Here are six
different alphabet and text plates on this page, so be sure to
scroll
down and see them all. $21 per sheet measuring 8.5 x 11 inches.
Click here to see the newest
alphabet sets.
1) Art Nouveau
Alphabet
The scan is smaller but the letters are also
generously sized. Great for initials, letter-writing, etc.
2) Floral
Alphabet
3) Alphabetika
These are old lesson blocks from a Dutch primer!
4) Art Deco
Alphabet
This alphabet is
great
fun. Note how the O doubles as an egg! These measurements will give you
an
idea of how big the letters range: The A is 2 by 1 inches; the K is 2.5
by
1.5 inches, and the M is 1 by 1.25 inches.
5) Beguiling
Texts
The variety in
the plate above it meant to beguile and bewitch. At top left
you'll find a page from the 1522 Operina of Arrighi from Rome.
Below that are two lessons in Celtic lettering. Top right, from a book
from the 1890s and below that from 1933.
6) Hebrew Texts
These texts are
beautiful
esthetically - to add character to your stamped projects, or for
backgrounds
and the like. But they also resonate with historic meaning as ancient
Jewish
texts and samples of fonts used to write them.
Top left (same as lower left): A modern Ashkenazi "stam" script.
Top row, text in square (repeated again smaller below it): From a
manuscript, England, 1189.
Top row, text to the right of the square: Guillaume le Be's typeface,
cut
in 1559, based on a Sephardi style. (I don't have the description of
the
vertical fragment at top right.)
Center row, text in rectangle: From the Dead Sea Scrolls. Below that,
to
the right in the circle is the word "matzah," from the Passover seder.
Bottom right: An illuminated page from the 14th-century Sarajevo
Haggadah.
Price per
unmounted plate: $21
Purnima Girouard used the Floral Alphabet
to create a stunning valentine for her daughter!
Linda Reid made
this
textured tile by stamping Celtic text from the Beguiling Texts plate on
it. See directions on how to make these tiles here.
Right, a card by Jackie Mooney, with the Beguiling Texts as background
for
the Little Conductor.
Above, stamp
demoer
extraordinaire Susan Sawn with her daughter, Jacki, holds her Alphabet
in
a Box sample she made for the demo she did at the Rhode Island stamp
show
in July 2002. Susan enlarged the letters so the stampers in the lecture
hall
could see! She adhered the letters JACKI from the Art Nouveau Alphabet
onto
a ribbon tucked into each end of a cardboard box. These make great
surprise
birthday gifts. For directions on how to make a box like this, click here.
Robin Beam used
Inkabilities
from Posh Impressions, above, to create bright backgrounds,
overstamping
and embossing selections from Alphabetika.
Lenna Andrews
Foster combined her LennaLines with
A lovely pocket tag by Elinor Jensen.
the Alphabetika stamps into a lovely tag book.
Look at these
marvelous bookmark
corners
That's a silver pendant by Julie Jones Gantt,
that Irene Zanni made using the Nouveau
initials! made using Precious
Metal Clay.
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