Banner of the Month Archives

April Banner of the Month Tutorial with Graphic 45 Time to Flourish and Reneabouquets

Hello, Friends! It’s Throwback Thursday, and I’m here with our April Banner of the Month Tutorial. We started this through the year series with our February Banner, then last month we got our March Banner made. Now it’s time to get ready for Easter with tulips, chicks, butterflies and spring flowers.

Even if there’s still snow in your part of the world (I’m truly sorry if that is the case) this sweet banner will make it feel like springtime inside your home. I thought about Easter eggs when I was choosing the color palette for this banner. It reminds me so much of the old Pas Easter Egg dying kits I had when I was a kid.

TIP #1: Choose a wide (1 1/2″) ribbon and fold it over the tops of the banner pennants. Then top it with some beautiful white crochet lace. Hold the layers together with binder clips as you stitch across the top. Then turn the banner and stitch along the bottom edge of the lace to make everything nice and secure.

Put on Your Easter Bonnet

TIP #2 : Combine fussy cut images from the 12×12 papers with die cut layers, flowers, butterflies and little tags. Pop individual layers up with foam tabs or waste chipboard to add extra dimension.

TIP #3: Reneabouquets Printed Beautiful board is a perfect color match with this paper collection.

TIP #4: Mix and match pastel spring flowers to achieve that Easter Egg Basket or Jelly Bean color palette. It’s a great way to use up leftover flowers from previous projects.

TIP #5: Tie Baker’s Twine bows between each pennant and top with a vintage style button

TIP #6: Cover Ivory ATC tags with the G45 ATC Tag Die, then hang vintage keys and enamel flowers from the grommet on the bottom for extra fun.

April Banner of the Month Tutorial on YouTube

If you’d like to follow along as I make this sweet banner, please enjoy this video tutorial on my YouTube channel.

This banner is so much fun to make and I hope you’ll give it a try. I’ve added a linked supply list below this post to help you find the supplies you’ll need.

You can also purchase this banner! Please shoot me an email or comment below if you’d like to have it hanging in your home.

Thanks for stopping by!

Cheerio,

kathy

SUPPLY LIST

Graphic 45 Time to Flourish
- 12×12 DCE (comes with stickers and chipboard)
  - You can also find it HERE
- 8×8 Pad (out of stock)
Reneabouquets
1 1/2″ Pink Gingham Ribbon
Shocking Pink Checkerboard Satin Ribbon
Pink Baker’s Twine
Stitched Circle Die
G45 Ivory ATC Tags
ATC Die (Currently out of stock)
Prima Flowers
Buttons and charms from my stash

March 2023 Banner of the Month Tutorial with G45 Time to Flourish and Reneabouquets

Hello, Friends! It’s time to share my March 2023 Banner of the Month Tutorial with you. How many of you guessed that there would be a lot of green in this month’s banner? Did you also expect to see purple? Shades of green, purple hues, touches of cream and a bit of gold make this banner worthy of the month when we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.

This is the second banner in our 2023 Banner of the Month series. You can watch the tutorial for the first banner HERE.

I only had small scraps of the March TTF papers left after making our March folio. So I supplemented with some Cottage Life green patterns and solids and a few images to round out the design.

Hand Cut Pennants

This month, I cut the large 4 1/2″ x 7″ pennants by hand. It’s not as impressive as it sounds:

First, cut a 4 1/2″ x 7″ rectangle of green patterns and solids.
Next, from the bottom edge, measure 2 1/4″ from either side to find the center point of the rectangle.
Then measure up 2 1/4″ from that point. Draw a line from the corners of the rectangle to the dot in the center and cut to form the pennant.
Stitch the pennant onto slightly larger rectangles of lavender cardstock, machine stitch and trim.

Ivory Square Tag Pennants

The banner also has 2 Ivory Square Tag pennants. Use the G45 Square Tag die to cover the front and you’ll have these ready to go in no time!

Share a Cuppa with Me

Because my Irish Grammy always seemed to have a big china mug of tea going, I decided to dress up the center pennant with a tea theme. These lovely pieces were shared with me from a friend who follows my blog. They look wonderful on this month’s banner!

Inviting Reneabouquets to the Party

Since I had some new goodies from Reneabouquets, I had to invite them to the party! The gorgeous purple butterflies at either end of the banner are from her new Dreamers winter release. The lovely purple pearls, mini mason jar and stunning violet heart frame also come from her shop. I made the bird’s nest myself. with burlap string