Creative Lettering

My love of lettering began long before I ever called myself an artist. In high school, I was captivated by letterforms, how a curve could feel soft and graceful, how a single stroke could shift the entire mood of a word. It felt like art and language holding hands, and I never really let it go.

Years later, when my children were small, that love found its way back to me through scrapbooking and card making. I joined the design team for Creating Keepsakes and became a contributing artist for Memory Makers magazine. Around the same time, I built a thriving creative business as a consultant for Close to My Heart, where my hand-lettering became a signature part of everything I did. Those early years were full of ink-stained fingers, late-night projects, and the joy of seeing words take on personality and life.

Over time, my lettering became more than embellishment, it became a way of thinking. The alphabet turned into a palette of shapes, rhythm, and emotion. I began teaching others to find that same connection, helping students discover that letters can tell stories every bit as vividly as paint or line.

Now, creative lettering runs quietly through much of what I make. It appears in my art, my journals, and my classes, weaving meaning into color and form. For me, it is still what it was at the very beginning, a love letter to language itself, written one thoughtful mark at a time.