Easter Banners

More Crafts? Heck Yeah! Like I said, this crazy back-to-back timing with Easter and St. Patrick's Day's has been inspiring me (plus I'm a little stressed and crafts help me unwind). I made 2 Easter banners. I did a super easy one for the archway and a more complicated one to hang on the fence for the egg hunt.

Here's the template for the easy one: Easter Banner Printable.

Easy Easter Banner

Materials

• Template Above
• Cardstock
• Scissors
• Gluestick
• Crop-a-dile/Hole Punch
• Yarn/Ribbon

Click on my pictures to see them bigger. Just print out your banner directly onto cardstock. I didn't have any white left so I printed it out on printer paper and glued it to black cardstock before I cut it out. Just cut your pieces, punch holes and string them. I used some pretty multicolored yarn. I love the little bows at the bunnies paws. Plus, I traced the bunny silhouette onto an old Shutter Fly envelope to use as a template for my next banner. Tie your bows and hang it up! Easy Peasy!

DIY Bunny Banner

Materials

• Bunny Template (cut from the first banner) & a slightly larger one
• Cardstock
• Spring Words Document/Spring Magazine Pictures
• Scissors
• Gluestick
• Crop-a-dile/Hole Punch
• Craft Cutter
• Patterned Scrap Book Paper
• Buttons
• Fabric Glue
• Yarn/Ribbon

Here's the tutorial for the bunny banner: Easter Banner Printable (from Happy Clippings).

Start by tracing your larger bunny onto folded cardstock. I chose pink and purple for the background bunnies. I cut eight bunnies.

In the tutorial she typed a page of spring related words in different fonts and printed them out. I decided to cut magazine pictures instead. Cute stuff, right?

Now just glue your spring words/picture bunnies onto the cardstock bunnies.

Now for the banner bunnies to get their tails. I copied the tutorial exactly on these. I chose a pink patterned scarapbooking pattern and a solid spring green cardstock. I used one of the stock patterns in my Sillouhette software to cut 8 flowers on each paper. Once I had 16 paper daisies I glued them together alternating which color was on top. On my banner all the pink bunnies have patterned petals on top and all the purple bunnies have green. Once you've assenbled a tail for each hoppy friend, add your buttons to the center. I used yellow and cream colored buttons. Fabric glue works best for adhering them. Make sure to give the flowers ample drying time before you movie them around. Once they're dry bent your petals upward.

Add tails to your bunnies than punch your holes. I used a wide violet ribbon to string mine.

Ta-da!