Crafting….yeeees right up my street. As any of my followers may know (mainly on Insta and Facebook), I love to create scrapbook pages for my daughter and preserve memories. So when I was approached by Viking Office Supplies to get all creative for the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, I was keen. Now granted, the anniversary was in April and I am a tad late. This was due to moving house and all the upheaval!
Anyhow, I enjoyed my Shakespeare at school and really enjoyed Twelfth Night. I also enjoyed the film quite a lot too (ahem).
So back to the crating. The task I was set was to use the supplies sent to create something with a quote from Shakespeare as part of it.
I was set a few goodies, including a calligraphy set, some gold and pink paper, a little easel to create a design on and various pens; gold silver and black. You can see some of this in the picture below:
I decided to go with the calligraphy as had never tried this before, so used the quill and ink and the gold paper mainly. Of course had to be a scrapbook page.
Ok peeps calligraphy is flipping hard! I realised the gold paper was the best for it, as all my white stuff was so porous and it was smudging all over. I had a look online for some fonts but decided my cursive writing I learnt in year 4 was quite nice! I went with that.
I picked a gorgeous shot of my girly fast asleep and wanted an innocent sort of quote so did some searching online.
I found quite a simple one from All’s Well that Ends Well (one I had not heard of actually!). The quote was:
Love all, trust a few and do wrong to none
This is a lovely message for my girly and to us all for that matter.
I was pretty pleased with the effort and this was what I sent to my mate Helen at All the Beautiful Things before I went to bed (excuse the piccy – it was one for a quick message!):
I then came down the next morning to see I must have dripped a drip of my bedtime water on the calligraphy as I went to bed…nooooooo!
Doesn’t look too bad but made me learn: ink SMUDGES. Daft mare.
I’m still pleased with the finished article and may have a go at disguising it at some point.
Thanks Viking for the supplies and hope you like my creation!
That’s gorgeous. I keep looking at scrapbooks as I love crafting but haven’t got round to creating one yet! What a great way to present your memories and a lovely interpretation of the Shakespeare challenge! At least you got a pic before the water incident! #coolmumclub
These scrap book pages are truly beautiful. I don’t know how you find the time – I have an obsession with making photo albums and that just involves sticking a picture in a sleeve! Very creative.
Thanks for linking up to #coolmumclub xx
MMT recently posted…#coolmumclub Linky week 28
Looks soooo pretty and to be honest you can’t really see the smudge that much! Lovely quote too (I still need to do mine, oops). Popping over from #justanotherlinky
helen gandy recently posted…Our Week!
That’s beautiful! And the writing looks great 🙂 Thanks for linking up to #justanotherlinky xx
Something Crunchy Mummy recently posted…Thank You Bank Holiday Weekend, You Were Awesome!
Aw that’s lovely – it looks great! I loved calligraphy when I was younger & had loads of pens. Not done it for years now, should try again. I agree, though – it is hard! #coolmumclub
Silly Mummy recently posted…Parenting Never Have I Ever
Such a beautiful pic of your girly. A very pretty craft with all the little accessories but such a shame about your drip! It’s still gorj though x