really wanted to, you could add even more shading, so more.in the middle. So make sure that that center, the flower will really, really stand out. So it will just make it look really, really good that way. So you might even add some more lines that are shorter and closer to the center, and then just make sure that the center is looking quite dark. So I'm just doing some final touches there, and this is it, really. So I'm going to do exactly same thing to the bottom of the card as well. And we have different size flowers here as well. So you just work with each individually. And that's pretty much the same thing. So let's do that. Try to do it at your own pace, and I'll come back and show you how to colour everything nicely with pencils. So feel free to pause the video to finish this step before we continue. I So this is starting to look so pretty. I hope you managed to finish yours as well. So I'm still going back and trying to, like, darken the center. I can never stop, so make sure you finish yours, and we can start colouring them in. So I'm just going to use, like, really simple basic pencils, and I've got this lovely orange color. And the idea is when you colour them in, you want to try and play with pressure of your coloring. So some of the areas can be darker, you can press down be harder. Some of the areas can be lighter. So if you play with that, that will look really good. Also, you can get rid of any pencil lines. If you still see any pencil lines poking through, I think we can just rub them out so we don't get distracted, and so it starts to look a bit more neat. Also behind your calligraphy, just really gently. Get rid of all the pencil lines before we continue. So I'm back to doing the coloring. So I'm going to do this fat flower in orange. You can do any colors you like, of course. And I will also blend a little bit of red into that. So blending pencils is so much fun, and, you know, you can really show those two different colours merging together, being blended together. And it can create this really, really beautiful effect. It can look really, really professional. And I think I'll do the yellow. I'll do the center in yellow, so you might need to press down really hard in the middle to get that scena nicely yellow. Now I'm going to do another flower in purple. So getting plumes, pressure, trying to keep some of the basil super light while adding, like, a lot of color. To the other ones and doing the center in yellow again, keep playing. I really love this purple color. I think I'll do this big one in purple, as well. So this pencil actually is really, really blunt, and I find that coloring is so much easier when your pencils are blond. So if they're really sharp, I think everything just appears quite dark. So it's quite hard to get that really soft look. So see if you have any blunt ones as well. And try to use those really love this color. I will try and go a bit harder, maybe on the edges of each petal. So kind of, you know, we've the shading with the lines with some lines, but you can also play with coloring and do some darker areas. Maybe at the top of each petal, that can look really good or like a side of some petals. Why I min do the swinging yellow, just to spice it up a little bit, try to use different colors. So we got orange, kind of purplish pink, yellow, and I'm also thinking of doing some in blue. I think that'll look really good. And I'm just focusing on those warmer colors. So red, yellow, orange pink, purple. They're wonderful to blend together. So you can definitely just go over some parts of each of these flowers in different color. Not being too harsh with red hair, so it's just really, really gentle. Doing just like a part of a petal, in a different color, doing a bit of blending. So I'm just thinking I'm really thinking of doing some in blue. So I'm trying to find a blue pen. So I'm going to do this little one in blue. So take your time, take your time. Try to think of colors, try to blend some of them. Try to think of the pressure you apply when you're coloring in, and just try to relax into it. It's quite a nice process to color up. So I'll let you do it at your own pace. I might speed this up, and we'll do some of the leaves together in a minute. So when you do leaves, try to choose a darker green. So if you have a darker green, I feel like you'll just look better, or if you have two shades of green, you can mix them together. So I really wish I had, like, a dark darker green that's got like a bluish tone to it, but I don't really. So I've got this like lighter, lighter green and a darker green. And I think so I'm starting with the darker one, but I might actually blend in some slightly different different shades of green as well. So just in the same way, we did the flowers, try to vary the pressure, keep some of the areas a bit lighter. I've still got some pencil lines. I'm just really carefully, getting rid of some of them, try not to try not to raise my petals. There you go. I think that looks really good, so blending, blending and doing each leaf at a time, really focusing on its translucency, really. So we want to keep some of them really light. And I'm doing this front one really, really dark, so making them quite dark here. So keep going. Have fun with it. See if you want to use two different shades of green. And this will be pretty much the last step, so I've got a different green here. So I'm going to do a few individually, but then also you can just go back in with a different green on top of this green. So blend them together. This can look really, really good, as well. Keep going. This is also quite relaxing. So try to just go at your own pace and relax into it. There we go. I'm just doing some final finishing touches, erasing some pencil marks, and seeing if I need to go back in with a fine line or to just make that shading pop a little bit more, checking my calligraphy as well, if I need to go over with a tip of the brush, or some lettuce, just to kind of perfect them, correct them a little bit. I mean, it's not about perfection, but, you know, sometimes you'll just need to make sure that your strokes look a bit more smooth. So there we go. I hope you enjoyed this. This was so lovely to make. I've really, really enjoyed sharing this with you, and I can't wait. I can't wait to see your results, so I'm just going over with the fine liner to correct a few bits. Sometimes those detail those details can get lost when you use when you color in with pencils, so it's really nice to just go back and refine a little bit. But yes, this is the finished look. It's really hard to stop because I feel like there's always something more you want to add in. But I hope you enjoy the process. Please, please, please share in the group or tag me on Instagram, share this card I would really love to see. What you made out of it and how you approached it and what composition you came up with, and whether it's looking similar to mine or slightly different, I would really, really love to see. Thank you so much, guys, and I'll see you in the next tutorial. 4. Thank You Card: Climbing Rose Watercolour: Hello, lovely members. Today, we'll be painting something really beautiful. We're going to make this thank you card together. We're going to paint a lovely climbing rose and do a bit of lettering, as well. So if you do need a card for somebody for a birthday or a thank you card, this is perfect timing. I know that I do, for sure. So you can find all of the links and all the supplies below this video. And when you're feeling ready, let's get started. And I'll be using like an A five piece of paper. So I've just torn A four into half, and now I'm going to use this and fold this into half again. And when you fold, try to be really quick, then the fold would look a bit more smooth. Yeah, love it a little cute. Like a fairly small size card for today. There we go. So we can do a bit of lecturing here so we can write something like, thank you, maybe. And then we're going to do a climbing rose design around the card. I use this Tambo for the silky, fine tip brush. And this is something we can start with. So have a bot. We just do a little thank you or happy birthday or whatever it is that you want to write. So I'm going to do thank you, so just doing a downstroke, a little cross line. I might merge T and H together like this. I might do a little flourish on the edge letter H like that. Then continue with letter A that's a little bit smaller. And we could detach the letter A like this. That always looks really good. And then also do like a drop. When we finish the w, just making it look a bit more interesting. There we go. I'm doing the, doing Y O and. And I just do it kind of simplistic, so it doesn't it doesn't overpower the whole look to that. I think that looks quite nice, just really simple. I use a black pen because I think it's going to contrast quite nicely with what we're going to paint. So we're going to paint a lovely climbing rose design, and I'm going to use a number ten brush for this. And we're going to start by so wetting our brush. I just make sure my brush is nice and wet. And now I'm going to pick up some red from my palette. So just find a