Post 10 - "Look at Banner!"

If you are an Arrested Development fan, you probably recognize the post title. If not, just ignore me being quirky early in the morning:-)

Bug's birthday party on Sunday was supposed to be simple, small, and easy so I could focus all my energy on the kid party in June. The thing is though, I'm not good at simple. I get ideas and I HAVE to do them. The first such project was the owl chocolate lollipops that took an insane amount of time to make (we're talking on the order of 40 minutes per batch of two!). This project actually didn't take that long, but probably was unnecessary. Anyway, here's the birthday banner that I made to hang behind the food table...

These banners are extremely popular these days and any number of personalized designs can be purchased from dozens of Etsy shops, but I made this one myself using leftover craft supplies (of which I have a ridiculous collection). I was inspired by this blog, but decided to change it up and use squares instead of circles. Here are simple instructions:

1. Choose a big font you like and print the letters you need. I used a font called Storybook and printed in size 250 from Word.

2. Cut out the letters.

3. Using my Fiskar's paper slicer (one of my best purchases EVER) I then cut 6x6 inch squares out of cardstock and 5.5x5.5 squares out of assorted scrapbooking papers.

4. With the gluestick that bug wasn't using as chapstick, I layered the cardstock, scrapbook paper, and cut out letters.

5. Once dry, I punched holes on either side of the letters and connected them by tying three small snip-its of ribbon through the holes on consecutive letters.

And that's it!

Here's one more shot of the banner

(that I stole from Auntie B, thanks!) with bug and Daddy:-)