I’ve been busy making this Believe Banner for Christmas.  I have a collection of Santa Clauses that have become too large for my mantle.  So I decided I would move them to my buffet.

Because we have grand kids, the gathering for Christmas is usually at their house. I still enjoy decorating and dressing up the house for the holiday.

Be sure and click on the picture and get a closer look.  Hmmm, looks like I need to back the back of the pendants since they reflect in the mirror. 

The pendants are made out of chipboard (or in this case recycled cereal boxes).  I use tape to hold the chipboard on my Cricut mat to ensure that the chipboard doesn’t move around when the Cricut is cutting it.

I cut two pendants and glued them together.  Because cereal boxes are a thin chipboard, gluing two of them together makes the pendant sturdy enough for the embellishments that I’m going to put on this pendant.

If you want the pendant to be thicker just cut additional pendants and glue them together.

They fit and glue together nicely.  I used Glossy Accent to glue the chipboard together and it sticks really well.

I used my crop-a-dile to cut the holes and it had no trouble going through the two layers of chipboard.

 Since I’ve decided to decorate this year in black, white, silver and red, I pulled together some hounds tooth paper and cut it the exact same size as the pendants.  Tip:  If you use a pattern paper that has a very distinct design (like hounds tooth) and you want the pattern running the same way on the pendants you will need to buy double the amount.  You can only get two pendants out of a 12 x 12  pendant and one has to be cut inverted to the other to get two.  If the pattern is random then you don’t have to worry about which way the design is running.

I ran a bead of Glossy Accents around the perimeter of the pendant and then a few beads through the center.

Place the pattern paper on top and lined it up.  What is awesome about the Cricut is you are using the same pattern for the chipboard and cutting the pattern paper to go on top of the pendant.  They fit together exactly, no trimming.

I’ll post the rest of this banner tomorrow.  Let me know what you think of the project, I would love to hear from you.

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