"Welcome" Burlap DIY Banner

 

Greet your guests with a welcoming banner!

 

 

This simple DIY Banner can say it all...

For something smaller spell out "Home" or your families last name then add ribbon or garland to match the holiday seasons.  There are so many possibilities to create a banner for, a team name, a babies name in a nursery, a birthday party, ect.... Drape over a fireplace in the winter or hang from a tree at a summer bbq. Where ever you hang it, it will surely be noticed!

 

"Peace" Cotton Banner

These banners are a perfect "canvas" to create your holiday bunting for either a mantel or party decoration! Just add your favorite scrapbook paper, letters, or even vinyl to customize your look! Here is how I created this "Peace" Banner!

Supplies:

• Cotton Banner
• 7 - 12x12 scrapbook paper of your choice (My Minds Eye collection was used)
• Paper Accents Chipboard Letters
• Black Acrylic Paint
• Beacon Fabric Glue
• Beacon 3in1 Glue
• Black Bling

Directions:

1. Cut paper to fit each triangle pendant.
2. Glue using beacon fabric glue
3. Paint chipboard letters with black acrylic paint
4. Glue Letters to the front using Beacon 3in1 glue
5. add bling in each corner

* Six Pennant Canvas Banner $8.97 (reg. $14.99) 4 feet long on sale until November 27th, 2014

Fall Canvas Banners

Decorate your home or mantel for the fall season with these canvas banners! They come pre-sewen so all you have to do is decorate it how ever you want!

Ways you can decorate your banner:

- Add patterned paper for the background
- Layer burlap triangles over top
- Use chipboard letters to spell out your word
- Paint or cover your letters with paper
- Use brads to attache layers

* Canvas Banner $8.97 (reg $14.99) and Chipboard Letters $4 (choose from six styles reg $5.99) on sale until October 14th, 2014

4th of July Celebration by Design Team Member Elizabeth Wiederspohn

Everyone loves a good celebration and I can’t think of a better day to celebrate than the 4^th of July.  I love our country, our freedoms, and our troops that protect them both.  Independence Day is my second favorite holiday (right behind Christmas.) so I am honored to create for Craft Warehouse on such a special day.  

God Bless America Banner
 

Supplies Used:

Pebbles Americana 48 Piece Paper Pad

Pebbles Americana Dimensional Stickers

Pebbles Americana Phrase and Accent Stickers

Pebbles Americana Printed Cardstock Shapes

Doodlebug Sprinkles Blue Jean, Ladybug, & Lily White

Doodlebug Washi Tape Air Mail

Hazel & Ruby The Makery Shine and Sparkle

American Crafts Thickers Maple White

Paper Accents Glassine Bags

Die Cutter

Sewing Machine

Scoring Board

 
Flag Banners

1.     Cut 72 2.5” stars using your favorite punch, Silhouette die cutter or your Sizzix die cutting machine.  36 should be out of red pattern paper and 36 white pattern paper.  If your paper is single sided, you may want to cut enough stars to double side each star.

2.     Sew twelve red stars together into a banner making sure to make one continuous string and immediately hang your star banner to avoid tangling.  

3.     Continue to sew strings of stars together making a total of three white strings of 12 stars and three red strings of 12 stars and hanging them alternating colors.

4.     Cut a square 7.5” and glue a 4.5” star or rosette in the center.  Using Thickers write “God Bless America” over the top and bottom of the star Punch three holes across the top and tie in front of the left corner of stars. 

Rosettes

1.     Cut 14 3x12” strips of cardstock making sure you have two of each color.  Next, using a scoring board, score the strips in 1” increments and fold the strips back and forth alternating directions of the folds. 

2.     Bunch the folded strip together and cut the end at different angles much like you would a paper snowflake.  Make sure that you cut the matching cardstock strip in the same pattern to make sure the pennant is the same all the way around then staple the ends of each pair of strip together creating a circle

3.     Gather and push down the center of each pennant.  Glue a punched circle to the back using a hot glue gun or a strong adhesive like E-6000 to keep the rosette from folding in on itself.  Let dry then flip over and glue a star to the front.

