Calligraphic Grafitti

Tonight whilst blog hopping, I decided to take some computer paper out of my printer and doodle.

Here is the result:

You might be able to spot 'Alisa Burke' and her new book 'Sew Wild' in there!  I randomly wrote my trail of thought as I was picking out coloured pens from my desk drawer.  I feel I could easily get back into doing calligraphy again, 'cos I loved it!

Earlier on the day I stumbled across a link with step by step instructions to produce this:

It was from another favourite site of mine, Balzer Designs.  Here is the link to the video.

When I made mine (above) I was sitting at the computer again, so I just used my pens rather than my paints that were all the way upstairs in my craft room in the attic!  I hadn't got my glasses on either so couldn't work out who the quote was by, so I have left it off for now.

Thanks for looking and for any comments,

Have a great weekend,

qwiksave

Pen made from a Yogurt Pot!

Yes, you read that title right! Although mine was more of a dessert pot, an Aero Chocolate dessert pot to be precise (yum!) 

..and I used the pen to write the word 'Aero' with it.

It's actually only the nib thats made from the yogurt pot, the rest of the 'pen' is in fact a pencil!

(Instruction information further down)

As a money saving tip, I like to look at craft books at both Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk, particularly the ones that say 'Look Inside' the book.  There are so many that give you step by step instructions on how to do crafts of all kinds, and all free (with just access to a computer). 

Apart from Amazon, if you look up an author of a craft book, it might be worth looking at their publisher's website as these often have great offers, links to other books you might like and in the case of the one I got the idea for this pen from, loads of crafting information too.  I looked up the author of the fabulous book, 'Creative Wildfire' (LK Ludwig), which is an art journalling book I won as a book share from Whoopidooing's Carmen (yey!) and it lead me onto the blog of the book's publishers (I think?!), called craftside. On there you can find example pages from other crafting books and the person blogging often has a go at the craft shown.  

This do-it-yourself pen nib idea was taken from a book called 'Modern Mark Making-Creating your own Pen with Recycled Materials' by Lisa Englebrecht and you can find the instructions here (scroll down)

All you need to make the nib is one yogurt/dessert pot, scissors and some electrical/duct tape.  Plus a stapler and a pencil.

My dodgy eye is still not right, but I was desperate to get back to crafting.  Apart from making this pen today I also made some watercolour embellishments for journalling with:

(Idea taken from a watercolour book on Amazon)

Our family bathroom is now my second artist's studio, lol.

And, (sorry, for the long post today, I'm making up for lost time!) I  also took some close up pictures of one of my son's Union Jack cub's badges.  I love the way you can see the stitches but wish my camera could get even closer.  My old (sadly broken) camera used to, I remember it taking a very detailed picture of my fingerprint!

Thanks very much for looking and for any comments,

qwiksave

(PS.  Followers, don't forget to enter my giveaway on the post before this).

Table Name Cards

What a great party that was! My inlaws' 50th Wedding Anniversary.  There was a lovely moving speech that gave me some 'dust in my eye' listening to, a great band playing my kind of music to sing & sway along to and really yummy food (I could have eaten every one of the 6 choices of dessert!)  A really lovely, memorable occasion.

I didn't think I'd be able to get a craft done today but this morning I was asked if I would do the table plans, so thats what I did:

I don't think they were expecting them to be this elaborate! lol

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Even my son had a 'crafty' time.  Him and his dad made an animation using a Plastercine 'Morph' and his naughty mate 'Chaz':

It was only a few minutes long but took ages to film.  Now it needs a touch of editing.

I'm glad to say that my framed canvas was also well received.

Thanks for looking and for any comments,

See you tomorrow,

qwiksave

Inspirational Calligraphy

It's no secret, I love swirls! Flourishes, swirls, call them what you will, but I am delighted that they have been in the crafting world for quite a while and are still very much in vogue.  Designers are always thinking of new ways of presenting them and these days I've noticed the new fangled way is to add additional designs to them.  I showed you some the other day, adding holly berries.  This time I noticed some with words around the edges.  I decided to get out my calligraphy pen and do my own:

I've mounted them on silver and will be framing them.

Can't get enough of swirls! :-)

Thanks for looking and for any comments,

See you tomorrow,

qwiksave