Handmade alphabet greeting card

Make a designer card with hand lettering

There are umpteen occasions for sending cards – whether as a stylish invitation, for a birthday, a wedding or simply a friendly greeting to let someone know you’re thinking of them. It’s a good idea to keep a small stock of handmade cards so you always have a suitable one spare. We think hand lettering is really lovely for cards, and to do this we recommend our “must-have pen”, the edding 2185 gel roller. The gel roller works well for fine lettering and drawing on almost any type of paper and is available in a range of shimmering metallic shades. We designed our card with dancing letters and tried out different styles of hand lettering. They say that practice makes perfect – and hand lettered greetings cards are a great way to practice because you can play around with different styles to your heart's content!

Categorías: Hacer tarjetas a mano
Lettering
Productos: Gel rollers
Materiales: Paper, carton and cardboard
Grado de dificultad: Un poco más desafiante
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Paso a paso

Paso 1

Cut out a piece of coloured art paper to make the desired size of card, or use a ready-made one. We recommend you start by laying out your hand lettered design with a light pencil sketch before using the edding 2185 gel rollers to add colour. The metallic shades we used in our example are blue metallic (colour code 073), green metallic (074), gold (053), silver (054) violet metallic (078) and blue (003)

Paso 2

You can play around with different techniques, such as broad or narrow lettering and fill them in with dots or dashes, dotted lines or patterns. To round off the design, patterns of dots and lines are good for linking up the individual letters. Lots of other detailed designs are easy to draw thanks to the fine pen nib – as you can see from this bunting card we made.