Doodling Tips: Draw your basic shape or swirl FIRST with a pencil. Use a light hand to avoid getting an indent in the paper. Do NOT use the eraser on the pencil to erase the pencil line... use a white eraser or one specifically marketed for art/drafting. Erase with a light hand as well.

Don't go overboard. Sometimes a little goes a long way.

Experiment with your handwriting. Practice until you like what you write. Practice keeping your letters the same size with the same spacing.

Before throwing out your magazines, look through it to see if there are bigger words you can cut out and use in your scrapbook for funky, ransom-note style titles!

Handwriting is not the same as the Creative Lettering used for titles and subtitles in scrapbooks. Handwriting is what we all learned in grade school and got grades for. Sadly, some of us feel that others are still evaluating our handwriting.

Text in a Circle in Microsoft Word

• Click on “insert WordArt” icon
• Click on the sample that looks like an arch (in my program, it is the third on the top); click okay.
• Type in the text you want.
• Click okay.
• This will display it in your document…make sure your WordArt tool bar is visible when you have clicked on the image.
• On the tool bar there is an “abc” icon…when the cursor is over it, it should read “WordArt shape”
• When you click on this, you can see several different shapes…click on the one that looks like the letter O…once you do this, your text will look a little bit squashed…just resize it like you would any other image.