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Beautiful Autumn Breeze Fall Banner Tutorial

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Beautiful Autumn Breeze Fall Banner Tutorial

Hello, Friends!  This beautiful Autumn Breeze Fall Banner Tutorial is our Wonderful Wednesday project of the week.  Rustic burlap pennants, handmade flowers, antique lace, and rich layered papers make it the perfect bit of fall home decor.

Handmade Sunflowers and Burlap Equals All the Fall Feels

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Rustic burlap pennants and handmade sunflowers really amp up the autumn vibe of this fall banner.  Stitch the pennants onto pretty tan gingham ribbon and top with vintage ivory lace to add even more texture to the design.

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TIP:  Add star anise in with your embellishments to make your banner smell as lovely as it looks!

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TIP:  Layer Floral Ephemera Bits to create a pretty autumn scene.  Then tuck in die cut ferns and  handmade flowers to bring it to life.  Can you spy the star anise?

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TIP: Mix and match handmade flowers on a die cut wreath.  Use a circle die to cut images from 4×6 journal cards and place in the center of the wreath.

Copper Tones

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Copper tones add warmth and richness to any autumn project.  I’ve incorporated them on this banner in three ways:

  • First, tie bows with copper taffeta ribbon and add copper satin ribbon streamers to the bow clusters.
  • Next, paint antique bronze pumpkin embellishments with a little copper acrylic paint.  It’s amazing how that light coating of copper paint makes the pumpkins stand out!
  • Finally, spritz your floral papers with a bit of copper mist.  This is subtle, but oh, so beautiful!

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Beautiful Autumn Breeze Fall Banner Tutorial on YouTube

If you’d like to see this banner come together, then I cordially invite you to grab a cuppa and a snack and join me over on my YouTube channel for the tutorial.

As I mentioned in the video, many of the flower dies I used are retired.  But I bet you have some beautiful flower dies tucked away in your stash.  Why not pull them out and use them to dress up your own beautiful banner?  If you don’t have any flower dies in your stash, I highly recommend Elizabeth Craft Designs as a source.  There’s a lot to choose from there.

You can find a linked supply list below this post.

I’ll be back next week with our Choose Your Own Adventure Card Tutorial of the Month.  I’m feeling a pop up card coming on….hope to see you then!

Thanks for stopping by!

Cheerio,

kathy

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Simple Stories Vintage Woodlands Banner Tutorial

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Simple Stories Vintage Woodlands Banner Tutorial: Using Ephemera to Build a Scene

Hello, Friends!  Today’s Simple Stories Vintage Woodlands Banner Tutorial is going to use ephemera pieces to build a scene.  It’s such a quick and easy way to decorate your banner pennants!  I think you’ll look at  your ephemera pieces in a whole new way after we make this banner together.

A Walk in the Woods

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Growing up in New England, I enjoyed many a ramble through the woods.  No matter the season, the woods around our home offered a never ending array of beauty.  In winter,  the ground was  covered in blankets of snow that softened the landscape.  In springtime, fresh green buds came bursting onto the scene along with happy songbirds back from their winter migration.

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Summertime offered deep green leave that whispered gossip beneath a crystal blue sky.  But fall?  Fall was the best season of all to traipse along pine strewn paths as vibrant leaves softly fell to the ground.  You might spot a chipmunk peeping out from behind a fallen log.  Or on a very good day, you might even see a deer.

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I tried to capture the wonder of those woodland walks in today’s banner.

The Shaker Element

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This shaker frame was also quick and easy to make.  I’ll show you how in the video tutorial below.

Graphic 45 Tag and Pocket Dies

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Have you discovered that the Graphic 45 Tag and Pocket Dies make wonderful banner pennants?  That shaped edge adds a great deal of charm to the banner design.

TIP:  Cut the pocket base from cardstock.  Don’t fold as you would to make a pocket.  For a perfect fit on the liner paper, cut the pocket base from patterned paper.  Then trim 1/8″ from the left and right hand sides and 1/4″ from the top edge.  This fits the cardstock base perfectly, and eliminates the need to trim out that tricky bottom piece.

