It’s Katrina here again!  Some of my favorite things to make are banners.  Sometime I take a brand new mini album and make one.  Or other times, I take left over pieces from minis that I have made and piece them together into a banner of their own.  Just because you have a “mini album” doesn’t mean you have to use it that way.  Change it up and make it your own.

I took one of the Oh So Mini Mix and Match albums and just used the same shape for all my panels.  For this banner, I wanted my pictures to be the main focus of my project and I felt that different shapes would distract from that.  I love that you can mix or match these to suit whatever project you are doing!

Using a ton of Basically Bare goodies and the Echo Park Everday Eclectic collection, this banner came together quickly.  I love using collection kits for projects like this, because everything already matches and you can get busy working.  I did add a few things like a tag, ribbon, inks, and flair buttons that weren’t in the kit.  Let’s take a look at the individual pieces.

The inspiration for Sheldon’s piece came from that cloud background that I covered the chipboard album piece with.  I started by inking the clouds from the Celestial set with pink and blue Prima chalk ink on the felt clouds.  The blue cloud is actually the top to a cupcake from the Cupcakes set, but I thought it would double just fine as a cloud.  I added some faux stitching with my Zig Millennium pen around one of the white clouds.  I decided I wanted to add a little more, so I took my Zig Painty FX Marker in white and filled the clouds in .  I tucked a sun flair button behind one of the clouds.

Jetson’s panel is the canvas one and I knew I wanted to use my Studio Calico hexagon misting mask to create a pattern on my canvas.  I alternately misted blue and pink and moved the mask, lining it up with the row before.  I misted about three times total.  One of the frames from the Summer CHA release of Fanciful Frames II fit my picture just about perfectly.  I covered the chipboard with a hexagon pattern shaped paper, sanded and then inked my edges.  I covered a chipboard blossom from the Blossom and Leaves set with some camera pattern paper.  I took one of the canvas leaves and misted with Mr. Huey’s in a green color.  I loved the way it curled and intentionally left it that way.  I then popped my flair button right on top of it and adhered the cluster to the corner of my frame.  I added jute twine and some wording and called this one done.

The next piece was Higgins’ and I decided to use the acrylic page for him.  I embossed the page in my Cuttlebug by running it thru a couple of times.  I didn’t worry about the top strip where the ribbon is, I just wanted the bulk of the page to be embossed.  I thought the large gear from the Gears #1 set would look fun with the embossed background that I had chosen.  I made a template from cardstock of the gear and then divided it into sections.  I cut each section and then traced them onto pattern paper.  I trimmed them out and then glued them down with some matte medium gel.  I did sand the edges, but didn’t not ink these.  I covered a manila tag with some pattern paper added some twine, added a flair button and sticker to the photo and Higgins’ page was done.

Ella was the last page and I wanted her’s to have a girly feel to it.  I covered the cardboard piece of the album with the doily pattern paper.  I cut a border sticker and added it to the edge of the piece to add a little color.  Then I misted two doilies with orange and pink Mr. Huey’s mists.  The orange was a little strong, so I misted over it with the Calico Cream color to tone it down some.  That lower right hand corner needed another doily, so I just used a doily sticker and popped it up with some dimensional adhesive.  It still needed a little pop, so a small bare chipboard button from the Buttons set, a flair button and a camera sticker completed the corner.  I love the look of the bare chipboard with this particular pattern paper in the collection kit.

So, my tips for creating a banner:  Get some great Basically Bare goodies as your base and to embellish with. Get a great collection kit (and if they have a 6 x 6 mini pad grab it also).  Decide on your theme or non-theme and if you want pictures or maybe just make a word with a letter on each banner piece.  I gave my banner a flow with the use of the jute twine and flair buttons on each panel, so decide what you want your trick for each piece to be.  Start creating!

Thanks for coming by today!

Katrina Hunt

Paper, Scissors and Glue 

Supplies:

Basically Bare:  Oh So Mini Mix and Match Album; Buttons; Gears #1; Blossoms and Leaves; Fanciful Frames II; Celestial Set; Cupcake

Paper/Stickers-Echo Park (Everday Eclectic); Album Pieces/Clouds/

Twine and Ribbon-May Arts; Brown Buttons-Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker; Tag-Staples; 

Inks,Paint and Mists-Mister Huey’s; Zig Painty Effects Paint Marker; Zig Millenium pen; Prima Chalk inks

Punch-Fiskars; Flair- {a flair for buttons} Etsy shop; Doily-Wilton;

Misting Mask-Studio Calico Embossing-Cuttlebug and embossing folder from Provocraft 

Adhesives-Scotch ATG, Fabri Tac, Claudine Helmuth Matte Medium, and Scrapbook Adhesives