One of the things I would like to learn this year is calligraphy or different writing & printing styles. I found this lovely lady, Becca Courtice on Youtube as well as signed up for her email posts. She offers a lot of free information and in doable chunks. Faux calligraphy is done on the top of the page and learning how to do banners for envelopes is one of the tutorials. I made the initial marks in ink and the rest in pencil so it would make sense to me later. These are so much fun on envelopes. Check out her website here. On Youtube she goes by the happy ever crafter

If you get a chance to take this free collage course from Catherine Rains called Collage Kickstart. It is a 5 day course and it's free. I was in Mexico when I enjoyed this course and had very few supplies. In fact some of the paper I painted on was till receipts, recycled paper, back of labels and found old computer paper etc.,  really anything I could get my hands on. A good deal of the course was on making or decorating papers (7 different ways) and then how to put them together to make a collage. Catherine suggested what colours (very limited palette) to use. I thoroughly enjoyed this class enough to enroll in her "Collage Joy 2025" online course. I am currently working on that one. Below are some of the collages I did in my 'Learning Sketchbook".