Lesson Tag: adventuresLettering

Font Types

The best and most basic starting point for understanding typography is understanding the differences in font types. While the variety of available fonts can sometimes feel infinite, there are really just a few basic font-types into which every font can be grouped. Each of these font-types can be further broken into many more sub-categories, but, …

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Introduction to Lettering

In order to start incorporating writing (a.k.a. “lettering”) as a regular component of your cookie decorating process, it’s important to understand the basics of typography. Once you know a bit more about the terminology and rules of typography, you’ll be better able to select and combine typefaces that will enhance your cookie designs. The Basics …

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Hiking Boot

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Camper Van

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Pennant

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Hand-cutting Your Dough

I love a good cookie cutter as much as anyone.  But for this class, the shapes we’ll be using are EXTRA LARGE.  This is intended to give you some decent real estate on which to practice your writing skills.  Unfortunately, cookie cutters of this size can be fairly pricey and often hard to find.  So, …

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Step-by-Step Guidebook

Shall we get to work decorating our “Adventures in Lettering” cookies? Below is the full Step-by-Step Guidebook for this entire cookie set. It includes all of the designs in one place. But be sure to visit the lessons for each individual cookie as well since they each include a video to help make the process …

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Color Guidance

We’re getting to the really fun stuff now! I LOVE color! Planning out color palettes for cookie projects is one of my favorite parts of the decorating process. In the early days, I always used colors straight out of the bottle. But it seemed that, more often than not, they would dry on my cookies …

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Facebook Q&A Group

This class is going to throw a LOT of information at you. I know that can be a little overwhelming, especially when you’re first starting out in the world of cookie decorating. But I promise that I’m here to help! If you have a Facebook account, you can feel free to log in to the …

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