Monday, February 21, 2011

Cricut Circle Monthly Challenge - Banners


















Each month the Cricut Circle announces a monthly challenge. For February, the challenge was to make a banner of any theme including 3 or more Cricut cuts. A random drawing will be done on March 1. The prize is 7 cricut imagine cartridges. I really really really want to win!! Pray for me and wish me luck!!



For my banner, I chose a supergirl theme. Since I am an at-home mom, I decided to make a supermom banner for my craft room. Please flood me with comments because I am super jazzed about this banner. It's my first one and it came out beautifully!



Here's the recipe:


  • Blue banner base and red banner base layer cut at 7" from cricut cartridge "tie the knot"

  • Supergirl 1 & 2, all layers and shadow cut at 5 1/2" from cricut cartridge "superman"

  • Supergirl symbol and all layers cut at 5" from cricut cartridge "superman"

  • Font and shadow cut at 3 1/4" from cricut cartridge "superman"

  • 5 yards of yellow ribbon

  • opaque white gel pen

  • Adhesives - Zots small glue dots, ATG gun, Zig 2-way glue pen

Notes: Putting together the licensed characters are very challenging. There are tiny pieces that look like nothing until they are all assembled and they are very delicate. I learned that leaving the pieces on the mat or together as a set still attached to the paper where it was cut very valuable. That way I would not lose anything or not be able to figure out the orientation of everything. I also used a skewer to help me place small parts in place. I used an opaque white gel pen for the eyes instead of trying to cut and place tiny white eyeballs.


~La-Vie

4 comments:

  1. Your banner is beautiful! I didn't think I needed this cart but now I may want to get it to scraplift your "Super Mom" banner - well done!

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  2. Thank you so much!! Your post made me smile ALL day...scraplift away!

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  3. Love it, you did an amazing job, those little characters are not easy to make look good and you DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  4. ScrappyRN thank you! I have been afraid of this mini paper piecing with licensed characters. I have had some Disney carts for a long time and haven't used them. But now that I have done Batman and Supergirl, I'm ready! The key for me is to cut everything first and to leave it on the mat or as a collection on the paper.

    La-Vie

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