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Scrapbookers will discover more than 15 new alphabets created by the nation's top scrapbook lettering artists as well as find the favorite lettering styles from Memory Makers over the past five years. With styles ranging from elegantly classic to cutting-edge creative, there's sure to be a font to suit every scrapbook project.
Every lettering style is featured on a completed scrapbook page and the book is designed to make it easy for scrapbookers to photocopy or trace the alphabets for use in their own albums. In addition, the book includes a multitude of ways to personalize and customize the lettering styles using torn paper, beads, chalk and more. Every scrapbooker can use these stunning alphabet styles to create page titles that pop!
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Best variety of draw-it-yourself alphabets for scrapbookers.......2003-06-11
This book is relatively new on the scrapbooking scene, but already I find myself pulling it off the shelf frequently. It is great to be able to create my own titles in the ideal lettering styles, sizes and colors for each page, rather than having to rely on letter stickers and die cuts.
Scrapbook Lettering starts with a short, helpful introduction that runs through basic tools and techniques, then illustrates the process of freehand lettering. The main body however is devoted to the 50 alphabets. Each font has a two-page spread devoted to it that features its use in sample layouts. The authors are very thorough about explaining the simple techniques you will use to draw each alphabet yourself. Suggested theme pages that go particularly well with the alphabet are included, along with variation ideas & tips. I love the last ten alphabets, which are organized chronologically according to which decade they best complement ý great for those heritage pages!
Hereýs what I discovered after practicing with other creative lettering books: the font styles that can be ýfleshed outý from a basic outline alphabet tend to have a fun, casual feeling to them, but quickly run out of designs for more formal titles and pages. The impressive thing about Scrapbook Lettering on the other hand is that the alphabets are designed by about 20 different published lettering artists, so there is enough style variety that you can match a font to suit any page from wedding albums to baby books. You can draw more than half of them completely freehand; with the rest you will need some help from photocopiers, grids or some tracing paper in order to accurately transfer the lines and maintain the precise look of the fancier fonts.
Some scrapbookers, who are used to completely freehanding the more casual styles of other lettering books, may feel that this is too much trouble to go to for a page title. My advice would be not to give up so easily on your artistic instincts! I think that if you find a more technically involved alphabet that you think would put the perfect finishing touch on your memory page, you should invest the little extra effort it will take to transfer it with grid paper or enlarge with a photocopier first. It will be worth it.
-Andrea, aka Merribelle
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This is a practical handbook offering fully illustrated step-by-step guidelines to a wealth of elementary classroom art activities. Designed to provide a easy-to-use reference and resource manual for elementary teachers, A Handbook of Arts and Crafts gives teachers the background, context, and activities they need to successfully integrate the arts into their classroom.
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Found Memories.......2002-03-21
This book is a great resource for projects in art for children. You could say that I was the test subject for a lot of what's in this book. Willard was my grandfather. This book is a treasure that every elementary school teacher should have. My grandfather would take me to the university to work on projects and then put them in the book. What fun that was. Share this book with your children as my grandfather enjoyed it with his son and grandson.
Great for children's crafts.......1998-07-19
We used this book as a textbook for my Elementary Education Art Methods & Materials class. It is jam-packed with projects to do with children. Highly recommended.
Book Description
Discover the art of beautiful writing! Fun with Calligraphy comes with everything you need to start writing with style -- including cartridge and felt-tip calligraphy pens, with a variety of exciting ink colors! Inside the 32-page activity book, you'll learn how to re-create a number of lovely alphabets, step by step. And you'll also find plenty of ways to use your new writing skills -- from decorating stylish stationery to creating cool greeting cards. A fantastic world of elegant letters awaits. So why not get started? Write here, right now!
Kit includes 32-page activity book, 2 felt-tip calligraphy pens, 7 ink cartridges, cartridge calligraphy pen, metallic calligraphy marker, artist's triangle, drawing pencil, eraser, practice paper pad, stationery paper, stickers, and notecards with envelopes
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learning caligraphy.......2007-05-13
This was purchased for my teenage daughter who wanted to learn caligraphy to add verses onto her watercolor paintings. She has learned it takes a lot of practice. This is a very nice set with good supplies for someone who wants to learn caligraphy.
Pretty Nice for the Price.......2007-01-12
I bought this as a Christmas gift for my daughter who LOVES to write and draw all over EVERYTHING and it kept her occupied for hours. However, the ink does get all over the place if you aren't careful. She has enjoyed it alot and the price is good.
