Labour Day and Fall Begins

Wow!  Where did the summer go?  It's the beginning of September and Labour Day!  School starts tomorrow, then Thanksgiving and before you know it, it will be Christmas!  Whoa!

It is a holiday today and I am celebrating with my family, so just a short follow-up to yesterday's banner post today!  Banners were used extensively in the Trade Union movement, so I guess that a banner is a good thing to blog about on Labour Day.

I wanted to show you the Fall Banner I created as an alternative to the Halloween Banner at my class on September 18.  Here it is:

• I created my own rosettes using Sweater Weather DSP and the Simply Scored Scoring Tool.  
• I used the kit to create the backgrounds on some of the pennants and the letters for the word A-U-T-U-M-N!
• I used some ribbon from the Halloween Banner Kit and some of my own for the little ties between each pennant.

• The leaves are cut from Champagne and Red Glimmer Paper and the circle on top of the second pennant was stamped with the tree "cookie" and the acorn from the Truly Grateful Stamp Set.  I used the Two-Way Glue Pen around the edge and dipped it in fine Gold Glitter from the Holiday Mini.

If you would like to make this banner, register for my Halloween Banner or Fall Banner Class on Wednesday, September 18 by following this link.

Happy Fall!

A Banner Day!

Did you know that banners have been around since the Old Testament times?  Moses used them to keep the Israelites in line during their trek through the wilderness.

Ancient Romans would decorate them with a coat of arms and hang them at their doors to identify their house.

 Ancient Japanese warriors would wear them on their armour.








Banners were everywhere during Medieval times, on castles, in battles, at feasts!

Trade unions in Britain brought them back into use with symbols identifying their trade in popular May Day parades.

So banners aren't new, but they are a beautiful way to enhance your home decor during special seasons or to decorate for events such as Halloween.  Stampin' Up has come out with a series of banner kits in the new Holiday Mini Catalogue.  The basic set is the Build a Banner Simply Created Kit which includes 18 blank canvas pennants, some jute twine and alphabet and image stencils.  

Then Stampin' Up created a Halloween Banner Simply Created Accessory Kit and a Christmas Banner Simply Created Accessory Kit.  These are loads of fun to work with.  Today I'd like to share with you the Halloween Banner I created and will be offering as a class on Wednesday, September 18, along with an Autumn Banner that I designed myself.  I will show you the Autumn Banner in the next post.

The lighting and background colouring leave a lot to be desired, but you get the idea!  Oh, my goodness!  So much fun to make, and not difficult with most of the pieces cut for you.  You have many choices you can make so as to make it your creation.

• You can see the three shapes of pennants in the kit, six of each shape!  
• There are precut and scored paper strips to make two of the three rosettes pictured here.  I used the Simply Scored Scoring Tool to make the third one of paper in the Witches' Brew Design Series Paper.
• I used a sponge dauber along with the background and letter stencils to create the patterns on the pennants.
• The circles for the top of the rosettes are included along with the cutouts embossed in glittery black.
• Ribbon and accessories are part of the kit as well, but I added a few of my own.

If you are interested in making one of these super cute banners, you can register here.

Products:  Build a Banner Simply Created Kit (133507); Halloween Banner Simply Created Accessory Kit (132698)

Extra Products:  Jumbo Sticky Rounds (127852); Sticky Strip (104294); Witches' Brew DSP (132185);  Sponge Daubers (102892); Summer Starfruit (126839) and Tangerine Tango (111349) cardstock; Classic Stampin' Pads in Early Espresso (126974), Summer Starfruit (126991) and Tangerine Tango (126946); Chevron Ribbon in Basic Black (130010); 2 3/8" Scallop Circle Punch (118874); Simply Scored Scoring Tool (122334)

Build a Banner Simply Created Kit

Halloween Banner Simply Created Accessory Kit

Jumbo Sticky Rounds

Simply Scored Scoring Tool