How to Make a Felt Holiday Garland

 

This garland is a simple sew project made from felt, fabric strips and ribbon.

 

 

Begin with cutting strips of felt 2 inches wide. Cutting these strips at an angle, you end up making diamond shape pieces. Every two pieces will give you about 3.25 inches of length toward your garland. Cut strips of fabric 1" by 5" and ribbon also in 5" lengths.

 

Place diamonds in pairs, to sew together length-wise. Sewing up to the last .25" of the diamond tip, overlap the next set of diamonds and keep sewing pairs together until you have reached your desired length. Take the strips of fabric and ribbon and tie them between each diamond set.

 

If you like you diamonds nice and symmetrical, you can use this template.

Christmas Card 2012

 

For my 2012 Christmas card I made myself an old fashion styled circus high-wire outfit. Then with the magic of Photoshop I added a backdrop to make it look like I was off the ground. After I printed out the image I strung through the print, going under my feet, a "high wire" string for a fun 3D effect. Washi and glitter tapes made for an easy way to add design elements to my card.

 On the back I found some fun circus theme fonts to use as I finished off the graphic design. The extra space gave me room to write a quick hello.

My handwriting - a font for you.

In graphic design I work with fonts a lot. Font styles are incredibly useful and can even say more than the actual words. There are quite a few handwriting fonts out right now and I thought it would be fun to have one too. It was back in middle school that I began paying attention to and changing up my handwriting. Mostly because I admired my friend Christie's handwriting so much, and also because I'm such a visual and artsy girl. So my font is very much "me" but now in quick type form.

 

It is named Wiggins Writing because I am known as Wiggins to several groups of friends and that named seemed fitting for my style of writing. The program I used was a free one, so there are a few issues with kerning (space proportions between letters) but I still wanted to share. Here are links to download the font for you to use too. I trust that you won't be writing any ransom notes with it :)

 

Download Here for PC
Download Here for Mac
(you have permission to use this font, however you may not sell it nor redistribute it)