No Sew Easter/Spring Banner

Today I would like to share with you the banner I made for my Easter/Spring decor.  I love how simple this banner is and how easy it was to make...no sewing!!!

A little side note, this is my mom's mantel.  I didn't have a good place to display the banner in my house, so I'm high jacking my mom's mantel so it looks cute in the pictures!!  Ha!

Let's get started on the tutorial:

I created a templet for the the banners in order to make it easy to cut out the pieces.  I basically eye-balled how big I wanted each banner and cut it out on standard card stock.  I then laid in on my muslin material and cut each banner out using my rotary cutter.  You can use sciccors if you don't have a rotary cutter, but make sure they are sharp sciccors since you're cutting material and you want to have a clean cut.

Next I laid out each banner onto my interfacing and ironed them on.  I used interfacing because I wanted some weight to my banner, but you can always opt out of this if you like the way the material lays by itself. Be sure to read the directions that come with the interfacing in order to be sure you are ironing the material onto the correct side!

I then trimmed the pieces.

Next, I brought in the color!  I found this cute material at JoAnn's and thought it would be perfect Easter/Spring colors!

I needed to adjust my template so the patterned material pieces I cut were smaller than the muslin pieces.  So, I measured 1" all around the template and cut.

I then cut my patterned material pieces the same way I cut the muslin pieces; using the template and rotary cutter.

Next step was applying the two pieces of material together using my adhesive spray.  So, I went outside, since it gets messy!!  I sprayed the back of the patterned material and laid it flat onto the muslin, spreading it with the palm of my hand.  I repeated this step for each banner.

The final step was attaching the twine, and for this I used my handy glue gun!

I applied 2 dots of glue on each side of the banner in order for the banner to hang evenly onto the twine.

And I was done!  So simple.  This project took me about 1 hour and I didn't have to pull out my sewing machine for it!!!

I'm sure your local fabric store has some really cute Easter/Spring material on sale right now, so get out there and start creating something!

~ Kerri

Easter Baseball Wreath

Since Kerri shared her wreath with you on Friday, I decided that I would share mine with you today!

Of course, if you are a regular to our blog, it is no secret that we love baseball at our house. I have been working non-stop this past week with 'Barn Sale' items and one of the items was a baseball cuff (bracelet). Well, I got to thinking...how could I use a baseball in my Easter wreath and this is what I came up with:

Yes, I know it is different, but how stinkin cute is it! First of all, that tail...who doesn't love it?
All you will need for this project: a wreath, 2 baseballs, a pom pom tail and some ribbon or whatever you want to decorate the wreath with.

The first thing you have to do is cut the skin off of one baseball (for the ears), you can see how to do this here. After that, you need to cut one of them in half for the ears. Then you make a pom pom tail. I used white yarn and wrapped it around 2 of my fingers, so it was smaller. Then I tied a string in the middle of the yarn, then cut it. When I was finished with the tail, I hot glued it and the ears to a baseball. Then I screwed in a hook to feed the wire through. Sorry I didn't take pictures, because it was a little hard trying to do it with one hand, so I gave up!

After I was finished with the bunny, I moved onto the little pocket that was on my wreath. I used to have a black polk-a-dot burlap ribbon pocket, but thought I needed something a little more 'springish' (not really a word...I made it up!). For Spring and Summer I added a white polk-a-dot burlap ribbon. For the pocket, I folded it in half and hot glued the sides and left the top open for the picks I put in it. Of course, I used a tea dyed tag and stamped 'happy easter' on it (I know Easter should begin with a capital, but I thought the lower case 'e' was cute) and for the other picks, I just tied (and hot glued) ribbon to it.

This wreath took me about 45 minutes to do from start to finish! The most time consuming part of the whole project was tearing the baseball apart!

On another note, I am so excited about the Buzzard Creek Primitives Barn Sale on Thursday and Friday...if you are local come for a visit (I'll be there with my 'Beautifully Broken Creations'). Trust me, I plan on taking my camera and blogging about it next week (after I recover)!
Have a Marvelous Monday!
~Julie