This joyful five-week course is designed especially for beginners. Working with bright, colourful stationery each week, you’ll learn how to handle both straight and oblique nib holders, discover which nibs suit different styles and scales of lettering, and build the confidence to create beautifully expressive calligraphy.

Across the five sessions, you’ll explore how to work with ink and metallic paints directly from the nib, how to shape your letters with bounce and flow, and how to bring your writing to life. Each week finishes with a complete project, so you’ll leave not only with new skills, but with a growing collection of personalised stationery to be proud of.

What You’ll Learn & Make

Week 1 – The Basics & Your First Card Learn how to prepare your nib, hold the pen correctly, and build control through guided drills. Discover the foundations of modern letterforms and create your first colourful greeting card using vibrant inks.

Week 2 – Addressing Envelopes & Envelope Liners Practise scale, spacing, and bounce as you experiment with different nibs. You’ll design a beautifully addressed envelope and create a matching envelope liner completely covered in expressive calligraphy.

Week 3 – Your Return Address Design Learn how to compose small lettering and create a bespoke return-address design. This could later be used to create a stamp for embossing or personalising your future stationery.

Week 4 – Metallic Quote Card Discover how metallic paints behave on the nib and how to achieve crisp, shimmering strokes. You’ll work step-by-step to create a quote with shimmer for a truly eye-catching finish.

Week 5 – Your Final Project: A Complete Stationery Set Bring everything together as you design and write a coordinated greeting card and addressed envelope, applying all the techniques you’ve learned, from nib control and bounce to colour, composition, and decorative touches.

By the end of the course, you’ll not only understand the fundamentals of modern calligraphy. You will also have a beautiful collection of handmade stationery: an addressed envelope, a matching liner, a return-address motif, a metallic quote, and a finished greeting card. Most importantly, you’ll feel confident picking up your pen and creating more.