Bubble Letters and Dot Lettering for Scrapbooks
Alphabet Doodles Spell Out Captions and Labels for Scrapbook Pages
Aug 22, 2009
Many kinds of creative rub-on lettering and templates for individual letters can be found on the shelves of any local craft store, but if you learn to create your own, your finished page will certainly be a one-of-a-kind creation. Here are some suggestions for beginners who are learning to make clever letters.
Dot-to-Dot Lettering Is Fast and Easy
For a whimsical single page or an entire scrapbook theme, learn how to make dot letters. First, on a piece of scrap paper, write any word of at least five letters using an ordinary pen or pencil or a felt tip pen. Then take a larger Sharpie® felt-tip marker and make a dot at each intersection on each letter. Depending on the theme of the scrapbook album page or your own style, it might look awesome to substitute tiny stars, hearts, arrows or boxes for dots. Or why not use all of them? Possibilities for scrapbook embellishments are endless.
Bubble Lettering Takes Practice
For a creative scrapbook page that has little children in a bathtub, or one that shows someone playing around with a bottle of bubbles, or even one that has a circus theme or clouds, big fat bubble lettering fits the bill. Start by writing a word, again on scratch paper, lightly in pencil. Space the letters a little farther apart than normal. Then go back and draw an evenly-spaced bubble around each letter, erase the pencil line, and voila! After some practice, try overlapping the letters to make an even more interesting caption or label.
Block Lettering Allows for Imagination to Soar
Plain block letters that most people learned in elementary school are the ones that allow the most originality. Even if you think your printing is awful, go ahead and print a word on your scratch paper, either in upper or lower case letters. Then go back and embellish each letter by trying to modify it in some manner. Add dots to one letter, make another one into a bubble, hook two letters together with a flourish of your marker.
Use different colors and patterns to hide a really crooked place, or just emphasize that very crooked place and let it become the funky focus of attention on your now creative scrapbook page. Your whole scrapbook theme could be based on your adaptation of what you originally thought was ugly lettering.
According to epigramist Ashleigh Brilliant, “If you don't do it, you'll never know what would have happened if you had done it”. These instructions and ideas have been adapted from an article in a 1998 issue of Pack-O-Fun ® magazine. Readers may also enjoy Make a Scrapbook or Blank Book from an Old Placemat, also by this author.
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