Masculine name banner

Here is an interesting thing about my family. My husband's name contains all the first letters of our names. We are a family of four - of course, I count our little dog, Rozi in it! -and my husband name is Imre.

IMRE: Imre, Monika, Rozi, Eszter

It was a few months ago when I accidentally realised this and in the same time, a name banner came to my mind. I just kept this idea to implement it for my hubby's name-day, for today!

What I used:

Sizzix Framelits Plus Die, Banners (660836)

Sizzix Sizzlits Alphabet Die, Antiqua by Brenda Walton (658337)

Stampers Anonymous, Dots&Floral (CMS220) by Tim Holtz

Stampers Anonymous, Plaid&Nordic (CMS243) by Tim Holtz

Stampers Anonymous, Stripes&Holiday (CMS281) by Tim Holtz

Ranger Distress ink pads (Walnut Stain, Ground Espresso)

Ranger Archival ink pad (Cornflower Blue)

Idea-Ology Loop pins by Tim Holtz

We R Memory Keepers Crop-A-Dile Big Bite

Tonic Studios Paper Distresser by Tim Holtz

Ide-Ology Fasteners, Antique Finishes by Tim Holtz

I attached the banners to each other with loop pins.

By accident, I punched holes to the last banners so I put fasteners to the unwanted holes. 

Happy name-day for my hubby! Happy Guy Fawkes Day for my English friends! Happy Sunday for you!

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Name banners for boys

This is a quick post to show you the name banners I have made for my lovely nephews. I promised them during the summer when we were in Hungary to make banners above their desks. 

On the banner you can see the abbreviations of their names (Zsigmond-Zsigi, Mátyás-Matyi). I know, it's greek to you - hahaha!

If you click on the pictures, you can see them in bigger sizes!

Oh, and Rachel, if you see this post, you can see that I'm totally hooked on your November challenge theme - hahaha again!

What I used:

Sizzix Framelits Die, Stars (657567)

Sizzix Bigz XL Alphabet Die, Vintage Market by Tim Holtz (658772)



I hope you like it! Happy crafting!

Sizzix - Birthday banners for boys

At the Country View Challenge the challenge theme of September is: Numbers. 

Since I always like to create something useful I decided to make birthday banners for my nephews who will celebrate their birthday in November. Zsiga will be 7 on 5  November and Matyi will be 4 on 11 November hence I put their birth years and ages to the banners.

I used the Sizzix new Bigz L Banner to make these birthday decorations.

I cut out two shapes from blue cardstocks and four from green cardstocks.

Then, I cut out 0,5 cm with scissors from each sides of the green banners.

With a Sizzix - Stampin' Up embossing folder I embossed the green banners. I had to make it in two steps because the embossing folder was smaller than the banner.

I coloured every edges of my cutouts using a Ranger Distress Ink Pad (Frayed Burlap) and a piece of sponge.

I glued the green parts to the blue banners.

I cut out a star and an owl using Sizzix Framelits Die, Stars and Sizzix Bigz Die, Owl by Dena Designs.

I cut the numbers and the letters with Sizzix Sizzlits Die, Boardwalk by Tim Holtz.

I made two holes of each banners with We R Memory Keepers Crop-A-Dile Big Bite.

Then I put eyelets to the holes.

Here you may see the stripes better:

What I used:

Sizzix Bigz L Die, Banner by Lori Whitlock (660292)

Sizzix Framelits Die, Stars (657567)

Sizzix Bigz Die, Owl by Dena Designs (657694)

Sizzix Sizzlits Alphabet Die, Boardwalk by Tim Holtz (659427)

We R Memory Keepers, Crop-A-Dile II, Big Bite

We R Memory Keepers eyelets

Ranger Distress Ink Pad by Tim Holtz (Frayed Burlap)

Sizzix for Stampin' Up Embossing Folder, Stripes

cord

cardstocks

glue

With these banners I like to enter to the Monday challenge of Simon Says Stamp blog: Trio of colors

Sizzix birthday name garland with Brenda Walton snowflake medallion

To celebrate Eszter's ninth birthday I made this name banner for her party.

For this decoration it was me who made the polka dot papers too. 

I used a plain pink cardstock to push through the Big Shot between a dot embossing folder.

I painted the dots with a dark pink ink.

I cut out the shapes with Brenda Walton snowflake medallion die. For each medallion I needed 4 shapes. With running through the paper in the Big Shot machine the embossed dots flattened and that was my goal to have a polka dot paper.

I folded them at the fold lines and I sticked them together.

After pushing down the center I added some hot glue to the center and I immediately glued a scalloped circle on it. Then, I placed a scalloped circle to the other side too.

To the front sides I glued the letters.

I put Marabu Glitter Liner to the edges and to the letters.

After the glitter liner dried the medallion looked like this.

What I used:

Sizzix Bigz Die, Snowflake Medallion by Brenda Walton (658739)

Sizzix Sizzlits Die, Antiqua Alphabet by Brenda Walton (658337)

Sizzix Framelits Die, Scalloped Circle (657552)

Sizzix Embossing Folders, Polka Dots by Eileen Hull (658990)

Pritt Stift, hot glue

Marabu Glitter Liners

Tsukineko Memento Ink

DIY floral birthday card with butterfly and name banner for girls

Carte anniversaire avec fleures et papillon

All right, it's easy for me to make such birthday card as this  in the picture with the Sizzix machine! I must admit that I couldn't cut out this lacy butterfly or these detailed flowers without the Sizzix.

This card is made for a seven years old girl's birthday. I hope she will like it!

Since this girl are very fond of crafting I have made for her a name banner from the same cardstocks that I used for the birthday card. She has to stick the parts together paying attention of the right directions of the holes and the letters.