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I have this one window in my house that's an odd size. Actually, there are a number of odd sized windows in my house, but they're not important here. The reason this one window is an issue is because every Christmas I try to add one touch of holiday spirit to this window and they all end up looking... forced. Inelegant. The wrong size.
Obviously, the only answer was to make something.
I created a stencil in my favorite graphics program (Illustrator) and printed it on heavyweight scrapbook paper. I used an X-ACTO knife to cut the stencils.
A word on the X-ACTO knife. I have always used the basic skinny silver blade handle. It's not that I haven't tried any of the more expensive handles, I just like the way the basic one fits in my hand. But I have discovered that I keep a lot of silvery things on my workbench and I am constantly losing my knife. Then I received the skinny pink handle.
I'm not a "Bright PINK" type of a person, but this bright pink I love.
After the designs were cut out, I used the X-ACTO corner rounder. I found the corner rounder's strength is cutting scrapbook/medium weight paper -- perfect for this project.
I rolled the top end of each card over and used Elmer's Embellishing Glue. No, I wasn't embellishing, but the glue is strong and squeezes out in a relatively fine line (important because I didn't have a lot of wiggle room).
Everything is strung on a simple piece of twine and the wooden beads are from an old broken garland. So nice that they get a second chance to fulfill their Christmas Destiny.
