Last week I was at Home Depot looking through the paint samples trying to decide what color to paint our bathroom, when I had a brilliant thought. Looking at the paint cards in green, I thought, "Those are the perfect size to use to make a St. Patrick's Day banner." Since there were hundreds, I didn't feel bad about grabbing 25 of the same to use in my craft.
I decided to make the cards into triangle shaped flags, alternating the direction of the card, so half of the triangles went from dark to light and half from light to dark. From there, I created a little stencil of a four leaf clover to trace in the center of each flag. I used an Exacto knife to cut each one out. Once I got the hang of it, they went pretty quickly.
*I would recommend using something like these stickers instead of cutting the four leaf clovers out if doing this with a child or if you want to knock this project out in 10 minutes.*
I punched a hole in the top corners of each triangle and strung them on the twine.
In all, my St. Paddy's Day banner took me about an hour to make and cost me absolutely nothing!
I decided to make the cards into triangle shaped flags, alternating the direction of the card, so half of the triangles went from dark to light and half from light to dark. From there, I created a little stencil of a four leaf clover to trace in the center of each flag. I used an Exacto knife to cut each one out. Once I got the hang of it, they went pretty quickly.
I punched a hole in the top corners of each triangle and strung them on the twine.
That is super cute!
ReplyDeleteOnly you are crafty enough to come up with a holiday decoration while trying to decide what color to paint your bathroom! LOVE IT!!
ReplyDeleteHa! Thank you, thank you! I had to laugh because only I would decide to take what could be an easy quick craft and decide to hand cut each individual shamrock with an Exacto knife. My mom asked me more than once if I still had all my fingers when I finished (I guess she had a hard time believing I was fine).
DeleteI love this! I've seen a ton of paint sample crafts on Pinterest and I've been wanting to try one out.
ReplyDeleteDaulton and I made shamrocks using the heart hole punch from Valentine's day and made a bouquet of shamrocks. It was really easy and Daulton couldn't believe it actually worked!
Oooh, I love that idea! I'm definitely going to have to try that out. I'm sure I have a heart hole punch somewhere in one of my craft boxes. Did you post a picture of them yet?
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