For this project, I knew I wanted to hand letter a quote that mentioned something shiny or sparkly to go along with the foil glitter. E.E. Cummings is my favorite poet, so this part of one of his poems ("You are my sun, my moon, and all of my stars") immediately came to mind.

Using a small waterbrush filled with ink from the Waterbrush Lettering Essentials class, I hand lettered the quote:

Following the methods in this tutorial, I vectorized my typography and cleaned it up in Illustrator to prepare it for the foil glitter:

Now that I had my lettering, it was time to make some foil! I created the following foil and glitter (also available in the Glitz Glam Kit)

I planned on creating this for instagram, so next, I sketched out a few square thumbnails before heading into Photoshop:

I played around with all of the ideas, but decided to keep it simple (#1 without the stars), so the messaging remained the focal point. Here's the final result: (see it on Instagram here!)