Google Search: How to make a banner in illustrator

It’s been a while, but I’m back at it again – card making. Good thing everyone has a birthday!

Bad thing is I’m tired of googling images that only meet 75% of what I envision and cleaning them up for use. Gimp used to be my best friend for the clean up task but now that Illustrator is in my life, I feel the need to create. So, today, after I created some of the raw pieces of the dinosaur birthday card, I realized the card needed a little umph. Perhaps a ‘Happy Birthday’ banner will do the trick. The creator in me googled ‘how to make a banner in illustrator’.
Bless Google for returning this blog as the first search result and bless the soul of The Design Playbook for such detailed yet easy to follow instructions.
Now, my creation will be complete! While I work on the banner, the cutouts are laid out to dry.