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What we want to show you on this post are a couple methods to Embellish ANY font to make it your own.
In Lettering Lesson 7 Susan showed you how to take a thin font and make it bold simply by using a bolder pen.
Then we showed you that if you take a thin lined font, traced over with a heavy marker, all you had to do was trace around that font and you would have a spread outline font. Quick and easy.
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Click for Step 3 of Bold Outline
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With Fine, Bold and Spread outline the variations are endless, And Embellishments are only limited to your imagination.
In this lesson, we will be using various weights and styles of the same font to add interest and color, as well as a simple way to make quick and easy curved words.
As an example we are going to do a Mother’s Day Card
Note the word “Happy” is very similar to the standard “Kindness” Font. However, the lower lines of the H and end of the descender on the Y have been engorged with green, to appear as leaves and the cross bar of the H has been embellished with a poppy.
The word “Mother” is in ALL CAPS, however, the base line has been modified so the letters bounce up and down.
I am especially pleased with the word “DAY”, as the actual letters are almost exactly the same as the regular “Kindness” Capital Letters. This is all caps, once again the baseline is “bounced”. The “D” is actually higher than it should be. I drew the word with a fine green marker (Instead of a bold marker like we did in lesson #7). I put an additional line in the upright line on the “D” and doodled between the lines. At the tip of each line that swerves to the left, I fattened it up and made it look like a leaf and added a poppy to the top of the “Y”.
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After you have gotten your lettering and art “just the way you like it”, it is time to trace it onto your card stock.
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After tracing the line art onto your card you can color the art in whatever method you prefer. Here I used watercolor pencils and watercolor gel crayons and wet them down with a wet brush to make them brilliant.
For the inside of the card, might we recommend one of the following verses and sentiments. ..
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