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List Price: $19.95 Our Price: $15.96 You Save: $3.99 (20%) Paperback - 128 pages (September 1999) Creating Keepsakes Books; Dimensions (in inches): 0.35 x 10.87 x 8.51 ArtofLettrng.jpg The Art of Creative Lettering 50 Amazing Fonts You Can Make for Scrapbooks, Cards, Invitations, and Signs Authors Becky Higgins, Siobhan McGowan bring their world celebrated artistic talents to the most appealing styles in scrapbooking today. We loved this book for it's spontaneous creativity and fun for young and old alike. Becky gives easy instructions for making hundreds of different alphabets that will add a personal touch to scrapbooks--and to cards, invitations, signs, and posters. Scrapbooking moms, schoolteachers, librarians, teenagers, rubber stampers, card makers, and other crafters all need ideas for creative lettering! Brides can add a personal touch to place cards, gift tags, invitations, envelopes. This book includes 50 brand-new alphabets (never before published in Creating Keepsakes scrapbook magazine or anywhere else!) plus hundreds of ways to use them. It's a complete lettering course in itself, with easy-to-follow 5-step instructions, 6 basic lettering types, lots of design templates, and 75 fill-in patterns. Becky's lettering is for everyone, at every level of skill. For the crafts person this is a gold mine of idea starters! 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 Reflections and Provo Craft in Provo, Utah. Becky lives in Peoria, Arizona. Co-author Siobhan McGowan is an editor and writer who lives in Brooklyn, NY. Keywords: Typography: type, fonts, faces, how-to use type, selecting type, using fonts (Type), - 2/15/00