DIY St. Patrick’s Day Banner

Can you believe it’s almost the end of February and we are heading into month 3 of 2018?  I feel like time is flying by lately!  With it being near the end of the month it’s time for the monthly Create with Cricut!  Last month’s material was felt and I made some adorable felt headbands for my girls.  This month’s material was cereal boxes.  I love seeing what everyone comes up with using that month’s material!

I decided to make a sturdy banner for St. Patrick’s Day!  I have some really fun paper I wanted to use but it just wasn’t strong enough to withhold children and storage.  I thought the cereal boxes would be a great backing to the banner.  It’s so solid now and I’m not worried one bit about it breaking or bending in storage!

Cutting Cereal Boxes with a Cricut

I started out by finding a shamrock in the images on Design Space.  I made it bigger so that it was the size I was looking for.  I started by cutting out the cereal boxes first.  I put the shiny side up as I had read that it cut better that way.

I cut 6 different shamrocks out of 3 cereal box flats.  I put the dial on custom settings and chose flat cardboard in the settings.  I also did replace the blade with the deep cut blade to cut the cardboard.  I was amazed at how well it cut and found a new love for cereal boxes.  I’m totally going to use these all the time for projects now!

I then changed the settings on my Cricut and put in some fun foil embossed paper I bought on sale at Michaels.  Right when I got my Cricut, Michaels was having a sale for half off of scrapbook paper!  I ended up getting about 5 booklets for about $30!  A total steal!

I took my last side of one of my cereal boxes and cut out a larger version of the shamrock.  I found this fun Kiss Me I’m Lucky svg on Etsy that I wanted to use as the center of my banner.  I purchased it and uploaded it to my Design Space.  It comes with the letters white and on a separate cut.  I enlarged the image and then just did cut 2 as it was only the shamrock.  I cut the shamrock out with the cereal box and then once again with a plain piece of green cardstock.

After the two shamrocks were cut I went back to the image and highlighted all the lettering.  I then clicked on the attach button and it made it all one color/cut.  Doing it this way I could cut out the lettering and use the shamrock piece for my banner.

Assembling the Banner

After everything was cut out I then used a spray adhesive to place the paper on top of the cereal box.  

After everything was dry I turned them over and put a strip of hot glue on each and attached twine.  It was now finished and ready to be hung for decoration!

I hope everyone has a wonderful St. Patrick’s Day and don’t forget to check out all of the other amazing projects below!  So much creativity in this group!

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