Week 2 in the Julie Nutting for Prima Paper Doll Stamp Blog Hop!!!

If you've known me, for even a short time, you know that I

am a banner maker. I make them for friends, for gifts,

custom banners for babies and baby showers,

and I also sell them at several Craft Fairs in our area.

I love banners and I love making them!

Some folks call them garlands but whatever you call them, I love them.

I knew that one of these projects for the Blog Hop would involve a banner/garland

and it's this week's subject, SUMMER! 

The paper was an easy choice...

Simple Stories Summer Fresh papers...

Happy papers in the 6x6-inch paper pad to use for clothing

Journaling blocks in the 12x12-inch papers to cut 

apart and use as banner panel backgrounds.

Cardstock stickers for embellishment

(I'm not a big sticker user but these are just too cute to ignore!)

Step one is stamping the doll...

I used a light tan cardstock because it is Summer...
just a light tan because she always remembers to use sunscreen
Because I wanted her to be sturdy,

I glued her to cardboard for stability and cut her out...

I try to Recycle...I use cereal boxes and cracker boxes...they are heavy enough

to add the needed heft to the doll

Then, stamp and cut those areas being paper-pieced.

Who wouldn't like yellow gingham hair?

I stamped and cut the entire dress in the red dot and

then stamped and cut the over-skirt in the blue print

Then, the banner pieces...

Each banner piece is a 4"x 6.5" piece of red cardstock, backed by a
4"x 7" piece of white cardstock.

After I attached the white piece, I used my scissors
with a scalloped edge to trim close to the red paper.

Using two layers of cardstock ensures a stronger banner piece.
To the red cardstock I added the journaling cards cut from the 12" x 12" sheets
of patterned paper. The journaling cards are each 4" x 6".
Using the Alphalicious Cricut Cartridge, I cut the
letters to spell s-u-m-m-e-r and added them to the journaling cards.
The last thing was placing the cardstock stickers on some of the
banner peices to embellish them.
Here's the finished banner.

Rather than punch holes and string ribbon through the banner pieces, I chose
to use rough twine (mine comes from Home Depot!) and
small clothespins that have been sprayed white.
Here is the detail...

Remember that you can click on any of the pictures to enlarge them

and the star of the banner...

Miss Olive

I just free-hand drew the sunglasses (like you couldn't tell that-LOL!

Below just shows some of the cute detail of one of the banner pieces.

I hope you have enjoyed seeing my Summer banner made with the Julie Nutting for
Prima Paper Doll Stamps.
This is the second post of the series...remember to leave a comment on this post,
and all Tuesday posts in August, with your email address to be eligible for the
 BLOG CANDY prize on August 30th.
If you are a follower of my blog, or become a follower,
you get an additional chance.
This is the Blog Candy...

Thanks for hanging in there for this long, wordy, picture heavy, tutorial post!
I'd give every one of you a prize if I could!!

Now it's time to hop to the other's Blogs, if you haven't already done so

Joyce (Scrap For Joy)- that's me

Dar (Dar's Crafty Creations)

Mary (Primitive Seasons)

Lisa (A Mermaid's Crafts)

Diane (Nellie's Nest)

Mindy (Mulberry Mindy)

See you next time~get a sweater, it will be FALL

xoxo
Joyce