August New Release - Calligraphy for Greeting Cards & Scrapbooking

Title: Calligraphy for Greeting Cards 

 and Scrapbooking

Author/s: Peter E. Taylor

RRP: $29.99

ISBN: 9781861088826

Format:  Paperback, 176 pages

Dimensions: 276mm x 210mm

Publisher: Guild of Master Craftsman

Aust. Release Date: August 2012

Book Description/Synopsis:

This beautiful and inspirational book teaches the skills needed to write elegantly, decoratively and flamboyantly in a range of modern and traditional calligraphy styles suitable for every greeting card and scrapbooking purpose. Practical information is given 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.