Calligraphy Valentines with a Watercolor Wash!

 Calligraphy Valentines with a Watercolor Wash! Handmade Valentines are perfection. Follow me at Doodlecraft.Calligraphy on Instagram for Calligraphy and lettering fun daily!  Especially paired with a bouquet of roses, right!?  ProFlowers sent me this bouquet of roses to use in this post. I picked this bouquet. 24 short stem Rainbow roses, but they have a bunch of beautiful arrangements for Valentine's day! They will arrive different than the picture. They come wrapped carefully in a box and you arrange them yourself. The vase they sent was too tall for the roses, so I used a mason jar. The roses are in bud form and they don't layer the same as the ProFlowers photo. It's just real life.  They are beautiful roses and a great range of colors.  I love the combination of watercolors and Calligraphy together. If you follow me on Instagram, you've seen it! I put a video together showing my process. I sped up the watercolor painting and cal...

DIY: Make a Calligraphy Oblique Holder!

 DIY: Make a Calligraphy Oblique Holder!  Learn how to make an oblique calligraphy pen holder. This is the ultimate writing utensil for calligraphers. It's an interesting pen that holds the nib at the right angle with ease in the hand. Make a custom one for a left handed calligrapher, a handmade gift or just to add to your collection of gorgeous pens. I am writing up this post because I feel like this is the post I've was searching for. I have been searching and scouring sources to find a comprehensive guide to making my own oblique holder...and pretty much came up empty handed.   There are a few points here and there...so I made some holders and am going to teach you what I learned. Oblique holders are so elegant and beautiful to write with and look at. There is something so fun about the angled flange and the wonder of onlookers about how to write with it! Oblique holders range in price from super dirt cheap for a plastic holder If you do calligraphy ...