Calligraphy for Greetings Cards and Scrapbooking (Paperback)

It's not just what you write--it's how you write it. And this inspiring guide shows you how to write it with style and flair. It outlines a plethora of calligraphy techniques using a range of modern and traditional styles. Featuring practical information on creating pleasing layouts, adding written inserts to cards, using separate layers of paper and card, and much more, this is the ultimate calligraphy sourcebook. This beautiful and inspirational book teaches adults and older children the skills needed to write calligraphically - elegantly, decoratively, and flamboyantly - in a range of modern and traditional styles, suitable for every greeting card and scraPaperbackooking purpose, as well as for other projects. Filled with practical information on creating pleasing layouts for wording and pages, adding written inserts into cards and attaching lettering written on separate layers of paper and card. Embossing, rubbings, printing with carved erasers, linocut lettering and other techniques for creative lettering are also explained. Creative ideas for addressing envelopes are provided and, for occasions when cards need to be produced and sent in quantity, techniques to aid mass production- are explained. Calligraphy for Greetings Cards and Scrapbooking is fully illustrated with diagrams, annotated alphabets and photographs of finished works and stages in their creation.

Calligraphy for Greetings Cards and Scrapbooking