Lisa Engelbrecht. California. Personal Judith Leitch. Florida. Christmas cards. Tom Perkins. United Kingdom. Page 35: Carol Dubosch. Full card. Card Details holiday card, 2010. Lettered with a ruling Page 25 (top): designed in Adobe notecard, 2006, original lettering carved Detail shown on page 13. Anne Adams. Kansas. Father’s Day card, pen and pointed brush, offset printed on Illustrator, hand embossed, 4¼ x 53⁄8 in Welsh slate, image created with com- 2012. Designer: Mary Fink, Art Director: vellum and on light violet stardust paper. inches. Page 25 (bottom): 2008, pastel, puter. Page 36: notecard, printed, 1985, Becky Wyko. Hallmark Cards, Inc. Top: card exterior. Bottom: card interior. hand screened, cross in metallic colored built-up pen lettering, 4 x 5½ inches. 1 5 7 Closed: 6 ⁄8 x 5 ⁄8 inches. Folded: 8¼ x 8 inches. Open: 8¼ x 16½ pencil, 4½ x 5 ⁄8 inches. www.tomperkins-lettercarving.co.uk inches. www.lisaengelbrecht.com Yukimi Annand. California. Yves Leterme. Belgium. Christmas card. Nancy Pickett. Oregon. Greeting card, Page 4: personal holiday card, 2010, Dan Forster. United Kingdom. Pens and brushes, Photoshopped. Text: 2009. Inkjet-printed on card stock and carved eraser stamp and brush writing, Christmas card, 2011. Screen printed by Huub Oosterhuis, May we not lose the each card personalized with pastels and 6½ x 3½ inches. Page 5 (left): handmade hand on Colorplan Cool Blue, 270gsm. courage / May we not disregard the voice colored pencil. 35⁄8 x 83⁄8 inches. birthday card, 2009, 7 x 3¾ inches. James H. Fedor. Missouri. Christmas of peace that speaks within us, mistaking Anna Pinto. New Jersey. Page 5 (right): personal holiday card, card, 2010. Rendered first with ink on it for an illusion. Personal holiday card, 2010. Metal pen 2012. 8½ x 33⁄8 inches. paper using Esterbrook flexible steel nib, Erica McPhee. Florida. Valentine’s Day and Pigma Micron marker. Laser-printed Anthony Bloch. New York. then redrawn with Adobe Illustrator. Hot card. Published by Papyrus. 7 x 5 inches. on iridescent paper. Photo of the snowy Holiday card, 2012. Pencil drawing, foil stamped for boxed cards. Hallmark K. M. McWhorter. Alabama. Luxembourg Gardens in Paris by Élie 7 scanned and rendered in Adobe Illustra- Cards, Inc. 6 ⁄8 x 4¾ inches. Holiday card. 5 x 7 inches. Ruderman. 4¼ x 7 inches. Marina Soria. Argentina. tor. Original done as a fine art piece. Heleen Franken-Gill. United Kingdom. www.kmmcwhorter.com www.annapintocalligraphy.com Personal holiday cards, digital. Page 50 Inkjet print output on high gloss paper. (top): brush, nibs, watercolor, Magnani Christmas cards. Produced in Adobe Judy Melvin. Pennsylvania. Personal Lisa Rogers. Missouri. Valentine’s Day www.anthonyblochdesign.com Illustrator from scanned calligraphy. card, 2010. Pointed pen and redrawn Bianca paper. Page 50 (bottom): brush, Christmas card. 2008. Hand-lettered, folded pen, watercolor, gold leaf, Arches Anders Bodebeck. Sweden. Page 6 Amor Vincit lettering drawn in Illustrator. scanned into Photoshop and assembled type. Retouched digitally and reproduced Printed digitally. Page 15 (top, bottom): with metallic foils. Hallmark Cards, Inc. paper. http://www.marinasoria.com.ar/ (left): greeting card for the Stefan Ander- in Illustrator. 45⁄8 x 5¼ inches. 7 sson family. Page 6 (right): artwork also 2008, 2010. Page 16: 2011. 