Boo!

My 2 year old enjoys running around the house saying "Boo! I scared you!". So with him in mind, I created this Halloween banner:Now, you'll just have to picture this hanging from a thin white metal rod mounted to the wall in my living room. As you can see, my walls are brown, and no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't get enough light to take a pretty picture of the banner hanging on my wall.

I've got a few close up shots of the pieces, and then I'll give some step-by-step directions after that.

Here's how you can make your own Boo Banner:
1. Cut 8 Banner Shapes from Card Stock. I used my Silhouette to cut these shapes, but I'm sure you could find a Cricut cartridge that is similar, or cut rectangles by hand. The shapes measure about 4"x5".
2. Cut patterned paper (my patterned paper is Echo Park Happy Halloween) a bit smaller than your card stock. Layer on card stock using Glue Dots® Craft Dots or Dot n Go.
4. Cut "BOO" from patterned paper and attach to 3 different banners using Glue Dots® PopUp Dots. Using pop dots will make your shapes stand away from the background and gives dimension to the banner.
5. Make 5 Halloween themed shapes (here I used a witches hat, caldron, haunted house, pumpkins/October 31, and a spider). Shapes can be cut with a die cutting machine, printed from your computer, or can be Halloween stickers. Attach these shapes to the banners using Glue Dots® Pop Up Dots.
6. Embellish:
I used orange glitter buttons from Doodle Bug on the "B" and last "O" (attached with Glue
Dots® Craft Dots). The center "O" was embellished with Echo Park card stock stickers.
The band on the witch's hat and smoke from the cauldron are embellished with Stickles.
The haunted house is a free down-loadable image from Echo Park. The fence is a card stock
sticker.
The pumpkins and October 31st are also card stock stickers from Echo Park. The October
31st sticker is covered in Diamond Glaze to make it shiny.
Finally, I added googly eyes to the spider.
7. Hang the banners (here I used a photo hanger from IKEA, but ribbon makes an excellent substitute).

I hope this gets you in the Halloween spirit!

I wrote this blog post while participating on the Glue Dots® design team.