Family Love (above) by Beth Ervin
Beth uses the
Sweet Nothings Mega Page Pak
and a healthy balance of modern and old world accents enhances
this digital page.
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Old World Lettering
Balancing
Modern Layouts with Vintage Type
Stop growing up so fast! You want to shout it at your
teen so loudly that it cracks Father Time’s face. Too
bad he won’t hear you over the symphony of sound that is
on the television, video game or MP3 player. Today’s
high tech world chips away at teen’s innocence at
break-neck speed; but, while you can’t stop your teen’s
light-speed journey into adulthood - you can freeze
frame the moments. Use your scrapbooks now to celebrate
your teen’s growing individuality and, by all means,
capture those fewer and fewer moments of remaining
innocence. Now comes the challenge of achieving a
balance between a fast paced teen and old fashioned
values in your layouts.
Old
world lettering embodies the
core of an old fashioned value
and can help you achieve this
balance. Once upon a time, before typewriters
and computers, lettering was laboriously created with
quill pens and ink. Documents from the Renaissance and
Medieval times were composed of artfully elegant
lettering scribed with meticulous detail. Reproduce
these timeless looks by incorporating the historical
appeal of old world lettering into your scrapbook pages.
Pair traditional family themes, like home and holidays,
with charming Renaissance-style lettering.
We can thank goodness there is no need for a quill pen
or ink well and simply choose from a variety of available
fonts and digital products to reproduce that old world
charm. CottageArts digital elements offer a wide variety
of this lettering style to add to your pages. I have
chosen to use the new
Sweet Nothings
Mega Page Pak to enhance
the photos of my teen sweetly reading to his cousins.
Written by Beth Ervin,
CottageArts Design Team Member
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