4.     Punch a hole in the top and tie to banner.

Pennants

1.     Cut 4 4x6” rectangles and 4 3.5x6” rectangles. Stack all rectangles together centering the smaller rectangles and cut the bottom shape of your pennant to make sure all pennants are the same shape.  I cut mine with a traditional triangle pennant style but don't be afraid to get creative. 

2.     Assemble the pennants by sewing or gluing paper pennants across the top placing a glassine bag on the bottom, the 4x6” rectangle in the middle and the 3.5x6” rectangle on top making sure to raise the final layer high enough to show the second layer of cardstock at the  bottom of your pennant. 

3.     Even off the top of your pennant by cutting off 1/8- 1/4” with your cutting board. 

4.     Embellish pennants using stickers, embellishments, sequins, and sprinkles.  Create dimension using double sided foam tape and layering different embellishments.  Punch holes in each corner and tie onto the banner. 

Land That I Love Layout 

This sheet is one of my favorites from the Pebbles Americana Collection.  I love the signage and different American icons.  It just made me want to scrapbook more.  I put together this layout using the three dimensional embellishments, stickers and cardstock embellishments from the Pebbles Americana line, Doodlebug washi tape and Sprinkles, American Crafts Thickers, and Hazel & Ruby sequins.  I also stitched in gold thread around the boarders of my cardstock.  Never used gold thread in your machine before?  I have a tip for you.  Gold thread does not behave well in your bobbin.  Instead, load your bobbin with white or cream colored thread and it will behave wonderfully. 

Thank You for Your Service Card & Operation Write Home

There is no better way to celebrate Independence Day than to honor the troops that keep us free.  I made a card to honor a Veteran I know with some of the remaining papers, embossing folder, embellishments and Lawn Fawn stamps.  Don't have a Veteran close by?  Check out this website http://operationwritehome.org  The Operation Write Home organization allows you to send a card to troops serving our country to let them know how much we appreciate their service.  They also have another service made available to our troops.  Troops are in need of cards to write home to their families on.  You can send your homemade cards to Operation Write Home and they will package them up and send them to our troops so they can send cards and letters home.  There are a couple of guidelines and requirements to what supplies can be used on a card so check out their web page before you get started.  I can't think of a better way to use my hobby.  

4th of July Painted Banner

 One of my favorite holidays to celebrate is 4th of July! You can create this banner in a matter of minutes and use it for many years to come.

 Supplies:

• Canvas Banner (Yor-2651) Reg. $12.99
• Star stickers (I used Nicole glitter stickers)
• Americana Acrylic paint in Navy Blue & Tuscan Red
• Painters tape
• Stencil dabber
• Nicole metal stars

Directions:

1. Place stars on every other canvas banner pennant and strips of tape on the opposite pendants.
2. Using dabber paint the star banner Navy Blue & the stripes banner Tuscan Red.
3. Once dry take off the tape and the star stickers.
4. Add metal start and hang in your favorite place!

Burlap & Bandana Banner

Create a No Sew banner in a matter of minutes! I love how quick and simple this is to create... you can even have your kid's help you too!

 Supplies:

• Burlap pennant from Canvas Corp.
• Mini red clothes pins from Canvas Corp.
• Jute string
• Red & Blue bandana
• Star print fat quarter
• Metal stars
• Beacon fabric glue

Directions:

1. Cut your star fabric to fit pennant, then glue on using beacon fabric glue. Let dry.
2. Fold your bandanas in half and cut strips 1.5" wide.
3. Using mini clips attach pennant to the jute string.
4. Take strips of bandana and tie them in between the pennants.
5. Add metal stars.
6. Hang & celebrate!

Spring Banner by Michelle Wofford

Happy Easter! All week we are celebrating by inspiring you with fun, simple, and creative holiday projects! This project is from our creative vault that we knew you would love to see again! 

