hi I'm Sarah from sarhtypes.com today I'm
gonna be doing my first unboxing and it
is a calligraphy subscription box from
the occasional calligrapher she puts
together a new one every month and every
month it's a surprise of what you get
she sells them on her Etsy store
this isn't sponsored but she did reach out
to me and asked if I would like one so
of course I said yes I'm going to open this now and I'm
going to play around with the
pens from the box and use my bounce
lettering tutorial sheets to try them
out if you want to download those sheets
click the link in the description below
and you can go grab those for free also
I'll leave a link below if you want to
get one of these yourself. So first we
have a little post card says welcome to
the letterers surprise basic box for May
2017 it's really cute there's some water
coloring and gold over top and a really
cute diamond paper clip there's some
business cards included with
discounts for your next order and then
on the back it says what's in the kit
the first item is the manuscript gold
marble 10 holder so I'm going to
grab that and see it looks like
it's really pretty, I myself only have two pen
holders one is a wooden one and one is a
black one so it's kind of cool to have a
new funky design, she
explains what the pen holder is 'this
gorgeous pen holder can be used with
most nibs it can also be the perfect
accent to your work in your photos I'm a
high percent on team straight pens' which
is kind of funny because I am as well I
don't normally use oblique pens
so I'm really excited to use this
the next item is the hero 40 and hero 41
nib "these are my two favourite nibs, I've
tried so many but I always go back to
these two, the blue one is sometimes called
the blue pumpkin and is totally a dupe for
the brause 36 but it's half price
so she has the nibs packaged in some
bubble wrap to keep safe
and they're in here so these are the two
that she provides I personally don't
have these nibs so I'm excited to try
these as well with the Pen, I'll just
stick one in here now and this actually
looks really pretty with blue nib
okay so the next one is liquitex Ink
iridescent bright gold
"I put a sample size together that's
equal to half , you can use it
with your nibs or mix it with water to
add some shimmer to your work and this
is also wrapped in some bubble wrap keep
it safe the gold ink here I actually
don't have a gold liqutex ink, I think I have
the white and the blue and I really love
the next thing is name it wine marker
this marker can write on any glass or
ceramic so that's this marker here it
will not rub off but it will come off in
the wash so you can redecorate for every
party it dries in one to three minutes
works best if you store tip down, so you can
use this to write everybody's name on
wine glasses if you have a party and then
just wash it off for the next time you
don't ruin your glasses and you can
have new people over the next time
the last item that she provided is
artist loft watercolor dual tip marker "I
would put a tombow but I like showing
that less expensive products can work
just as well a 12-pack is only $14
compared to $20 for 10 tombows I love
this brush pen this brush pen right here
it's a dual tip so it also has a monoline
on the other side
and then she wrote at the bottom PS I
also added my fav dollar store pen by
Inc, is this precision pen which
is great to do some line work, some black
line work when you need a really super
fine tip so that everything in the
description box or in my case,
subscription envelope I'm just going to
check out her Etsy store and see how
much they cost
so this envelope with everything that I
just showed you inside is $19.15
Canadian I'm sure its priced originally in US
and that's why it has nineteen and
fifteen cents when it's converted into
Canadian so it's probably around $15 u.s.
