Spring

I told you I was done with Valentines Day crafts....and for the most part....I am. I'm still making a few little things. I'm just not blogging them. What I am dying to show you is this. My SPRING banner. I am very excited for it. I saw this project here at Our Best Bites. I love their blog for the recipes and I was very excited that they throw in a craft or two. Sara made the cutest Valentines banner and while I don't usually stray from the theme of a "How-To", this time I decided to shake it up a bit. I started with some jumbo ric rac, felt and ribbon. I cut my sheet of felt into rectangles about 4 1/2 inches wide and into triangles from there. Usually I am queen of the glue gun....but I pulled out my trusty (and maybe a bit rusty) sewing machine to sew the triangles onto the ric rac.

Then I took a bunch of colored ribbon and cut 10-12 inch lengths and folded them in half and sewed them onto the ric rac as well.
As of one week ago I didn't love tassels....at all....this week, I am kinda crushing on them.
Then I cut some shapes; a heart, a bird and a horrible misshapen flower, out of felt. I pinned them to the banner temporarily until I decided where I liked them.
Of course I can't have the felt out and not make some rosettes. It just wouldn't be right.
After I decided I had the right colors and patterns together.....time for the glue gun. You knew it was coming out at some point...right?
Little bit of birdie love.
Look at the pretty flowers. So springy....so bright....aaahhhhh....sring......
A bit of a close up post glue phase. I just left it up there and glued them on while I stood in front of the fire. Too lazy to take it down....just sayin'.....
As cute as it is....there was one more thing I wanted to add....just a little more texture to the plain felt shapes. Buttons. I do like a cute button.
So I glued some buttons to the hearts and flowers (if you can really call them that).
And there it is. I will add letters for real as soon as my Silhouette Iron-On paper gets here. Very excited to try that out. I am missing my spring decor box with my cute bunnies and such. You'll just have to imagine them up there. So here is my first official I-can't-wait-for-spring project.
On a side note...see that lop-sided bird house on the left? My baby boy made that for me when he was in Cub Scouts. I will keep it forever!!

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