A very colorful welcome to Christmas for this 2024...
1. With the text tool I wrote the 2 words to use which were merry christmas
2.for the word merry use a font that divides the letters that way
3. select release compound vector to release my word so I can rearrange it
4. then select make compound vector
5. arrange my word christmas in the center
6. add an outline of 6
7. then place my Christmas lights design that I designed with the silhouette program and add a 5 outline
8. Create the circles where my cord will hang so I can join the 2 parts of the sign later.
9. I added a minimum outline to avoid having to use the unite tool, I made those circles smaller and selected subtract at overlap
cut all my pieces in one go with air assist on
After cutting out all my pieces, I painted all the large pieces with acrylic spray paint.
For the small parts of the lights, use a brush and acrylic paints.
After the pieces dried, I used tacky glue to glue them together.
place my cord and that's it