Manic Mama Miles: The Next Chapter: Book Baby Shower Banner

For the Book Themed Baby Shower, I made a banner for about $1. Here is how. First I found a book at Goodwill for 50 cents that had some picture pages, but also lots of pages with just words.

I knew I wanted to spell out "The Next Chapter", so I cut out a page of words-only for each letter I needed. Then I took all the pages with pictures & cut the pictures out & then cut the pages into 4ths. I did this based on the size of my letters I would be using.

Once I had the picture size, I took a piece of scrapbook paper that I had gotten at Hobby Lobby for another party for around 50 cents & I used my stencils to spell out my letters. Once I had all the letters traced, I cut them out & glued them onto the pictures that I had cut up. I then took the words-only pages & put my picture/letter combo on top. The words-only pages were larger than what I wanted to use, so I just centered everything & cut off the excess to make a square background. They wound up looking like this.

I then took my hole punch & some ribbon around the house & tied the letters together. On the ends, I used clear craft line (you can also use fishing line) to attach the banner to my old window with a thumb tack. Besides the light reflecting horribly in these pictures, the banner turned out really cute & was so cheap.