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List Price: $19.95 Our Price: $15.96 $3.99 (20%) Paperback - 128 pages (September 1999) Creating Keepsakes Books , Dimensions: (in inches): 0.35 x 10.87 x 8.51 Calligraphy Department The Art of Creative Lettering 50 Amazing Fonts You Can Make for Scrapbooks, Cards, Invitations, and Signs If you're a visual communicator, designer, dtp practitioner, web crafter, or craftsman, you're really going to like this book... LOVE this book by Becky Higgins, Siobhan McGowan. Becky gives easy instructions for making hundreds of different alphabets that will add a personal touch to all your creative projects like cards, invitations, signs, and posters. What we liked best however is the creative shot-in-the-arm anyone will get from Becky's work. 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. Becky Higgins is an artist, scrapbook wizard 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), - 11/27/99