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hey I'm Becca with a happy ever crafter and in this video I'm going to show you how to make custom hand lettered Christmas ornaments like these using three different kinds of pens a white one a silver one and a gold one let's step right up so first things first let's talk about supplies the main thing you're gonna need for this video is an ugly Christmas sweater as far as tools go for lettering on ornaments there are a ton of different colored paint pens and different brands of paint pens that you can use for the purposes of this video though I'm gonna show you my three favorite kinds and these are based on different ones I've tested generally when I'm writing on a Christmas ornament I do it in one of three colors I'm either using white gold or silver that really depends on which Christmas ornament I'm using I really like the look of white on clear I really like the look of gold on these matte finished ones and I also like to match the gold with the top of this ornament here I like silver again to match the top of that ornament and I think it pops really nicely on this matte so I encourage you to try different paint pens but for the purposes of this video I'm gonna be showing you using pasca so pasca is a water-based paint pen and this is just a white pasta pen in two different sizes when I have sharpie oil-based markers and to be honest these are generally my favorite and then these ones are liquid chrome and these only come in silver so they're really really bright silver they're really great for using if you want it to actually look like chrome really like saturated silver and then there are a couple other things that you might want so you might want a pencil you might want a glass pencil so this one is called the Stabilo aqua relabel this is what we're gonna use to do a little outline on the glass one and you might want talked and I'll explain why in a little bit but if you're using chalk you also might need a pencil sharpener so you can see that I've sharpened my chalk here and that's what I used for that last but not least potentially just a scrap piece of paper ideally with guidelines so first we're gonna do these two matte colored Christmas balls I'm going to show you two different techniques that you can use so the first one is going to be using a chalk transfer and the second one is going to be using a pencil and that's to draw the guidelines of what want to write on there when you're working with Christmas ornaments that are like this and that are matte finish or ones that have specific colors on them and stuff that you won't be able to erase you really want to make sure that you have a guideline on there before you get started because trying to use any remover on these will take off the paint finish and that's really obviously not ideal the first one we're gonna do is just a regular pencil transfer so for that one you would just take your ornament and you'd write the word you want in pencil this is gonna happen differently for different people depending on how comfortable you are with lettering you could try and draw guidelines as well as you can on here and then do your lettering or you could just go ahead and freehand it so I'm just gonna write the word joy so this is a pretty simple example I don't know if you can see that in the video but there's a really plain mono line outline here and then I'm gonna take my gold pen shake it up and I'm gonna just go right on to the ornament so with this because we're doing folk calligraphy meaning that you're gonna thicken some lines as you go back in the downstroke you want to make sure that you're thickening those lines as you go because otherwise when you come back you're gonna smudge it with your hand add the thicknesses to the down strokes if you don't know what I'm talking about and you've never done calligraphy before I actually have a video on this youtube channel about folk calligraphy so that might be helpful and that's it now if you wanted to add any little extra embellishments I often keep a smaller version of the same pen handy so that it's the exact same color I would just add some little things like maybe snowflakes or little dots everywhere just whatever you can do to make that a little fancier [Music] and voila you have a custom hand lettered ornament with a little bit of extra decoration the next technique we're gonna do is going to be using the chalk and the pencil that I was talking about earlier so this is a technique that you might want to use if you're writing something longer on your ornament and you don't want to risk screwing it up so you could do actually what's called a chalk transfer so what I'm gonna do for this one is take just a regular pencil or pen this one's just a micron sized one and you're gonna write out what you want to write on the Christmas ball on paper first I'm gonna do for example one that's really popular these days is to have it just married or a just engaged Christmas ornament so I'll do just married and so I'm gonna write it out on here first and then we're gonna transfer it on to the Christmas ball so here's my just married wording generally when you're using a Christmas ball that's about this size you might want it to be even a little bit smaller than that but for this one I think it's gonna look just fine now I'm gonna take this paper and I'm gonna rip out just the portion and then I'm gonna take it and turn it over and I'm gonna grab the chalk again you want to make sure that your chalk is sharpened and then when you look through your paper I want you to trace over just the parts where the writing was so you want to make sure that you're getting enough chalk on the paper but you don't need to push too too hard if you get too much chalk residue on here it's gonna make a mess on your ornament so you want to just use the bare minimum [Music] so once you've done that you've got a little bit of chalk residue on your paper and now you're gonna take it and put it on your Christmas bulb wherever you want that to land this will really easily put chalk residue onto the Christmas ball so you want to make sure that you're just kind of eyeballing it until you're ready to actually put it down and then you're gonna hold it down on just one end and take your pencil you just want to make sure you're being really careful not to smudge it all over the Christmas ball and then you're gonna use your pencil to trace over again and this will leave the chalk on the Christmas ball [Music] my problem here is that because I lifted my paper for the second word they don't fit together nicely anymore so I'm actually gonna erase that first one I'm actually gonna just write this on with pencil the next thing I'm gonna do is actually just take my liquid curl markers and I'm gonna use the smaller one for this and I'm gonna write over the words [Music] and there you have it for this one so now I'm gonna wait for this to dry and then I'll be able to take off the chalk the one last thing I wanted to do on this one is generally people want the year on this so I'm going to turn this around and I'm gonna write the year on here once it's dry you can just gently take off the chalk and there we go we have a custom just married with the year and the last time we're gonna do which is my favorite is lettering on these clear Christmas ornaments for this one you're gonna want that's to be low aqua relabel pencil and then a white paint pen and I'm using pasta I'm gonna take this white pencil and right off the bat I'm just gonna write directly on to here I'm gonna write the word Noel so I actually like the way that that guideline looks but for the purposes of this I wanted to also demonstrate how easy it is to take that off if you wanted to reposition that you could really easily just buff it off with a paper towel so that's the whole point of using this for a guideline so I'm gonna redo that and I'm actually gonna move it down a little bit and you'll see why in a minute now the other thing to note is that this Christmas fall is flat if you are struggling with the round one I suggest looking for these ones one you can there is my word now I'm gonna go with my pasta pen and I'm gonna write over top of it one thing I want to point out about the pasta pens is that these are water-based they're not oil-based I find that they actually tend to be a little bit streaky ER if you notice that then I honestly would probably just switch to the sharpies I'm just gonna let this dry for a minute but while that's happening I'm gonna actually take my smaller tip pasta pen and I'm gonna add a little bit of detailing on here so this is one way that I really love to add detail on these clear ornaments is with a white really thin tip [Music] so what I did was I just added some dots at the top that we're really close together and then gradually getting less and less close together and then it sort of looks like snow I put my hand behind it you can kind of see that effect and I think it looks really really pretty once your lettering is dry if you had any residue from the Aqua relabel pencil you could go in and gently erase those as well but other than that this one is finished so there you have it three different Christmas ornaments in three different colors with three different kinds of paint pens I hope you found that helpful and I would love to see your creations if you make them so make sure you tag me or comment on this video and I will see you in the next tutorial [Music]