Crafty time? Heck Yeah! This crazy timing with Easter right on St. Patrick's Day's heels has been inspiring me to make decor. I decided I wanted to do a simple banner for the infamous archway. Here's my Pinterest inspiration: Click.
Materials
- Green Cardstock
- Cutting Board/Scisors
- Stapler
- Gluestick
- Crop-a-dile/Hole Punch
- Green Yarn/Ribbon
- A little o'ye Irish Spirit
I chose a kelly green and an olive green card stock to make alternating colors of shamrocks. I highly recommend using double sided paper like I did to avoid all the white showing in the Pinterest example. I cut my strips approximately 1.5in wide. You need 4 strips for each Shamrock.
Now you fold your strips into heart shapes. Fold the paper in half (paper will form a V shape when un-folded). Then you fold the top ends in towards each other to form the top of the heart. The first picture was a test I did with patterned paper (you can see why double sided is best for this project). After you've folded your shape just staple once as indicated in the picture. The second pictures shows you all my finished hearts.
Now attach your hearts together in groups of four. Staples work best.
After I assembled the leaves of each shamrock I added a stem. I used patterned paper or green paper that I used a paper edging scissors on. I just folded the paper in half, put glue on both sides, and then slid it into place and squeezed the hearts together.
Next punch a hole in the "V" at the top of the heart, the wall the hearts share and the the "V" of the second heart. This hole configuration helps the shamrocks keep their shape. String them with whatever yarn or ribbon you choose. I liked my simple.
Looks like a very fun DIY!
ReplyDeleteVery fun (:
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