DECENT ENOUGH SERVICE.......2006-11-01
PRODUCT RECEIVED IN GREAT CONDITION. DELIVERY TIME NOT SO PERFECT, BUT GOOD PRODUCT.
Not all that it seems.......2006-08-30
The pen is rather cheap and the book only shows basic calligraphy. Good for kids to play with, but don't buy it for yourself.
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Beautiful writing is within your grasp.......2002-12-03
Do you make your own greeting cards and wish you could write beautifully instead of depending on rubber stamps for what you want to say? Would you like to hand letter a gorgeous sign, perhaps a poem and frame it but your third grade teacher was right when she said you had poor handwriting? Then this book is for you.
Mr Waddington carefully teaches many beautiful styles of calligraphy, the Caroline manuscript which most people are familiar with as well as my favorite, the italics, with quite a few other styles thrown in for good measure. You will learn the process step by step, from the materials you will need to the technique to keep from smearing the ink.
So buy this book and the next time you make a card with all your love and attention to detail, you won't have to settle for a greeting that doesn't suit what you want to say - you'll be able to beautifully express yourself in yor words as well as the appearance of your words.
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Creative Lettering Today
Michael Harvey
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A classic manual by a famous lettering designer, including updated material on digital lettering.
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Creating Keepsakes magazine's lettering expert Becky Higgins gives easy five-step instructions for making 50 alphabets and hundreds of variations that will add a personal touch to scrapbooks—and to cards, invitations, and signs. This book is a long-lasting scrapbooking favorite!
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Guess I'll Have to Buy It..........2006-03-24
I am a heavy duty library user--if I can borrow it, I don't buy it, until it is so used and useful that I need it, which isn't often.
This is a book my daughter has continued to check out, over and over, until all the renewals run out, and then puts another hold on right away. Very few books have received that honor in our house!
A great creative ideas for scrapbook and greeting card lettering. Helpful large format.
thumbs basically up.......2005-10-09
I like the idea of using the pictures to help you create a title that interacts or compliments the pictures. I would have loved it in spiral book form so that you could lay it flat and trace the letters. some of the creative lettering is quite simple and not very appealing but some are really pretty and unique. the idea is this; find what you love or the theme of the pictures and insert it in your lettering. so, if its a picture of your child in a baseball game place drawings of baseballs on your letters...etc. bought it on the recommendation of a friend. intend on reading it and practicing the lettering more throughly but so far havent actually used it myself. nice extra touch for serious scrappers.
A book to use over and over...........2003-09-22
I do scrapbooking and was never fond of the sticker letters, so on a whim I bought this book. Goodbye sticker letters! Your own lettering on the scrapbook page looks much nicer to me than the stickers and you never have to worry about running out of the alphabet letters or what color you need. These are very simple to do, I can fairly easily copy them, but I know I could never come up with them on my own. There is a great variety of lettering, each one having its own type of "mood" so you know when it is right for the page you are doing...fun, serious, kiddish, whatever. This book has been worth its weight and if you are bored of writing titles in plain block letters, this will really brighten up your titles.
Creative Lettering: An Art Form All Its Own.......2003-07-27
This book is truly amazing. It is so helpful for making scrapbooks. Everyone marvels at the lettering job that this book has helped me with. I also have used the techniques to make signs and cards and things of that nature. A lot of creative lettering books that I have seen have really boring fonts, but this book has really really fun lettering styles. I mean, there are styles for Christmas, Halloween, flowery ones, Back To School, and just some really fun swirly ones. If you are into scrapbooking or just need something to help you make invitations for that big upcoming party, I really recommend buying this book. Unfortunately I lost my copy, but since I liked it so much I am going to buy it again! Enjoy!!!
How to letter for those of us who lack the knack.......2003-04-24
There is a reason this is the standard in scrapbook lettering guides: it explains how to create those fancy letters in a simple, logical way that even people with atrocious handwriting can pick up quickly to improve their page layouts. All that , and it's cute, too!
It turns out that Becky Higgins' style of creative lettering is based on a simple alphabet that is adorned in one of six basic ways, then embellished and colored in. Yes, it really is that easy! Your titles and first paragraph letters can be customized according to season, color scheme, occasion, pattern match, mood, etc. The fifty variations on the six lettering styles will be more than enough for most people to fill their scrapbooks without seeming repetitive - but you may find yourself designing variations of your own after practicing for a while.
