What do you mean ‘It’s not my area of expertise!?’ You did it like a pro 😀

I was in Becca's the very 1st "class" - i think we began with about 8k ppl from Facebook world wide!? Back then she had no website, was still working a fulltime job, and was a still REAL teacher to EVERYONE!! There wasn't a question, email, etc.. that she didn't see & or answer. She was literally making our workbooks as we were learning. I'm SO happy to see her get the recognition she deserves.❤ #happyeveraftercrafter I'm thrilled to see that you clearly explained that one NEEDS to know & perfect these basic strokes to make the alphabet. So many ppl want to rush through or skip this process & then wonder why they aren't successful. Practice (& patience) is key to your lettering success!! Bravo chickie! 👏😉😊

Thank you Becca for this and the previous videos. You are extremely talented with the cutest little baby! As a grandmother I hope to something new to share with my grandkids and have fun myself. Sharing your knowledge is appreciated.

What a great idea to have your Mom paint with you! I really enjoyed how she painted and how you encouraged her. Thanks!

Thank you so much!! It's disheartening to create something beautiful for someone, and then not be able to add a beautiful sentiment to add to it!! You are always so generous in sharing your knowledge and talents with us! It is greatly appreciated!

Yes @thehappyeveraftercrafter, rocks! You two are the dynamic duo! Thanks for the free sharing of your gifts and knowledge. Your are truly a blessing!

THE SKILL! The talent! The grace! 👏🏼

YAY!!! Beautifully done!! Thank you for sharing this tutorial! I need to practice my strokes 👍🏽

You make it all look so easy! I loved this video.

Finally I believe I can do this!!! You have made it so simple, thank you.

Perfect timing. I was wanting some help to write my Valentine's day cards. I have family in Canada and I have to send them very early. Beautiful lettering.

great tutorial! I hope you do more of these!

I always learn something from you I found your channel by chance, and now I am enthralled by your work I am going to give it a try knowing that perfection will not be attained. My goal is to express myself in a happy manner. Thank you, Emma for helping me so much.

Awesome! Your writing is so pretty. Thank you for showing how you do this.

Thank you. I always love your lettering and teaching methods. Thanks for doing this!

Thanks Emma, that was really straight forward and helpful.

Your way of teaching is excellent

Thank you! I was one of the people asking. I did learn something! 🥰

Just love your videos!

Thanks Emma! I am taking Becca's free online course now! Show Me Your Drillls....practice practice practice! I've learned a lot from her too!

So Excited. This is what I wanted to learn.

Thank you Emma !!!

Becca would be proud!

This was really helpful. I've seen those strokes before and knew you needed to learn them. But I never realized you make every letter with them. You showing us the h just made something click for me. Thanks for making this!

Thanks a lot. Your way of learning is excellent

Thank you Emma, this is so helpful😊

Thanks Emma this looks very helpful

Awesome! Thanks!

very helpful, thanks a ton, Emma

Loved it.

Loved this thank you.

Thank you so much! It was very helpful.

great video! thanks!

This video was so helpful! Thank you :)

Excellent!

Thank you very much. That was very informative.

Emma Thank you so much This was so informative I loved this video... I think you should do more calligraphy by incorporating whatever you write into your watercolor videos so if you write the word LOVE like you did in your heart valentine video you could show us how to do those strokes in the videos that would be wonderful.. Thank you. Love your watercolor videos

This video was so helpful, do you have a video of the alphabet? I love your style of lettering, it's so pretty

You make me feel like I can do it too!!

Wow, I've always wanted this video!

This is a great video. PLEASE consider doing a video showing how to make the letters using the basic strokes 🙂

wow~~ I love this video

I’m a newbie to Becca’s class this semester (I will definitely have to do it again next semester)

@candygrammel8676

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Me too. I am enjoying it and plan to continue.

I like your Video. I want very much to learn this.

Thank you so much for the tutorial! I just ordered a pen and the pad! Can’t wait to get it! Love everything you do!!

@JaimieMadison

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Same here

Yes! Thank you!!! I purchased a calligraphy set because I want to learn but everything I have done with it sucks! Haha

@EmmaLefebvre

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Melinda Rivera it takes A LOT of practice.. please keep going

I am doing the show me your drills class with Becca. I am curious to know which video shows how to put your letters together. Can you link me that one?

