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Review: Crazy Beautiful Letters: Learn the basics of brush lettering, happy mail, and envelope art with creative lettering projects YOU can do!

Crazy Beautiful Letters: Learn the basics of brush lettering, happy mail, and envelope art with creative lettering projects YOU can do! Crazy Beautiful Letters: Learn the basics of brush lettering, happy mail, and envelope art with creative lettering projects YOU can do! by Judith Graves
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Crazy beautiful Letters is a quick, helpful book if you are interested in beginning lettering. I received it as an ARC from Net Galley. It has nice instructions, practice pages, and a bakers dozen of crafts, to get one started. There are a few short personal stories from the author, nothing that detracts from the purpose of the book. This is exactly the type of book one wants when beginning a new art. It will benefit me greatly as I begin the practice of being a pen pal.

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