Birthday pennant

Hi beautiful

My mum celebrates her 95th birthday this weekend. A usual birthday card just didn't seem grand enough. So... Introducing the birthday pennant!

Pennant 17" wide & 30" long

Mum loves bright colours and flowers hence the bold pink and yellow green!

Happy 95

I used the Scan N Cut to cut out the letters, numbers, petals and leaves from card stock. I followed Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's technique for assembling the flowers. (Dimensional flowers)

3D Flowers

The pennant is made from foam packaging about half inch thick - easy to cut. Over this a layer of tinted gesso to give some grip to the surface (and maybe hold it together!).

Yet something more was still needed for the background. Inspiration struck! Tea bags!! All those used tea bags I had begun collecting - their moment of glory had come. And Mum loves her cup of tea. The colour variations of the tea bags and their texture really worked well.  

So much adhesive later, the finished pennant. Mum is confined to her bed, so the pennant will be able to hang on the wall and easily read by her from there!

A fun happy project which I hope will bring a smile and laugh from my dear Mum.

Enjoy your making and creating.

Love

Cara