“Banner-ific” – scrap your layouts using banners, buntings and more!

Pam’s fantastic layout inspired us to share a number of projects featuring banners, buntings and more!

Pam has created her own cute banner by cutting triangles from the bright and festive pina colada paper, drawn a squigly line and pasted them on!!

Here’s what Pam had to say about making banners for your scrapbook pages,

“Banners make a fun and festive embellishment on a scrapbook page, and are so easy to make. To make my banner I glued a piece of thread across the page where I wanted to place my banner. Then I cut triangles from scraps of coordinating paper, and drew around the edges with a fine black pen. Finally I adhered the top of the triangles to the thread and curled up some of the points.”

“Banners can be as simple or elaborate as you want. Try making a double banner by attaching a slightly small triangle on top of a larger one, or embellishing each triangle with buttons or bling; or make your banner from fabric or felt for a more tactile feel to your layout.”

Another easy way to add  a banner to your layout is add a strip of fozz felt! The hot pink flowered fozz felt matches the Pina Colada paper on Rona’s layout below perfectly!

Make your own “newspaper bunting”. It’s a cheap  and quick way to add colour to any celebration! A tutorial is available on the maya made blog…

Or how about this gorgeous fabric bunting from The Purl Bee? Perfect for a party!

Becky Olsen’s gorgeous banners:

Or try out some free printable paper buntings from About.com? How cute would these miniature ones go hanging in your daughters doll house?

Or this cute one?

Happy celebrating with your new banners and buntings!!