Paper Garland: How To

I have been wanting to make a paper garland for a long time.  When I pulled out my Valentine's Decor, I decided to try & make one for my mantel.  You can see it HERE.  I like how it turned out,  so I decided to make a Happy Birthday banner that we can put up for birthday parties.

I picked out some scrapbook paper I liked & some ribbon to coordinate.

Then I made a template for the shape of the banner...

Real fancy...huh?  It worked though!

Then I traced the template & cut out the paper.

Then I hot glued my ribbon onto the templates to create my banner.

Then I traced out my letters to spell "Happy Birthday".  

I actually got my letter templates from the dollar store....

They are the perfect size & included the whole alphabet & some numbers.

Then I just glued them on to the banner & I was done!

I'm really happy with how it turned out...

It will be fun to put up when the birthdays arrive!

I'm sharing with these blogs:

http://thriftydecorating-nikkiw.blogspot.com
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http://www.bystephanielynn.com/search/label/Link%20Parties

http://thriftydecorchick.blogspot.com/2012/02/february-before-and-after-party.html

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