4th of July Banners

 Fourth of July was around the corner and I think we all get caught up in June and forget that the 4th is right there.  So I made these banners to go along with the holiday.  I am not very good and doing tutorials step by step instructions but I can sure tell you have I made it.

 I started out with some denim I had bought on clearance a while ago probably for skirts or something.  But it was perfect for my banner.  I cut a flag from an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper.  Then cut out 7 pendents sewed around them and frayed the edges.  I then cut burlap the size I wanted and frayed the edges.  Then cut a pieces for the bunting a strip of red and accordion folded it and stapled one side.  The white sun shape I cut from chipboard and covered them with white fabric.  Cut out letter on glitter fun foam on my Cricut and glued everything together.  I sewed all the pendants on to ribbon and tied extra fabric pieces and ribbons in between.  It turned out awesome and I can keep it for every year.

The next banner I made was out of paper.  I cut a whole bunch of triangles out of patterned or solid red, white and blue paper.  Then took ribbon and just sewed them all together.  I was really easy and you could make it as long as you want or needed to.

Have a Great 4th of July everyone!!

Father's Day Tie Banner and Gift

Father's day was around the corner and I have really been getting off on banners lately.  So I made one for of course Father's day.  It was simple and turned out darling.  When I saw this on a blog it was made out of paper and I wanted to be able to keep using it so I made it out of fabric.

 I first cut out a template of a tie from a piece of paper.  Then pinned it to my fabric and cut out 15 ties.  What made it the easiest for the letters was to iron the fabric to iron-on paper.  Then I cut them out on my Cricut and ironed them on to the ties.  Simple right.  After they were all made I used a heavier jute rope and zig-zagged the ties on to the jute.

 I loved how this turned out and now I will have one every year for Father's Day.

I then made a Candy Bow-K and decided to make one for my hubby.  I took a piece of floral foam and glued the box candy around it.  Then glue all your candy bars onto skewers with hot glue.  Stick them into the foam where you want them and tuck tissue paper around the edges.  Cut pieces of tulle and stick in between the candy bars and VOILA you are done.

To make it more personalized I wrote a little note that went with most of the candy bars that I used. 

Happy Father's Day to my hubby.

Love him and always will.