With Happy Mail, you can keep in touch with cool and stylish handmade snail mail.
It’s more than just letter writing, it’s an art! Guided by the lettering artists behind the Hello!Lucky letterpress greeting cards, you can learn the basics of creating beautiful hand-lettered designs and how to apply your hand-lettering skills to create beautiful cards, stationery, envelopes, and more. Inside are tons of ideas, including reasons to write a letter, how to write a letter, and tips for decorating your letters. Included are more than 25 perforated cards and stationery designs. Simply tear out the pages, decorate, and mail your masterpieces to family and friends!
You probably know how awesome it feels to receive a handmade letter or card by good old snail mail or hand delivery. You probably also know how satisfying it is to watch your creativity flow onto a blank piece of paper and unfold into something brand new. But if you feel a little unsure about your ability to draw, or if you don’t consider yourself an artist, you might also struggle with creating your own handmade letters and cards. Happy Mail is here to help you! Try out some of these fun, fabulous projects, and you will master hand-lettering and doodling in no time. If you can draw a smiley face and write your name, you can make your own awesome hand-lettered designs.
With clear, simple instructions,Happy Mail introduces a variety of lettering styles, including the basics of brush calligraphy, and the basics of writing and mailing letters the old-fashioned way. Once you learn and practice several different lettering styles, follow along with the easy step-by-step projects to create beautiful, personalized, and hand-written letters, cards, and envelopes to share with your loved ones. You can customize the designs in this book and get ideas for creating your own designs.
From thank you cards to postcards to birthday cards to just-because cards, Happy Mail helps you connect with others with cute, easy, creative, and happy mail to send!
I am a complete stationery nerd. I have always loved pens, gel pens, fountain pens, ink, glitter, paper (handmade paper makes me weak in the knees), washi tape, notebooks, etc etc. I absolutely love handwritten notes. I, in short, am a freak. Eunice and Sabrina get it. The problem of course is that when most of us sit down in front of a blank piece of paper, we choke. We run out of ideas (if we had any to start with).
This book primes the pump. It is jam packed with great tips and ideas, including, yes, templates which one can follow slavishly if one needs a gentle push. It's a beautiful, colorful, exuberant book. Even though it's relatively short, it is full of everything necessary to get started really changing someone's day. Think how happy the recipient of your time and effort will be.
Although this book is aimed at younger readers, it's absolutely perfect for anyone with a sense of fun.
I loved this book.
Four stars with glitter on top! Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher.
