A Banner Day :)

Banners are a favorite project of mine to make. :) Here is one I put together using SRM Stickers 4th of July stickers and The Twinery twine. It is featured on the SRM Blog today.

I used the mini-sentiments on the Stickers By The Dozen: Patriotic sheet, along sentiments from We've Got Your Border: Patriotic to the bottom of each pennant. The graphic borders were perfect for the tops of the pennants.

To add extra dimension to the banner, I placed the flag stickers (Stickers By The Dozen) on punched circles and tied them between the pennants. Maraschino and Midnight blue twine from The Twinery tie it all together.


#62006 SBTD Patriotic
#57010 WGYB Patriotic
#68001 Maraschino Twine
#68014 Midnight Blue Twine

FALL Banner

The November Paper Posies kit had this acorn mini-album in it. Instead of using it for a mini-album, I turned it into a banner :)

 I painted each acorn with brown paint then covered them with patterned paper from the kit.

 Adding different stickers from the kit helped finish off each acorn.

Then I strung the banner with the orange grosgrain ribbon in the kit. A fun way to decorate for Fall :)

Superstar Get Well Banner . . .??

Haha--just combining the titles of my projects to share with you today.

(And yes, it really has been over two weeks since I blogged last. Life is B.U.S.Y. but very good.)

My September projects with Nikki Sivils products are up on Nikki's blog today. I have a card using the "Get Well Soon" line:

A layout about Bird with the My Lil' Monster line:

And also using My Lil' Monster, I made a paper lantern type Celebrate banner, because we have not one but TWO birthdays in the house over the next three days. Whoo Wee!

 There is a tutorial over on Nikki's blog on how to make the banner. :)

Hope you are celebrating life and living it to the fullest. Enjoy your Friday!

Happy Father's Day!

So excited to be celebrating fathers this weekend. Today we got to spend the day with my dad (grandpa Nels). He and my mom came over for Lina's clogging recital.

My dad is a pretty awesome man. When I think back to all he did to provide a good life for us, and how hard he worked to achieve all that he did, I don't think I can ever be grateful enough. He is always willing to help anyone. He supports us in all that we do. He gives great words of wisdom. He reads stories tirelessly to the grandkids. I am so thankful for the extra time we have been given with him following his brain injury seven years ago. Love you, dad!

After the recital, Brad made us a delicious salmon dinner. I get to cook for him tomorrow. Thankfully, he chose meals that are easy for me to make (egg burritos for breakfast, baked ziti for dinner). I'm not sure if that was what he really wanted--but how thoughtful for him to chose something I can make well. :)

I made this banner to hang on our mantle to celebrate.

The tutorial on how to make the banner is on Nikki Sivil's blog HERE.

The kids are looking forward to having a fun day with DAD tomorrow.

He is a wonderful dad.

I love the way he makes sure we always have vegetables on the table for meals.
I love the way he practices sports skills with the kids.
I love how he happily takes them to the grocery store or farmers' market.
I love that he brings them back special gifts from his business trips.
I love that he lets them help in the kitchen when he is preparing meals.
I love that he takes them on adventures around our area.
I love that he works hard to provide for our family.
I love that he will tuck them in at night and say prayers with them.
I love that he encourages them to try new things.
I love that he will take all five kids out to eat at a restaurant, solo.
I love that he will tell them stories.

I love him.

Happy Birthday Banner

The girls' third grade teacher has asked me to make a couple of banners for her this year. The latest request was a Happy Birthday banner, "in spring colors, like pastels", she said. This is what I came up with:

 I used Momenta's 5x7 cardstock stack for the bases, cutting them in half to measure 5x3-1/2. Then I trimmed out the "v" in the bottom and used the Fiskars treading water border punch for the tops.

 I added in pattern paper from Momenta's Life's A Party Paper Pad. Each square is machine stitched to the pennant. The scallop circles were punched with my fav Marvy Uchida scallop punch.

 The letters were die cut with my Slice machine, Dilly Dally card. At first I just had the white letters, but then decided the grey shadow would make the letters pop more. Love the results!

Products Used:

Momenta 5x7 Vibrant Cardstock (PA-1123)
Momenta Life's A Party Pyramid Pad (PA-2386)
Marvy Uchida Scallop Circle Punch
Making Memories Slice Machine
Dilly Dally Card

Ready for the Rodeo . . .

Here is one last layout that I completed with the February Hip Kit.

I LOVE the simplicity of this page.

 I used my triangle pennant and star punches to make the banner. Added in some stitching to hold the banner together.

This kit has several different alphas. Mixing them together makes for a fun title :)

Hope you are having a great week. Our first day of spring included rain, snow, and hail. But today we had sunshine, so that was nice. Meals are moving along well. The chicken and corn chowder was a hit (and there are leftovers for Thursday dinner so I'm making Farmer's Casserole for breakfast). The big boys liked the meatloaf. It's nice to have some more recipes in our book of favorites :)

Banners, Banners, Everywhere!

Today I have a tutorial up on the Hip Blog. You can check it out there or read through it here :)

It's no secret that I love to include banners on my projects :) Banners have been such a popular element in papercrafting for the past few years . . . and I think they will stick around for awhile.

Here are two layouts that I used banners on. For this first layout, I first placed the October Afternoon letter stickers on the pattern paper then trimmed around them, leaving an extra long length at the bottom. Then I snipped triangles out of the bottom of each rectangle for a pennant shape.

You can also use the corner of a square punch to cut out the notch in the bottom of the shape.

On this layout, I cut out triangles from the star pattern paper and then matted them for extra dimension. Adding the buttons between each triangle makes it look like they are connecting the banner together.

One of my favorite ways to enhance a banner is to stitch along the top.

Sometimes the embellishments aren't "stitchable", so I use a little liquid adhesive and add twine instead.

Hope you have fun adding banners to your projects!

Melanie

Halloween Banner

I made this Halloween Banner for a neighbor who has been driving Lina to soccer practices this season. Halloween is her favorite holiday so I thought this would be a fun way to say thanks.

I used My Mind's Eye Mischevious papers and die cuts, along with the Slice Toil & Trouble card. Both of which I bought from CropChocolate.com.

Adding in SRM Halloween stickers really helped finish the project.

SRM Stickers:
Quick Cards #52030 Boo!
WGYSP #54005 Jack-o-Lantern

I made this card to go along with the banner:

The banner was featured yesterday on the SRM blog. We will be finalizing costumes this weekend. My kids are SO excited about trick-or-treating Monday. :)  How about you?