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	Miles To Go It’s summer, the kids are all out of school and there’s vacation scheduled. What are you going to do? Let’s take a road trip! Whether it’s just for a day or extended travel, we will all need to scrapbook and journal our adventures. So hang onto your pens and prepare to make a journey into the “Are we there yet” zone!	The Alphabet
	Prepare, as usual, by choosing your title. (This, as is most fancy lettering, is too busy to use for all of your journaling.) If you want it big and bold, you are somewhat restricted by the amount of letters that will fit. But this lettering is easy to do small as long as you use the flat side of the chisel tip of your pen.
	Pencil in the letters. Allow enough space for making the letters wide. Using your chisel tip (of the Zig Chisel/Fine Twin Tip pen by EK Success), pull the pen from the top to the bottom, and form letters. You will need to do it doublewide for chunkier letters. Follow the first line carefully. Use the fine tip to square off the edges of the letters for a neater appearance. Using a white opaque pen (from EK Success, a Milky from Pentel, etc.), make a dashed line in the center of the letter. Add embellishments. The ones I added are all hand-cut or punched, and are very easy. Little triangle snip make great pine trees with a brown chisel stroke for the trunk. Use the small circle punch for the sun and add some very thin strips for the rays. The sailboat is mostly triangles stuck in between three rippled waves.	San Diego Hit The Road Which Way Do We Go?
	On Our Way Home	This can be done right on the page or as a page topper. You could also use a lettering template, trace the letters on black paper, cut out and add the dashed lines. If you really want it really easy, you can use the pre-cut die cut letters. Be adventurous! Have fun with it! Explore the possibilities!