This guide uses flowers, butterflies, snowflakes, medieval illuminations and many other sources of inspiration to create illuminated designs. It shows how to apply them to a host of decorative items, including writing paper, greeting cards, gift cards, paperweights, boxes, address books, diaries, bookplates, bookmarks, menus and calligraphic texts. The book offers guidance on stylization, adapting designs, shadowing, stippling, reproduction, gilding and creating motifs and borders. There is also a section on designing monograms, ciphers and colophons. It should appeal to all lovers of delicate miniature painting and to calligraphers, and complements Patricia Carter's books, Illuminated Calligraphy and Illuminate Alphabets.