Sarah Jane's Craft Blog

I needed a little something to decorate my mantel for Thanksgiving. It's always easy to find Halloween and Christmas decor, but Thanksgiving is often left out. Well, time to show Thanksgiving some love. I found the printable banner/garland on the At Second Street blog that read "Give Thanks." With just a little bit of tweaking, I had a great banner for my mantel. I printed out the letters (which print 2 to a sheet) on some cardstock . All I had was white, so that's what I went with. The inspiration website used some brown card stock. I used to have some off white card stock with speckles that would have worked perfectly, so just use what you've got. I cut the letters out with a scissors leaving a 1/4 inch border of white along the edge. After the letters were cut out, I cut a slit along the brown border on each side towards the top with a craft knife to run some ribbon behind each letter to string it up. I'm sure there are other ways to do ...

On Pinterest I saw a link to this wonderful flickr page  that has hundreds of photos of letters that you can use to make your very own letter art. After about an hour of downloading my favorites, they sat in my photo folder on my computer until I found the right inexpensive frame to put them in. For this project you'll need the following: digital photos of letters photo paper frame I had some matte photo paper that we inherited from my husband's family (it is ancient stuff from when ink jet printers first started being sold) that works well for black and white photos, so I went ahead and gray scaled my favorite choices and printed them out.  If you wanted to print them in glossy color, it may be a more economical choice (especially if you have a long name) to have them sent to Costco or Walgreen's or whatever your favorite photo site is that does 10-15 cent 4 X 6 prints. After they are printed, cut them out and arrange in your frame.  Super simple....