nice shade of red. So he wants to be fairly bright like this, and we're going to squeeze in some white, so I'm just using a tube, but surely you have white in your palate, I'll just ran out. So I'm mixing red and white and adding more water, so I get this lovely kind of like a pinkish ton, and I'm just going to transfer a little bit of this paint into another kind of place on my palette because I don't really want a lot of paint at this point. I want it to be so watery. And this is what we're going to start with. The first thing we're going to do is just paint like big blobs of pink. So just imagining that the rose will kind of come this way and then also here at the top. So just imagining that maybe one big rose will be here. So I'm kind of painting this, like, circle Sackle shape, but it doesn't really it doesn't really look anything like couse at the moment, so I'm going to do quite a few. Some of them can be in clusters together, especially here where the branch will probably kind of go this way, and then maybe you'll have a branch that kind of goes this way. So lots and lots. Maybe a little cluster here. This is kind of like a simple, fairly easy loose watercolor technique, but it's going to look really lovely at the end. So yeah, just make sure that your paint is super, super watery. And obviously, everything that is closer to us will be bigger. So these front ones can be really big, then we can cluster them together a bit more. So just try to make these blobs fairly circular. So they do want to be quite round looking for best results. So we're focusing on this area and then the middle and here in between, we can just have a lot of leaves, and I think that's going to look really good. Maybe let's do a couple small ones here at the bottom as well. So I'm just going to let these dry now. So just like little circles like this. Okay. Now, whilst we wait for this to dry, we can prepare our green. So I'm gonna be using this dark green for my palette and I'm just going to transfer the tiny bit into my palette. And I'll add a little bit of yellow to this. So this I just brighten this up slightly. So I'm dipping my yellow, trying to scrape some paint out of that cause I'm kind of running out. So that's a bit too bright. I'll add a bit of green again. So you're just going for this, like, really kind of bright green look. This will look really, really good with pink. And notice how I don't really have a lot of paint here. It's all quite minimal, you know, I don't have much at all, and it's also very watery. So just add a bit more water. To make yours look quite similar. So this ones to be so watery. And again, you can take this water version, pop it into another place in your palette, and this will create an even more watery version, and I might just work with this, to be honest. So super, super light. Okay. Now, I'm just starting to kind of paint the background in these very kind of careless strops. They don't have to be in any particular size or, you know, style. They don't have to go in any particular place, but we just want to show some green at this point in the background. And that's all I'm doing, and it's going to start to look really pretty when we fill it in more. And here at the bottom, so yeah, just kind of try to make a natural transition. So you just paint a bit of a background there. So it'll stretch this way. So yeah, it will look nice. There we go. So that's, like, a really fast layer, and this should dry really quickly because we weren't actually using a lot of paint. I mean, it is very watery, but there wasn't a lot on my brush, so so just going in between. And if you see some white areas, that's also fine ovary, you can definitely leave some white gaps in between. So yeah, walking with a bigger brush number ten will be great for this because you can really flatten it and just wak your way around. Lovely. So that looks great. Now, we're going to pick up some more green, and I'm going to add it to this first, well that I mixed in. So let's do it together. And this time, I'm going to add a little bit of brown. So instead of yellow, I'm adding some brown to just like really darken. So just really dark in this existing green that I have here. I definitely turns really dark. I'm just going to add a bit more green again to balance it out. And this looks great. So now I'm going to grab my number seven brush. I'm going to grab my number seven brush, dip into here. And I'm just going to start like stamping. So I'm just adding like a stamp off my brush like this. It creates like a little leaf shape, and I'm going to do this just like around all of these little pink buds just kind of randomly here and there. It doesn't have to be in any particular way, we do want to show a little bit of movement. You're gonna fix this because I dab a bit of green into them. You want to show a bit of movement, and some of them can be so, so small. This will just look great when we add in some bigger leaves as well. So just do a bit of stamping with, like, really dark green here and there, especially here, remember? So we're doing this middle part quite leafy. So it's going to be super leafy. So you can be quite generous with that. You can then go back to your number ten brush and just do the same thing. So maybe adding some bigger stamps. In between. So obviously, we want the background to be fairly dry. It doesn't really want to bleed, but as I said, it kind of dries really quickly. So hopefully, yours is dry as well. If it isn't just give it a minute. And also the pink flowers are like most of them are dry at this point. So I'm just adding lots and lots of these floffy stamped leaves. You can rotate your brush as well to kind of get a good angle. Maybe some of the leaves will get quite close to your lettering as well. Gonna some big leaves here near the big flowers. So there we go. That starts to look quite interesting. Now, I'm going to go back to my number seven brush, and we're going to pick up some red again. So I'm just adding some red to this pink again, so just darkening this pink up, making it more saturated. And I'm going to start to go in to these roses and just do like little see shapes, especially towards the middle. So all I'm doing is, I'm going to show you on another page. So we're just doing sea caves, like thin, thick, thin, but then, like, a little carve. So I'm just going around and trying to do a lot of these petals that look like little sea calves in this, like, circle circular movement. So starting with the middle, it's quite dense in the middle. And then the more strokes. You can make them a bit fluffier towards the like the outside of the rows. You can also add more white to this, so it does look a bit more pink. Mine's definitely a bit more red than pink at this point, but we want it to be really saturated. So you either dip in red or just add more white and red to your palette, it creates this darker, more saturated pink, and that's what I've done here. Some of them can be so small, it could just be like a little blob in the middle. This can definitely look really pretty and effective, but still quite loose. You know, we're not showing a tremendous amount of detail, but we're definitely adding more structure to these individual pink blobs that they've created here. So this is fairly I don't want to say easy, but, you know, fairly quick technique, I'll probably say. You know, you could definitely paint much more detailed rows, but this is so beautiful and it just looks amazing when it's all done. You don't need to be a watercolor prow to do this. And I think that's what I love about it. You can everybody can do it, even if you're not very experienced with the paints. I'm just painting these sea calfs all around. I'm being quite quick. I'm not like, looking at each blob and thinking, Oh, you know, where should I position this? So I'm just going in and trusting the process, and I highly recommend for you to do the same. I trusted you we'll make the strokes where they need to be in a way. And if your green background is quite dry, you can also just add in some smaller blobs of pink. Here and there, you can just do like little buds or just turn them into, like, more roses. You might want to add some more maybe next to, like, existing ones. They'll do look really good in clusters. So all I'm doing is just like lot lot of sea calves and seeing if I want to blend in, create another circle next to these existing ones. So there we go. On walls, this is fairly wet. Let's dip into red again and just maybe dab a bit more like saturated red in the middle. So this will be just for the center of the flour, but this will just create, like, a nice shadow in there because it does want to be dark in the middle. This one's still drying because I got to fix it, so I'm gonna let it be. So we can always come back to this and do it again because sometimes it might take more than, you know, one layer to do this. There we go. I think it starts to look quite pretty. So now is the time where we add in maybe a couple of branches and just show show everything a little bit more like add more structure to it. So let's dip our number seven brush or, like, a smaller brush, whatever side you're using