Miss Shortcake, Vancouver
Age and Occupation: 24, Marketing Manager/Children's Lit Writer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Master's Student/Personal Trainer
Engagement Date: August 7, 2007
Wedding Date: October 2008
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Venue: Ceremony in a historic church, tented lawn reception at a golf and country club
About Me: 1950's housewife sent to the future, reborn as crafting-obsessed, jill of all trades. I enjoy decorating, writing, baking sweet things, singing show tunes/dancing in public, wearing pearls, and knitting sweaters for my furbaby, Harvey, to chew upon. I heart pink, and believe that sparkles are the new black.
Ink It To Me, Baby! Uh huh!
May 6th, 2008 @ 1:45 pm by Miss Shortcake
Anyone else calligraphing their invitation envelopes/table place settings/menus/everything ? 
9 Responses to “Ink It To Me, Baby! Uh huh!”
that looks great! i love all the fancy writing but i just don’t see myself sitting down to write it myself or even paying someone else to do it for that matter even though i have pretty good handwriting. i’m going the new fangled fashioned way and making the computer do all the dirty work. delegation at its finest.
So how did you begin learning this- did you use an instruction book or just whing it? I’ve tried a few different calligraphy pens, and nothing seems to get that “look” you’ve got… share?
I have this mental picture of you spending each day creating joyfully in your craft room surrounded by animated singing and dancing Disney characters.
@beanchar: LOL!!!! the imagery is quite stunning, isn’t it?
Beautiful work Shortie….Please let us know how easy/ difficult this task turned out to be!
I did my own calligraphy for all my wedding invites. I put a little page of tips on my website if anyone is interested:
my bf actually has a big calligraphy how-to book sitting in his file cabinet that i am ITCHING to get my hands on as soon as i have some free time (wait, what is that again )
He he, you’re so cute
I’m calligraphing all my invitations, place cards, etc. as well. Let me tell you what a pain it is so far. I have over 110 invites to address, and I cannot believe I signed myself up for this. But every invitation I’ve done so far looks amazing, and FI absolutely adores them so it’s all worth it. I’m also doing a font that’s quite difficult - Traditional Gothic style.
So far i still have about 100 to go, but I have about a month so it’s not too bad.