Thank you, Emma! I remember when I was young, I couldn’t manage a fountain pen because of my left-handed, back slanted writing 🙃 However, I’m looking forward to trying and practicing this 😁

Would this work for numbers as well?

How do we write horizontal lines?? Like the letter "L" ?

This was very helpful! And you did a great job with it!! I have a hand lettering for beginners set from Kelly Creates. She has a KZread channel as well and she has a whole set of markers, papers with lessons with tracing paper, grid paper and lines. She’s now come out with her own watercolor paint line in liquid paint, which looks really interesting and different. I’m not sure what the difference is from pan watercolor to tube watercolor to liquid “ink” watercolor, but I’m fascinated by it all. I just bought her watercolor lettering book too, although I haven’t practiced yet. You’re definitely right about the need to practice. I was doing great for a while but now I’ve been so focused on jewelry making that I haven’t been doing any hand lettering. I guess it’s never too late to jump back in and start practicing again! Thank you for sharing! 💜

Tombows come in my 108 colours.

Whats dude baby guy man

just ming blowing tips sis...

Hi Emma, for some reason I cannot view this video. Need help. Is this available for only a few locations?

hi baby mna

I have some words of encouragemenr in the midst of whats going on. It might sound wierd, but it is for real. Its long because I've tried to and any faqs! Hopefully this will answer some of those nagging questions - Why does evil exist (and how can it be fixed), how is the whole "Jesus dying" thing really relevant to anything? To you? if you still have any questions let me know x First, what is evil? Well, the Bible calls it the breaking of God's laws - and God intends for this world to be perfect in every way. He also wants us to have perfect lives too - thats a part of His plan. But we dont though, do we? Every one of us have lied, stolen (even tiny things count as stealing), spoken badly to our parents and had embarrassing and detestable thoughts in our thought life. The Bible calls this "sin", the breaking of God's laws. You might think, so what? Everyone lies and thinks bad things about others! Its human! You're right. That's exactly what the Bible says, we're "born into sin" and that "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" - Romans 3:23 Notice something? God's intent for us APPEARS to be the exact OPPOSITE of human nature and desires! Not lying, not stealing, and having a perfect thought life is God's standard for us, so if it is God's standard, and we were made in "God's image", Why don't we meet it then? Well, Remember Adam and Eve and when they sinned. Before sin they were perfect in thought word and DEED completely, just as God intended, and they had a perfect relationship with Him. ALL was perfect in every way. But after the first sin occured due to Satan's tempting in the Garden, it destroyed that part of us that was morally perfect and in perfect harmony with God - His morals, standard, and love. Satan took over these things and so while we kept certain things, the ability to be thinking individuals with unique personalities, the moral part (affecting how our thoughts, actions and personalities operate) was damaged. To the point where we are "opposed" to God, hence His nature and standards being the opposite of what we see as reasonable or possible. The bible says "apart from God we can do nothing". Without Him, it will 100% feel "opposite", unreasonable and alien to us. Only WITH Him can we gain victory in these things. Why doesn't God just let sin off and leave it? The Bible describes God as a "righteous judge", many wonder why God doesn't just let sin off and leave it, but He can't. Why? That's like a if a judge let off a murderer who broke the state law. Everyone would attack that judge and call Him corrupt, saying that he had not done right and should be fired for failing to punish the murderer for his evil. AND to completely love and be good as God is, means you need to, in turn, hate all forms of evil. You can't truly love good unless you hate the existence of evil. This means that God needed, as a righteous judge to punish sin with the ultimate penalty of death - expressing His hatred of evil - and separation from His presence forever. Hence Hell. "The soul that sins shall die (in Hell and suffer damnation)" - Ezekiel 18:20 BUT God, who is also perfect love, did not want to see His creation tortured and cut off from Him. He cares so much for is that He couldn't bear to see us fall into Satans hands and suffer death, even though we broke the law and deserve to be cut off from perfection forever Because of justice, God could not leave sin and evil unpunished, BUT because of LOVE, God provided someone else to take that punishment on our behalf, satisfying both justice (by punishing the evil committed), and love (by sparing OUR lives) despite our sin. God sent His own SON - think about that. His *Son*, the one whom He loved infinitely (the same way He loves us). God allowed Him to take the pain we deserved, He took ALL of Gods wrath for every single sin you and I have committed. He was punished brutally and completely so that we do not have to be punished. Back in the courtroom scenario: He paid the "fine" at His own expense (His life had to be morally perfect on this Earth, then He had to be killed as a sinless