into brown. And I'm actually going to go for this darker brown. And it doesn't need to be very watery. So this wants to be fairly saturated. And this is where we're going to walk with super super light pressure. I'm going to make sure that nothing is too wet. So we're not going to touch the actual roses, but just make sure that your leaves and everything in the background isn't too wet at this point. We're just going to kind of create these little branches. We're going to paint these really thin strokes and kind of see where we can attach these little individual flower heads, try to imagine how they would be coming out of, like, the side or how these branches would be growing out of the other branches as well, and how would they hang out? Just try your best kind of adding in these thin lines to show that there are some branches, basically. So A lot of it wants to kind of hang down, so you'll probably do a lot of these, like, horizontal looking lines that kind of are, like, quite straight like this, but then you just connect to other parts. And some of the branches can just be empty for now and we can just add on some leaves onto them. So just try to show some thin lines here and there. And sometimes, you know, they don't all have to make a lot of sense. That's I think what I'm trying to say that they can definitely just be a bit randomly positioned. And when we add more leaves, it will all look more natural anyway, I promise. So So you just adding some nice detail. And this will make it look like we've spent so much time on this, but in reality, you know, it is a fairly quick little project. So I know it can be hard to do those thin strokes, just try your best. Definitely gets easier with practice. So really quick and thin is what we're going for them. Okay, so this is a time where I'm going to add even more kind of saturated green to my existing green and try to do some more detailed leaves and maybe just start to look at these branches and try to start filling the mince and do a little outline of the leaf and then color it in. And this is what I love doing when I work with something really small like this. So just with the tip of the brush, just do a little outline. And then colorings much easier to do the shape of the leaf. With the tip of the brush and then just color it in rather than rely on, like, pressure changes and you know, you can also do your leave like this you go. But you got thin, thick thin, thin, thick, thin, and then do it again. But sometimes it's just nice to do this, where you do the outline and you just color it in. So that could be especially for small leaves, as I said, you can continue with those branches. I know that you use brown, but you can also just extend some green branches. Imagine that those are like little leafy ones. So I'm definitely going over some of the brown with green and adding lots and lots and lots of these branches. And from time to time I might dip into darker green, pick up some more like darker green color. And the ones here are kind of going upwards. And we just want to fill in this little bottom one, especially with lots and lots of leaves, making it all look quite busy. And just keep going like this, really. So that's that's going to make your design look full. And that's the trick to it. So to add as many leaves as you can and try to change and maybe add a bit more brown here and there. They do want to look slightly different because Obviously, you know, they are different in nature. So having some really dark ones can make everything look especially good. And, you know, the more you do this, the more you start to see that your background starts to disappear through the green background that we've painted, but you might see the peek through, and you might also see some, like, white areas here and there. That's fine. You can definitely have some white areas, and that would be just a little gap in between your branches. But yeah, this is quite relaxing to do. I might actually speed this up, so you can do it at your own pace. It's nice and relaxing, so keep adding leaves in the most natural way you can kind of show them, show the movement. Yeah, don't forget to kind of change your green from time to time. But yeah, just don't forget to change the shade of your green from time to time and also show some thinner thinner branches here and there. Okay, so now I'm just adding in, like, another layer of, like, dark or red and just dabbing some paint into the middle of each of these roses. And that'll be like one of the last steps, really. So we made the leaves really dark, but now we just need to add a bit more contrast into those roses, working with these sea cups and adding more paint in the middle of the flower, especially we'll create this beautiful deep look and there we go. So that's pretty much the end. You can also fluff them up a little bit if you want to do, like, some lighter color in the background again. So if you have a lot of white space, you can definitely just use your pink to kind of go around and make your rouses look a bit fluffier. But then again, I think it's nice to have a bit of white, so don't get rid of all of it. I'd say. So yeah, there we go. I hope you enjoy this tutorial. And if you really wanted to, you could add in some, like, really light pink strokes just like around your lecturing, and that might look quite dreamy, as well, I think. So I might just do a little bit of that just to kind of make it all come together a bit more. So there. So that's the end result. I really hope you enjoyed it. I love it so much. It makes such a nice card. So, yeah, I can't wait to see your version of this, well than everybody. 5. Cherry Blossom Drawing: Card Design: Hello, everybody. In this tutorial, I'm going to share this beautiful, beautiful, fairly easy cherry blossom card that we can all draw together. We're not going to do any watercolor painting or anything, but we will do a bit of blending on brush pens to kind of achieve this beautiful background. But it's such a lovely card. I'll definitely definitely be gifting this to my friend. I did need a birthday card, and I think you can never have too many. Like, birthday cards is something you always always want to have lots of. So this tutorial is going to be so, so spring themed. We're going to do this beautiful beautiful blossom, cherry blossom tree, and I hope you enjoy it. Let's get started. It's fairly easy to do, and I would love for you to join in. So let's try this together. I'll be using these supplies, so I try to get out all of my all of my like most of my, like, pale pink colored pens. I think, well, I intend to use this one for sure, which is a tombo Brush, this is the town 817. And I'll use this green pentel brush sign pen for lettering. I think it's just going to add really nice. Natural, like a spring, I'm touch to it. We'll need brown, so I'll be using this brown color, which is fairly light. You could also use a darker brown if you've got it. So I'm going to be using this again, by tumbo and it's in shade 947. And then we'll also need a light like a pale pink color. I've got a couple here, so I've got this fine tip brush sign penned by Pentel again, and also this Ecoline brush pen, and I might actually use this. I also kind of plan to blend my paint a little bit. So I've got a pot of water on a little brush. It can be any brush as long as it's round. And also paper. So I got this blank greeting card that I just bought in hobby Craft, I think. You don't want it to be too thin. So you can do a little test before you begin. But if you use watercolor paper, you'll always be safe. So yes, as long as it's a little bit thicker. So this is, I think, 250 GSM. Let's do a birthday card, so I'm just going to let a happy birthday in two lines. You can use a pencil to, like, plan out your lecturing, and I might actually do a quick draft as well. So I'm doing it super, super lightly, so you might actually not be able to see much. So actually, I want to go for a small scale lettering because a lot of the background will be taken up by drawings of cherry blossoms and I might start somewhere here, which is quite close to the center line. I'm going to redo it and do it a bit more to the right to balance it out. So that's why using a pencil is really, really helpful. So the first draft you do, just do it really, really lightly. Okay. And then I'm keeping it simple. It's fairly short entry strokes. The wide bath is quite long, so I'm just making sure to start it a bit more to the left. I'm going to keep my asenda shapes, so these are the ones that stretch up without a loop. So I want them to be quite simplistic. So yeah, in general, I'm just going for this, like, small scale. Simplistic lettering because our main focus is going to be kind of on the background. So this looks quite nice. And when you are confident and happy with the way it looks, go ahead and go over it with your brush pen, so I'm going to use this lovely green colour. And honestly, it just takes so much stress away when you have some guidelines to go over. So having a draft in pencil is super handy, and most of the time you're not even going to see the pencil underneath. So just focusing here to get my