DIY: Frozen Snowflake Birthday Banner

I have been making the birthday banners for the Munchkins for a few years now and I always add their names.  For Munchkin #1’s Frozen themed birthday, I made use of supplies I already had on hand and was able to cut all of the letters from scraps from the Frozen Invitations I had made.

Other supplies:

Laminating sheets (I used 3mm since it’s what I had, but thicker would have been much better)

Heat laminating machine

Buffalo Snow iridescent snowflakes

Cardstock (see Frozen Invitations post for cardstock used)

Ribbon or string

Crop-A-Dile or hole punch

Glue gun

Cricut “When It’s Cold Outside” cartridge

        “Snowflake 5b” shape at 8 3/4″

         Speed: Medium

         Pressure: Max

         Needle: 5

         “Plantin Schoolbook” cartridge for letters

             Regular – 4″ on blue shimmer cardstock

             Shadow – 4″ on white shimmer cardstock

          Speed: Medium

          Pressure: High

          Blade: 5

Step 1:

Open laminating sheets and sprinkle snowflakes inside.  These do not cut well on the Cricut, so try to have the flakes evenly and loosely spread.

Step 2:

Laminate the sheets.

Steps 3 & 4:

Once all of the sheets are laminated, start cutting snowflakes according to the settings above.  Then cut the letters needed according to settings listed above.  I don’t have a photos of this, sorry.

Step 5:

Glue letters together with your favorite adhesive.  Then glue finished letters to the laminate snowflakes with a glue gun.

Step 6:

Punch holes in snowflake (I did it in the “points” immediately to the left and to the right of the center “point”) with a Crop-A-Dile or other hole punch.  My holes were cut with the Crop-A-Dile’s 3/16 hole punch. String the banner together with string or ribbon.  I used 5/8\” sheer white ribbon I had on hand.  Since this is a very large/long banner, I string the words separately.  This is very handy if you don’t know where or how banner will be hung.  The words could be hung vertically over each other or lengthwise across a long patio cover (as we did).  We use the support posts of the patio cover as the separation point between the words and tied the ribbon to the posts.

TTFN,
V