Creating your own WordArt

[Karen Bowers]

since i took tina's wordart class, i've been having a lot of fun creating!

i've found that certain font combo's always turn out beautifully together. my favorite is Times New Roman with LainierDaySH. Sometimes i'll even throw in Artistamp if i want a 3rd font.

any else have font combo's that are especially good together?

[andyapc]

Is there an example of those two fonts together? Also, where do you get the LanierDay SH font from?

[Karen Bowers]

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=18667&password=&sort=2&cat=500&page=2 shows them together.

i think got lainierdaySH from dafonts.com, but i know i've seen it at other free font sites.

[andyapc]

You're right - they go great together - and that's a beautiful layout!

[Rikki]

One of my favourite combos is Bodoni and Freebooter Script.

Rikki

[scrapqltr]

Do you have an example, Rikki? Great thread.

[Rikki]

I just uploaded one.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=22535&password=&sort=2&cat=500&page=1

Rikki

[Karen Bowers]

oops, the font is called lainie day. here's a link (http://www.dafont.com/en/search.php?nq=1&q=lainieday)

[scrapqltr]

Thanks, Rikki. I like those fonts.

[Tina]

Karen, Great work, beautiful as always. Glad to hear you are enjoying creating word art!

Love those fonts together!

Rikki, wonderful work! great fonts!

[Jennifer]

This is a GREAT thread! I know for myself word art is a real challenge. I love having just a photo and some word art on top for a quick page. I struggle with it though and having proven combo's really helps! THANKS!

[Rikki]

Another combo I really like is Century Gothic (a great font and very versatile), together with pharmacy.
You can find an example here: http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=19347&password=&sort=2&cat=500&page=1

In that layout I added some words with Jungle Juice, because it is a kid's layout and I just love jungle juice for that.

Rikki

[scrapqltr]

I used French Script and Times New Roman in Tina's class for this picture. I really like them together. I think my favorite font is Beautiful ES, and I use it a lot in layouts just by itself. http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=18636&password=&sort=2&cat=500&page=1

[Tina]

Jan and Rikki, great jobs!! I love those fonts together.

Jan, Beautiful is one of my fav fonts as well!

[scrapqltr]

Tina, where did the Harry Potter blinkie come from? I have to have one! LOL

[Tina]

Jan, Jenna made it!

[Stacey Jewell Stahl]

I like this thread and wanted to revive it. :D

I'm picky about fonts. For example, when I italicize, I only like fonts like Times New Roman (serif, I think). I love Century Gothic, but not italicized. It's sans serif. I don't like script fonts italicized.

Another picky thing: I don't like all caps in script fonts.

I like at least two fonts on my layouts and right now I'm in a Typewriter and Handwriting font mode.

For word art, I like script and plain fonts together. Beautiful ES and Garamond, for example. Mary Jamieson (showme) used these two in the word art in her Memories and I thought it looked lovely. Here's the link (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=37166&cat=500&page=1).

[patbell]

This is a great thread,however a lot of the links no longer have the corresponding thumbnails so we cannot see the examples.
Hope some of you can get these corrected.
I have a lot of trouble figuring out which two fonts to pair.

[Emma]

looks liek we have a few galleries to repair (Rikki, you get a free kit if you reupload all your layouts that were hacked in January, just PM Val and let her know when it's restored).

Any more examples of fonts to pair?

I love Trajan Pro (an all caps serif font) with just about any casual script font. Here it's paired with Treasuremap Deadhead and some other frilly font
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=39204

[Stacey Jewell Stahl]

I like Beautiful ES and Bernard Fashion together too.

[Starling]

I don't have favorites because I've never found what I consider a great combination that I want to use again. This is a wonderful thread, or it would be if the links still worked. Does anyone else have examples of great combinations.

[SuzanneCWalker]

Ooooooooooooooooh! GREAT thread!

Hmmmmm... Classic favorite is Century Gothic with Felix Titling (I believe you can get both at daFont.com). Oy, where can I find an example...... I think I've got one someplace in my gallery. Will go look and link.

I also love Century Gothic OR Felix Titling with a handwritten/scripty/calligraphy font. Century or Felix with Carpenter ICG (daFont) is a favorite. Or CK Venezia (this is a pay font, from www.creatinkeepsakes.com - from the CK Heritage Vintage and Retro Collection CD).

I'll go look for some links.

I love a grungy font all by itself. I think it's bold! Okay. Now I'm layout hunting!

[Stacey Jewell Stahl]

bump

[Sandersmr]

unfortunately, a lot of the links don't work, so it's difficult to see the combos.

[Karen Bowers]

hmm, i wonder what happened to lainieday at dafont.com? here's a new link for it.
http://www.fontreactor.com/download/en/pc/lainie_day

[Tina]

Its possible that Laine Day is actually a pay font and that is why DaFont has pulled it. I've found that they've been doing that lately :D

[Sandersmr]

I was able to d/l this morning off the font reactor site (instead of leaving for work on time).

But to put the question out there again - what are your favorite fonts to pair together for word art? I was really wondering yesterday as I made the word art for my 23rd Psalm layout. I really need to take the class.

By the way, I used Times New Roman and Scrap Cursive. Here's a link to my layout: http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=85359&cat=500&ppuser=17705

[Karen Bowers]

tina, i was wondering that, too, especially since you can only find carpenter as a pay font now. but i couldn't find lainie day for pay.

[onyxelle]

i like this thread. this is the first word art i ever created http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=73183&cat=500&ppuser=30809

but i think these two fonts go together well: geselle, bernard fashion