I wanted to make a banner from oval shapes cut from paper and embellish the oval shapes with pleated crepe paper. As usual, I had a "vision" of what I wanted this fancy banner to look like.I nearly made the mark on this one, which is not always the case.
I then created an image from three of the literally thousands of free images from The Graphics Fairy. I chose a French frame and with my computers software stretched to an oval shape then added a bee then a royal crown for a "queen Bee" effect. I printed it out onto stiff paper and cut it out. Then came the really fun part, I flipped the image over and started pleating the black crepe paper and gluing it to the queen bee image as I worked around. Since this was my first time with this craft, the last one I made looked much better than the first as I got the hang of the pleating process.
When I was done working with the crepe paper, I flipped the piece over right side and glued it to a "flower" made from hearts cut from an old chemistry text book. I am planning on punching holes at the tops of the "flowers" then threading them onto white hemp twine to create the banner.
I found working with crepe paper to be a bit tricky but I am learning and above all enjoying this new medium.