she has pre-orders that you can order it
and then have a surprise in the mail but
you can also go back to the etsy store
later after the pre-orders have shiped
and then see exactly whats in them
and then decide if you want to buy it
and then you can just buy it that way so
a link to her store is below she also offers a
pretty good refund policy if you don't
like it you just pay to ship it back and
you get a full refund - I'm pretty
happy with it :)
I'm going to use the
artist loft pen to do some of the bounce
lettering with these worksheets and show
you how this works and compare to
tombow I can grab my tombow and do an
example for you as well. This is the
first page of my little bounce lettering
guide it has the alphabet here and with
each letter I show you whether it's blue
or yellow the yellow ones are when your
exit stems go up and the blue ones are I
mean all exit stems
go up but when it's like the B or
the C they reach up higher but when it's
the D it tends to drop down farther and
then come up so when it drops down like
that you can easily add that
bounce and so the letters that are
circled in blue are the ones that are
easier to add that bounce and you can
see that here the U drops downs you have
a bit of bounce there at the end drops
down, you get some bounce there and you can
you can kind of do it the e as well just
the e kind of looks a little bit
funny you can
tell that it's an E and then the L
bounces down the T and I mean you don't
have to do it for all of those letters
but that kind of gives you a good
starting point of where you can start
doing that with it and you can get
pretty experimental and do whatever you
want because the bounce lettering
there's really no rule, this is a little
guide for you to show you which letters
might be easier to do the bounce
lettering with and then the two pages
behind this one here I have two words
the word wonderful and the word peanut
butter wonderful is a really good
example because it has a good variety
especially because the W you can
actually add a little bit of bounce to
the other half of the W and I mean you
could do a bounce with the W the n, the d
the U and the L so there's a bit of a
balance there and you can tell the
difference between the two here and then
the peanut butter I think this one's a
little bit more difficult not really
sure why maybe because you've got a lot
of e, a, u and n so they all kind of
dip down so I have them dipping down but
at different points like the e comes
down way farther and then the A's not as
far the n's a little bit farther than the a
but not as far as the e so it gives a
bit of variety between all the letters
because basically like all of these
letters can drop down but you don't want
to have them all dropping down the same
because then that defeats the purpose of
the bounce you don't get that up
and down it's going to be straight
across like it is when it
normal like script here so you can try
these just put a tracing paper over top
and give it a try and then in the last
sheet I just took a little quote or a
little saying no drama llama this is
what it's like when it's normal script
and then here I forgot to print this in
color so you can't see but I have the
circles here so ends drop down the o goes
up, the D drops down the a
drops down the M here I'm bringing it up
so it gives that really nice like up and
down bouncy look and then I have one
down here that's just a bit bigger that
you can practice with so I'm going to go
back to the first page and grab a piece
of tracing paper and I'm going to do one
of these words with the new artist loft
pen that was in the subscription box
from occasional calligraphy and I've
actually never tried it before so I'm
really curious I'm going to give that a
try now and I'm just going to trace over
the word wonderful I'm going to do it as
the straight script and then as well as bounce
and actually that pen felt really nice
it was a good difference between the
soft and stiff so I'm pretty happy with
that I'm going to continue now to the
bounce lettering and show you where it
drops I kind of accidentally did that
with the D here just because I'm used to
doing bounce lettering so this drops too
far it should still be in line
like a straight consistent script
this one is a little bouncier than that one
mean I kind of like bounce script better
it's a little bit more playful and
fun I'm going to try the other words
with the tombow I have, I can't
find my new tombow so I'm using the old
tombow so it's not going to be as nice
but I'll give it a try
again my end of my tombow is pretty
frayed so most of this is going to be
pretty thich and that's okay we all know
tombos really great but I do think
that's artist loft is pretty comparable
and for a cheaper price I would
definitely buy these I'm going to finish
this one with the artist loft just
because I like it and there you go.
thanks for watching I hope you
enjoyed this unboxing I really loved
seeing the products that occasional calligraphy
sent to me I thought it was a really
great box and it's pretty cool to get a
little surprise and you don't know
what's in there
I'm sure if you love lettering, you'll love any
of the things that she sends, I will leave
a link again in the description so you
can check out her Etsy site as well as
her Instagram and see if you want to buy
one for yourself and I'll also leave a
link so you can download the bounce
lettering guide it's just a quick three
page guide with some examples and a
little bit of a guide of which letters
work best around bounce lettering also I
highly recommend artists loft brush pen
it works really well and it's pretty
comparable to the tombow as well I'm
really excited to try out all the other
pens that I got and make sure to follow
me on Instagram to see how those go as
well thanks and happy day