Party decorations

Hi!!! Lori here from ScrappinMyStressAway and I am so excited to share my very first CricutDIVA post with you today!!

My middle son is graduating from High School in just over a month (sniff, sniff). He is also a baseball player (catcher) and I have been working very hard at making his graduation party decorations.

I was inspired by a post on Pinterest to create my centerpiece.

I started with my Gypsy Girl and opened a 12×24 mat.

I used the shadow of this pennant from Locker Talk sized to width 15.24 x height 7.12.

Once I sized the shadow layer to 7.12 inches, I put all of the pieces for the banner on layers of my Gyspy all sized to 7.12 inches.

I used watercolor paper to cut out the base of my pennant. Watercolor paper is very sturdy and it cuts well on the cricut. I use it for banner flags and mini album pages too.

I used multi-cut of 2 and the blade depth at 5 (which is the depth I use for cardstock).

I put the pennant in the next layer of my Gypsy, sized the same. I wanted the pennant to be white and the tassles to be blue, so I hung the tassles off the mats.

I cut out two in white cardstock, one for each side. I trimmed off the edges and adhered one piece to each side of the watercolor paper layer.

In Gypsy Layer 3, I put the tassels, borders and the numbers from Varsity Letter sized to 2.28 inches.

I cut them out in blue paper (I call this shade Titan Blue for my son’s high school).

In Gypsy Layer 4, I put the baseball layer from Boys Will Be Boys sized to 6.15 inches.

On the bottom half of the mat, I put the numbers from Varsity Letter sized to 2.28 inches.

I also put the graduation cap from Recess sized to 1.82 inches.

I cut out the baseball in white cardstock and the rest in black cardstock.

I decided later I wanted a second graduation cap so I copied and pasted one to the next Gypsy layer along with the base of the baseball. I cut them out in black cadstock.

I opened a final Gypsy layer and kept the eyeball open on the tab so I could see the baseball base (shown in grey). I copied the baseball onto this layer and sized it to 6.74 inches to create a shadow. I cut the layer out in blue cardstock.

I adhered the blue tassels on the pennant. I cut several strands of twine and tied a knot in the center. I used my ATG gun to adhere them to the blue tassels. Once adhered, I trimmed the edges of the twine.

I used my Sew Easy to punch holes in the border piece. I used the red and white twine to stitch around the edges.

I pop-dotted the border piece to the pennant.

I adhered the baseball layers and pop-dotted the number 8 (Tyler’s jersey number) and the graduation cap to the pennant.

I used a liquid glue pen to adhere blue and white twine to the edges of the pennant.

Here you can see the dimension.

On the other side of the pendant, I adhered the numbers and pop-dotted the second graduation cap.

Before I adhered the border to the pennant, I used ATG to adhere a wilton cookie/cake pop stick to the pennant. I reinforced the stick with some tape.

I pop-dotted the border on with an extra layer of pop dots to account for the height of the stick.