A Banner for my mantel or maybe . . .

I really don’t know where I’m going to put this banner.  I’ll have to experiment with where it looks best.   Isn’t it pretty! 

For this banner I used the lips from Indie Art, and the tags came from Winter Frolic.  The font is Mickey and I used the scalloped circle from Mini Monograms.  I also used the heart from Doodlecharms.  The paper was from my stash. The black and off white patterned papers are from Hobby Lobby, the red and white polka dot is Daisy D’s, and the cardstock is mostly Cord’nations. 

The largest tag is 4” high. 

The paper flowers are from Hobby Lobby.  I tried to make them look like little bouquets. 

I faux stitched all the layers and popped each layer up with dimensionals.

And so that’s it for today!  I hope you are warm and safe during this really bad storm. 

A Little Valentine’s Banner

This little banner is only about 16” long and each piece of the banner is only 3” high and a bout 1 1/2” wide.  I plan on hanging it in my husband’s van during my 14 days of Valentines.  And here’s the thing, every single cut is from one cartridge—Storybook! 

From the first base layer to the letters on each medallion, every single cut is from Storybook. This is a great old cartridge and it has some great all purpose cuts. The paper is the My Mind’s Eye stack Love Nest and the cardstock is all from DCWV.  Love Nest  is exclusive to Hobby Lobby.  I also used some pink and red hued Petaloos  Flora Doodles as well as some Paper Studio gems from Hobby Lobby. 

I made the cut file on my Gypsy and from there this project went together very quickly. 

How about some close ups! 

I’m pretty sure I won’t get any time in my studio today.  Two of our grandchildren are coming to spend the night. Saturday I’ll have some time with my husband who has worked for the past two Saturdays.  I’m looking forward to the grandchildren and to my hubby time.  Have a great weekend. 

You know . . . that Jesus is the Reason banner!

I promised you a picture of the Jesus is the Reason banner once I got it up in the place I’d originally planned to put it. Here it is:

I couldn’t get the whole banner in the photo, but you can certainly see that it looks much better here than where I first hung it! 

We’ve been scurrying around here trying to get all of the decorating done this weekend.  Yesterday we accomplished quite a lot, and then last night our son, daughter and little grandson came for dinner. I made my special chicken noodle soup.  The recipe is my own creation and everything about this soup is homemade and delish!  Really!  Ask anyone who has enjoyed it.  It is our usual Christmas Eve fare along with homemade clam chowder.  The recipe for the clam chowder came from a dear friend we knew when we lived in Colorado and with whom I recently renewed my acquaintance over on Facebook.  Facebook is great for that! Any way, thanks for the recipe Pam. It’s become a real family favorite!

I’ve got several projects in mind for this next week, and I’ve been working on them a little at a time when I could grab a few minutes in my scrapping studio.  I hope to share them with you this next week. 

Jesus is the Reason for the Season!

I don’t know about all of you, but I am having trouble getting my very long to-do list done!  That usually means my expectations are getting too great for me to meet.  It’s Christmas and I usually push to get more done than usual. 

But there’s really only one important thing to remember at this time of year though we are tempted to get caught up in the secular celebration and forget that Christmas really belongs to believers who want to celebrate their Savior’s birth.  I made this banner to help me remember.  And though I’ve spent every spare moment I’ve had for the past two days to finish it, I have used that time thinking about the place I’ve prepared in my heart for the baby who would come to die for my sins and to redeem me! 

Even though the project isn’t complicated, it did take time to do faux stitching on all the pieces.  I also had to photograph it in two sections because it is way too long.   I will add this banner to the garland that goes along the top of the bannister in my living room.  It’ll look grand there! I promise to take pictures when I get it up. I hope you’ll enjoy it!

The pennant and its shadow are cut from Sports Mania and are cut at 5”, and the scalloped circle and its shadow are cut are 4 1/2”. and are from Accent Essentials.   The snowflake is from A Child’s Year and it and its shadow are cut at 4”. The letters are from Winter Woodlands at 3 1/2”.  I also used Base Camp for the welded phrase “is the”.  Of course I used  my Gypsy to weld the phrase and to plan the banner.  

The paper is a great mish mash of stuff from my stash.  The pennant patterned paper is one of my all time favs and several years ago I bought about 10 sheets to use for one scrapbook.  That scrapbook didn’t come to be, but I’ve enjoyed that paper like crazy!  I think it is K&Company.  I also used several sheets of Karen Foster.  Love it too.  The cardstock is all from Core’dinations.  The ribbon is some I’ve had forever.  I am so glad I’ve been making quite a dent in my paper and ribbon stash! I am all about using what I have.

Now for some close ups!

Blessings

We all have them and usually take so little time to think about how truly  blessed we are! As I was creating this banner I did take the time to think about how blessed I am .  That’s what Thanksgiving is about.  We come together in the abundance of our blessings to remember and possibly to think about where we would be without all the things every day that cushion our lives in some way. 

Here is my Blessings banner.  I really like the way it turned out.  However, it is long and was hard to get a whole picture of, so the first picture is just a picture of the whole thing. 

Oh, I am going to have adjust that banner when I get home, and I am really not sure where I want to put it.  For now it hangs in my family room very lop sided.

Now here’s a close up!   

EW!  Blurry!  That’s what I get for photographing it at night with no natural light and in a hurry.

The base of this banner started with a tag from Gypsy Wanderings cut at 6.75 and 4.75”.  Since I got my Gypsy, I’ve used the designer tag feature so many times I can not count.  It’s got great tags and in so many shapes.  I also used Sports Mania for the pennant shape at 5”x 3“, and because I don’t have Tie the Knot, I took the scalloped border from Accent Essentials and used two for each side at 3.45 x .45,  and welded it to the sides of the pennant. Then I cut a regular pennant out just a smidge smaller.  The scalloped circle cut at 2.91 x3.22 is from Mini Monograms, and I can’t remember where I got the leaf swirl.  The fonts used are Cuttin Up and Blackletter.  I used pop dots between the layers. 

The patterned paper is from a fall stack of DCWV from several years ago and the card stock is a mixture of Bazzill and Core’dinations.  I used some Stickles on the leaves and the ribbon is Hobby Lobby from their fall collection a couple of years ago.  I love the colors and think it turned out quite striking in appearance. 

OK, on with some more close ups.

I counting my blessings because this been a hard year, and I need to remember just how blessed I really am.

A Tiny Banner

Tiny things fascinate me. How did that guy write the whole Declaration of Independence on the head of a pin? Yes, I think about those things. It’s crazy being inside my head.

Any how every year I try to find new ways to celebrate my husband’s birthday, and this year I came up with the idea to make a banner that I could hang in his car. This little banner is the result of my labors. He loved getting in his car on the morning of his birthday and finding this banner hanging from his visor.

This is the banner that caused my head long plunge into banner mania.

It’s only about 2 feet long and the tags are only 1” wide. And those pinwheel rosettes? They’re ba---ck. They are barely 1” across and were tedious to fold and put together, but my man is worth it.

Once again I have to apologize for the photography. I really could not get a good photo of this banner no matter what I did.

I used Coredinations card stock again. I love that stuff. It cuts like a dream on my Expression and is so easy to work with. The ribbon is from Hobby Lobby from their fabric department. Instead of hot gluing them to the ribbon, I used staples which I thought gave it a slightly industrial/manly look. I used A Child’s Year for the tags and Base Camp for the lettering. Besides the rosettes which I love to use and hate to make, it was a pretty quick banner.

Here’s a close up and then I’ll let you go:

Darn! I wish I could get a better picture.