Sips & Snail Mail: Hand Lettering Holiday Cards Workshop at Shop Made in DC

Date and Time for this Past Event

• Tuesday, Nov 5, 2019  6pm - 8pm

Location

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Details

Learn, start-to-finish, how to create your very own hand lettered holiday cards, complete with a festive envelope!

About this Event

Join Claire Vendetti, owner of Billie Claire Handmade, for an evening of hand lettering holiday cards at Shop Made in DC - Dupont! During this two hour workshop, Claire will take you from start to finish on how to create your very own hand lettered holiday cards, complete with hand lettered envelopes. Once you’ve chosen your holiday greeting, Claire will walk you through her three favorite composition strategies for creating a well-formed lettering design. Each student will get one-on-one guidance on how to achieve the best layout for their piece, and then they can begin drawing out their designs onto folded cards. The class will top everything off with a lesson on lettering envelopes, and Claire will help you with some stylized options and tricks for keeping addresses nice and neat. Everyone will leave with a completed holiday card and envelope, a selection of Claire's favorite illustration tools, and a packet of practice grids and creative fonts to use in their next project. This hand lettering class is less of a formal calligraphy class and more of an 'embrace your own writing style' class! We will focus more on creating a cohesive lettering design with several different fonts and lettering styles; so if you are looking to learn brush lettering or formal metal nib calligraphy - we encourage you to take a peek at Samantha Testa's lettering classes! If you're up for embracing your own handwriting, learning how to build some new fonts, and putting together a lettered phrase - this is the space for you. This class is open to all skill levels - no prior hand lettering experience required.

Tickets are $55. Click "View Website" above to secure your space.