Banner Flag Video Tutorial

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Have you ever wondered how to make a perfect banner flag?  I love adding these to a card for an embellishment, greeting or just that little something that the project needs.

Yesterday I showed you a card that had five banners on it.  To see all the creative tips and details to that project, just Click Here.  Of course, I have banners in almost all my projects it seems over the last year.  Banners have seemed to become one of my signatures in my cards and scrapbook pages, so for today, I made a video to show you exactly how I make this simple little detail.

I think you’ll find that you too can make a perfect banner flag without driving yourself crazy!  I hope you enjoyed this video, have fun creating today.

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Re-inventing a Good Idea

I love to design scrapbook pages.  Even more – I love to re-invent scrapbook pages!  This design is a re-invented Easter layout of mine.  My inspiration began with the idea of color blocking.  I wanted my new layout to be fun, colorful and have a different twist on the traditional spring colors. 

My Easter layout below is quite traditional.  But you can see I kept several of the main ideas in place, just with a little twist.  The color blocked shared mat on the left was changed to have fewer stripes, but make a bigger impact with a wide shared color between the photos.

I used several embossing folders for backgrounds on the smaller shared mat in the Easter layout, while keeping the spring layout clean.  The journaling blocks were jazzed up a bit by using the Decorative Label punch.  To keep with the torn edge theme from the grass, I added a torn edge to the top of the spring layout. 

The flowers were made using the Floral Fusion Sizzlit and curling up the edges a bit before adding Pearl Basic Jewel Accents.  The leaves for the flowers are the punched out pieces from the Lattice BigZ die.  I LOVE using pieces that are just throw aways! 🙂

The main journaling block is the Crumb Cake banner above.  I wanted it to almost look like a mantle holding a portrait of the photo above it.  The title below was made with the now retired Timeless Type Medium Alphabet (Sniff…Sniff – I LOVE those dies).

I love the end result, and overall – I love getting two layouts from one idea!  I challenge you to bring out your inner creative and re-design one of your own layouts!

Creatively yours –

Ingrid

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