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Lettering ideas and tips...
Creative lettering can add a lot of character to your pages. Here's the tools you'll need:

1. Pencil
2. Ruler
3. non-marking eraser
4. Acid free pens, markers, what-have-you.
5. Acid free paper
6. IMAGINATION!
Steps 1 and 2:

1. Determine how tall you want your letters to be.  In pencil, lightly draw your guidelines with a ruler.

2. Draw your letters lightly in pencil. Make sure you leave adequate space in between.
Step 3: Lightly outline your letters in pencil. Make them as thick or thin as you like, rounding or squaring off the corners.
Step 4: Go over your outlines (the part you want to keep) with your pens.
Steps 5 and 6:

5. Allow the ink to dry, then erase your pencil marks using a non-marking art eraser.

6. Now you're ready to have fun and embellish your new letters!
Here's a few more tips on creative lettering:

~ Use your regular handwritng and give it a "twist", such as dragging down lines in letters, giving them a curl, or making your hand shake. Or put a few dots and/or squiggles around your letters.

~ Use stickers or punchies for fast and easy embellishments.

~ Use your computer to print up a basic font of the entire alphabet, upper and lower case. Trace the letters onto acid free paper, then embellish.

~ One basic lettering style has so many possibilities! Using different colors, adding different patterns to fill in the letters, you can adapt it to any page.

~ Use a basic "chunky" style lettering, trace onto patterned paper, and cut out.

~ Draw up some of your own guidebooks. Draw the entire alphabet in different styles, one style per page, and you have an easy reference. You can also trace over them for faster lettering when you're ready to make a page!
Click here to see some of my personal samples.
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