Technique Corner – Dance "flag" letters

Another one of my layouts was published on Prima blog! This time it's a really cute lo telling the story of two young dancers: my son and my niece. The dance and the choreography was completely theirs as well as the idea to make the performance it my son's 11^th birthday.

I wanted to share an easy fun technique I used in this lo. Flags are in fashion these days, but sometimes I feel like it's been done too much. So, instead of hanging flags on the rope I decided to hang letters! The technique is simple:

*letters with holes like O, B, and D are easy to hang. Simply thread the twine or string through the hole and your letter is hung.

*letters like E, M and F are a little trickier because they have no hole. In this case hang the letter by placing the string in the corner of a letter creating the illusion that the string is holding it.

*The problem is with letters like I, L and J, they are straight and can't be hanged. The solution I found is put the letter on the string and let it blend with the other letters as if it is hanged as well…lol.

A few challenges:

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OneStitch at a Time #109: Bright
Pileit on #16: Pop it up
Scrapit with a song: Beautiful Day U2
Thecrazy challenge:  Movie – Dirty Dancing, Dance, Streetdance
Thepink elephant #144
Clearit out: Based on a song - "Dance", "Dancing Queen"
PartyTime Tuesday #64: Color inspiration
AudSentiments #52: spring summer colors
ColorThrowdown #188
CreativeBellie #141: children
Movingalong with the times #144: Vintage, Shabby chic
Polka Doodles: Pretty in pink
Berry71Bleu: Inspirational photo

Have fun creating!

Einat