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

  5. Such a classy beautiful banner. I love the colors.
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  6. What a process to have to go through to make a reply!
    Absolutely in love with your banner and would love to case for the holidays!

  8. I’m looking at your banner picture and thinking, “HEY! I remember when she made that pumpkin!” “HEY, I remember her making those hurricane lamps!” Great banner. Wow with the foil cardstock and embossing. You are such the cleverly creative one! 🙂 Janis [email protected]

  9. Great Banner. Can’t wait to try something similar.All the kids will be @ my house for Thanksgiving.

  24. This is a really classy banner. I’m soooo going to be doing one now. Thanks for the inspiration. Smooches…

  25. Love your banner…so fall-like and elegant! Fall is by far my favorite season and the gold leaves just reinforce that love!

  26. Stunning! The gold cardstock really pops. I’ve been using Winter Woodland a lot lately. Love it!

  29. Your banner is beautiful! I love the foil leaves as well. Can you tell us the sizes you cut the frames and letters at to give us an idea of sizing?

  34. Can I come play at your house !!! I love your banner and your site. I visit often. You come up with the best ideas. One question. where do you get the glue to make the vases ?

  41. Your banner came out so pretty! I have never seen the foil cardstock before…hum..I think I will definitely be on the look out for it now!!! I feel so honored to be on the hop with such talented women! ~ Angelica 🙂

  45. I LOVE this banner! I may have to lift this one. I’ve been thinking of making one but couldn’t think what to do, so thanks for inspiring me! I love the embossed leaves and the winter woodland font is perfect!

  46. Joy, Your banner is GORGEOUS!!!! It is just the prettiest and classiest banner ever! WOW!!!!! I just love the gold foiled paper that was embossed! Well, it is Saturday night and I have just gotten on the blog hop. I spent the afternoon watching BAMA play LSU. It was a sad game. I needed this blog hop to recover.

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