{Faked} Hand Addressed Envelopes

I've been looking for a calligraphy class in my town for a little while now but haven't been able to find one.  I don't really need to learn calligraphy but it would be nice to know how to address an envelope with those beautiful loopy letters especially if I ever get around to sending Christmas cards.  I watched a bunch of YouTube instruction videos and I was all set to head to Hobby Lobby to buy calligraphy pens when I stumbled onto the easiest, most obvious, method of them all.  I cannot for the life of me find the original source, I wish I could.  This isn't even a "method".  It's a complete cheater, cheater pumpkin eater way to have gorgeous hand-addressed envelopes.

Find a font that you love. Type your text and change the  font to a very light grey (or dark if you're printing on dark paper/envelopes).  Print it on whatever paper/envelope you want.

And just trace over the printed text with a good felt tip pen like Le Pen or Staedtler.  DUH, right?? I did it a few times on plain white paper so I could get used to making the letters.  They're much easier to trace if you're familiar with them.  They don't have to be perfect- little imperfections make it look original.

If you're using dark paper you could use a white or metallic pen.  Sorry for the grainy picture- who knew a brown envelope was so hard to photograph!

Done. Beautifully hand addressed envelopes that didn't cost $3 a piece.