I know its not easy to think of making winter or holiday or Christmas banners, just now, but nevertheless, that is what I am doing. It will get even weirder in July!
At Art for the Creative Mind, we have commenced a year long swap project, in which we swap hand made pennants each month. At year end, we should have 12 spectacular pennants which we can attach together and make a pennant.
The pennants are to be done in winter white or vintage white. Each month has an optional theme. The optional theme for January was Vintage Winter.
I made all of my pennants from fabric and I applied iron-on interfacing to the back. I will decorate them month by month.
This is January’s. I did two similar ones because I had two partners. I used an inkjet image transfer with glossy gel medium at the transfer agent. As you can see, the little girl is vintage, and is wearing winter white clothing. There is a sense of a holiday tree in the back ground.
I glued the image in place and trimmed with various laces, ribbons, heart-shaped buttons and pink rhinestones. For the second, I made a flower using the same fabric as the pennant, and cut it using Tim Holtz Alterations Floral die.
I am making a second set of pennants for myself, so all in all, I plan on completing at least 24 of these this year.