Halloween Bash: Large Banner

This is part of our Halloween BASH.  See a listing of all projects so far at the end of the post.

*SUPER COOL HUGE BANNER

- add lettering and embellish with flowers, leaves, buttons and more. I used recycled chipboard from packaging, 1/2 yard total of fabric and printed my own lettering at home. Embellishments were goodies left over from halloween cards i made last year.

Total - under $8.00

Let's get started:

I ripped a strip of muslin that was twice as long as the length of my word banner laid out. I spaced the letters out on the muslin strip the way I liked it then folded it over the top of each letter and stitched on machine.

Other Halloween BASH Projects:

Spooky Books

Halloween Sweet and Spooky $1 Mirrors

Halloween Tags

Halloween Wreath

Enjoy!

home made: recycled & repurposed wreathe

There is something soothing about the color white. It is simple. It is pure.

It is stark in it's beauty...but bringing together the many different shades

of white can be resplendent in itself.I have always recycled, repurposed

my {laundry sheets}...dye catching sheets, fabric softener sheets.

I have dyed them, cut them, sew them into projects.

 No matter how many times I have tried, I just can not bring myself to throw them away...

...each time a fresh new load of wash is complete I add another dye catching square to my growing stack of {laundry sheets}.The same goes for softener sheets. Fresh out of the dryer they are soft, they are wispy and they hold just a hint of that lovely smell they started with...

 

...so the other day I had an idea. I would use this beautiful pile, in shades of white, to make a new wreathe. I have been wanting a new one, in shades of white, of course...{take a peek at the end result}...

 ...the result was this beautiful wreathe in {shades of white}...

 ...if one {laundry sheet} felt gray or dingy, I didn't let it stop me...

 ...because in the end, when it was cut and twirled, it was just as beautiful as the rest...

 ...there were tinges of the palest pinks and yellows...

 

 ...it is so dreamy...

Super Sweet Cupcake Tags

 I know I am totally hooked on all the vintage books and papers I have been collecting lately, so here is another sweet way to use the papers. Using a chalkboard style cupcake tag, I cut pendants from a vintage children's book. Layering them with pop up dots really added to the overall dimensional effect of the banner. A touch of pink sheer ribbon for a tie and some vintage string for the banner, stamped goodness in white ink and these adorable tags were born. Enjoy!