Winter Door Sign "It's Freezing Season"

I loved this file from Claudette but decided to turn it into a sign for my existing door wreath.

I first took the mittens and removed the engraving bar in the middle and the snowflakes on top.  I then added in more engraving dots.

To remove the engraving bar I added a rectangle and surrounded the 2 bars and clicked on combine subtract. I did the same to the circles as I wanted to create a whole new pattern.  Once the mittens were empty minus the cuff engraving I added a circle to the matt and copied it multiple times to get the desired pattern.  I then selected the dots and combined them.  In hindsight this might have been a mistake because the laser went line by line instead of doing each circle individually and there was a lot of wasted travel time between the two mittens.

I removed the sled image since I would not be using that part of the pattern.  I simply highlighted all those parts and hit delete on my keyboard.

I wanted the sign to be all one piece, so I deleted the outline around the words by clicking on them and selecting delete.  I then placed the mittens above the words and selected the words and the mittens and clicked on outline.  I then widened the outline until there was one outline around both the words and mittens.  The resulting outline included some inner pieces so I selected a hexagon from the shapes and adjusted it to cover all the inner pieces.  I selected that and the hexagon and clicked on combine, subtract.  I next added a circle to the mat and copied it and added one to each side of the backer as hanging holes for the wire I would use.  I selected both circles and the backer and clicked on combine, subtract at overlap to group them.

I used the large snowflake from the original design to put above the words, but then I added a snowflake from the image gallery of XCS and made a copy and placed one on either side of the words.

I suck at lining things up straight so I appreciated that the original file came with a score line for the letters.  I didn't bother doing the same for the snowflakes or mittens to cut down on run time.

I engraved the mittens using the above parameters for engraving.

I cut out the backer, mittens, letters and snowflakes.

After everything was cut out I wiped down the pieces. I used Polyurethane on the Walnut to bring the grain of the wood out. I used Rubbing Alcohol and a paper towel to removed the burn marks from the EcoRed and White Sub Board, and to remove the dust from the engraving on the mittens.

To assemble the sign, I used wood glue and a silicon brush.  I started with the words and placed them over the score marks, then I added the mittens, and finally the snowflakes.

I attached wire through the 2 holes at the top and ran it through the wreath I had already made.