My little girl turns two this weekend!! Time goes by WAY too fast! Since I’m a working mom, I spent the past weekend getting a head start on the decorations. {{I figured since it could easily double as spring décor that it wasn’t bad to put it up early! =) }} It was a super simple project that cost me absolutely nothing since I already had all of the materials…love that!
Start off by finding a bunch of coordinating papers to fit your color scheme.
Since my garland would be seen from both sides, I decided to glue two sheets of cardstock together (patterns on the outside). After this dries, you’re ready for your next step. {{Towards the beginning of my project I began to think that it would have been much easier to buy double sided paper but I stuck firm to using what I had!}}
Using my Sure Cuts A Lot 2 program and my Cricut, I cut out butterflies and flowers using my glued double sided scrapbook paper. I made sure that my images had punches on them so that my Cricut would cut the holes and I wouldn’t have to punch them later…..definitely saved a lot of time! Also, if you’re using a Cricut to cut heavy paper, you’ll need to change your pressure to max and your blade depth to 5 or 6. {{Also, if you’re interested in creating this project and have Sure Cuts A Lot 2, email me and I would be thrilled to email you my files.}}
After all of my flowers and butterflies were cut out, I strung them using twine. The twine worked really well because my cut outs didn’t slide at all! If you look closely you can see where I tied each section. I alternated butterflies and flowers with 6 on each strand of twine. Then, I began to tie the stands of 6 together. I decided to leave my tied pieces long because I liked the look.
I made A LOT of garland…it is strung from my kitchen all the way into my living room. I will definitely be saving this project…perhaps it will be my spring mantle decoration next year! =)
