Cricut Thanksgiving Banner

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Woo hoo!!  I’m loving the way this banner turned out.  Remember when I turned that pumpkin into a vase?  You can see that here.  Here are some more pumpkin crafts: How to decoupage a craft pumpkin and here’s a Thanksgiving pumpkin decorated with vinyl.  Ok, enough about pumpkins. 😉

Here’s how I made the Cricut Thanksgiving Banner

I used the 3Birds on Parade Cricut cartridge for all of the leaves.  I cut them out using American Crafts foil cardstock.  I love that stuff!  It cuts out really well and adds to the look of a lot of things.  I used my Gypsy to help me lay out as many leaves as I could on one sheet of cardstock.  Next, I took the leaves and ran them through my Cuttlebug using the Birds & Swirls folder.

I used the Cursive 101 Cricut cartridge for this rounded edge rectangle.  I thought it would make a great center for the lettering I had to apply.  Next, I cut out frames from the Live Simply Cricut Lite cart.

Here I’ve gotten everything cut out and am beginning the assembly of each letter and frame.  All lettering is from the Winter Woodland cartridge.

I decided to use my Xyron 510 Creative Station (here’s the newer model Xyron Creative Station) to quickly put adhesive on all the letters.  I stuck down the shadow and then added the top lettering layer.

Almost done!!  I love how well the foil cardstock embossed.  Here you can see that I did make a bit of a shadowed backing for the leaves.  I thought they might need a bit more stability plus the back of the foil cardstock was white…boring!  Not that the brown I used is terribly exciting, but as you may know…um…I heart brown.

I used my Crop a Dile to punch holes in all of the pieces so I could thread the ribbon through everything.

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193 Comments

  1. This is one of the classiest banners I’ve seen for Thanksgiving! Makes me want to go make my own!

  5. Beautiful!! I love the foil leaves and the style of the letters. The mantle is beautiful. Now on to blog hopping

  9. You did a really great job…. I love the banner and all of the other crafts on your mantel that you did in Oct really go together really great.

  11. This is a gorgeous banner, I love the fancy rectangle frames instead of the traditional triangles for the banner. Joy is thinking outside the box again! (imagine that! LOL) Now that I have seen this I am going non traditional on my Thanksgiving banner too!! Thanks for the inspiration and for the idea that I am craft-lifting!!
    Tammy

  14. Such a beautiful banner! Love the foil leaves, they embossed so nicely! I’ll have to remember to pick some up next time I’m at the store! Thanks for sharing!
    -Tanya
    thomfam at inreach dot com

  19. I just joined this site. I love this banner. And I love the easy step by step directions. This is someting that I will not only be able to do, but want to do.

  23. Your banner is SO SO PRETTY Joy! I LOVE the metalic leaves and the wmbossing on them! So elegant looking!

  30. Hi Joy!

    I LOVE your banner! I need to get some of that American Crafts paper. I saw it yesterday at Michale’s and I should have picked up a stack. Oh well… now I have a reason to got back! 🙂 Seriously though, your banner is beautiful!

    Thanks so much for being a part of the hop!

    Ruthie 🙂

  35. What a beautiful banner! I’ll have to see if I can find some of that gold cardstock. Those leaves are to die for!

  37. Love the leaves. Never seen this American Crafts foil paper I will have to be on the look out foe it. TFS

  38. I was thinking of making some thanksgiving decorations. A banner is a great way to start. Thanks for the inspiration.

    1. Hey Jenniferhogge07,
      You’re a follower now that you’ve signed in and can leave a comment. 😉 I don’t do Google friends anymore because it quit working on my site for some weird reason. Thank you for being part of my site! 🙂
      ~Joy~

  41. Luv it!! Please share what paper you used for the frames!! TFS

    desaucier at bellsouth dot net
    Darlene

    1. MOM2tayandbay,
      I just went and looked and the name of the paper I used for the frames is My Minds Eye “Fall in Love”. I bought it last year, so it might be HTF now. 😉
      Thank you!
      ~Joy~

  49. looking at this banner and all its fine details is bringing joy to me. thanks for sharing.

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