Hi guys in today's tutorial I'll be showing you how to hand letter place
cards for your weddings, showers, tea parties or whatever else you might have
planned for the upcoming spring and summer season so let's get started
and today's video is sponsored by Uniqooo they're a modern stationery goods
company and so all of the place cards that you see in the tutorial today are
from Uniqooo and I'm gonna link all of the products in the video description
below I want to start today's tutorial by giving you my top three styles for
hand lettering your place cards number one the simple cursive lots of negative
space don't overthink it number two the skinny print this one's perfect if
you're not really into hand lettering and number three the bouncy
fauxligraphy takes a little more practice but it looks gorgeous on a place card pick your
favorite or pair them up they all look great together so now let's talk a bit
about how you can be successful with each of these styles
first of all for the bouncy fauxligraphy you're gonna want to do it in pencil so
just get that name looking exactly the way you want in pencil don't try to do
it in marker then you're gonna take your marker and go over your pencil outline
and here I'm using a paint marker and that's because these cards have a little
bit of sort of a protective coating on them which will help them stand up to a
night of drinking and eating or what-have-you but a paint marker really
goes on nicely and the name really jumps off of the place card and then what I do
is after I've done the cursive in marker I just go in and thicken that down
stroke a little bit and you get this beautiful very I don't know a whimsical
jaunty name and of course I've just done the first name there and then I would
suggest doing the last name if you need to do a last name depends how big your
party is I would just do it in a simple print underneath and it gives a really
nice look and you can see here I've done the last name in pencil again and just
simple capital print and then I'll go over it with my paint marker so I think
by pairing those two handmade fonts you get this very pretty fun whimsical look
next I'm using this sort of pink rose quartz or a marble looking card to write
out the skinny print and this one you're just gonna do it in pencil first and
then go over it with the marker and just leave lots of negative space around the
edges and if you're feeling more confident you can try just doing the
simple cursive and that comes together pretty much the same way with the pencil
sketch out first sketch the name in pencil leave a nice negative space
around the border and I promise you it's going to look great okay now moving on
to the really pretty stuff here we're gonna use these clear acrylic hexagon
place-cards these just looks so cool when they're done and they're really
really easy to letter because they're clear so here you can see that I've
traced the hexagon shaped place card on a piece of scrap paper written out the
name and then I'm just gonna trace it so these not only do they have this really
nice permanence about them because they're you know they're a little more
interesting and thicker than just cardstock but they actually make it
really easy for you to write out the names even if you were awful at hand
lettering potentially you could print out the names on a computer using some
really cool fonts and then trace it so these offer a lot of great potential and
you can see I've used my faux-calligraphy and my simple print there and I think
that just comes together and it looks so lovely so that's a little overview of
these beautiful Uniqooo place cards and my favorite two hand lettering styles for
place cards for the rest of the video I'm just gonna go a little more in-depth
and show you some of the other cards I created now as I said I like to use
paint markers especially a thinner paint marker it just adds this really I don't
know it gives a little umph to your lettering style and here you're gonna
see me use the paint marker on some of these clear acrylic place cards like I
said with these ones they're really easy to use because you can trace your
lettering and for the paint marker remember when you're using it just push
the tip in so that the tip really is saturated with
paint and just have some scrap paper there so you can test it out and test
all sides of the tip and then you're ready to to letter on your place card
now you can see here I've traced the hexagon shape and then I'm gonna write
out the name I might write it a couple times to make sure I've got it looking
just the way I want and then when I'm ready to do the place card I'm gonna go
one step further and I'm going to actually go over the pencil sketch in
the paint pen before I even do the place card and that's just because sometimes
the paint pen takes up more space than you know your pencil lettering did so
you want to be sure about what you're about to do because you know you only
have so many place cards and it's for a special event so write it in pencil then
write it in pen and then you're ready to do your good copy and then when you go
to do that it's so easy and it's almost impossible to mess this up now if you
did have just a small party and you don't need to put a person's last name
putting a little sprig there a little leafy illustration is a nice way to sort
of finish the place card and I think those look so pretty well thank you so
much for watching today's tutorial I know this was quite a specific topic but
if you do have an event coming up I wanted you to see that place cards even
if you're not confident in your hand lettering this is really something that
you can do use the skinny print or better yet use those acrylic place cards
and you can trace and they're actually so gorgeous so I hope you enjoyed the
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see you Friday with another tutorial thanks for watching
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