Thursday Tutorial- Making Table Decorations and Banners

Happy November everyone. This week here at FCCB the challenge is

#84 – For the birds Create a project with a bird (or anything to do with birds,

such as a birdcage) on it.

Well it wasn't my week to make a project for the challenge but I definitely had birds or specifically owls on the brain this week. My middle granddaughter will be turning 1 on the 9th so I am busy making things for her party. I love using my Cricut to make cute little party decorations so I wanted to share some of my ideas.

These will be the table decorations. The cute little buckets I found at Target in the $1 section last year. I am always collecting tins, pots and felt containers to use for these table centerpieces.

You can also use red pots which can be painted to match the decor if you wish.

Directions:

1. Cut a brick of Oasis or foam to stick in bottom. These took 1/2 a brick.

2. Paint kabob sticks. You can often find these at dollar stores or grocery stores. When I paint them I stick them in the foam while they dry.

3. Cut out your die cuts. For this you want to consider the back side too. You have several choices for this. You can cut the shadow or base cut or you can flip the cuts and do the same design on both sides.

4, Decorate the cuts as you would any die cut.

5. Tape to stick and glue pieces together with backing.

6. Stick into foam. Cover foam with pebbles, moss, raffia, fabric or in this case tulle.

7. Add vinyl to container if you wish and you can also add ribbon to handle or around container.

Recipe

Baby Steps Happy First Birthday cut at 5 inches

Paisley Owls cut at 4/5 inches (I removed flowers with G so they matched invitations)

Woot cut from Paisley at 2 inches

Cupcake from Baby Steps cut at 4,75 inches

Something to Celebrate large #1

George 4 inch scalloped circle

Lacey Labels oval scalloped circle

Doilies, Stickles and googly eyes on owl

Vinyl name cut from Something to Celebrate at 3 inches

Closeups

Birthday banner to match.

Sorry it was dark when I was taking pics and I couldn't get a good pic so here is part of banner. I used the same size owl and cupcake cuts as above.

Banners cut Something to Celebrate cut at 5.75 inches

Letters from Something to Celebrate spell out Guess Who's One

Cut net in strips and tied to ribbon. Ribbon is staples with pink staples to banner pieces.

Here are some more bouquets I have made in the past to give you other ideas.

Welcome baby bouquet #! - These are great for babies as they usually do not like flowers in the rooms and the die cuts can be removed and used for scrapbook pages later.

#2

#3 with matching card

This was the table decorations for my husbands family reunion. I painted pots and aged them. Used Heritage and Tim Holtz paper for cuts. Lots of inking. I made 20 of these and they were a big hit.

On the table are gems with family names glued to bottom I printed with computer.

Hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and will find it useful. I would enjoy your comments. Hope to see you join in this week for the challenge. I always enjoy seeing what everyone creates.