strokes thick and thin, going fairly slowly. Take your time. So once you have your draft, your pencil draft, it's just so much easier to focus on the technique a bit more without having to think about the guidelines as much. I might divide this last up stroke because it's quite long, so I've done half of it, and I might just have a little pause before I stretch this to the right. And I finish off by doing a cross line on the letter T and a little dot on the letter I. And this just looks lovely. I'm really happy with it, so super, super simple, but gets the message across. Lovely. So now, with my brown color, I'm going to start drawing branches. And some of these will be quite thick looking, and some of them will be like, really, really thin. And we're going to try and resemble, like, a cherry blossom branch. So I'm going to do one that kind of starts here and stretches to the right. And I might do actually one that starts here and also like stretches to the right. So let's see what happens, but I'm going to start by just drawing like a little stem. And I'm going to do a parallel line to it. So I'm just kind of following this fast line and just going the same direction. And then from there, I will do another branch, and I'll start drawing lots and lots of branches coming out of that one stem, and some of them can definitely be quite um you know, interesting looking. So this one here is going to be quite natural looking like that. Some of them can be thin or thick. So I'm just doing this. It's a lot and lot of continuous branches. And when I finish them off, they're not really pointy, but I do go to finish off properly. So all of these interesting shapes And here at the end, try to do like little ones. So like tiny ones will go at the end of the branches towards the right side. So again, just do as many as you can. Stretching them nicely. And you can also color in your stem in places, but also leave some, like, white detail. I think that will look quite nice. Just add a bit of variety there. And don't be afraid to finish your branches quite abruptly like this. So we often see this on cherry blossoms, so the branches are quite blunt. I would say that's how I would describe them. I can't go wrong here, you know, as long as you keep adding on branches upon branches, you will get a lovely look and you can then reassess and see once you get this far, let's say, you can reassess and see if you want to go over some of those thin strokes again to thicken them up a little bit, because we don't want, like, a huge contrast. We still want them to look like they're part of the tree. So something like this might be nice, might extend this branch kind of hanging down. And they are very often kind of like angled. So now is how I'm adding a beautiful angle there and maybe starting to go in a different direction. And again, let's do some tiny ones. Lovely. Hanging down like this looks quite pretty. And again, I might go back into here and adding some more of these thicker stronger ones. I might even do some here. Might go over the base branch again and just thicken it up a little bit because it is kind of the main one here, isn't it? And then I might stretch another one kind of underneath going this way. And again, this will be a thicker one. So I'm definitely adding a parallel line to thicken this up right away. I'm coloring in but not being super precise, just kind of doing these quick strokes. And let's say this one's kind of going this way. I know about you, but I love cherry blossoms so much. I've been telling my partner already that I got where to go on a cherry blossom walk. We've got this lovely park here in Brighton and every year. Um, it's called Hove Park, and they've got this, like, beautiful, beautiful street with a lot of cherry blossoms. Right, I'm just stretching them more and more. And again, might do some little ones to kind of meet this branch, not positioning it too close because I'm aware that there'll be some flowers, right? So we don't really want to overdo it, but I might just do some of these thicker ones here at the front. And everything's kind of bigger here at the bottom, kind of at the front because imagine that you're looking at your trees from this perspective. So obviously, everything that is closer to you, like these bottom branches will be naturally bigger. And that's just, you know, kind of, if you think about the perspective and all that. So quite handy and just see where you might want to add something else or if you're happy with the way your branches look, you can leave it there for now, but I'm just going to color in this one. And I think I might just add a couple more on the fast one here. So you can definitely just kind of do it on your own or follow me if you want to be quite precise and do it in exactly the same way. I know it can be hard to kind of imagine how would a tree grow out of its main stem, but I think there's no right or wrong, as I said. It's really hard to not make it look like a tree if you know what I mean? So Right. So this is great. I feel like I could add in some like really tiny ones. Like, you know, like, a tiny detail. Maybe when the branch is about to start to grow, but it hasn't. I'm sure there's a name for it. I forgot. Not a bud, but you get what I mean, like a little little branch. And this just adds, like, a really nice detail, I think. Definitely, definitely. Oh, it's like a nice contrast, even on your little branches. I think I'm quite happy with this. Once you start drawing these branches, it's like you can't stop, so I'm literally going to stop myself. So I'm just going to go over some of the areas again. So I want some of the areas to be quite dark, and it's really it really doesn't matter where you choose to have those darker areas. But by just going over even your thick part or even the thin ones again and again, you'll be able to darken them, take them shade further and just darken them slightly. So it does look a bit more natural because obviously, you know, all of them can't be the same color. And you're trying to avoid shopping or making them look superficial. So having some darker areas will definitely definitely make it all look more realistic and more interesting. I'm quite happy with this, I might darken this one. So just kind of go over and over with my fine tip. That looks to be better, I think. Definitely adds to it. So now I'm just going to take my e cola and brush pen. So this wants to be super, super light. So whatever pen you use, it wants to be really, really light. And remember, when we did these little shorter branches, I'm going to start by attaching little flowers there, so and they want to try and do them in different perspectives. So I might just start by drawing the outline, so doing one petal. So we're aiming for like five petals here, and five or four, see how many you can fit in. And then I get this, little blob of pink, and I might dip my brush into water and just go over this little blob to kind of expand it a bit more to make it, like, a bit more fluffy. So this will be the first part. And I'm going to do that, too. Lots and lots of these little places. So you might want to choose to draw a few and then go over with your brush pen so you don't have to, like, pick up and put your pen down all the time. So just like little blobs. They can be really loose, but you do kind of want to show those four or five petals. So you're definitely fluffing it all up. You might also want to do a few buds. So literally just like drawing a little tear tear shape. Tear drop. Shape here and there, but mostly, I'm definitely kind of focusing on the blossoms itself. And we don't need a lot of water. I'll literally mean just a little bit because this will just add this little background, little background element to it. Like a little wash. So these pens are water base, and they are wonderful for blending with water. And this is just a really lovely, perfect project to try that out. So I'm just adding on lots and lots and lots of these and as I said, don't worry too much about the shape. So we're going for quantity here. So try to do quite a few because, you know, when you look at when you look at these cherry blossoms, they're quite packed, aren't they? So I'm definitely just adding load before I go over with my pen with my water pen with my water brush. So again, some of them can just have three petals and kind of have this sort of look to it. And when we use darker pen, we can then add a bit more detail to them. And again, fluffing up. So actually, it starts to look like a little blob, which is fine. We are going to use a darker pen to go to go over everything. And play with the size, obviously, they can't all be the same size. So you can also just add some randomly, like in the middle of the branch. That's really doesn't matter where where they are positioned. I just pressing down with my brush and adding these shapes, blending in some buds from time to time. Going over with my paint brush with some water to again, fluff them up slightly. You don't want to wait too long because once the paint dries, it's a bit hard to do. But yeah, we definitely want to add some of that wash to make it look a bit more dreamy, and