Wallpaper Birthday Banner

Further to my less than awesome Party Ideas post earlier this week I can at least share how I made the Gold & Silver Birthday Banner.
It cost £0.00 which I was very pleased about. I already had some bits for it (ribbon, sharpie pens), hence the £0 price tag but even if you had to buy some things it still works out as a bit of a bargain!

To make it you need:
Wallpaper samples - mine were silver and gold
Sharpie pens - again silver and gold
Glue (mine is Pritt stick)
Ribbon - how much you need depends on how long your message is. You can always reuse it afterwards.
A bit of scrap card

First make a template of the "flag" shape on the scrap card:

Place this on the back of the wallpaper and draw round in pencil. 

Just cut as many as you need, that depends on what you want to say! I ended up needing 17 flags, 9 silver and 8 gold. Here is a glimpse of the high tech way I calculated how many G (gold) and S (silver) I needed!

Then just cut them out carefully.

Now to decorate them. You can do whatever you like, I used my lovely 2" circle punch to cut wallpaper circles. 

Stick them onto the flags centrally,

then use the Sharpies to write the letter. I also added a border to the flag and the circle.

I kept the letters REALLY simple, if you can do fancy calligraphy you should do that!

Cut a little slot at the top corners of each flag with a craft knife.

Then thread the ribbon through.

Now it's ready to hang up!

You might also be interested in:

Patchwork Gift Box

Circle card Crazy

Personalised Wedding Picture

Simple Speech Bubble Cards

I'll be linking up this project at all these lovely link parties, pop over for a look at loads of projects from other blogs