SIS BOOM CLIP ART SERIES: HAPPY HOME BANNER

SIS BOOM CLIP ART SERIES: HAPPY HOME BANNER
What better way to spend a happy Friday than to make a Happy Home Banner that’s full of color, sparkle, and happiness??

This week we’re taking Sis Boom’s Glitter textures Clip Art and turning it into something magical!

The best part about these little guys? There are a TON of colors to choose from, so you can coordinate to almost any palette.

First we have to take our scalloped squares and make ’em BIGGER.  To do this, create a new file in Photoshop (or whatever photo editing program you like to use) that has a width of 11 in and a height of 8.5 in.  Copy and paste two separate scallop squares into your new document. You can really make them any size you’d like, but for mine I found a width of 355 px and height of 415 px worked well to fit two squares on each page (shown with the blue arrow above).  Print it out on a regular piece of paper (or glossy photo paper for a shinier version) – just be sure to “scale to fit” the page when printing so nothing gets cropped out!  Repeat until you have the proper number of squares (For “Happy Home” you will need 9!)

You’ll also need to cut out some letters! I decided to dust off my Cricut machine, but you can either add in the letters digitally before you print, write them on with marker yourself, or print out letters to cut out.  You’ll also need some glue & scissors to cut out your squares and glue on the letters!

To help hang up your pretty little banner, you’ll need some ribbon or sequin strands and some clothespins. I just took some regular old clothespins, covered one side in white glue, and sprinkled on some glitter to keep with our colorful, sparkly theme. Feel free to embellish any way you’d like! (For some of you, part of the appeal of these digital scallop squares might be the fact they have the pretty look of glitter, without all the mess.  If that’s the case, you can even print out some extra squares and cut out strips to glue on your clothespins)

Make a loop at each end of your ribbon, use a couple of push pins, and voila! Your home is instantly happier 🙂 🙂 🙂

Pop over to LOVE COLORFUL to see Jessica’s finished product!! Come on, ya gotta! You’ll LOVE IT!

LOVE COLORFUL + SIS BOOM CLIP ART SERIES: CONFETTI HEARTS CHARM BRACELETS

Hi Friends! We’re officially ahnding the mic over to our girl over at LOVE COLORFUL.. JESSICA!
For the FULL post, go to Jessica’s beautiful site, LOVE COLORFUL.

Welcome to the very first Sis Boom Clip Art Series post! I’m all sorts of excited to share with you some super cute charm bracelets made with Sis Boom’s Confetti Hearts clip art!!

will need the following:

Sis Boom Confetti Hearts clip art file ($5.00)

-Shrinky Dinks Inkjet Paper (make sure you get the kind of Shrinky Dinks that specifically say they can be used in an inkjet printer!)
-paper hole punch
-glitter
-glue
-charm bracelet chain
-7 mm jump rings
-an assortment of jewelry beads, findings, and ribbon

printing out the confetti hearts on a piece of the Shrinky Dink paper.

**As per the Shrinky Dink instructions, be sure to brighten your image before printing – when you bake the pieces the color becomes darker.  I opened the confetti hearts file in Photoshop, went to Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast and set the brightness to 100 and the contrast at 30.  (You can play around with these numbers to get slightly different color effects). You can achieve the same effect in most photo editing programs, so as long as you have something to open the .png file in,  you should be able to find a brightness option.

Once printed, cut out the hearts and use a paper punch to punch a hole in the top of each heart.

Bake in a toaster oven according the the Shrinky Dink instructions. It’s so much fun to watch the magic that happens in a very short period of time!

To jazz up the back side of each heart, I simply dabbed a little glue, sprinkled some glitter, and voila! Now they have confetti AND are sparkly! (You can seal with a little Modge Podge to make sure the glitter stays put!) You can also just leave the backs white, or even paint them a solid color depending on the look you’re going for.

To peep the final (and most exciting) steps of this tutorial on LOVE COLORFUL, click HERE! Jessica will walk you through the process of turning these beauties into bracelets!

Jessica- thank you for being such a ROCK STAR! We can’t wait to see what you post next Friday!

 

Sis Boom CLIP ART SERIES featuring JESSICA of LOVE COLORFUL!

What an exciting day for us here at Sis Boom… Our friend Jessica, over at LOVE COLORFUL, is hopping on board the Sis Boom train to bring you a variety of FABULOUS tutorials featuring Sis Boom CLIP ART, eye candy & inspiration! Get excited, because this is going to be happening once a week around here.. aka, you’ll be so inspired you won’t know where to start! So, friends, let’s put our hands together for Jessica and the LOVE COLORFUL CLIP ART SERIES!!!

Hey, everyone! I am so honored to share with you that Love Colorful & Sis Boom are teaming up to bring you some super awesome, sparkly, happy craft projects!!

Each week I’ll be posting up a colorful new project for you to try using some of the clip art files.  From confetti hearts to vintage ephemera, the clip art is already inspiring by itself, but in case you’re in the market for a little more creative inspiration, I’m here to offer up a little guidance (and some glitter!)

The first project will be going up this Friday, March 1st, so be sure to stop by and check it out!  Want to get a jump start on the clip art craze? Go here to get yours now!  As you can see, they are all so pretty and versatile – and totally affordable when you think of all the mileage we’ll get out of them!

Remember to check back here on Fridays for new clip art projects!