Lettering Techniques For Friends, Scrapbooks, Notepads & Cards. This Terrific Book Is A Valuable Addition To Any Library. Design Originals Takes You Step-By-Step Through Creating Jazzy Letters. Even If You Are Not An Artist, You Will Be Able To Make Fantastic Letters.
Teaches adults and older children the skills needed to write calligraphically in a range of modern and traditional styles, suitable for every greeting card and scrapbooking purposes. This title also explains embossing, printing with carved erasers, linocut lettering and other techniques for creative lettering.
• Valuable reference for creating personalized hand lettering on craft projects. • 50 complete traceable alphabets get readers started right away. • Covers a wide range of decorative lettering styles, from whimsical and modern to romantic and vintage. • Interactive skill-building practice exercises. • Basic resource for scrapbooks, art journals, school projects, papercrafting, wood crafts, pyrography, and more. • Making letters is often a challenge, even for accomplished crafters—this book makes it easy.
The author gives easy instructions for 50 brand-new creative lettering alphabets and shows how to customize them into hundreds of different variations.
Plain or fancy, formal or fun, chronicling special events or everyday moments, scrapbooks are the perfect, personal way to preserve precious memories and create lasting keepsakes. This visual guide walks you through choosing albums and papers, organizing and cropping photos, and more, and explains step-by-step essential techniques like journaling, designing appealing pages, and using embellishments to add pizzazz. The layout gallery gives you great ideas for travel, family, heritage, and other pages, while a chapter on organizing your stuff helps you keep everything in its place. Concise two-page lessons show you all the steps to a skill and are ideal for quick review Each skill or technique is defined and described Detailed color photos demonstrate each step Step-by-step instructions accompany each photo Helpful tips provide additional guidance
I love the way you ink! For illustrator Ayano Usamura, her first time drawing in fountain pen was a revelation. The easy flow of ink spurred her creativity and gave character to every line. Even the simplest letters and doodles came to life! Now, with her trusty LAMY Safari in hand, Usamura shares the joy of fountain pens. You’ll learn to: choose the perfect pen (and take good care of it) simply sketch adorable foods, clothing, plants, and household objects write stylishly in block and cursive letters—and create narrow, bold, 3-D, serif, and calligraphy effects embellish journals, labels, scrapbooks, and cards with decorative frames and borders design layouts that bring all these elements together, and put your personal touch on seven easy crafts! How to Draw and Write in Fountain Pen includes everything you need to get started: Pull-out practice paper: The paper at the end of this book is just right for pen and ink! Mini tracing booklet: The booklet inside the front cover is filled with sample doodles and designs you can trace for worry-free practice. Handy built-in pocket: Store the booklet, your drawings, and anything you like inside the back-cover pocket. Just add a fountain pen!
Boxes of family photographs may invite conflicting feelings of joy and guilt--how to assemble all of those pictures in a meaningful way for the entire family to enjoy? Julian's new book will inspire the scrapbook enthusiast regardless of skill level to try something different: a simple scrapbook.