it does. It really does. Oh, the really nice effect that's super easy to achieve, actually, isn't it? Takes a bit of time blending. See, I'm just pressing down quite hard to really get that blended look, so don't be afraid to press down. If you don't see anything happen, just press down to be harder. I just, like, move your brush around quite quickly or add even more water to see see that effect happen. So I'm gonna do a couple more of these big ones, and then we're gonna try something else. I love this. So if you do add a lot of water, so this can happen. So you can then just dab it with a piece of paper or a bit of tissue to kind of get rid of the excess water. But honestly, I do love a little bit of that blended effect, as well, so I don't mind. But this can happen if you do kind of use a lot and a lot of water, so try not to overdo it. Right. And now, so we've done quite a few, let's just let them dry so they are absolutely perfectly dry before we go in again to add a bit more detail. And whilst we wait for them to dry, I think it will be really, really nice if we add in some little ones here and there that are a bit more detailed. And if we grab our smaller brush, we can just go around and add in these, like, mini ones that actually have more of a proper shape. So again, I'm kind of focusing on five petals here. So I'm still using a light pen. It's very similar color, but it's a fine tip pen this time. So it's a little bit easier to work with. I'm not going to add any water to this. So this will just be like perfect little five petal flowers, see where you can blend these in. And again, they can be from different perspectives. You can do you can do one that's a bit more tucked in. Let's say here. It might start with this shape where it's kind of still blossoming, but it hasn't he hasn't blossomed perfectly just yet. So you're doing like three petals that connect to the same base. And then coloring in. So I'm pressing down quite hard to color these. So I really want to show the shape and the color. And we'll still add some more detail in there. So while the fast ones kind of kind of looked a bit like big blobs of paint. For these, we want to be a bit more intentional with the way we position them with the way we do the actual petals. See if you can try and show them from different perspectives. You can even blend in some of these really tiny buds. So we've done a few that are quite big. But you can also just do some small buds here and there, and that might look quite good as well. If you have a big card, mine's quite big. My day five. I'll definitely take a bit of time, but I think it's definitely worth it. It looks quite pretty. The end result is really nice. See, keep going with a smaller pen. Keep hoarding in. What of flowers. So doing the outline fast and then call the in its shape. Okay, so once you've done a few, we can now check that our flowers are dry, and I'm going to take this darker version of pink. And with a fine tip, I'm just going to start adding in like little lines in the middle of each of these lighter blobs and also a little dot. So when you look in the middle of these, you always see these little dots, like a really dense dense looking middle center of the flower. So I'm doing really thin, quick dots in the middle of each and also just adding some dots. And this also doesn't have to be super precise or, you know, neat. It can definitely be quite natural looking. So some of these won't even have the whole center. So you might just do like three or four lines. Again, quite depends on the perspective of the flower. And also on the smaller ones, you can do the same thing, so your pen should still look contrasting. You can also just do a lot of dots in the little ones without any lines. I need to try and keep my lines quite small. And all these bad ones, you can just do a little base. So just make the base a little bit darker. So like a couple of lines there where you can actually use the brush tip to just show a little bit of a base in darker pink that might look quite good. Again, dot dots look really, really good. So play with dots more than oint, I would say. You can even add some dots everywhere around, and this is just going to create a really beautiful, beautiful look and art to the whole composition. So I'm just doing, like, clusters of three dots everywhere. So clusters of three just look really nice. I don't know what it is, but it definitely does. And this will definitely brighten up the composition. If some of the darker pen drawings became a bit too, like, dark, you would say, you can just blend it all out again with a bit more water, just to take away that contrast stuff like super light pink, and then super, super dark pink so the fast ones I did vary a little bit. A little bit to um, dark, I'd say, so I'm just gonna blend them out, maybe replace them with, like, more dots or just blend them out a bit more in general, but I think this looks so pretty. Um, I would love to receive this as a card, for sure. I think I'll just leave it there. I think it looks quite pretty. And if anything again looks a bit too harsh or you find that the contrast is too big, grab your water pen, your brush, and blend it out a little bit more. Not that hard to do. Takes a bit of time, but it's definitely worth it, and I hope you agree. Thanks so much for watching, everybody. 6. Valentine’s Day: Card Design: Hello, everybody. I thought I'd share how I made this really, really lovely Wellentine day card, and I just use brush pens, nothing else, really. And a fine tip pen. So if you've got some lovely brush pen colors, you can use any color combinations here. Follow me along, and let's create something beautiful together. So I'll be using this A six size card. It's just a blank card. And these are all the pens. So I'm going to use this red Tambo jewel brush pen. I'll also use this kind of a Burgundy. You can see all the color codes on the pens. But you can also just use similar colors or, you know, they can also be a bit darker or lighter. So I've got red. I've got some Burgundy. I'll also use this kind of a pinkish color. And I've got this art studio brush that's very, very light. So I'm going to use that and just a fine tip brush pen. We'll need a pencil, maybe a bit of a gold pen, and also a fine tip pen, just any pen. I'm going to be using this UI pin. Black pen. So this is what we're going to start to draw the rose with. So let's get started, really. It's such a fun process. I'm sure you're going to enjoy this, and anybody can do it. So to begin your rose, we're going to start at the top of the page, and we're just going to draw a circle to start with. Now, we're going to work in three. So we're going to draw three petals at a time. And notice how I am kind of curving them slightly. They are very kind of natural looking, and just keep ning on these petals around the center, kind of focusing on a circle shape. Just do imagine that you are making your rows quite round and keep going three petals at a time. Keep walking around. And as you start doing the outer petals, you can make them much bigger. So you just notice how I'm definitely definitely making them look fuller and keep going until you're happy with the size of your rows. I want mine to be kind of in the middle, so I feel like I need to add a bit more on the right side. So I'm just doing the same thing, really just adding them on, seeing where I can fit a few more. And they're definitely quite natural looking. They don't have to be perfect. They are a bit wobbly and definitely not straight. So we are adding a lot of movement. In these thin, thin lines as we go around, so I'm definitely making mine quite big. No, I think I'm quite happy with this. Just have a look at your shape and see if you like what you see, because that's going to be the biggest part of your card. So there we go. My rose is ready in terms of its outlines. Now we're going to start adding in color. And I'm just grabbing my brush pen, and I'm going to start with a red. So so the first thing we're going to do is focus on each petal individually. So it should be quite easy to determine where the top and bottom part of it is. And we want to color. We want to add a brush stroke inside the top part of each petal. So I've done the fast wrong, actually, but I have a look here. So I'm just adding a brush stroke inside each individual petal, but kind of focusing on the top part. So we're leaving the outside of the petal blank. Just adding a thick brush stroke, but leaving plenty of room for more strokes. And we're leaving the outer side, so kind of like the bottom side of the petal, blank for now. So try to do this for every single petal. So a nice thick line. Again, a lot of movement here. It doesn't need to be straight. Follow the natural curves of your drawings there. Some of them can be really long. Really depends on the shape and size of each petal. So it does take a bit of focus, really, to kind of get this step right. It's quite easy to get lost, especially right in the center. So I do like to start kind of from the middle. So yeah, just check that every petal is done before we grab another color. And the next color you're going to use is this