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February Wallpaper Freebie + A Favorite Font Giveaway

February 5, 2014 by Ciera Holzenthal

Debi Sementelli just released a bold version of her beautiful Belluccia Pro font! She sent me over a copy and I was immediately inspired to create this soft, watercolor image for my desktop in February! This design is now available for free as a desktop and iphone wallpaper over on the Whimseybox blog!

Love Is All You Need Quote - Ciera Design

I also added print yourself Valentine’s Day cards to the Etsy shop, including this design!

A VERY SPECIAL DEAL FOR CIERA DESIGN READERS!

All of you lucky ducks get 40% off of Belluccia Pro Bold with discount code “cieradesign” through March 15!

GIVEAWAY TIME!

Debi is offering one lucky reader a free copy of Belluccia Pro Bold!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Good luck!! Have any questions, feel free to contact me. If you are in a reader click out to access the Rafflecopter entry form. Please note that your entry will be removed if you do not complete it correctly. I received a copy of Belluccia Pro Bold c/o Correspondence Ink. All opinions are my own.

Cantoni Script Font [Friday Favorites]

September 13, 2013 by Ciera Holzenthal

I shared one of Debi Sementelli‘s fonts, Dom Loves Mary, a few months back and she just released another beauty called Cantoni! I just love using her fonts, they are so much fun! And once again, Debi is offering a huge discount to Ciera Design readers! Cantoni is 40% off with code “cieradesigns” so go grab it while this offer lasts!

Cantoni Pro Font Sample by Ciera Design

The Cantoni font family is a hand lettered font with a variety of standard and alternate characters that play together well and has a total of 1265 glyphs, wow! Lots of additional features are also included, like roman numerals, fractions, ordinals, ornate and old style numbers, greek symbols, a set of flourishes, ornaments and DIY wedding words and images.

Named after my large Italian family, the unique variety of letters based on my own fluid upright style of brush lettering, reminds me of every family I know. There are creative and conservative siblings, crazy in a good way cousins, affable aunts and corny joke telling uncles who somehow come together and form one cohesive unit.

In the same way, using the Open Type features to insert a “wild t”, begin a name with a “flashy f” or end a word with a “rambling r”, the font comes to life. The party starts. The fun begins. And soon they’re all laughing and dancing up and down the baseline. Like a family gathering to celebrate a special occasion, there is a palpable sense of joy expressed through the letters and images, not unlike the sharing of good food, memorable stories and lots of laughter. – Debi Sementelli

While Cantoni Basic gets the party started, Cantoni Total Design offers a complete package of options for your unique creations.

Dom Loves Mary Font [Friday Favorites]

November 16, 2012 by Ciera Holzenthal

Happy Friday! I am SO excited about today’s favorite font! Last week I received this amazing box in the mail presenting a new font from Debi Sementelli and Brian J. Bonislawsky of Correspondence Ink. The font, Dom Loves Mary, was inspired by and created in memory of Debi’s in-laws, Dominic and Mary Sementelli. The package was such a creative way to present the story behind the font and also included some amazing letter pressed note cards from Aerialist Press!

WHAT’S UNIQUE ABOUT THE DOM LOVES MARY FONT FAMILY:

The script and text fonts are lettering styles that were made to compliment each other. The script, with a vintage, classic feel, will add elegance to your design, while the text serves to offer support with easy to read simplicity.

In addition to the standard character set, each of the uniquely styled script fonts includes a collection of flourished ornaments. Use them to create corners, headers or other embellishments to complete the look. And if you really want to fancy things up, they offer two sets of 72 additional flourishes that were specifically made to add to upper and lower case letters for easy customization. Dress them up with one, two or more. It’s like choosing simple pearls or piling on the glitz!

Dom Loves Mary also has a set of the most frequently used add-on words. This set of 66 includes envelope friendly titles including Mr., Mrs. and Miss, as well as words to fill out your invitation suite including RSVP, Respond, Save the Date, Accommodations, Directions and more! Add-on words also include angled words like and, at, to, on, for, from and of to add a special touch to your large groups of copy.

I had some time to test out the font and I just love all of the variations and flourishes it offers! For the design above I used a combination of the three Dom Loves Mary script fonts for the wording (you get all three in the Pro package). The capital N is from the Stylistic version, while most of the lower case letters are from the Contextual version. To encapsulate the saying, I chose two simple flourishes. The top one comes from Flourishes One set, while the bottom is from the Flourishes Two set. To read more about the inspiration behind the Dom Loves Mary font (it is truly a great story) and the diverse packages available for purchase head over to Correspondence Ink on MyFonts!

A VERY SPECIAL DEAL FOR CIERA DESIGN READERS!

Debi is offering 40% off her new font with discount code “bloglove” when you purchase at MyFonts, this is an amazing deal!

I received a copy of Dom Loves Mary c/o Correspondence Ink. All opinions are my own.

Inspirational Desktop Wallpaper Freebies For You

December 15, 2015 by Ciera Holzenthal

Can you believe we are halfway through December! With all the holiday prep and business planning for 2016 this time of year can start to feel a little overwhelming right? Sometimes a simple desktop organization and wallpaper update can help me feel more focused and on track so I decided to design these two inspirational desktop wallpaper freebies for your computer and iPhone wallpapers.

Click through to download these Inspirational desktop and iPhone wallpaper freebies from CieraDesign.com

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This design uses one of my new favorite fonts, Fratello Nick. It’s a hand-lettered text with 1160 glyphs to play with. There are 15 fonts in the family. Both the Regular and Pro come in a variety of weights: Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic. Also included are fun accessories like Initial Caps, 94 ornaments, 82 frames, two sets of Initial Caps (one allows you to insert special ornaments in the side insets!), a 3-letter Monogram font and three different Split Monogram fonts! (Each one has two different options when you type using upper or lower case… plain, flowers, bunnies, birds and butterflies!)

It can be simple and sweet or bring a touch of flair and whimsy to your project with any of its fun alternate letters. There are nine different uppercase alphabet sets! Check out Fratello Nick and, while you’re at it, browse the 49 other trending typefaces on the Hot New Fonts list. Annnnd the sweet Debi is offering you guys a special 50% off discount with code “cieradesign” when you purchase directly from her site through December 25.

The Most Popular Fonts of 2013

January 10, 2014 by Ciera Holzenthal

Before I start sharing some new favorite fonts this year, I though it would be fun to show y’all the most popular fonts of 2013 (according to MyFonts). I have already featured a few of them here over the past year as some of my personal favorites. Did you have a favorite font in 2013?