Life's been super busy over the last few months and it's all coming to a head with our house renovation so we feel like we're overwhelmed with 'THINGS TO DO'. There is little time to put aside for creative projects so small moments of inspiration seem all the more exciting.
The little girl LOVES colouring and will spend hours carefully staying in the lines but only ever colours with one colour. A fairy, for instance, will be have a purple dress, face, wings, hair, shoes etc. Consequently the pens run out really quickly and are no use to anyone right? Wrong!! I was messing around with the rejects before they went in the bin and created some really exciting lettering. It looks a bit like brush lettering but was much easier to produce as the pen tip is much firmer than a brush.
The brilliant thing about these Crayola pens is than if you turn them on their side you get a really thick mark but holding them upright gives you a thin line. When they run out a bit they give a fantastically distressed look. To create this lettering you need to use the pen on its side (with pressure) for the thick 'down' stroke and on it's upright point for the 'up' stroke.
We've got lots of lidless pens in our house, this looks beautiful x
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