Calligraphy pens for anything but...

When I was at a recent show many people loved the calligraphy pens but they didn't think that they would be clever enough to use them for writing. So here's another use for calligraphy pens that needn't frighten you.

First of all you'll need at least two calligraphy pens in toning colours. I've used a light and a dark one from the Heart pouch set.

What I then did was touch the side of the lightest pen with the dark pen.

This will allow you to write in two colours. Below is an example of simple writing using the two tones.

However, I did say that this set of instructions was for anything but calligraphy so this is what I did next.

I kept the darker edge of the pen still and moved the light side in a rough quarter turn and got a petal. I then moved the paper a bit and repeated the above. I did this until I got about 5 petals. Just remember to move the paper round every time you want a new petal.

Now that you have a flower head you can add a stem and a couple of leaves. Mine are not the best here I must admit. I did them better on the card example.

I then did a few flower heads and joined them with a few strokes of a green pen. I layered this up and tied it with ribbon and there was a topper.

Now I could have left it as a simple topper but I wanted a bit more so I decided to use the pen to make background paper. All I did for this was made simple petals as I explained above and kept on moving the pen and the paper. Do some upside down and some to the left some to the right to make them look like random petals.

I added a tiny green stem and used the sheet to make a background paper for the following card.

As you can see I didn't even use the pen to write the message. I did put a line of petals at the top of the card though.

More to follow.