Simple Stories Banner Tutorial on YouTube

If you’d like to see how I built each scene with ephemera pieces, please grab a cuppa and enjoy this tutorial on my YouTube channel.

I hope you enjoyed seeing this banner come together, and would love to hear your thoughts in the comment section below.

I’ll be back next week with out “Choose Your Own Adventure” card of the month featuring Simple Stories Vintage Woodlands and Graphic 45 Season to Celebrate.

You can find a linked supply list below this post.

Thanks for stopping by!

Cheerio,

kathy

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Let’s Make a Bee Themed Banner

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Let’s Make a Bee Themed Banner with Paper Rose Bees and Butterflies & Reneabouquets

Hello, Friends!  It’s Wonderful Wednesday, so let’s make a bee themed banner together with Paper Rose Bees and Butterflies!  It’s as inviting as a freshly mowed lawn, a well-tended flower bed and as sweet as honey!

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Green ticking ribbon, honeycomb, flirty butterflies, buzzing bees and pretty floral elements just feel like summer, don’t they?

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I’ve used Graphic 45 Kraft Tags (ATC and Regular) and dies along with Eileen Hull Sizzix House/Pocket Stitchlets Dies to create the pennants for this banner.  Vintage lace, ribbons from my stash and pretty brown buttons give it a nice homespun feel.  The color scheme will carry this banner right through summer and into early fall, which is nice.

Bees and Hives

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Each end of the banner features a matching  G45 ATC tag and a pretty ribbon cluster.  I’ll show you how to hang the little dangle charms as part of the tutorial.

TIP:  Tuck a tassel into your bow cluster for a fun change of pace.  I topped mine with a jump ring, which made it very easy to tuck into place.

The Shaker Frame

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Placing a shaker frame in the center panel is one of my favorite things to do.  But this time I wanted a circular frame, and there were none to be found in my stash.  So I created my own frame with my circle dies.  I’ll show  you how to do it, too, in the video tutorial.

More Bees and Flowers

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Reneabouquets has the most gorgeous bee themed embellishments!  This corner piece fits the base of our pocket die pennant perfectly, doesn’t it?  A

TIP:  Add a touch of burlap for texture and to help ground all these bold colors.  It really works!

Bees and Honey

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Pop up a fussy cut honey jar and honey dipper to dress up one of the Regular Tag dies.  Tuck a bit of burlap behind it to really make it pop!

Let’s Make a Bee Themed Banner Tutorial on YouTube

Would you like to see this pretty bee themed banner come together?  Then please grab a cuppa and a snack and join me for the tutorial.

 

I hope you enjoyed today’s Wonderful Wednesday tutorial.  I’ll be back next week with our Choose Your Own Adventure Card tutorial.  We’ll make 2 cards with 2 different paper collections but only 1 card recipe.  Graphic 45 Season to Celebrate will be used for one card, and Bees and Butterflies will be used for the other.  It should be a happy time!

You can find a linked supply list below this post.

Thanks for stopping by!

Cheerio,

kathy

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September 2024 Banner of the Month Tutorial

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September 2024 Banner of the Month Tutorial with G45 Autumn Greetings and Reneabouquets

Hello, Friends!  It’s time for our Wonderful Wednesday September 2024 Banner of the Month Tutorial.  Our banner this month features beautiful papers from Graphic 45 Autumn Greetings, Really Reasonable Ribbon and gorgeous new paper pretties from Reneabouquets.  This is one of the prettiest banners I’ve ever made, and I think you’re going to like it, too!

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Look at all those yummy pumpkins, fall flowers, leaves and acorns!  It’s autumn served up on paper!

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Are you enjoying this Autumn Greetings paper as much as I am?  I’ve paired it up with some lovely Reneabouquets Hello, Autumn Tuck Ins Printed Beautiful board, handmade flowers and beautiful ribbons from Really Reasonable Ribbon.  And just look at those adorable little acorn charms!

