For the last few years, I've designed the Christmas Cards that my parents send out, and last month was no exception. Instead of designing a card on the computer this past Christmas, however, I decided to hand-draw the text for the front, inside, and back of the card. Then I scanned in the images to make into a card.
In the end, we decided not to do an all-black card (too expensive to print), but we kept the all-black cover. I rewrote the inside text on lighter paper and scanned that text in to match.
Here are some detail photos I took of the original all-black hand lettering, before I scanned them in. I used Strathmore black paper and Prismacolor colored pencils. I love how the colored pencil stands out against the black!
The words are the lyrics to the Christmas song "We Three Kings":
Star of wonder, star of night
Star with royal beauty bright
Westward leading, still proceeding
Guide us to Thy perfect light.
In the end, we decided not to do an all-black card (too expensive to print), but we kept the all-black cover. I rewrote the inside text on lighter paper and scanned that text in to match.
Here are some detail photos I took of the original all-black hand lettering, before I scanned them in. I used Strathmore black paper and Prismacolor colored pencils. I love how the colored pencil stands out against the black!
The words are the lyrics to the Christmas song "We Three Kings":
Star of wonder, star of night
Star with royal beauty bright
Westward leading, still proceeding
Guide us to Thy perfect light.
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