Lettering

Scrapbooking

• You can use busy backgrounds from pictures you have cropped by cutting out letters for your topper. If you have lots of snow pictures, cut out the letters for the title from extra photos or from what you have cropped. I once took a ton of halloween photos in a school gymnasium with about 175 little ghosts and goblins. I cut "Happy Halloween" out of the photos and it looked very festive.



• For an extensive and well-done tutorial on lettering, be sure to visit "Creative Lettering" at Scrapping by Alaine. You will get all sorts of tips on hand lettering. The more you practice, the more confident you will feel on doing your own lettering and the more valuable your scrapbook.



• Mount colored letter stickers on scraps and cut a square around the letter using fancy edge scissors. Arrange and mount them on a page.



• Trace or print big, fat letters on patterned paper to make words out of the fancy paper and mount on plain colored acid-free paper.



• When trying to add variety to your lettering, separate letters or words with dots, hearts, or stars. Try using a different color for each letter. Try all lowercase. Try writing tall and thin. Try writing short and wide. Write on a curve above photos or use as a headline.



• Instead of drawing pencil lines directly on your page to do your lettering, draw dark lines on plain or ruled paper with a black, bullet-tipped pen. Then, using a light box, position the lined paper under your page, and place both on the light box. You can see the darkened lines through the paper and follow them to do your letters.



• You can add appropriate stickers to larger letter stickers to make headings. See examples:

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