6 ⁄8 x 4¾ inches. [email protected] John Stevens. North Carolina. Deb Parsons Menke. Montana. used on a self-promotional bookmark. Elaine J. Freund. Wisconsin. Spencerian Cindy Romo. Canada. Christmas cards. Holiday greeting cards. Page 51 (top left): Christmas card, 2006. The Printery 1983, hand-cut silk screen, printed on Robert Boyajian. Rhode Island. script notecard. Gillott 303, Dr. Martin's House. 8 x 5½ inches. Page 38 (top): hand-assembled from 5 Japanese paper. Page 51 (top right): Holiday card. 83⁄16 x 4 inches. Bleed Proof White, black card stock. 5 x color printouts, closed: 8½ x 3 ⁄8 inches. 6½ inches. [email protected] Holly Monroe. Ohio. Christmas card, Page 38 (bottom): handmade card is an 2011, brush lettered capitals. Page 51 Patricia Buttice. New York. 2009. Pointed pen. Background: Heather ornament, 5½ inches tall. (bottom left): 2010, drawn with felt-tip Page 7: personal greeting card, Nancy Galligan. Massachusetts. Steck. Originally commissioned by a marker, scanned, colored in Photoshop. 5 x 7 inches. Page 8: personal greeting Holiday card ornament, 2008. Letters local dentist. 5 x 7 inches. Mamoun Sakkal. Washington. Page 51 (bottom right): 2006, brush card, 3¾ x 91⁄8 inches. drawn and cut from variety of papers www.HollyMonroe.com Notecards, offset printed, lettering lettered, scanned, inkjet printed. and layered to create design. For some, computer-enhanced, 6¼ x 45⁄8 inches. Karen Chan. Washington. www.johnstevensdesign.com the wreath formed from individual Margaret Morgan. United Kingdom. Page 39: 2002, produced to honor the Holiday card, 2009. Handcrafted card in cut-out letters was sent (shown on the Page 29 (left): handmade birthday victims of 9/11. Page 40: 1998. Lori Tews. Colorado. Christmas card. the form of a small booklet. Machine- top). Most received a digital print of the card for Hiroko Shimizu, 2012, white Page 41: 1999. www.sakkal.com Illustrated and lettered with a Haff ruling sewn red ribbon binding. Laser digital wreath, cut-out, with a hanger attached, letters cut out of Zimbabwean paper, pen. The Printery House. output on all spreads. 3¼ x 5 inches. text in red gouache. Page 29 (right): Minako Sando. Japan. Personal holiday www.loritews.com (shown on the bottom). Wreath card. Inkjet printed with gold added by Annie Cicale. North Carolina. handmade Christmas card, 2011, brush diameter: approx. 4½ inches. hand. 8¼ x 3½ inches. Sophie Verbeek. France. Holiday card, 2009. Pointed pen and lettering in purple pearl watercolor, text Petra Gartner. Austria. Page 18 (top): Christmas card, 2011. One of a series of colored ink, printed on an inkjet printer in white gouache, on Canson Mi-teintes. Werner Schneider. Germany. card for a client who changed his job, nine. Red gouache and a slanted pointed on both sides of the sheet, and folded to Page30 (top): handmade birthday card Holiday cards, printed. Page 43: 2000, 2012, written in gouache, translation: pen. 8¼ x 5¾ inches. make an accordion book/card. Shown: for Frances Passmore, 2011, gouache, Hiero-note pen, 115⁄8 x 8¼ inches. The farewell of a long and important cover, first opening, and fully open. shell gold, on Fabriano Artistico. Page 30 Page 44: 2005, written with Swedish Diane von Arx. Minnesota. work is always more sad than pleasing. Greeting cards, printed. Page 53 (top): Folded size is 5½ x 41⁄8 