Lettering Workshop for Crafters: Create Over 50 Personalized Alphabets for Notecards, Decorations, Gifts, and More (Design Originals) Includes Tips, Techniques, Lettering 101 Advice, Borders & Corners - Softcover

Suzanne McNeill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1497204054 ISBN 13: 9781497204058

Publisher: Design Originals, 2018

Synopsis

Making beautiful letters is often a challenge even for accomplished crafters—this book makes it easy!

• 55 complete traceable alphabets to get you started lettering right away
• Tips and techniques for gel pens, chisel tips, calligraphy pens, brush tips, markers, colored pencils, and more
• Lettering 101 advice on design, spacing, terms, and media
• Interactive skill-building practice exercises to improve your technique
• Wide range of styles of decorative lettering, from shadows, zigzags, and swirls to stitches, curves, and slants
• Valuable reference for creating personalized hand lettering on craft projects
• Idea-packed resource for scrapbooks, art journals, school projects, papercrafting, wood crafts, pyrography, and more

Lettering Workshop for Crafters provides a valuable resource for anyone who wants to embellish crafts with beautiful letters, decorative word art, borders, and corners!

This big lettering workbook covers a wide range of decorative lettering styles, from whimsical and modern to romantic and vintage. With 55 traceable alphabets, expert lettering tips, and interactive practice exercises, you will learn to create your own unique lettering for everything from art journals and scrapbooks to greeting cards, gift tags, invitations, and more.

Never run out of lettering ideas for craft projects again! Lettering Workshop for Crafters will help you add color, interest, and pizazz to your work. Whether you are writing a thank you note, designing a scrapbook page, finishing a school project, making a poster, or embellishing any new artwork, this lettering treasury has the right alphabet for you!

About this title

From the Back Cover

Learn to Letter

Never run out of lettering ideas for craft projects again! Lettering Workshop for Crafters offers 55 exciting alphabets that will add color, interest, and pizazz to your work. Whether you are writing a thank you note, designing a scrapbook page, finishing a school project, making a poster, or embellishing any new artwork, this lettering treasury has the right alphabet for you!

Each unique letter set comes with directions, suggested tools, and space to practice right on the page. Covering an incredible variety of styles, each alphabet is yours to reproduce without cost or permission. There's space at the end to use for creating your own lettered alphabets. Inspiring ideas for playful word art and decorative corners and borders are also included.

• More than 50 personalized alphabets to really make your work stand out!
• Create a wide variety of lettering styles—from shadows, zigzags, and swirls to stitches, curves, and slants.
• Tips and techniques for gel pens, chisel tips, calligraphy pens, brush tips, markers, colored pencils, and more.
• Lettering 101 advice on design, spacing, terms, and media.
• Fun ideas for making decorative word art, borders, and corners.

"Personalized lettering makes all the difference. . . .This is a must-have book for all crafters."
—DO Magazine

About the Author

Author of 230 craft & hobby books and 15 Zentangle books, Suzanne McNeill has been called "the Trendsetter" for arts and crafts. Dedicated to hands-on creativity, she constantly tests, experiments and invents something new and exciting.

Suzanne is the woman behind Design Originals, a publishing company dedicated to all things fun and creative. Winner of the Craft and Hobby Association's Industry Achievement Award, she is a designer, artist, columnist, TV personality, publisher, art instructor, author, and lover of everything hands-on.

Edition details

• Publisher: Design Originals
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1497204054
• ISBN 13: 9781497204058
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160