Calligraphy Seating Chart

I recently had the pleasure of creating a Calligraphy Seating Chart for a wedding.
I always love to see the process of something coming together. So I thought I’d share mine with you.
First it starts with a pencil layout. This type of project requires a great deal of layout as it is 22″ x 28″ and has 4 rows of 20-22 names.
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So here’s my layout sheet.  I’ve also played with the bride and groom’s names at the top.  Although I ended up changing the design a little.

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Now it’s time to start using pen and ink to fill in the names and header. Here is a pic showing one column of names done and part of the second. I’m working closely from the typed list, blocking the names below the one I’m working on to avoid mistakes in spelling.

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Since the names were listed alphabetically, the way the names broke up left a larger space at the bottom of the third column.  This is the perfect opportunity to add a little illustration to the piece.

Because I laid everything out in advance, I was prepared for this and had created a design that fit nicely.

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Here is the finished piece mounted on foam core.  It was then placed in a 22″ x 28″ frame for presentation at the wedding.

If you have any other questions about how this was done, please don’t hesitate to ask!

Have a Mega Monday!

Debi

Here’s a graphic of Dom Loves Mary used on a wine bottle.  The font is now #3 on the Hot New Fonts list!

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Dom Loves Mary is available for purchase at: Correspondence Ink Type foundry .

We put together specially priced packages to help you save money including:

The PRO VERSION complete with ALL THREE SCRIPT FONTS  and a combined total of over 100 ornamental flourishes.

Our ACCOUTREMENTS PACKAGE contains both sets of FLOURISHES for letter customization as well as our ADD-ON WORDS .

Want to have it ALL? The DOM LOVES MARY TOTAL DESIGN package is for you. It contains ALL THREE SCRIPT FONTS, the TEXT FONT,  and ALL OF THE ornamental and customizing FLOURISHES and the ADD ON WORDS.

My first cursive font, Belluccia is available at myfonts.com and fontbros.com..

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Belluccia has remained on the Best Sellers list for 17 months was named one of myfonts Most Popular Fonts for 2011 and one of the Top Fonts for 2012 on CTDesigns blog.

 

Belluccia makes Top Fonts for 2012 list

Many thanks to Christy at CTDesigns,inc. for including my Belluccia font on her list of Top Fonts for 2012!

Christy is a talented calligrapher and wedding stationery designer herself so her opinion means a lot to me.

The list has a wonderful assortment of mostly cursive fonts, so Belluccia is in good company.

Thanks so much Christy!

Be sure to stop by her Etsy Shop and see her lovely designs.

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My Dom Loves Mary font is now #3 on the Hot New Fonts list!  It’s  available for purchase at: Correspondence Ink Type foundry .

Share this link on twitter or facebook : Dom Loves Mary calligraphy font

Or e-mail the link to friends who love fonts!

Go to my Pinterest page and re-pin items from my Dom Loves Mary font board: Dom Loves Mary font on Pinterest

Or you can always purchase it here: Dom Loves Mary font on Myfonts.com.

Thanks in advance !

My first cursive font, Belluccia is available at myfonts.com and fontbros.com..

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Belluccia has remained on the Best Sellers list for 17 months was named one of myfonts Most Popular Fonts for 2011.

Watercolor Techniques with Barbara Close

I’m always looking for ways to improve my lettering and design skills.  So when my local Dallas calligraphy guild, Kaligrafos, brought in Barbara Close for a Watercolor technique workshop, I signed up immediately!

Barbara is a fabulous teacher who introduced a variety of watercolor techniques that work well for lettering projects.  I was so ready for some fun after putting in so much work completing my Dom Loves Mary font.

I’ve included the results from my weekend of playing with Barbara!

The top pic is called “Layer by Layer”.

I was so inspired by the weekend activities that I even came up with original sayings!

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“Life is a Container”

Each of the pieces involves several techniques using a combination of watercolor, embossing, stenciling and collage. The sayings were brush lettered in gouache paint.  They were inspired by the works in progress and actually added after the each piece had been completed.

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Thanks for an inspiring, fun weekend Barbara!

My new Dom Loves Mary font is quickly climbing up the Hot New Fonts list!  My goal is to help it rise to the top 5 so it will hopefully move on to the Rising Stars list.

Please help spread the word by sharing the link :http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/correspondence-ink/dom-loves-mary/  on facebook, twitter or with anyone who might want to take a peek!

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The Dom Loves Mary font is now  available for purchase at: Correspondence Ink Type foundry .

We put together specially priced packages to help you save money including:

The PRO VERSION complete with ALL THREE SCRIPT FONTS  and a combined total of over 100 flourished ornaments.

Our ACCOUTREMENTS PACKAGE containing both sets of FLOURISHES for letter customization as well as our ADD-ON WORDS .

Want to have it all? The DOM LOVES MARY TOTAL DESIGN package is for you.

I’m sponsoring a give away of a set of  wedding signs using the  Dom Loves Mary font on Brenda’s blog  through November 19.

My first cursive font, Belluccia is available at myfonts.com and fontbros.com..

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 Belluccia has remained on the Best Sellers list for 16 months was named one of myfonts Most Popular Fonts for 2011.

DIY Personalized Halloween Pumpkins

Here’s my latest batch of decorated Halloween pumpkins!  If you remember the pic from a previous post showing personalized pumpkins, these were created for the same family.

It’s also the same client that I created the Halloween birthday invitations for using the mummy cookies in black  coffins.

Which is why I thought the spider web theme would work well.

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Here’s the DIY Instructions and supplies: You’ll need regular acrylic paint for the background and gloss acrylic paint for the lettering, and gloss yellow green paint for the spider and bat eyes, a pencil, a few different sized brushes and transfer paper.

( If you want to create this style of lettering, you’ll need a 1/2″ flat brush.)

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1. Copy and Save the image of the lettering style above and follow the arrows to create the strokes needed to make the letters.

If you are not comfortable trying to do the lettering yourself, you can trace the letters above. Or use a font to create the names in Microsoft Word.  Here’s a link to some free fonts that would work well: Ghoulish, Nightmare, Rocky would all be good choices.

(To download, click on the apple icon for a Mac and the Windows Icon for PC.  If you don’t know how to add a font to your PC- just Google the question.)

2. Once you’ve created the names either by tracing or printing from your computer, make sure they will easily fit on to the pumpkin of your choice.

3. Using a pencil, draw the background design around the are where the name will go. Make sure the name will fit inside the area. I used bats and spider webs for my backgrounds.

4. Using regular acrylic paint, fill in the background area  with a large brush.

5. Once the paint dries, tape the piece of paper with the name on it onto the pumpkin.  Using transfer paper, which can be purchased at any craft store, trace the letters onto the pumpkin.

6. Paint the letters with gloss acrylic paint using an appropriate size brush. Add spiders, webbing, and eyes as needed.

That’s it!

Enjoy this beautiful fall day!

Debi

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This is a sample of my soon to be released fon “DomLovesMary” in use with special flourishes and “Add on” word.

The font family features three different versions of the alphabet, a set of “Add Ons” that will include words like “and, to, of, for, at, etc…in addition to 124 flourishes to be added to either the upper or lower case so you can create your own custom look!

It will be released on myfonts.com on my Correspondence Ink foundry page.

I’ll be sponsoring a give away of a wedding item using the DomLovesmary font on Brenda’s blog soon.  Subscribe to my blog to get the details.

In the meantime, my first cursive font, Belluccia is still available at myfonts.com and fontbros.com..

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Belluccia was named one of myfonts Most Popular Fonts for 2011.