Monday, March 21, 2011

Banner-ific!!

I am so glad that Banners are still "in", because I love using them on my lo's!  So I was excited to see that the challenge this week on Frosted Designs, was to use a banner on your lo.  I decided to use this Banner to "hold" my title.  There are some great things that you can recycle from buying some scrappy supplies and one of those things is the cardboard insert that comes in packages of Page Protectors.  It's not really thick or stiff and it helps add just a little dimension to your page.  I printed out my banner shape and traced it onto the cardboard.  Then I cut out my shapes and adhered my paper to it.  Once it was dry, I cut away the excess paper and punched holes in each of the shapes with the Crop-a-dile.  I added ribbon and American Crafts foam letters for the title.



I used a sketch from Sketch Support:



The Hot Air Balloon is from a pattern on the Paper Crafts site.  I used the same method on the Balloon, that I used on the Banner.  You can check out some of their great downloads here:  http://www.papercraftsmag.com/sentiments/index.html

Products Used:

Paper:  Echo Park, DCWV, American Crafts
Stickers:  Echo Park
Foam Letters:  American Crafts
Embroidery Floss:  Janlynn
Punch:  Marvy
Tools:  Crop-A-Dile
Other:  Buttons

6 comments:

  1. So cute! Love the stitching on the hot air balloon!! :)

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  2. I just love this one! Left you a comment on the CK gallery. I've got to find some hot air balloons now!

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  3. oh this is just too cute!! great job on the banner and the hot air balloon!! thanks for playing at frosted designs!!

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  4. Great banner! And use of the cardboard. Love that idea! Your hot air balloon is very cute too. Thanks for playing along with us at Frosted Designs!
    Lydia

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  5. Fun layout! Love the hot air ballon and banner!

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  6. Congrats on getting Top 3 at Frosted Designs!! You definitely earned it--Love this LO!

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