calligraphy

New Year Gift Tags

Hello crafty friends! Hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season. Right now I’m in that weird limbo between Christmas and New Year’s where I’ve eaten WAY too much sugar and cheese, and I have no idea what day it is – LOL! I’ve been feeling a little guilty because I usually take a little gift…

Holiday Card Bonanza!

Hooray! My last holiday card order was delivered yesterday! This year I designed 50 custom holiday cards. Custom meaning, no templates! All designs were original and not duplicated. While this makes for a bit of a grueling November, I get incredible creative gratification from this time of year. Now it’s time to celebrate! (Or start…

Holiday Place Cards

Happy Holiday Season! It’s certainly looking like Christmas here in Chicagoland, as we received a huge snowstorm on Sunday night, blanketing the land in white, and even canceling school! Hopefully, it will stick around long enough for us to have a white Christmas. I’m super excited to be hosting Christmas dinner this year, so I…

Brush Lettering Workshop

Hello creative friends! Somehow we are halfway through November already? Craziness! I’m already totally in the holiday spirit. I love, love, love Thanksgiving, but Christmas is on my brain big time! This past Sunday I held a Brush Lettering Workshop at a darling stationery shop in Geneva, IL. I’m a total introvert, so standing up…

Fall Watercolor

It’s October! The best month of the year, in my opinion. The cooling temps and changing colors make me feel refreshed, revived, and creative! It’s been a while since I had an opportunity to sit down and paint. I have friends with October birthdays, so I made time to make them hand-painted cards. It felt…

Moving Announcement

Hooray! A new box of supplies from CutCardStock arrived this week and I was SO EXCITED! Especially for the Gansai Tambi Watercolor Paint Set and the Zig Water Brushes. I didn’t end up using the Micron Pens for this post, but they are one of my FAVORITE pens to sketch with, so I kept them…

Grad Season

Happy Wednesday friends! We are getting down to the nitty-gritty last days of school. It’s always a chaotic and emotional time of year for me. The realization that my boys are getting older hits me like a ton of bricks EVERY year! And trying to stay on top of all the end-of-year activities nearly sends…

Easter Placecards

Hello creative friends! My name is Erin German and I’m so excited to share my first blog post as part of the CutCardStock Design team! I’m a graphic designer by trade, so you’ll be seeing some of my printed projects that incorporate CutCardStock products, but I’ll also be sharing some projects that feature calligraphy and hand-lettering,…