USA Banner

I know it's a little early for the patriotic stuff, but I am preparing to teach a workshop next month, and I hope to do some sort of patriotic banner.  I thought I would do a brief test run on some of the elements, to get an idea of the time and skill involved and to test how annoying it would be to cut out letters by hand.

 It turns out, that cutting out big letters is not that big a deal, even though I had to cut 2 for each pennant.  The rosettes were easy - I found red and white striped paper at Michaels.  I can get 3 repetitions of USA and 4 rosette pennants out of 5 sheets of cardstock, for a length of about 55 inches in under 2 hours. How cute would this be at a Memorial Day or Fourth of July barbecue?

Of course, this is the super simple version.  With the right stamps and embellishments, this could be very artsy.  I almost never use primary red and blue; who knows how long I've had this paper in my stash?

Challenges:

• Die Cutting Divas - star (a•muse studio has an awesome set of stars)
• Creative Craft Challenges - red, white, and blue
• Use It Tuesday - Sticky (lots of glue in a rosette!)
• Unstampabelles - anything but a card