Alpha & Font Makeovers with Styles | Summer School 2021: Week 1 LANGUAGE ARTS CLASS

This is a challenge point for me, as I don't really like to use alphas at all. If you look at my gallery, very few have alphas as my title or as an element. Most of the time, I use a word art from the kit rather than the alpha. However, when I DO use the alpha, I like to drop shadow and pile the letters on top overlapping each other.

This is one of my favorite examples of what I mean:


I used the Life is: Feeling Grateful alpha
https://the-lilypad.com/store/Life-is-Feeling-Grateful-kit.html

 

Isn't this too cute!!! The jelly styles are awesome!

 

Oh man! I love all the alphas and love to use new ones on every page! I also love the versatility of styles, so that I can just type out my title and click a button and it's all fancy. Ha ha! There's one that I got in the spring and have used entirely too much, but I LOVE it! I especially love that you can edit the colors to match any kit you're using:



I didn't even think to use this on alphas, until my scrapping friend did on one of her pages and I loved it! I used it here (I used it on the word Devos to match the currently element that I did not make):

 

I went for the cute styles from NBK art Crush 25 on the alpha from PRD Sprung.

Nbk-artCrush-No25_eggs by sharonb posted Jul 6, 2021 at 7:47 PM

 

I don't like using Aphas - placing each letter takes too much time, especially if I want to change title/font etc... I use Affinity Designer so many of the styles and actions on sale here at TLP don't work for me, but there are some that came with the software and more that are available if one were to look a little harder - metal, grunge, textures - applying them to fonts is fun and is something I do often.

 

Sometimes I buy alphas separately, but usually I use an alpha that comes with a kit, in case that I must work with them, but I prefer use word art included with the kit or fonts. I'm using GIMP and I haven't find the way to use styles, so I don't buy styles and the ones included in bundles are without using.

 

I love both alphas & styles! Lately I've been combining a lot of alphas with fonts & styles to make my page titles. These two alphas are my go to and are so versatile! I love that PRD's come in multiple colours and the white stamp is so easy to recolour. I use an older coloured metal style by Mommyish a lot and I always shadow with One Little Bird's Shadow Like Me styles.

 

I'll be the first to admit - I get a little lazy when it comes to alphas. But my gosh, they add some WOW! power to a layout.

One of my all time favs is the super shadowed collection by Paula Kesselring White Alpha 3D

I used it for my siggy awhile back and my Dream layout.



I am also a fan of alphas that are in the ABR form too! Brushes are awesome and can be used is such creative ways.
Rachel Jefferies Utterly and Completely


Fear Not Messy Alpha Stamps

 

I confess, I’m to lazy to use alphas that much and if I use them it’s almost always stamped ones and I really like these by Rachel Jefferies https://the-lilypad.com/store/All-the-Little-Joys-Inky-Stamps.html

But I like to use the 3D fx style on a font or clip some paper to the font for making my own titles.

 

This is worse than a font thread. I keep finding great alphas that somehow I don't have yet.

 

I think alphas are so cool and that it can make or break a layout but can get same focal point movement with fonts. However, even though I have a stash of alphas from TLP and close to two hundred of CU alphas that I either purchased or created as a designer a few years back. Now, I usually start with fonts and add paper with a slight shadow. Maybe I'm too lazy to sort through all those alphas, LOL. Yep - I think I'll stick with that...

Actually I do have a few favorite alphas from here that I picked up lately!!
Say Cheese 2016 by PRD I think I'm in love with that yellow.... LOL
And, the Itsy Bitsy Alpha (V2) by AWolf. Really, really love the metal round ones!! Speaking about the round ones... I''m absolutely in love with Paula's typewriter keys v1 and v2 but I don't see them in the store.

Just noticed last night that AWolf as a few versions options I have to go check out! Why do I do that to myself?!?! LOL

 

I hardly ever use alphabets--there's something about opening and placing (or worse, cutting out and then placing) all those files that I just don't enjoy at all. As soon as I learned how to apply styles to fonts, I was done with alphas! Here are some of my favorite styles for titles.

 

I know…..I’m trying to not be tempted….it’s not working all that well so far.