Use your Klic-N-Kut to create Valentine’s Day garlands! Here are three examples:
Heart Garland:
- Create a heart by welding 2-circles to a triangle. After sizing the heart to approximately 2″ in height, use the Transform > Inline function to create a total of 3 nested hearts.
- Use the Layout > Array function to fill a 12×12 blank size with nested hearts.
- Cut one sheet of nested hearts from Brick Red Cardstock and one sheet of printed paper.
- Set aside the middle nested heart and use the large cardstock hearts with the small printed paper hearts and vice versa.
- Use your sewing machine to chain stitch hearts together.
Be Mine Garland:
- Fill a 12×12 page with the letters: B E M I N E in Times New Roman Bold Font. Everything will fit once you turn the “I” 90 degrees.
- Create an arrow using the Arrow Shape Tool, the Square Shape Tool with the Slant function and then welding the two slanted rectangles to the arrow.
- Create a heart by welding 2-circles to a triangle.
- Connect the letters and arrows using glue and floss and embellished the hearts with a 4mm clear jewel.
X O Garland:
- Use the font AIR with the letters X and O.
- Fill a 12×12 page with X and cut 2 sheets.
- Fill a 12×12 page with O and break path to remove the center of the O. Cut 2 sheets.
- Layer two X’s and stitch together, next layer two O’s and chain stitch, continuing until all letters are used.
- Fold the letters to create dimension.
I keep my 15″ KNK Maxx settings at Overcut 15 & Trailing Blade 20 because I only use my machine to cut paper.
See other projects I’ve created with my KNK on the KNK Gallery on my website at susan mast designs.
Supply List:
- Printed Papers: Cloud9 Design Multipack [71381]
- Bazzill Cardstock: Brick [T2-270]
- Bazzill Jewels: Clear 4mm [303333]
- Bazzill Floss: French Vanilla [302701]
Fonts:
- Times New Roman
- Air
What lovely garlands! They are perfect for Valentines Day!
Love the Garlands, Susan. Thanks for the tutorials too.
Very nice! Love the idea of garlands.
Very original, Susan… as always!
Very cute! Thanks for sharing.
What unique ideas, Susan….awesome, thanks for sharing!
Hey…those are soooooo cute….would work nice on a banister.
Creativity has moved on to the next holiday. Thanks for some great ideas.
My favorite is the “Be Mine”. Great job planning ahead! Thanks for the ideas.
Love them! Triggers ideas, now I need to get busy.
Very nice. Did it take you a long time to cut everything? I like it and would be nice hanging for a candle lit dinner. TFS
I agree!
Cute! Great ideas!
What a cute idea – it is hard to find cute decorations for valentine’s day.
Very nice Project!!!!
I like the idea of using the sewing machine in a different way. (Especially since I haven’t sewn anything for awhile!)
Thanks for taking time to comment on my post! You guys are too kind! 😀
@Tam – No, it did not take much time at all. I only cut 9 sheets to make all 3 banners! I already had a vision of what I wanted to do. I sat down on Thursday evening and created all three cutting files, assembled the pieces and posted my project in a total of 3 hours!
What a cute idea! I may have to make some of these. And thank you for posting it so much before the holiday so I have time to make them.
love this very cute
It always works better when you have an idea of what you want especailly if it goes according to plan.
This could be done with shapes for the new year if it can be squeezed in today!
Cute idea, thanks for sharing! 🙂
Susan!
Can you say uber cute???!!??! WOW—I’m sure your home looks super festive and ready for the V-day season!! Very clever! be blessed
~Beyond Measure
Tammy
http://www.urbeyondmeasure.com