Thought I'd share the sign I made for the outdoor market I've been participating in over the last few weeks at Midtown Crossing in Omaha. I found this tutorial on
Craftster a while back and decided to give it a go. I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out.
I first had this black and white sign of my logo printed at the local Kinko's. It only only cost about $6 for a print out measuring 32" x 40".
And, of course, Elmer had to come over and check it out too.
In addition to the print out, I purchased some fabric and felt that matched the Paper Lovely colors, some fabric glue, a mat board to glue the fabric pieces onto, and then just gathered my scissors and stapler.
I started the sign assembly process by covering my mat board with the textured cloth and securing it with a few staples.
Next, I cut out the shapes of my logo from the paper sign and began tracing them onto the fabric and felt pieces. I started with the larger shapes, and worked my way inward to the letters.
The real time sucker was cutting out all of the individual letters in the logo, tracing them onto the felt, and then cutting them out from there. I was having trouble finding a pen that worked on the felt, so I ended up gluing the paper cutouts onto the felt (backwards) and then cutting around the paper letters to get the felt letter shapes.
The little heart was my favorite part.
After applying a little fabric glue to each individual shape, I eventually had my logo in fabric form!
I think it really helped add a little life to my booth. I wanted to keep it flexible by doing it on a lighter board so that if I ever wanted to hang it, I could do that as well. Although creating the sign is not difficult to do, it is very time consuming, but I think very worth it!
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