inches. (middle): Christmas card, 2011, stencil ruling pen, Schneider-Senatus typeface, Page 18 (middle): Christmas card, Christine Colasurdo. Full card, brush and gouache, inkjet printer, also 115⁄8 x 8¼ inches. Page 45: 2008, uses 2007, hand-painted background, hand Christine Colasurdo. Oregon. printed, 2009, quill, ink. Page 18 sent electronically. Page 30 (bottom): his typefaces, Sunetta (calligraphic) and lettering and photos layered digitally. with ribbon hang. Handmade holiday card with ribbon (bottom): birthday card on a box, 2012, personal Christmas card, 2009, black ink Satero (san serif), closed: 4 x 8¼ inches. Page 53 (bottom): 2010, hand painted Detail shown on page 9. for hanging, 2004. Flat brush (½ inch gouache. Page 19: birthday card, 2010, and gouache, inkjet printer, also sent backgrounds layered digitally. Page 54 Connoisseur) with black gouache. Helen Scholes. United Kingdom. gouache. Closed: 3½ x 31⁄8 inches. poem about roses, ink of Fabriano. electronically. www.thecalligrapher.co.uk (left): hand lettering scanned, colored Laser-printed. Latin Text: dona nobis Christmas card. Letters cut in green card, digitally, gold leaf added by hand. Open: 3½ x 9¼ inches. 7 Mike Gold. Ohio. Greeting Cards. pacem, grant us peace. 9 x 3 ⁄8 inches. Claire Mosnier. France. Page 31 cream paper glued underneath. Scanned Page 20: brush and pointed pen, color Page 54 (right): 2010, hand lettering Claire Whittaker. United Kingdom. www.christinecolasurdo.com (top and middle): annual greeting card, into Photoshop, inkjet printed on thin blending in Photoshop, 7¼ x 4¾ inches. and Trajan typeface layered over scanned Holiday card, 2012. Ink on acrylic. 2006, dropper and ink, printed on bristol card. Trimmed, folded, cut, and glued by vellum, with foil stamping, gold leaf Tom Costello. Massuchusetts. Personal Page 21: broad edge pen, color blending 7 3 5 7 board, open: 5 ⁄8 x 17 ⁄8 inches. Page 31 hand. Closed: 2 ⁄8 x 1 ⁄8 inches. Andrea Wunderlich. Germany. Christmas card, printed, 2002. Lettered highlights, and rubber stamp image. in Photoshop, 7¼ x 4¾ inches. Published (bottom): annual greeting card, 2011, www.penandinkcalligraphy.co.uk Christmas card, printed, 2011. Ruling pen, with Powell pen (retouched) and Brause Page 55: 2007, broadside used in by and property of American Greetings. brush, gouache, computer-generated Brause nib, Schmincke gouache. Letter- on Strathmore bristol. 4 x 8½ inches. Virginia Sembower. Missouri. Holiday greeting card, original includes stamps, ing combined digitally. Text: Christmas Sharon Lee Hanse. Ohio. background, printed on Rives paper, cards, Hallmark Cards, Inc. Page 46 (top): gold leaf, and hand lettering over hand- Nancy Culmone. New Mexico. Birthday card, 2011. Design originally 5½ x 5½ inches. Page 32: annual greet- carol by Johannes Daniel Falk. 4½ x 63⁄8 43⁄8 x 8¼ inches. Page 47 (middle): painted background. 1 3 3 5 7 Postcard. Actual card has black border. inches. www.atelierwunderlich.de ⁄8 ⁄16 ¼ ⁄8 ½ ⁄8 ¾ ⁄8 created for wrapping paper using brush ing card, 2007, ruling pen, indigotin and 5½ x 8 inches. [email protected] Original image, 8½ x 12 inches. Printed and watercolor. 4 x 9 inches. ink, printed on MBM Ingres, 125⁄8 x 4¾ Yuko Wada. Japan. Personal holiday 7 Barbara Yale-Read. North Carolina. card, 4 x 6 inches. [email protected] inches. [email protected] Paul Shaw. New York. card, 2007-2008. 