Card Swap - Kid Birthday

Pennants and banners seem to be all the rage lately, so I thought for the kid category I'd do a fun rainbow birthday banner. Let me tell you, this one was a lot of work! None of my Cricut carts had any type of triangle or pennant shaped image on them, so I had to hand cut a template and then hand cut every single one of these puppies. All 36 of them! Thank goodness for a good paper cutter. :)

It's a little hard to tell in the pictures, but each of the letters has a bottom layer of matching plaid paper. I tried mixing the letters up with different colored pennants, but it just didn't look right to me (or to my husband either, so I know I wasn't too crazy for thinking it looked funny!) so I decided to keep the tone on tone look. I found some yarn in my stash that had some rainbow colors on it, but knew I didn't have enough for the full length of the banner x6, so I opted to cut 3" pieces and tied each of the pennants together.

Here's how the card looks coming out of the envelope:

Then once it's unfolded:

And finally the entire banner:



How fun! I could see this hanging up in a kid's room well afte their birthday. You could easily remove the purple "birthday wishes" pennant even and just hang the "happy" part for awhile!