Cricut Circle February Challenge: Banners!

Banners are hot, hot, HOT in the papercrafting world so this month's Cricut Circle Challenge was to create a banner! I've been wanting to make one for a while now and this gave me the perfect excuse. Is it my little girl's 5th birthday on Sunday so I wanted to make her a gift that we could not only display at her party but also hang in her room.


I used the Country Life Cricut Cartridge to cut all of my banner shapes at 10". Then I used Nursery Rhymes to cut the letters in her name at 4" (I think). Then I used Once Upon a Princess to make Princess Penny and a sort of Ariel (hey, she needed to be pink). I used my brand new Peachy Keen Stamps "Wide Eyed Kids" for the faces, aren't they ADORABLE? I just want to make a TON of dolls now! Finally the birthday girl and I went through my mounds of stickers and embellishments to pick out stuff to represent her favorite things: Ballet, Princesses, Hello Kitty, Littlest Pet Shop and Dress Up. I'm really happy with the results and she is too! Here's close-ups of all of the letters to see what we did:

Precocious Paper Hair Clips

I wanted to do a different sort of project this month for my Precocious Paper Design Team project and I've been seeing all these really cute hair accessories lately.... so I decided that the Sweet Dots Felt and Fabric flowers would make the perfect hair clips! They would be so fun for any little or big girl to receive as a gift and they were pretty simple to make!


I simply covered a clip with some cute red ribbon. Then ran a line of hot glue and stuck my Sweet Dots Flower into it! But I also wanted a fun way to present them as a gift...


I created this card with my Hello Kitty Greetings Cricut Cartridge and instead of cutting out the flower that goes on her head I just skipped that step and clipped on the flower clip that I made instead! Now I have a beautiful gift to give to a special little girl :) Now you should hurry over to the Precocious Paper Etsy Store and grab some of these fun flowers to play with too!