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Showing posts with label 1st birthday. birthday banner. Show all posts

Saturday, January 30, 2016

DIY Baby Birthday Banner


For Duke's 1st birthday party, one of the decorations I knew I had to make was this cute little banner. I saw the idea on Pinterest and figured it would be pretty easy to re-create, and it was!





What you'll need:
  • 7-8 baby faces printed on cardstock
  • patterned card stock for party hats
  • double-stick tape
  • scissors
  • tissue paper
  • ribbon
I found my favorite pictures of Duke (the more expressions the better), and changed the color to black & white. I blew up the picture so his face filled almost a whole 8 x 11 sheet of paper. Cut out just the head.

I used my Sillouette to cut out the party hats, only because I am horrible at cutting a straight line, but you could easily just do it with scissors.


I placed the hat on the picture and trimmed around it, so parts of his head weren't sticking out. 




To make the fringe for the party hats, cut out rectangles of different colored tissue paper (about 2" wide x 4" long, depending on the size of the party hats).
Stack 3 pieces of tissue paper on top of each other and cut about 1/2 inch towards the center on both sides to create fringe.


Put double-sided tape along the bottom of the party hat.


Now grab each end of the fringed tissue paper and twist it a few times before pressing to the tape. Fluff up the fringe. 

Once all the faces have been taped and fringed, it's time for the ribbon. I used 2 rows of ribbon for better support, and just taped it to the back of each picture.

& there you have it. Easy as pie!




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