Snowflake Banner

Today I'm sharing a couple of simple projects with you.
The first one is a Let it Snow banner.  I knew I wanted to make one, and before I got it made, I had the thought that I should make a Snowflake garland.  I ended up making the garland first, and the banner second.  I'll talk about the garland in a minute.
For this banner, I picked out 9 different snowflakes on the Winter Lace Cricut cartridge. Using my Cricut, I cut them out with white cardstock and then I cut the background for them with winter patterned paper.

For all of the letters I used the Winter Woodland cartridge.  Isn't it just perfect for a Let it SNOW banner?!  I love it.

Once I had all the snowflakes put together, I put the letters on using dimension squares. 

I punched a little hole in the top of each snowflake and used baker's twine to put the banner together.  Then it was ready to hang up.

Now I'll tell you about the snowflake garland.  One day last week, I had the thought that I should add a snowflake garland/bunting/banner/whatever you want to call them to the lower part of my shelf with SNOW on it, kind of like I did here with leaves. 
I jumped on Cricut Craft Room and found the snowflakes I wanted to use.  I was able to fit 32 of them on a 12x12 sheet, and cut them out with my Expression.  Then I headed in the other room to sew them together.  Well, I got them all sewn together and they were way.too.long to hang from my shelf.  I decided that I would just put them up on the wall and put my Let it SNOW banner below it.  It worked out ok, don't you think?

I love how simple this was to put together, and it's such a fun thing to look at!  Maybe I need to make one for every holiday and season. :)

I hope you are enjoying seeing the winter decor that I have.  I wait until February to get out any Valentines Decor, because we have a birthday in our house the last day of January.  I figure since I decorate for birthdays, that that is a good time to change the decor around. 
Linking to: Artsy-Fartsy Mama, The 36th Avenue, Cox's Corner, House of Hepworths, The Crafty Blog Stalker, Creations by Kara, Lil' Luna, Ginger Snap Crafts