darker bag and D color I've got here. And I'm just going to add another line underneath. Each red line. So another brush stroke underneath each of the red ones. So be careful here. So we're going underneath, even if you have some of the petals kind of on top of this rows. Try to think of each petal individually again and find each petal distinct where it kind of starts and where it top and bottom is and then add another red stroke underneath. The red stroke. So we are working towards the outside of the petal. So we've got the red line at the top, and now we can add another kind of darker red. So there'll still be room for some other layers, so there should definitely be some blank white space. You can go over your red a little bit, kind of try to get this kind of like a blending effect. Just keep working your way around each patel. Try to fill in any blank spaces between your two lines. So there should be wide gaps on the outside of each pateau. But if you see any gaps between your red, try to fill them in. There we go. Now I'm going to grab a pink color. So this dark pink, and I'm going to do another brush stroke underneath my burgundy line. So again, it's so easy to get lost. But as long as you've done your red lines correctly, then we are just kind of layering from there and adding on another line underneath the previous line. So underneath the burgundy, we are just adding like a dark pink brush stroke. And again, you can use a different shade, of course. Try to work with what you have, and maybe or maybe only have two reddish tone pens. That's all so far, and you can still make it work. There we go. It starts to look quite interesting. I do love. I do love the way it looks, so far. And again, quite tricky around the middle, especially, but try your best. Lovely. So now I'm just going to grab the light pen. You can also kind of leave some white spaces there. But if you do have, like, a very, very light armstranslucent, pink pen or like peach colour pen, you can color in all of those white areas. So that's what I'm doing here, being really careful not to leave any white spaces. Again, this step probably takes the longest, take your time. Keep coloring in. And there's just one last step to add. And I'll show you in a minute. That definitely transforms the whole look of it, I think. There we go. So now the out, so the very, very outer petals, if you have a look, so we want to kind of finish each petal with a nice bow dot. So what I'm going to do, I'm actually going to grab my darker pen again and just do a little outline around each petal to finish off. So We're just using this bag and they pen to draw around petals, kind of going over the black line again. I've tried a few versions of this rouse, and this is the one I like the most. I just love the way the way the layering works here. And I think it looks really pretty. So you can also add, like, a darker center for the middle of the flower, maybe a bit of black or, again, dark dark red. And I'm just going to check that I don't have any white gaps because I do have a few, and I'm just going to very gently color them in. And again, maybe blend everything out a little bit. I'm just working with my light brush here, fixing any white areas, making sure everything is nicely colored in, so it looks quite nice and detailed when you look up close, as well. Not just from distance. But now, that looks all good to me. Quite lovely outs. A lot of di mentioned there. Now, we are going to add some lovely lettering. So we're going to do something really, really interesting. We're going to work with lines, and we're going to substitute some of the lines with lettering. So I recommend planning this step out in pencil fast. So I'm working with my pencil, and I'm just writing the word happy, and you can write anything you like, but I'm just going to do happy Valentine's Day. And so that's the stem. I was just ordiing the word happy. And then the idea I had is to add the rest of the words. Um in leaves. So I'm just checking out. Okay, I'm trying this out on the go, really. I haven't planned it out properly, but I think this might work, actually. So happy Valentine's, and I'm going to do the Barda on another leaf. I just had this image in my head, and I thought this might look really, really nice, and I think it really does. I might just play around a little bit with, you know, the way my pencil lettering is done here. So I might actually do the leaf a bit higher up and connect it to the actual stem rather than my lattice P because I didn't connect them to the actual word happy previously. So I think this looks a bit more neat. So actually just play around a little bit, but you get the idea. So once you're happy with the way it looks, you can go over with the brush pen. So I might just speed up this step because I'm just going to try to position it right in the middle, play with the size of the words as well. So try different versions, so play around a little bit. I There we go. I'm just going in with my fine tip brush pen, and I'm going to go over the pencil lines. So I try to keep lettering fairly small because, you know, we've got a huge rose on the page already. So lettering can be just like a small little addition, just add more meaning. So I think this looks really lovely. And because some of the words are quite long, anyway, so we do have to be careful, especially with the word Valentines. So I'm definitely making it a bit smaller. A lot of precision there, trying my best. See if I can squeeze it in. But I think it's such a lovely idea, and you can use this technique for anything, you know, for any occasions or even bath deards or anything, really. I love the idea of kind of substituting some of the elements of a drawing with lettering. I think it's a lot of fun. So I'm just going to do the word day. So I'm kind of starting with a nice entry stroke that's part of a leaf and then ironing on the bottom part of the leaf kind of individually. There we go. So when it's all dry, just erase all the pencil lines. And if you want to add anything gold here, I might just draw a little heart. A cheeky little heart. Why not? I think it will look quite nice. And there we go. A card done. I'll definitely give this to my partner. I hope he likes it. So, yeah, I hope you enjoyed it. And as I said, this can be used for any occasion. So have fun with it, play around, and well done for doing this with me. Well done, everybody, I would love to see your version of this. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you soon. 7. Gingerbread Card Design: For this little card project, we are going to draw and decorate these cards so that they look like little gingerbread houses. It's really sweet. What we've got to do first is make the roof. We are going to find the center. Maybe grab a roll up so we can measure the card and you'll see that it's 10.5 centimeters roughly. We need to find the center which would be like 5.25 or something. Again, it doesn't have to be super precise but 50.25 is kind of somewhere here for me. I'm just going to mark that this is where the center is. Okay. So once we know our center line, we can also just mark it here at the top, so we know that it's there. Okay. Great. Now you can also do it freehand, to be honest. We can just draw a little line that will, um, become like a little roof. We're trying to keep these triangles the same size. Lovely. You can't see much, but I'm definitely just doing a line. You can also just hold your rule of maybe some down here and then draw your lines from there. This way, they'll be more similar. Once you've done that, we just want to cut these lines so that we get a nice roof shape. Love later, looks cute. Let's just get rid of any pencilon we've done so that they don't distract us, really. Beautiful. And we're just going to start decorating it with these lovely white gel pens. I absolutely love these pens. They are great. You'll see you can try them out. You'll see how opaque they look and they're just really lovely. When you know, working on darker backgrounds like this. I absolutely love them. So try them out, get used to them a little bit, and they can start drawing. So I'm going to show you one design, but just know that you can get creative. You have three cards. But I'll just show you the one I like. So we will do a little line here. Remember when we were measuring, so we were going to do a line there, but let's just do it in this white pen so that it This is just going to detach the roof from the rest of the house, so we know that it's de. It's just a straight line. You can go over maybe more than once if you like. Sometimes this pen needs layering, but most of the time, it's actually really good. Lovely we're just going to start decorating. We're going to do this really lovely roof details, we can start from the top. And just do it it's like scallop shapes like half of the circle. I just go all the way down one side. Let's do it on the other side as well. One thing I'll say that this pen can smudge. Obviously, it takes a bit of time to dry, try to be mindful of that. You can see I'm moving my hand really carefully. Lovely. We can also just do little circles for some extra detail. These