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Layout of wedding invitation

February 23, 2015 by Lin Kerr Leave a Comment

In Friday's post I showed you the initial name design for my brother Des and his fiancee's wedding  invitation. Now for the layout and font choice. I like contrast so I'm inclined to do something wildly calligraphic for names and offset it with a good quality formal font. I always tried to offer my clients a few layouts as it's easier to do this rather than to keep going backwards and forwards. So we looked at a a square card or a narrow horizontal one, but there were really too many words or … [Read more...]

The Deckled Edge

May 25, 2012 by Lin Kerr 1 Comment

A deckled edges celebrates paper and inform us that this paper is going to be lovely to handle and great to work on. The image on the left is a torn edge to suggest deckling and the image on the right is a real deckled edge.When you make paper you pick up a sheet of pulp on a mesh. It is then laid onto a felt and has an even thickness of about 4-6mm. Pressure is applied - boards, rollers, or presses; and some of the pulp oozes out beyond the edge. This is the deckle.Tearing the paper beautifully … [Read more...]

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