sacrifice on our behalf). So when He returns to remove all evil from the face of the Earth, we can be spared and free because Christ has already BEEN punished on our behalf. He then rose again on the third day, conquering not only life and sin and temptation, but DEATH. GOD HAS POWER OVER DEATH. "I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live (immortally and eternally in Heaven when I return)" - John 11:25,26 ALL we have to do is accept it by faith. Faith alone in Christ alone. Religion = rules to be saved The gospel = Christ saved us already we just have to believe it by faith. If you lack faith (as I did before), pray. He will make it strong it time. Trust Him as you would trust those close to you. He knows you even better than that. He created you and knows you inside out. ...WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? What does it actually mean for us? It means we can be free from the penalty of damnation. Not only that but we can be restored to Him and recreated into His moral image AGAIN as long as we accept Jesus having paid the price for us and accept Him as our Lord, the one who is in the front seat of our lives. He has a plan for your life, He's created you for a purpose. Just remember that. A purpose that includes being recreated into His image, one you can only accomplish through Him and reliance on His power and by following HIS way of life. What does this new way of life entail? It entails love, true love and service and aid to others, to "love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength" and "love your neighbour as you love yourself" Matthew 22:37, 39. Sharing the message of Christ's death, resurrection and soon return on this Earth to give justice OR mercy depending on what the person chose. Sound "opposite" again? God knows it sounds opposite, which is why, as The Bible states, this is NOT something we can do alone. It's not in our nature. We need a new nature in the front seat, and the first step is to repent (turn from and reject our sin, pursuing the opposite direction and drawing close to God) Christ will give us an actual DESIRE to do these things. Through the Holy Spirit, sent by Him to us after the ascension. He speaks to us through thoughts of love and truth and conviction, verses, ideas, prayers and He guides us so that we gain a desire to follow God and be able to do these "opposite" things through Him. "With man it is impossible, but with God, NOTHING is impossible!" - Matthew 19:26 What is the way FOR though? Firstly its to save you from sin - the only way to gain victory over sin and not have it as your master is through having Christ as your master and following His aid to resist the devil's temptations. Christ lived down here for 33 years suffering EVERY FORM of temptation that you have ever faced - "who in every respect [has] been tempted as we are, yet without sin" Hebrews 4:15. Therefore He is able to help us through our struggles. When the devil knows people have left his camp, he always tries harder with more temptations and evil attacks. BUT - His way is also there to guard and teach you daily in the midst of this (and despite this) sinful, selfish world. The path He wants you to walk is a path of committment and love - its not about rules and regulations to save us - what Christ did GAVE us salvation. All we need is faith. The rest, the "fruits of good works (the will to obey and follow Him)", are what come through true, maturing faith. It's all about faith and the relationship God wants with you just like before sin arrived. God preferred His own Son to be tortured And *killed* to give a chance to us (who broke His law of perfection) so that we can live as His children again. He wants us to love and trust and worship Him. What if I still find myself sinning after I have accepted Christ? That's why Christ died, For our sin. His death doesn't fix us in a snap like that, but it does protect us from the damnation that our past, present and future sins would bring without Jesus. It's a process - a lifelong process - of God bringing you back to Him, away from the destructive pleasures of sin (greed, selfish temptations, trampling on people to gain). This process takes a *lifetime*, as it does for all, but NEVER give up, when you fall, know Christ paid for that sin you committed already - just acknowledge your sin and ask for forgiveness - and you can get back up again because He already bore your guilt and shame. Regardless of the darkness you are in or the extent or frequency of the sins you have committed or will commit, regardless of how doubtful you may feel, know that Jesus UNDERSTANDS completely and He is faithful. "those who come to Me, I will by no means cast out" - John 6:37 ...HOW DO I LEARN MORE? Don't know where to start? Note down the Gospel of "John", or "Luke" (for a more detailed account of it all). Remember that He will "NEVER - and that means never - leave you, NOR forsake you" - Deuteronomy 31:6 You can go to Him with them and be assured that He loves you and is for you. Keep your heart open to Him and remember that if we pray for Christ to enter our lives, He will. "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only begotten Son, that whomever believes in Him, shall not perish, but have everlasting life". - Thanks for reading if you did. I just felt that I should tell you regardless. Let me know if you have any more questions or if you need any clarification on anything x