could maybe be some Christmas lights as such. This doesn't have to be super intricate or anything. I'll look good if it's a little bit messy, don't worry about that. Then maybe you could do a little hot here with the top and we can color it in. This looks very good, where we change. The contrast, so we color some of the elements in and just leave some of them just like outlines. Yeah, this will look really good. Maybe here at the top, you do a little snowflakes. We're going to start by just doing this where we do a cross. Then let's just have two lines going through diagonally. You can just join these up, so it forms like a little starry shape in them. That looks quite nice. We can maybe add little circles at the end of each line. And then just have a classic pine tree. Pine tree? You know what I mean like a snowflake. Just There we go. See how many you can fill in. Oh, I'm tempted to color in this center here as well. See just contrast it builds up nicely. We could just do some leafy detail here on one side, so I'm doing the branch, and just doing the outlines of the leaves. And let's do it the other side to balance it out. I might just leave these as they are as outlines. Lovely. That looks pretty, and I might just do some little dots here at the bottom, and the same thing here. Just kind of coloring in really these little circles, little dots. Okay, that looks quite quite cute. A, let's work our way down. Here we're going to continue with this sort of scallop shape design. It's like a bit of a snow build up, really cozy. Okay. And here in the middle, let's do another heart, maybe a bit bigger. This one's to be right in the center. Then we can call this one in. And I do love this pen very much. You can use this on anything. You can do some gift tags or you can even do these designs on your gift wrap. If you just buy a craft paper, like a roll of craft paper in post office or hobby craft or such and you can decorate your gift wrap in this way. That could look really good. I'm just going to do these little flourished lines. I don't know I just feel like doing a couple of these. One side and then the other side. Maybe you could add a few dots there, maybe an extra line there as well. And some dots around. There we go. Right. Let's walk our way down and we're going to do some windows. So we're going to try and make them out on the same line. So we're going to do one here. Around another one there. Okay, remember, it doesn't have to be 100% or 100% perfect. Now, let's do the scallop shape detail around here as well. Now let's add in some detail there. We're going to do a line through the center and then two horizontal lines. Let's do that for each of them. Line through the center, two horizontal lines. We can even add in some cartoon details. We can do two lines there, and then imagine they're hanging down. This can just add quite a lot of detail, which is nice and maybe same here. Okay. That's really cozy. We can do some scarlop shape here with the bottom as well, and maybe colour it in for contrast. Lovely. Okay, shall we do the door? So the doors gonna go kind of in the middle. Are we gonna do something with the bottom part. So kind of imagine that your door will be um sitting on here. We can do a little wreath underdog. Let's do a circle. A door handle and we can decorate the wreath with these pine. You can just do a lot of pine branches. You can extend some little ones out of this circle and just do a lot of lines basically. Just try to think of a wreath and how all these branches just go in different directions. You can even add some berries in there. If there's room. It's quite hard to do. It's just the same color. I might lose it. Shape a bit. We do want to leave a lot of brown space in there as well. I'm just going to leave it there. It looks like a wreath. Okay. So there's a door handle. Here on each side, we could do, again, just be mindful of this. Maybe we can do it already. So just grab a roller and we can just do a little line here at the bottom. Make sure it's a nice straight line. And we can just do some detail there so we can do some of these. Just like a little decoration detail, really. Okay. And then we can do some Christmas trees. We can do under the window so close to the door. We can do a little Christmas tree a bit like this. I'm just doing a line and then adding on just adding on a little branches like this. And then I also want to do some sort of leafy details I might do some leafy detail there, kind of stretching from each side. Maybe do a round leaf. That can look good, something different. I'm waiting for this to do a little bit. I might make it a bit more contrasting by going over again. Because I don't want to slide my hand over it, but we'll do the same thing on the other side and maybe I can color in one of these. Again, it just adds a bit more contrast. Maybe you've been adding some dots here and there. We can actually do the same scallopy detail here on the side whilst we're at it. Then I'm just going to wait for this to dry slightly because I know I just feel that I'm going to smudge it if I go over, and I'm going to do the same thing on the other side. Okay, so there comes the tree. Here come some leafy branches. And maybe another one here. I just need to be careful, someone to do this. Lovely. Okay. This is fun. I just love. I mean, it looks. Super effective. You can see how contrasting is the brown. Sorry, the white on browns just amazing. It's hard to find a pen like this. I honestly, I only come across this one recently and I love using it for just artworks generally when you paint something as well, and you want to highlight something, it's super useful. Okay, so I mean, you can just keep going for as long as you like, but I might just leave it down. If you wanted to make some certain details pop even more, layering is something the Span loves. So just wait for it to dry. Like for example, here, I'm just going over the snowy details a bit more so they'll be even more white and it'll just look even more effective or even this hard, but it does need to dry before you do it. So yeah, you can take it as far as you like, really. I hope you enjoyed it. Please share. I would really love to see your version of this. And I really, really hope you enjoyed it. Thank you so much, guys. See? This is dangerous because I will never stop. I just felt like I wanted to add in like a little branch there. I think it's nice to leave a bit of a space. Also, if you're like me and you just really want to fill it up, you can never stop. You can also add in this brand detail. I think that'll look really good. Really pretty. There we go. Now it's complete for me. Thank you, guys. 8. Christmas Card Design: This tutorial, I recommend using some dark colored cards like dark green or navy or like burgundy might look really nice. And I also have some white card as well for like gold colors or maybe slightly dark or metallic colors. And I'll be using my Cleo percol palettes. Your favorite palette is this one. So you can tell I've been using this quite a lot recently. So I've run out of my favorite, um gold, which is gold pearl. I just highly recommend this palette for, like, beginners. If you want to start using these colors and you don't know what palette to get, I think this one's really, really useful because you've got gold, silver, kind of this bronze color as well. Like this lovely kind of moon gold, so it's, like, really subtle, but can look really nice and dark or cd. So yeah, highly recommend this one in particular. I'll add the link to everything, so I'm not going to spend too much time talking about it. So you can find everything description, and let's get cracking with some lovely Christmas designs. And I'll start with this green card. I thought I'll show you three different designs and three of my favorite things to do with these paints to get like, really amazing result. So I'll start with this green one, and we're going to draw a lovely little wreath design and letter on the inside. So we're going to need a pencil and some sort of round object. I'm just going to use my tape. It's a good little trick. So I'm just going to place it here. Just be kind of careful. You do want it to be fairly aligned. And when you're ready, grab your pencil, and I'm just going to lightly, lightly sketch it here. With my pencil. Oh, can't see that. I'm gonna do it again. So I might need to go a bit heavier. Yeah, that's much better. So you can see there's, like, a nice little pencil line, which I can erase later. I think it's actually going to disappear. I'm going to, like, draw over it, so let's see what happens. And I think I'm going to be using this gold color just 'cause I have a lot of it. So it's ink or gold. I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly. So yeah, I'll be using this mainly. I think even even looking at these together, I think they look really lovely and contrasting. So, the main thing to remember about these paints is that we want to dilute them very, very well. So you'll need a little pot of water, which I have here. And I'm just dipping my brush into water. And I'm going to start diluting this paint by adding water to it. And it might take a