Baby's Nursery Banner and Card!

Happy Tuesday everyone!

I just wanted to share with you a banner that I made over the weekend for a friend of mine that is soon expecting her second daughter, Alana! 

I made this for her Woodlands themed nursery and I thought it turned out so super cute!  Before I blab out the technical stuff, here are some close-ups of the cute critters on each pennant!  I love this!  :)

 

 

 

Of course I had to put little pink 'girlie' bows on each of the characters (except the butterfly!)

(Sorry they are not the clearest pics!)

   

     

     

  

I only glued down the centers of the wing layers to give it dimension!  Isn't she cute? 

   

I got my inspiration for this from Christina from Creations with Christina. I used the Country Life cartridge for the banner pennants.  I used the solid font banner image (with Shift) on p.76 and cut it at 10.5".  I also cut each letter font banner at 10.5" too.  For the 'critters' I used the Create A Critter cartridge of course and below are the cut sizes:

Hedgehog & Butterfly - all layers cut at 2.25"

Owl, Raccoon, and Deer - all layers cut at 3.5"

Pink bows cut at 3.5" :)

I inked all the edges of the banner with brown ink and then used a brown satin ribbon as well as a creme sheer ribbon threaded together through the each pennant.  Then I tied individual brown bows in between each pennant. 

Now for the card......

Well, I had a hard time trying to figure out which 'critters' to choose for the pennant, so since I didn't use a squirrel, I used her for the baby shower card!  :)

(I was so excited about this card that I forgot to write down the cut sizes....sorry!)

 

Now for those of you who notice that the sentiment is NOT exactly what it says on the cartridge, well, to make it a 'baby' shower card, I altered it a little.  I trimmed off the "U" bottom part under 'about' and then used my Simply Sweet cartridge to cut the word 'baby'.  I added the pink ribbon and of course the pink bow with a touch of Stickles in the center (hard to see I know), and then some white gel pen accents.

On the inside I simply added (where the ribbon ends met) the 'acorn' accessory from the same page as the squirrel.  Then added some pink paper to write a note to Jeannie and baby Alana.

I hope you enjoyed this banner and card as it was so much fun to create!

Have a great day!

PS.....I can't believe I've hit 50 followers!!  Yay!

Thanks everyone!   :)

Shelley (Carley's mom)

Entered in the Simply Sunday Challenge over at GettingCricky.com!