DIY Shamrock Bunting Banner made with Chipboard & Cricut Maker

ByJulia

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Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a fun Shamrock Bunting Banner.

 

 

In my last post, I teamed up with Cricut to show how to make a fun Luck of the Irish Banner using Heavy Chipboard and Glitter Cardstock. However, while designing that banner I decided it would look perfect next to a slightly smaller Shamrock bunting banner of the same style. 

 

 

The beauty of making the banner out of Heavy Chipboard is that it will be easy to story and usable year after year. I love that thanks to my newer Cricut Maker and Knife Blade I can now work with materials like 2mm Heavy Chipboard which I couldn't work with before (even with the deep cut blade using my Explore Air 2)

 

 

Since I made the Luck of the Irish Banner using Gold Glitter Cardstock I decided to use deep Green Glitter cardstock for this layered Heavy Chipboard Banner. I love how the gold and green compliment each other so well for this fun Irish Holiday.

 

 

Materials Needed:

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Instructions:

  • Open Cricut Design Space for Luck of the Irish Banner -->HERE<--

 

 

  • Click to make and adjust the mat size for the chipboard to 11x11

 

 

  • Firmly attach the Chipboard to a Strong Grip Mat using a Brayer and then tape the edges with masking tape (so it won't shift while cutting)

 

 

  • Select Heavy Chipboard from the materials list. Move all the rollers to the far right-hand side and place the Knife blade in the tool adapter to start cutting.

 

 

  • After cutting peel the mat from the Chipboard and carefully remove any tape from the edges of the cut designs. (**If any of the layers of the chipboard start to separate use a bit of glue from a glue stick to press them back together,) 

 

 

  • Next move the little roller wheels on your Cricut back into place, switch the knife blade for the fine point blade and change the material to Glitter Cardstock.

 

 

  • Place the Glitter Cardstock on a standard grip mat and insert into the Cricut Maker to cut.

 

 

  • Carefully remove the Glitter Cardstock from the mat with the spatula (you can also try peeling the mat from the cardstock)

 

 

  • Glue the Glitter Cardstock to the corresponding Chipboard shamrocks

 

 

 

  • Glue Shamrocks to pennants

 

 

  • Attach the ribbon to the back of the pennants and hang where desired.

 

 

Isn't this Shamrock bunting Banner adorable? I love the way the Green Glitter Shamrocks just pop off the simple brown Chipboard pennants.  

 

 

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