Banners, Banners, Everywhere!

Today I have a tutorial up on the Hip Blog. You can check it out there or read through it here :)

It's no secret that I love to include banners on my projects :) Banners have been such a popular element in papercrafting for the past few years . . . and I think they will stick around for awhile.

Here are two layouts that I used banners on. For this first layout, I first placed the October Afternoon letter stickers on the pattern paper then trimmed around them, leaving an extra long length at the bottom. Then I snipped triangles out of the bottom of each rectangle for a pennant shape.

You can also use the corner of a square punch to cut out the notch in the bottom of the shape.

On this layout, I cut out triangles from the star pattern paper and then matted them for extra dimension. Adding the buttons between each triangle makes it look like they are connecting the banner together.

One of my favorite ways to enhance a banner is to stitch along the top.

Sometimes the embellishments aren't "stitchable", so I use a little liquid adhesive and add twine instead.

Hope you have fun adding banners to your projects!

Melanie