7 ⁄8 x 3½ inches. Personal holiday cards, inkjet printed. Claude Dieterich. California. Gillian Hazeldine. United Kingdom. Manuel Murillo. North Carolina. Ken Sheldon. Kansas. Halloween card, Julian Waters. Maryland. Hand lettering, scanned and combined Page 11 (top): postcard announcement Personal Christmas card, 2012. Personal Christmas card, 2012. Ruling 2012. Mixed-media lettering and Personal greeting card, 2009. Handmade digitally. Page 58: illustration in Adobe of his exhibition at the San Francisco Pencil-drawn letters reversed black to pen and pointed pen, walnut ink and illustration. Hallmark Cards, Inc. ruling pen, letter a repeated. Giclée Illustrator. Page 59: background created Public Library, gouache and color pencils white, digitally printed. 3 x 3½ inches. gouache, on handmade paper. 7¾ x 5¼ inches. (inkjet) printed by the artist. in Adobe Photoshop, Latin Text, O 1 7 on black paper, printed offset. 4 ⁄8 x 5 ⁄8 www.waterslettering.com magnum mysterium, O great mystery. Yuko Higashii. Japan. Holiday cards, Deborah Nadel. New York. Emily Brown Shields. New York. inches. Page 11 (bottom): holiday card pointed pen. Page 22: 2010, Gocco Holiday card. Pen and ink, printed in Personal holiday cards, printed. Beth Wheeler. Colorado. Mary Zabrin. Illinois. Holiday card, 2012. for the San Francisco Public Library, printed on translucent vellum, aluminum silver and teal. Open: 5½ x 12¼ inches. Page 47: 2006, self-designed alphabet Personal Chinese New Year card, inkjet Printed and hand-assembled. 41⁄8 x 5½ 1999, printed letterpress, 5 x 7 inches. foil, 3 x 4 inches. Page 23 (top): 2010, www.deborahnadel.com “Tosca,” 4¼ x 5½ inches. printed, 2012. Flat and pointed brushes, inches. [email protected] [email protected] Page 48 (top): 2001/2002, Gocco printed on translucent vellum, Pete Noth. Missouri. Rosh Hashanah Kristen Doty. Washington. Page 12 self-designed alphabet 4¼ x 4¼ inches. Page 23 (bottom): card. Hallmark Cards, Inc. 4¾ x 7 inches. (both): detail of self-published card from 2011, printed, 65⁄8 x 4¼ inches. “Cruciform,” 6¾ x 4½ inches. an original painting, watercolor and Jane Parillo. Rhode Island. Personal Page 48 (bottom): 1998/1999, Hiroko Kato. Japan. Thank You card. gouache, imaged tipped onto 7 x 5 inch holiday card, 2011. Self-mailer. Offset hand-applied red stickers, 5¾ x 4¼ inches. notecard. www.kristendoty.com printed with affixed hand-torn and 4 x 9¼ inches. Nancy Leavitt. Maine. Christmas card, punched paper. Open: 9¼ x 8½ inches. Carol DuBosch. Oregon. Detail of an Randall Slaughter. Ohio. printed, 2004. Text by a 9th century Irish www.janeparilloscribe.com invitation for a solstice breakfast, 2009. Personal greeting cards, printed. monk, translation by Mark Rutter. Shown Photocopied and stamped with hand- Christi Payne. Oregon. Christmas 2012. 5¼ x 5¼ inches. open. Closed: 5 x 3¼ inches. carved stamp, edition of 40. 53⁄8 x 4¼ abecedarium card. Built-up letters drawn www.randallslaughterartwork. www.nancyruthleavitt.wordpress.com inches. www.caroldubosch.com with Rapidograph. 7 x 5 inches. blogspot.com This information is available in a larger format at If you have trouble accessing the info, please Cards and digital images provided by the artists. www.johnnealbooks.com. 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