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The Art of Creative Lettering

AUTHOR: Becky Higgins
ISBN: 192918011X
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Dedicated scrapbookers and baby-book dabblers alike yearn to preserve memories of their most photographed subject: a new baby. Now, with The Art of Creative Lettering: Baby Alphabets CD, the lettering in every child's baby album, birth...

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Editorial Review

The Art of Creative Lettering
- Book Review, by Becky Higgins

Book Description
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!

About the Author
Becky Higgins is a scrapbook artist and creative editor of Creating Keepsakes scrapbook magazine. She travels extensively throughout the U.S. to scrapbooking conventions giving workshops on lettering. Previously, she was creative lettering instructor at Relections and Provo Craft in Provo, Utah. Co-author Siobhan McGowan is an editor and writer who lives in New York City.

Excerpted from The Art of Creative Lettering : 50 Amazing Fonts You Can Make for Scrapbooks, Cards, Invitations, and Signs by Becky Higgins, Siobhan McGowan. Copyright © 1999. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved
Anyone can learn lettering. All it takes is a little patience and a lot of pencils. There's an alphabet in this book with your name on it something for every occasion--no exceptions. When you choose a lettering style and combine it with the right color or pattern, the results will revolutionize the way you look at your scrapbook--or your cards, posters party invitations, and gift tags. The options and outlets for creative lettering are endless. Lettering can be used to tie a scrapbook page theme together, convey a message, or invoke a feeling. Funky fonts add a bold energy to your project, while Fancy fonts bring a touch of femininity. So grab your pencil, and get ready to write. (From the first section, "Great Lettering Made Easy.")

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Book Review

The Art of Creative Lettering
- Book Reviews, by Becky Higgins

The Art of Creative Lettering

SYNOPSIS

Creating Keepsakes magazine's lettering expert Becky Higgins gives easy instructions for making hundred of different alphabets that will add a personal touch to scrapbooks, cards, invitations and signs. The book is full of great design ideas and over 50 brand-new lettering alphabets, including Leafy Capitals, Bouquet, Checks, Southwest, Delight, Zigzag, Spiky Black, Flower Garden, Holly & Ivy, Sports balls, Rocketships and more. Becky shows you how to design scrapbook pages with placement and color that enhance the photos. She beings by demonstrating how to make basic alphabets, then progress you to more complicates ones. She shares her secrets for making even the most artistic-looking letters. This is for everyone - scrapbookers, rubber stampers, card makers and more. Over 300 full-color pages of patterns, ideas and resources.

About the Author Becky Higgins is a creative editor of Creating Keepsakes scrapbook magazine. She travels extensively throughout the U.S. to scrapbooking conventions giving workshops on lettering. Previously, she was creative lettering instructor at Reflections and Provo Craft in Provo, Utah. Becky lives in Peoria, Arizona.

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Bloomsbury Review

If your scrapbooks still consist of photos and newspaper clipping taped to a plan page, you have missed out on a creative revolution. You may want to wander into your local hobby store and check out all the different materials available now. ￯﾿ﾽBecky Higgins raises the creative standard to a uniquely imaginative level with her sample of scrapbook pages that show she has an eye for artistic layout and special talent for decorative lettering. In The Art of Creative Lettering, she presents 50 stylized alphabets that can be infinitely varied to suit a specific theme or personal taste, including step-by-step instructions, recommended materials and lot of creative hints. The lettering ideas in this book will provide any doodler or scrapbooker with enough creative inspiration for a lifetime of gift-giving, letter-writing, sign-making, or scrapbooking.

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