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I’ve used 3 different shaped dies to create the pennants on this banner.  It’s always fun to mix and match pennant shapes, and this go round I’ve used an unexpected die to create this pennant.  Can you guess what it is?  You’ll find out in the video tutorial

A Little Mixed Media

I’ve used some simple mixed media techniques on Reneabouquets Hello, Autumn Laser Cuts.  Sponge daubers and Distress Oxide inks lend fall color to autumn leaves and acorns.  It’s such a quick and easy way to dress up Beautiful Board.

My camera lens did not like all the orange and yellow tones, so the colors here are a bit more faded.  In real life, these are rich jewel tones that say “autumn is here” loudly and clearly.

September 2024 Banner of the Month Tutorial on YouTube

Would you like to learn how to die cut the pennants, stitch them onto ribbon, add the bows and embellish the banner?  Then please grab a cuppa and a snack and enjoy this video tutorial HERE.

I hope you enjoyed today’s banner tutorial as much as I enjoyed making it!  If you have any questions or comments, I’d love to hear from you in the comment section below.

You can find a linked supply list below this post.

Thanks for stopping by, friends!

Cheerio,

kathy

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Christmas in July Banner of the Month Tutorial

Christmas in July Banner of the Month Tutorial with Spellbinder Dies & Gnome for Christmas

Hello, Friends!  It’s time for our Christmas in July Banner of the Month Tutorial!  This is a quick and easy design thanks to loads of Spellbinder Holiday Dies and great patterns from Echo Park Gnome for Christmas paper collection.  If you are a fan of needlework, Nordic designs, and gingham, I think you are going to enjoy today’s tutorial.

Spellbinders Home for the Holidays St. Nick Dies

The focal point for this 7 pennant banner is our handsome St. Nick figure.  To me, this die has a great Nordic vibe, especially when he’s all decked out in his green Santa suit.  He’s part of the Home for the Holidays release from Spellbinder Paper Arts.

The camera lens didn’t pick this up very well, but his beard and ermine trim are made with white glitter paper, so they really sparkle when the light hits them.

Jingle Bell Beginnings and Endings

I am such a fan of this Spellbinders Tag and Label Die Set!  This time I used the largest and next to the smallest dies to cut the cardstock bases and liners for this banner.  The pennants on either end are made with the smaller dies.

These tags are fairly small, so I didn’t add too much to them.  But the gold jingle bells in the bow cluster add just the right amount of jingle and shine.

Christmas Stitchery: Nichol Spohr’s Needlework Dies

Y’all know how much I enjoy a good sewing themed project.  So you can imagine how tickled I was when I saw Nichol Spohr’s Needlework dies!  Ooooh-la-la!  I could not wait to use them, and found a way to “stitch” them into this Christmas themed banner.   This scene includes her Gathering Stitches, Needlework Tool Kit and greenery from the Faux Embroidered Stocking Dies.  I can see myself using this embroidery hoop to make fabulous shaker windows in the future.  

This pennant features the Faux Embroidered Stocking Dies.  Since I die cut my stockings from patterned paper, I didn’t add a lot of the details, but the stockings are still super cute.

This is the Faux Embroidered Spruce die set.  It’s super quick and easy to make, too.  Just layer the tree branch die cuts over the evergreen die cuts, then add in a few extra branches to fill it out.

Christmas Squirrel

This is the only banner that does not feature a die cut scene.  Instead, I went with the Nordic theme and added a sledding squirrel from Stamperia Romantic Woodland.

Christmas in July Banner of the Month Tutorial on YouTube

I’m happy to report that my husband has been cleared to resume most normal duties (still can’t lift anything heavy).  And, our daughter and new grandson are thriving.  So life here is smoothing out a bit, and now I hope to get caught up on all the work I didn’t get done while taking care of them.

So today’s tutorial is a little bit short.  If you’ve never made a banner with me before, here’s a great beginner banner tutorial for you.

For all the rest of you dear friends, please enjoy this somewhat abbreviated tutorial on my YouTube channel:

As always, you will find a linked supply list below this post.

You can also purchase this banner from my Etsy Shop.

Wishing you all a joyful and creative Wonderful Wednesday!

Cheerio,

kathy

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