Banner Letters the PicMonkey Way

Favorites take many forms. I love working on the computer and learning something new. PicMonkey is a favorite online (free so far) program. Decorating my Welsh dresser is another favorite activity. Reading posts is another. Together they made this post.

Making different banners is always fun, and when reading blogs on Alison's Friday's Unfolded Stuff and Nonsense's linky party there was a grain sack banner. Just what the Welsh dresser hutch needed.

Angie who writes Knick of Time posted "Make Your Own Grain Sack Banner".  Check Angie's post here - she took a clear picture of a grain sack to share, just drag her photo onto your desk top and use it to make ..... a banner. What a great idea. Go to Angie's blog if you want to take a copy of the blank grain sack.

Angie used a stencil and paint to make her letters but also suggested (which was brilliant) that her European Grain Sack picture could be opened in PicMonkey and that the letters you want could be added to the Grain Sack picture. 

How to:

Open Angie's Grain Sack picture in PicMonkey and rotate it. Add a letter, save, highlight the letter, change to the next letter, save etc. until you have each letter you need saved on the grain sack background (save each letter with a new name (ie) F grain sack, A grain sack etc.). I printed on mat photo paper, 

and used Roman Antique in PicMonkey's new Halloween fonts.

Print each letter on a separate page. 

Next step: using a ruler/pencil and scissors turn each page into a triangle.

(find the mid-point of the base and draw a line 

from each upper corner to mid-point)

Colored metal clips hold the letters to a length of thick hemp string.

Rearranged my Welsh hutch and added the new banner.

 Thank you Angie of Knick of Time for the inspiration for this post.

Check here to see the banners I made earlier this week. The waxed leaves in these collages have lasted since last October - post here.

Have a great weekend.

Sharing with:
 Claudia of Mockingbird Hill Cottage: Favorite Things Saturday
Donna of Funky Junk Interiors: SNS 156 - Crafts
Cap Creations: Thrifty Love {Link Party # 47}
Sunny Simple Life, Knick of Time