Fairchild's rapid letterer and show-card maker, commercial alphabet construction with brush or pen . xr suspenders .I^IRCHUD pue c. No. 3. thin rules of red or gold under each word. The top line shouldhave a double rule under it. An evergreen border stitched onthe card will prove very effective. Card No. 4 can be con-structed on the lines suggested for the first card. The ribbonsa,nd bows can be left off if you want a simple card. Theseribbons are readily made by first using say a light blue andshading with a dark blue. A rich effect is to cut four cardpanels say of light green. Paint gold bor
Fairchild's rapid letterer and show-card maker, commercial alphabet construction with brush or pen . xr suspenders .I^IRCHUD pue c. No. 3. thin rules of red or gold under each word. The top line shouldhave a double rule under it. An evergreen border stitched onthe card will prove very effective. Card No. 4 can be con-structed on the lines suggested for the first card. The ribbonsa,nd bows can be left off if you want a simple card. Theseribbons are readily made by first using say a light blue andshading with a dark blue. A rich effect is to cut four cardpanels say of light green. Paint gold borders around each panel;make the initials in dark green, run an edge line of gold orwhite around each initial. Out of narrow satin light green rib-bon tie three bows with long ends, put a little glue on theback of each upper corner of your initial panels and fastenthe ends of the bow there. Now after you lay all three panelsloose on the card indicate their proper position, running asmall line where each bow ought to be located, then takesome glue and spread it along each of these lines and fasten. No. 4. the back center of each bow. It will, of course, be under-stood that the other lettering on the large card will havebeen marked out before the panels were fastened to the ribbon,
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