How To Make Seasonal hats with red, white and green headbands for greeting cards and seasonal slides

 

Angela Lansbury wearing red, white and green for a winter meeting online. Selfie photo by Angela Lansbury.

The Headband - take or create a coloured headband
You might get given a headband, or you can buy one. My family received a Santa headband from the Tanglin club in Singapore at their tree-lighting ceremony.

If you have an adult's or child's headband in a plain colour, you can wind red, white or green ribbon around it in a spiral, or sew or stick a fabric piece along the top. You could also print red, white or green paper and cut a strip to cover the top of the headband.

Headbands slide off my silky hair. I looked around for something white and red to wear like a Santa hat.

The Red and White Clothes - Caftans

I started creating the ensemble with a red top. If you are looking for caftans, try also spelling with a K, kaftan.

Cape Blazers

 The white is a cape blazer which has open front sleeves showing the red top.

Baseball Caps

Then I added a white brimmed baseball cap. I had to hide the words on it, advertising the source, Espana (advertising Spain). 

A red swimming hat or turban hat goes over the dome of a baseball cap to hide the writing or distracting logo. I have several posts on the Turban hats. i have them in several colours, red, yellow.

The headband sits on top. I now have an original seasonal hat, instead of the conventional Santa, something unique.

Table Decoration

On my dining table I had a table decoration of seasonal winter fir greenery with white snow tips  a red and white bow. Just the right thing.

It did not have a safety pin or brooch. However, I could easily tuck it in to my neckline. 

Right up against my neck, it felt scratchy. However, fine for one minute for a photo. 

To Make A Seasonal Brooch

If I wanted to wear the decoration longer, like a brooch, I would attach a safety pin. I could pin it lower, with the soft bow against my neck and the spiky greenery lower down.

Green Background Choices

Where to find a green background? My green screen! Behind the desk in my home office. 

You can buy two types of green. The proper green screen has a rigid wire or wooden edge to keep it flat. That costs more. 

A cheaper, thinner large piece of green cloth, without side support, for photo backgrounds, is just a large green sheet. It is liable to hang in folds. As you see, you have to find a way of fastening the sides.

Just hanging it over an expending curtain or shower curtain rail, as I have done, leaves you with creases as it does not hand straight. You could add another rod across the bottom, and/or supports at the side. I did not have the needed items nor the time. Also I was not sure that the curtain rail at the top, stretched between two cupboards, could support the extra hardware. Also I needed to move the curtain intermittently to reach the cupboards behind it.

How You Can Use Your Photos 

You can use your seasonal photos for 

1 Printed greeting cards. 

2 Email greeting cards. 

3 Framed family photo seasonal gifts for the home or overseas family.

4 Posters for events.

I took several photos of myself, selfies, and chose my favourite for my poster advertising my workshop on seasonal blogs.

In Powerpoint, which comes in a bundle with Microsoft Word, I found that under design I could move through the colour options. I found a red edge to the slide. Voila!




Useful Websites
Headbands
Amazon
Lazada
Shein

Santa hats
Amazon
Daiso.com
Lazada
Shein
partycity.com

Cape blazers
Boohoo.com i
Shein
and online from China

Caftans/Kaftans and tops
From Lazada pre-Xmas 15 dollars reduced from 31

About the Author Angela Lansbury

BIOGRAPHY

Angela Lansbury B A Hons ACG ALB PM5 EH5 DL5 VC5 
The Author of several books including  Etiquette For Every Occasion. Wedding Speeches & Toasts. How to be the Best Man. Quick Quotations. Who Said What When.

Blogs travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com

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Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Club Vice President Public Relations (VPPR), Previous President

Join BHA 1st Wednesday 7pm and 3rd Saturday 2 pm Singapore time 

Vice President Public Relations (VP PR) of Tampines Changkat Advanced;

Secretary of weekly online Singapore International Dynamic Toastmasters Speakers’ Club;

Member and past president of Harrovians toastmasters club, UK; Past member of HOD Toastmasters, London. Past member in Singapore of: Toastmasters Club of Singapore (TCS); Tiarel; and Senja Cashew.

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Regular attendee at annual Swanwick Writers’ School, England.

Regular attendee at annual Writers’ Holiday, Wales.

Contributor to poetry readings, and after tea courses on: Speaking On Radio To Promote Books; and Plots And Character.

Winner of many club and area speaking contests in the UK and Singapore.

Language advisor to Empire Toastmasters club in Indonesia.

Language and speech workshops in Singapore.

Speaker on radio and TV in England, Scotland, the USA, and Australia.

Compiler of a school course on public speaking for teachers to prepare pupils for school open days with attending ceremonies before government ministers, Singapore.

Former member of Harrow Writers’ Circle, London, and two writing groups in Singapore.

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