The limitation of The Art of Creative Lettering is that IMHO, the lettering styles lend themselves almost exclusively to a country and/or casual feel in the page designs. This is a popular way to scrapbook, and you may not need anything else. However, sometimes a more sophisticated, adult look is called for. And if like me you have a formal wedding and a heritage album to complete, you may end up turning to sticker letters or laser cut titles to get the traditional look you want.
I would highly recommend this book for anybody who believes s/he"can't" letter nicely.
-Andrea, aka merribelle
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Creative Calligraphy (Collectors Guides)
Malcolm Couch
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- Not a calligraphy manual, but...
- Penmanship Made Easy -- Not!
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ASIN: 0486297799 |
Book Description
Unabridged reprint of extremely rare 18th-century manual offers helpful hints on forming letters, holding the pen, arm and wrist positions, and posture. Includes rich sampling of alphabets, maxims, didactic verses, and other words of advice. Charmingly illustrated instruction manual for calligraphers, commercial artists,and devoteés of fine penmanship.
Customer Reviews:
Not a calligraphy manual, but..........2003-09-10
...still an enjoyable read for the price.
A good portion of the writing samples included in Mr. Bickham's book were not, in fact, considered calligraphy in their time, but rather to exemplify legible and easy styles of business hand, intended, as per the book's subtitle, for clerks and others whose jobs necessitated a good deal of writing and record-keeping, prior to the era of the typewriter. To the reviewer who complained of the cursive scripts being illegible, try reading handwritten cursive a bit more often; the scripts do retain certain archaisms such as the extended S, but are not significantly different from, for instance, the Spencerian system of cursive penmanship, which dominated American schools throughout the 19th century. If you want illegible (to the modern reader's eye) calligraphy, try picking your way through an illuminated medieval manuscript.
That said, this caveat must be included: this book does -not- give explicit instruction on how to reproduce the styles, it is merely a collection of the best samples-- it's best for those who already have some grasp of some form of calligraphy or antiquated penmanship. For those -looking- to learn, I would recommend Theory of Spencerian Penmanship as a starting point, at the very least. For those who have no interest in taking up calligraphy and merely enjoy looking at elegant handwriting, it's a delightful curiosity and memento of the vanished culture of penmanship; much of the writing samples given are quite simply beautiful to look at; though this particular calligraphy enthusiast would hope that admiration of beautiful writing would spur more people to take up interest in a now-esoteric art.
Penmanship Made Easy -- Not!.......2002-07-26
I have trouble calling this a book. It's a bound collection of calligraphy, and not very good calligraphy at that. Many letters are unreadable. Penmanship should be to help communicate by written word. This book is not helpful unless you're experienced with calligraphy.
Fine examples of formal handwriting in the 1700's.......1998-10-30
Mr. Bickham was an 18th century engraver and calligrapher. Although the book (orignally published ca 1733) begins with a set of rules on how to form letters, these rules and the book's examples are best studied by an experienced calligrapher. This is NOT a beginner's book. But it is delightful for those who like to examine the formal hands of nearly three centuries ago. The examples are not just alphabets but writing samples. Fancy "Content alone is true happiness; or the Country Lass"? How about "Beauty's a Fair But Fading Flower"? There are many calligraphic examples from copperplate to blackhand. As the gentlelman says, everything the "young clerk's assistant" might need.
Book Description
Want to learn how to turn a plain old rock into practically anything? Everything you need is in this kit!
Inside Fun with Rock Painting, you'll find a cool collection of rock-painting projects, each with simple step-by-step instructions. And Fun with Rock Painting also comes with all the tools you need to complete dozens of super-creative painting projects--from googly eyes for adorable pet rocks to glow-in-the-dark paint for spooky creations that go bump in the night! Once you see how simple this stony craft can be, you'll discover a potential masterpiece in every rock you see!
Customer Reviews:
Hodge in Pennsburg Pa.......2007-02-22
Grandkids absolutely love it - bought one first and had to immediately order three more. Plan to get more to have on hand for birthday party gifts. (grandkids are 7 to 13)
Book Description
Creative Craft Lettering Made Easy makes personalizing craft projects as easy as A-B-C!
Readers will learn how to add their favorite letters, words and sayings to their projects with this fun and easy book that features:
-15 projects including a friendship pillow, a bulletin board and flowerpots -A wide variety of lettering techniques, including rubber stamping, stenciling, decoupage and beginner calligraphy -Step-by-step instructions on how to incorporate lettering into projects using some of the most popular craft materials, from glass, tile and wood to polymer clay, fabric and terra cotta
Crafters everywhere will give this book an A!
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