Hi Everyone! Thanks to all who played along with last week's Just Us Girls template challenge - so many creative gift packaging ideas! Darling
Dana is our wonderful Hostess of the
JUGS18 Wild Card challenge this week & she challenged us all to create a Pennant Banner to decorate our home.
BONUS: focus on
LOVE or
VALENTINE'S DAY! Whatever your
heart desires!
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If you are like me & have never made a pennant banner, please don't be afraid, give it a try & check out Jenn's awesome tutorial on
SCS & the gallery for some inspiration:
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/pennant_banner/Here is my
BE SWEET pennant banner:
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(I apologize for the huge photo, but it is difficult to read if it is any smaller) My Dearest Mother-In-Law, Barbara, is the one responsible for teaching me the two words:
Be Sweet :) Barbara is a very soft spoken Sweet Southern women, who speaks slow & softly with a lovely Southern drawl :)
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Now for some pennant details: I cut the actual triangular shapes using the
Cricut Celebrations cartridge then using the
Sizzix Bigz Scalloped card die, I cut the scalloped edges. After rubbing the edges with
Ranger Tim Holtz Vintage photo ink, I cut the scalloped strips to size (8"), then adhered them to the pennant fronts.
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The back side looked messy so I cut plain pink triangles, adhered them on then stitched the 3 layers together.
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Once the layers were stitched together, I inked up several images from the
Lizzie Anne Designs Vintage Valentine set & randomly stamped the pennant.
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All the letters were cut using the
Cricut Plantin Schoolbook cart. The cool feature on this cart is the Shadow button. Which means, once I cut the letters from the
Making Memories DP, I then used the Shadow feature to cut the same letters from
Bazzill Pomegranate cs. After all the letters were cut, I simply layered & adhered them together.
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The
Prima flowers are goodies I purchased at CHA. I rubbed on a bit of
Ranger Tim Holtz Vintage Photo ink to give them a little aged look.
ALL the other flowers that you see were cut using various Cricut carts.
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When I was at CHA, I stumbled upon the
Making Memories Love Struck DP line! I had this project in mind, so I scooped up a few sheets :)
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I fastened
Memory Makers XL Grommets to all the corners with my
Crop-a-Dile 11, then looped a piece of ribbon between 2 pennants & tied a bow to connect them.
I hope you can join along with
Just Us Girls this week :) For
complete details, please visit the
Just Us Girls challenge site & be sure to visit
ALL the
DT girls (found on my side bar) &
Gabby, JUGS January Guest Designer. Thank you so much Gabby for sharing your awesome artistic flair with Just Us Girls! It was all our pleasure :)
Once you have your pennant banner photographed, be sure to go to Just Us Girls and post a direct link to your project on our Mr. Linky. Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by! Be Sweet!
Ingredients Used: Stamps: Lizzie Anne Designs Vintage Valentine Paper: Making Memories Love Struck, Bazzill Pomegranate, Cameo Ink: Ranger Tim Holtz Vintage Photo, SU Chocolate Chip Sprinkles: Spellbinders Scalloped Heart die, Cricut Celebrations, Accent Essentials, Plantin Schoolbook cartridges, Prima flowers, Making Memories hardware, Offray ribbon, buttons, twine, white cs from stash
REMINDER: Mark your calendar for the February MTME Release on FEBRUARY 1st! Lauren has some new great products & she will be offering a Give Away on her blog!
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