bit of mixing around and kind of waiting for this paint to activate in a way. So yeah, take your time there. You do want to mix it for about a minute, I would say, or just let it kind of be there for a while, for like a minute, so it activates fully. So I think this one's ready, you can see the consistency is nice and creamy. And I'll also get ready maybe some of these. So maybe this lovely red. So I can add some berries into my wreath. That's going to look really lovely, maybe even a little bit of this bronzi color. I've got on both of these. I'm not sure where this design is going to take me. I think this one's going to be better because it's going to contrast really, really well with green. So yeah, I think I'm going to give this a go, mixing, mixing, mixing, getting it ready. Do take your time here. Right. And I'm just going to let it be there for a bit. And so we're going to be topping up our nib and then letter. So we're not going to dip. We have nothing to dip into, but we're going to use a nice little brush. Doesn't have to be really big, kind of medium size. So this one is number four. Can be like number five or six, as well. And I'm going to start but I think using this lovely color here, so I'm going to top up my nib by kind of doing this, just like applying pressure on my brush, and then the paint kind of glides into my nib naturally like that. Like just using the side to kind of, like, squeeze all the paint out of my brush. I always say this. It's really useful to just have a little page next to you where you can test your nip from time to time, I'm going to be keeping mine here. Right. So I'm just going to start by kind of going around my circle and starting to add, like, really simple leaves or berries or little branches. Let's see if what happens. So I'm going to start by kind of tracing the shape of my wreath first. And then making like additional branches to come out of it. So I'm starting with this lovely shape, which is kind of like little berry branch. It looks quite lovely. You can keep your strouse as thick or thin as you like. I'm going to pick up this different color now. This like lighter one. I need to add more water right before I start using it. Why do these sort of leaves. Doing the outline of the leaf first and then coloring it in. I don't have to be perfectly shaped. It actually looks really nice when it's a bit messy in a way. It looks a bit more handmade. So the outline first, and then you can colour them all in by applying a bit more pressure. So, like, a lot of thing comes in when you're kind of trying to color it in. It's going to look really nice when it dries, you might not see the effect of it right away. Okay, now I'm going to use this kind of red colour and maybe blend in a few berries. So like little circles in clusters of fray. I think they're going to look really nice. Let's see. Kind of wherever you have a bit of room. You can just blend some in. Maybe will be bigger clusters, I'll be smaller. And I didn't plan to use silver, but I think it might actually look really nice. I'm going to prepare my silver here. Or just make sure that your brush is clean, otherwise, you'll pick up a bit of red with it. So I think this is going to look like almost as white. I'm just gonna wipe my nip to get the red off. Yeah, let's see what happens here. Okay, let's give it a go. So again, I'm going to follow this circle as much as I can. So just do, like, a little base stem, and then I'll start just adding on it's, like, messy strokes very quick and kind of thick in a way on each side. So it looks like a little branch. Imagine that it's been snowed on, so it's white. So that's the idea we're going for. And I'll blend a few more. We don't have too much room here, but maybe, like, I can have some coming out of these berries here that might look quite nice. Yeah. And all that's left to do is just let to something in the middle. And if you notice, for example, mine is kind of leaning to the right a bit more. So I might actually add some more of these branches like align it a bit better, so I might have some coming out of here. Lovely. And just make sure that your lettering on the inside is nicely aligned. If you're going to use a pencil fast, and we're going to do something really simple, we're just going to letter happy holidays, and I'm gonna do happy in, like, small block capital letters and then do holidays in a lovely calligraphy. You can't really see much, but it's there. And I'm just gonna go over with this lovely gold colote see what happens. I did, like, a little flourish here because I had, like, a little gap left here in between these two words. You don't have to do it, but I just wanted to, like, fill it in so it's not as visible. So yeah, I could have aligned my lettering a bit better with my pencil, but you know what? It doesn't have to be perfect. I think this is a lovely card as it is, even if it's a bit off center, try not to worry about it too much. And once this dry, it's just going to look so, so pretty. And then you can use your eraser very carefully just to erase any pencil until you see there. So there we go. That could be a card you try yourself this year. Next, I'm going to do this blue one. And again, I'm trying to look for the most contrasting color I can think of. So I'm going to letter with this color, and then I'm going to show you something really, really fun you can do with these paints to make like a lovely splatter background. So it's a really fun technique. So you can try to get that. I am adding a bit of flourishing here. Give it a go with me if you feel like you want to add some flourishing to your cards. You can also practice this just on paper before doing it on your card. So I'll just extended the exit stroke of the letter Y and just kind of flourished it wherever my pen was guiding me. So all the way here, then a little loop here and all the way up. There we go, it is going to look quite nice when it dries. I try not to overthink this card just to kind of show you the technique, really, but you can letter anything you like. It doesn't have to be flourished, but I just wanted to show you this. So when you do finish your lettering, ideally, you would let this dry. And if this is draw, you can then grab another contrasting color, and I'm going to go for this silver this time. And if you have, like, a bigger brush, I recommend using a bigger brush for this. And what I'm going to do, I'm just going to do this little splatter effect. So I'm soaking my brush in this paint, and then I'm going to grab like a pen or pencil and just start tapping my pen, and you'll see that the brush is like spraying everywhere, creating this really nice little splatter effect. I like to go around my words, not necessarily on my lecturing, so making sure I get all the corners. And this is just really simple and can look so, so effective. And just, like, make your card pop, basically, just transform it, to be honest. So, you know, once this dries, it's just going to look really dreamy, very Christmasy. So, yeah, that's definitely something to try. And this last one, I'm just going to do, like, fairly simple. I'm just going to letter the word joy. I might actually use this darker gold, so it's a bit more contrasting and white. And I'm going to let the word Joy kind of coming from here and finishing on the other side of the card. So start with this kind of straight entry stroke. And then try to position the letter O in the middle of the card. So if you find the center, that's where you want your letter O to be because it's the middle of the word. When you're finishing, just kind of stretch it again all the way to the other side of the card. There we are fairly simple, and I'm just going to decorate the background with some little snowflakes, maybe blend in a few branches or berries. Not sure, but I'll start with snowflakes in this lovely, grayish blue color. And then just do lots of snowflakes. I'm not even going to do any fancy snowflake, kind of the I think is going to look quite nice when it all dries. Yeah, very simple, but I think, very effective. You might even want to add like three dots kind of around them just so they look like they're shining. And what I've also decided to do is to add in these little gold circles. I don't know. I just feel like they might resemble little stars, for example, might look even more effective. So yeah, I'll do that and wait for this to dry. So this is still drying, but I think it just looks really cozy. I don't know. What do you think? So, yeah, I highly encourage you to try these three card designs with me. Let me know if you give it a go on which one's your favorite, and I would love to see how it turns out. 9. Well done!: Thanks so much for creating with me. I hope you enjoyed this course. I would love to see your efforts, your creations. You can always tag me on Instagram at creative Field designs. I would absolutely love seeing the end result. Thank you so much again, and I'm wishing you the best of luck with your calligraphy journey. I hope you're feeling proud of your cards. If you'd like to learn more calligraphy techniques, have a look at my other courses. Thanks so much, and I hope to see you soon.