Hey Craft Warehouse fans! This is Michelle Wofford, from the 2011 Design Team Alumni, here to share how to make a simple banner for Spring.  I've noticed that we don't have a lot of seasonal decorations around our house and I wanted to create something that we could hang for during the spring months.

I picked up a 6 x 6 pad and a package of tulip shaped chipboard pieces from my local Craft Warehouse.  Here's my finished piece. Keep reading to learn how to create one of your very own.

For this project you will need the following supplies

 - Pattern Paper (6 x 6 or 12 x 12)
- Chipboard Shapes (tulips used here)
- adhesive (Beacon's 3 in 1 or Pioneer's embellishment glue stick)
- American Craft Thickers Alphabet Stickers
- Crop-A-Dile
- Ribbon
- Scissors
- Sanding Tool (optional)
- Ink Pad (optional)
- Sponge (optional)
- Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch (optional)

Start by selecting your paper and chipboard pieces.  I wanted to create a banner that didn't use the traditional pennant shape.  Depending on how large your chipboard pieces are you can use 6 x 6 patterned paper.  This size worked perfect for the tulip shape I selected, I covered the front of two tulips with one sheet of paper.

Once you have your paper and chipboard selected start covering the chipboard with the paper.  I would use either beacon's 3 in 1 or pioneer's embellishment glue stick for this part.

I like to adhere my paper and use a kraft knife to trim away the paper when it is dry.  If you are not comfortable using a craft knife you can trace the chipboard shape on the back side of the paper you are using a and cut out the shape first and then adhere it to the chipboard.  Once the front is dry and cut out I like to cover the back side so the finished product has a nice finished look.  Your pieces should look like this.

The next step is to punch holes on both sides of each piece so you can string on ribbon to hang.  Since the tulips didn't already have holes I created a template to use as a guide so all the holes were in the same spot.  To do this trace your shape on a piece of scratch paper and cut out with scissors.

Next fold your template in half and using a crop-a-dile punch the paper where you'd like your holes to be.

Unfold and lay template on top of your paper covered chipboard and punch holes on both sides of each piece.

Your pieces should now look like this.

The next steps are optional but I like to do them because I feel it gives the pieces a nice finished look.  You'll need a sanding tool, sand paper will work, but you don't want it to be too coarse.  And sanding file is great for those hard to reach spots between the petals.  After sanding I cover the edges with ink that matches the paper.  I like to use a sponge, it makes it easier to get in between the petals and it gives a subtle distressed edge.

Your pieces should now look like this now.

Next adhere your Thicker's Alphabet stickers, here I used SPRING.  

Next string your banner pieces on your ribbon.  Start by threading the ribbon thru the top of the first piece and pulling up thru the back on the other side.  If your ribbon is wide enough you shouldn't have to knot it to keep the pieces in place.

The final step is adding any embellishments you want to use to enhance your banner.  I decided to keep mine simple and just add a few butteflies that I punched out using the Martha Stewart butterfly punch.  You can add as much or as little as you want.  

That's it, hope you enjoyed this tutorial.  I'd love to see any banners you create.

 

~ Michelle ~



Martha Stewart Circle Border Punch System

 

NEW to Craft Warehouse is the Martha Stewart Circle Border Punch System!

Create perfectly punched circles with pretty, die-cut borders. Make doilies, decorations, place mats, and cards. The Martha Stewart Crafts Circle Edge Punch Starter Kit makes it simple - and you don't need to trim your paper first. The innovative design punches edge designs from 6 inch to 12 inch in diameter. Additional punch designs available.

The Circle Edge Starter Kit* includes:
Base (size 4in x 11.25in)
Eyelet Doily Punch cartridge
Instructions

Watch the video below to see it in action! 


* Starter Kit is on sale for $24.98 (regular $35.99) and Circle Border Cartridges on sale for $15.88 (reg. $21.99) until March 17th, 2013.