Write To Your Love Ones

WATERCOLOR LETTERING: FOUR TECHNIQUES TO TRY
With flowers in bloom and Mother’s Day around the corner, the time is perfect for a beautiful washy watercolor lettering session. Whether it’s a quote for your desk or some framed artwork for your mom, painting in watercolor is a great way to express a simple message in a beautiful way. Lettering Artist Amber G. shared a few techniques in one of our Think.Make.Share workshops at Hallmark.

SENDING LETTERS TO YOURSELF: MESSAGE IDEAS
Sending letters to yourself is popular enough that websites and online services have popped up to help you do it. Opening a message written a year—or five years, or more—in the past can be moving, entertaining, even therapeutic.

HOW TO BUILD A LETTER-WRITING HABIT
There’s enough stuff in our lives we have to do—and probably not enough we get to do or love to do or OMG CANNOT WAIT to do. What if we could get into a letter-writing habit that falls in that last category?

OUR BEST TIPS FOR CARD AND LETTER WRITING
You know how wonderful it feels to get a card or letter…and we’re guessing you know it feels pretty great to send one, too. So we’re hoping you’ll play along with us for a National Card and Letter Writing Month challenge. Our goal: Send five pieces of happy mail every week during April. And we’re going to make it so easy. Find our best tips for card and letter writing below.

PAINTING SUCCULENTS: HINT FROM A MASTER ARTIST
Succulents are the perfect house plants: small and sweet, colorful, modern-looking and very, very hard to kill. Hallmark Master Artist Jeanne R. shows us how to make them even more long-lasting with some helpful tips on painting succulents.