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February 2014
design, Friday Footnotes
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1. Lettering Index Feeling so very thankful to Brad Woodard for sharing this wonderful lettering resource! The Letter Index is a jackpot of letters and words in a variety of styles from script to logo to hand made. It's just amazing. Quite often I'm asked to write out someone's name and just my handwriting will be used for their logo. That's quite a lot of pressure on my little pen and me, so this will be a hand resource to look up interesting and new ways of adding flourishes to make their letters a little more unique. I'm going to start pinning some right away! See my Handwriting, Lettering and Calligraphy board here. 2. The Hidden Sea For another jaw dropping typo-centric piece, I'm loving Jon Contino's new type and illusration work for The Hidden Sea‚ it's just gorgeous! I'm already a big fan of Jon Contino, especially his other nautical inspired designs, but this just blows them out of the water (pun intended)

 
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design, Friday Footnotes
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1. Modern Art Museum Wedding: Kathleen + Allan I'm still just so darn excited for my friend Kathleen that her wedding was featured on the wedding blog, Green Wedding Shoes. A site a post from frequently here and check on a regular basis! So amazing. If you missed my post about it earlier this week, please go check it out! 2. How to Draw an Ampersand A few times now I've been requested to letter an ampersand (the "&" symbol) for a design in my Etsy shop. For being my favorite character out there, you'd think I would be an expert in crafting this little symbol

 
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gifts, wedding
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Another great gift idea for the bride to be is a scrapbook of letters from all her girlfriends, bridesmaids, and close family members. See yesterday's post on another gift for brides, a scrapbook of all the wedding events! My friend Amie actually pinned this relatively early in the wedding planning process so I kept it in mind for later. About a month before the wedding I sent messages to about 20 people, from her close girlfriends to her family, including her brother and nephew. And then I saved the best for last with a letter from the groom. A few days before the wedding I snapped a few photos of the pages that I had completed for some of the letters—hope you like them! If you'd like to make your friend a letter scrapbook as well, here's a sample of the note I sent to everyone requesting for their participation: I'm planning on making a scrapbook to give [the bride] at the rehearsal dinner filled with letters from the women closest in [bride]'s life! You can just give me a letter or you can actually make one page [size] for the bride. Your page can include anything

 
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books, friends, gifts, photography, shower, wedding
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Creating a scrapbook of all the bridal events for the year is a great keepsake and gift for a bride! A couple years ago, I started up a scrapbook whirlwind by making 2 books for my girlfriends that were getting married in 2012. I started way too late into the year though and didn't have nearly the arsenal of scrapbook tools that I do now! So for Amie's book, from this past year's wedding celebrations, ended up being triple layered in stickers and all sorts of embellishments! Plus I started it right away and did one page/event at a time—which allowed for my creative juices to really flow through each page. So I just wanted to share a few of my favorite pages from these books and at the end of the post there are some tips if you find yourself making one for yourself or for a friend! For another gift idea, see my post on a scrapbook of letters for the bride! First up, Lauren's scrapbook: This was my first ever scrapped page

 
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