Scrapbook & Cards Today Blog: Birthday pennant emblems with Becky Fleck!

Hi everyone...it's Becky! Thank you so much for joining us for SCT's birthday celebration this week. We have thoroughly enjoyed reading all your comments and have more in store for you all week so don't miss joining us each day!

Did you see that little gift bag on page 9 of the spring issue? You know the one housing the Ipod Touch we are giving away HERE? Pennant emblems are all the rage right now in scrapbooking and even though the ready-made ones are quick and easy to use, there may be times when you can't find one to match your project. That's when making your own is just the ticket. I'd like to share with you a step-by-step on how to make these embellishments, with a special twist. As you can see from the one I've made above, the emblem is made up of four colours for a really cool look. So grab your scraps, ruler, scoring stylus and some wet adhesive and let's get started.

To create a four-colour emblem, trim four pieces of paper to 1½"x3". Score at every 1/2" and fold each piece up like an accordion.

To connect the four pieces together into one long accordion, overlap one end onto the end of the next folded piece and glue in place. You may need to trim off 1/2" from the end of one to keep the folds going in the right direction. You should now have a long accordion-folded piece that looks something like this.

Finally, connect the two open ends to one another and you'll have a funky, round folded tube that looks a bit like this:

Punch out a 2" circle from a piece of scrap cardstock. Apply a generous amount of quick-dry wet adhesive to the center of the circle. Flatten the accordion folded circle so that the hills and valleys of the folds are facing up and press it in place onto the glue. You may need to hold it there until the glue grabs, or place something heavy on top of the emblem while the glue sets.

To dress my emblem up a bit, I added a tulle ruffle to the backside. To do this, trim a 4" circle from some green tulle.

Turn the emblem over and apply a few glue dots to the center of the cardstock circle. Lay the tulle circle over the middle and scrunch it up over the glue dots until the tulle ruffles and pleats.

Turn it back over and attach it to the front of your card (5"x5") and finish it off with another round circle, a pretty button and some baker's twine! There you have it ... your custom-made emblem in four colors!

Now, wouldn't it be fun to make a pennent emblem with this...

Our friends at Jillibean Soup thought this would be a wonderful giveaway in honour of our birthday and we could not agree more! This fun collection could have you creating birthday themed projects for quite some time. Just leave us a comment below before Thursday at 6:00 p.m. and we'll announce the winner our post on Friday, April 1st!

There's lots more in store during our week of celebration including a surprise announcement so be sure to pop back in tomorrow. Also, if you have not joined our facebook fan page, you may want to do that today...just sayin'! Join us here!

~ Becky

Comments

Very cute emblem. Happy Birthday week to you too. Thanks for a chance to win.

Posted by: Jenny McGee | March 29, 2011 at 03:46 PM

Beautiful flower. I love the backing and the ticket. Who ever would have thought.

Posted by: Donna Rawbone | March 29, 2011 at 03:47 PM

Beautiful line! TFS! and again HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! :)

Posted by: Lorraine M. | March 29, 2011 at 03:55 PM

Cant wait to try the Birthday Pennant Emblems.
THanks for the idea.

Posted by: Cathy | March 29, 2011 at 04:03 PM

OOh how I love this collection of papers by Jillibean Soup! I have two boys to scrapbook for and I am always looking for great papers in gender neutral colors - I'm tired of primary colors, trucks and spaceships! Well done!!
Happy Birthday SCT!

Posted by: Crystal | March 29, 2011 at 04:04 PM

Great tutorial! Love the line.

Posted by: Tara W | March 29, 2011 at 04:22 PM

What a nice collection from jillibean happy birthday!

Posted by: JoAnn Heinbuch | March 29, 2011 at 04:27 PM

Thank you so much for the demo. I love when I have pictures to follow since I am so visual. Jillibean Soup is one of my favorite paper lines.

Posted by: Beneta | March 29, 2011 at 04:29 PM

I loved the tutorial that you gave and also the opportunity to win the Jillibean Soup Collection. Happy 5th Birthday to all of you.

Posted by: Marguerite | March 29, 2011 at 04:34 PM

What great colours... and those owls are a hoot!

Posted by: emmaeh | March 29, 2011 at 04:37 PM

Love it. What a fun and fabulous collection. I hope I win. This would be so fun to play with.

Posted by: Stephanie H | March 29, 2011 at 04:38 PM

I love the homemade versions! Thanks for the tutorial, I have a card in mind to use it for. I've seen Jillibean popping up everywhere lately. Would love to win!

Posted by: jill | March 29, 2011 at 04:39 PM