Bounce lettering practice for beginners, with brush pen tracing guides

Bounce lettering practice sheets for adult beginners who are ready to free their brush script from the straight line and let each word dance with a fun, hand made rhythm. Across 28 pages you learn the style step by step, tracing light gray models on double baselines.

The set comes in US Letter and A4 as an instant PDF download, and nothing is shipped.

How these sheets make bounce lettering easy

No more guessing about what to move. You get six simple rules plus a drop chart that sorts the lowercase alphabet into four groups: letters that drop, stretch up, stretch down or stay put. All 26 letters come with a bounced model and a practice word. Then 50 everyday words are set out in a straight version and a bounced version side by side, so you can see the difference clearly before tracing.

One word written three ways, from gentle to playful to wild, shows how much bounce suits a wedding card versus a party poster. With card layouts, journal headers and empty double baseline pages, your practice becomes real projects, and any page can be printed again when you need it.

Who these brush lettering sheets are for

• Adult beginners comfortable with the basic brush strokes who would like a more playful, modern style
• Journalers who letter their own headers, monthly spreads and quotes
• Card makers looking for bouncy greetings for birthdays, weddings and thank you notes
• Anyone who letters with an ordinary pen and would like to try faux calligraphy with bounce

Design and print details

• Clean, elegant layout on white pages with gentle blush pink accents that save ink
• Generous margins on all pages, so a home printer will not trim anything
• Two portrait sizes: US Letter (8.5 x 11 in) and A4 (210 x 297 mm)
• No dates, so the drills and blank guides can be printed over and over
• Pale gray models sit on double baselines with faint slant lines, easy on your printer and finished with soft pink touches
• Fits a binder or clipboard, or have it spiral bound at a print shop

Inside the bounce lettering sheets: 28 pages

1. 1Cover page with a page index and room for your name and the date you begin
2. 2Start here: a straight versus bounce demo, three main tips, how to use the sheets, a checklist of supplies and a first trace of the words bounce and fun
3. 3The six bounce rules, each shown in a model word with two tracing rows: let some letters dip under the baseline, make loops larger, mix up the heights, lengthen the descenders, hold spacing even and choose one anchor letter
4. 4A diagram of the double baseline, a chart of letters that drop sorted into four groups with tracing, a sample bounce map for the word sunshine and an empty table for mapping a word of your own
5. 5Six warm-up drills: underturns that bounce, humps, ovals, tall loops, swinging tails and a row of mixed rhythm
6. 6Lowercase a to d: the straight letter, its bounced form and tracing, then each letter placed in a short word
7. 7Lowercase e to h, showing bounced forms and words to practice
8. 8Lowercase i to l, showing bounced forms and words to practice
9. 9Lowercase m to p, showing bounced forms and words to practice
10. 10Lowercase q to t, showing bounced forms and words to practice
11. 11Lowercase u to x, showing bounced forms and words to practice
12. 12Lowercase y and z, followed by the whole bouncing alphabet to trace
13. 13Three levels of bounce, with hello, sunshine and weekend written in gentle, playful and wild versions
14. 14Practice with intensity, writing coffee and bloom at every level, plus empty rows for a word you choose
15. 15Words 1 to 10, shown straight, then bounced, then traced two times: hello and happy, sunshine and coffee, weekend and bloom, love and smile, dream and thanks
16. 16Words 11 to 20: cheers and friday, joy and family, together and grateful, adventure and cozy, magic and sweet
17. 17Words 21 to 30: monday and summer, winter and spring, autumn and home, laugh and kindness, hope and wonder
18. 18Words 31 to 40: sparkle and bliss, peace and celebrate, enjoy and relax, believe and create, travel and notes
19. 19Words 41 to 50: goals and memories, birthday and wedding, baby and darling, sunday and holiday, garden and journal
20. 20Phrases 1, each followed by one row to trace and one empty row: good morning; hello sunshine; thank you so much; oh happy day; you got this
21. 21Phrases 2, in the same format: happy birthday; with love; best friends; home sweet home; enjoy the little things
22. 22Names: 12 first names, each with a model and a tracing row, and two empty rows for names you love
23. 23Card layouts: four card models with two words each (happy birthday, thank you, hello friend, congrats) plus two empty cards with guides
24. 24Journal headers: six bounced headers decorated with a simple line, dots, brackets, a swash, a heart and dashes, each one with tracing
25. 25Fixes and frequent mistakes: too much compared with just right, six problems and how to solve them, and a row for practice
26. 26Small blank bounce guides: 8 rows of double baselines for pens with fine tips
27. 27Large blank bounce guides: 5 rows of double baselines sized for big brush pens
28. 28Progress tracker: a log for 30 days of practice, a checklist of the six rules and the 26 letters, and your name written on day 1 and day 30

Files included in your download

• Bounce Lettering Practice Sheets, US Letter PDF (28 pages)
• Bounce Lettering Practice Sheets, A4 PDF (28 pages)
• Read Me First, a brief printing guide (PDF)

How to download and print

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• Open the PDF in a free reader such as Adobe Acrobat Reader and print at 100% or Actual size.
• Print only the pages you need, as often as you like, for your own personal use.

Good to know before you start

• This is a PDF designed to be printed. It is not a hyperlinked digital planner, though most note taking apps can import the PDF so you can write on it.
• You receive digital files only. Nothing physical is mailed to you.
• On paper, colors may look a little different from your screen.
• Made for personal use. Please keep the files to yourself and do not share, resell or redistribute them.
• Digital files cannot be returned. If something will not open or print properly, email us and we will help quickly.
• It works with brush pens big or small, or with any everyday pen if you use the faux calligraphy method. Pens and paper are not part of the purchase.

How this was made

Designed and written by PetiteDiary. AI tools helped draft parts of the text, and some background scenes in the preview images were created with AI. Every page was designed, reviewed and checked before release.

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