An Adobe Printing Tutorial You Don't Want to Miss! {And the answers to some questions about my buntings!}

If you're just here to see the tutorial... it's down near the bottom!

If you follow my blog or FB, you know that I've been CRAZY into buntings lately... I am making them for every theme, holiday, pattern, you name it, I'm doing it!  If you've purchased any of the sets that have all letters of the alphabet in capital and lowercase, I just added an editable PowerPoint to those packs so you can do your own fonts or customize which pennants you use!  And if you want to check them out, click HERE!

After I posted these pics of my holiday banners...

 

Check out this pack on TpT!

I got a few e-mails and blog comments about my laminator, assembling these guys, and how I'm storing them.

So here are the answers!

This is my laminator:

Find it on Amazon

It even came with stickers so I could decorate it!  I buy my thermal refill pouches on Amazon too.  Last week I ran out and bought some at Wal-Mart and it was $15 for 50.  Yikes!  I buy these on Amazon and it's $10 for 100!  I've purchased several batches of this brand and they've all been great for me!  I have some coming this week and I can't wait to laminate some more.

I also got asked how I assembled these bunting banners...

I just had some random scrapbooking stuff here at home so, I punched 2 holes in the top corner of each pennant and then used ribbon to tie some together like this one:

I ran ribbon through each hole on the Christmas banner (see pic below) and I used brads to connect the rest (see pics above!).  The brads were definitely easier and I was able to color coordinate my brads with my banners, so I like that too!

I did tie ribbons in the first and last hole of each banner so I can display them.  I think you can see that in any of the pics.

Then I was asked if they were easy to store.

The Christmas banner folds up really easily since it's put together with ribbon...

The ones I assembled with brads fold together in a funky sort of way...

But I have them each placed in a baggie and they are nice and flat and will store nicely, I think!

Last, I was asked how to print these in different sizes so I've put together a picture tutorial to walk you through it.  You can't "customize" a desired size, but you can print multiple copies on a page to make them smaller if you want.  Maybe you already knew this... but if not, it's a neat trick that works with any PDF.  I use it often to do things like make 8.5"x11" charts into flashcard sized reminders for my kiddos!  Here's how:

Hope that helps and you learned something new today!

I have almost FIFTY different themed bunting sets!  Check out the link below to see if there's something cute for your theme... and, if not, let me know and I'll add it right away!

Also, did I mention earlier that I joined Instagram?  I'm still figuring it out, but if you want to follow me, my username is mrsbainbridges_blog and you can take a little peek into my life if you're interested!  I'd love to follow you too!

Just Decorated My Classroom From the Comfort of My Home!

Ahhhh... summer.  Not knowing what day it is, sleeping in, watching "The Golden Girls"... what could be better?!

I'll tell you what... I just decorated my classroom for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's Day, St. Patty's Day, and Easter all from my dining room!

How did I do this you ask...?  {And why...?}

Well, last year I just couldn't keep up with holiday decor in my classroom.  First off, all of my bulletin boards have permanent displays.  Second off, I just could not find time to keep up with decorating!  I tried my best, but there never seemed to be enough time to put things up and, when they finally got up, we didn't have time to enjoy them!

So, in my making of bunting frenzy that happened this week, I made printable bunting banners for those six holidays.  I printed them out, laminated them {how did I ever survive without a home laminator?!}, and assembled them this morning.  It took me about 4 hours to do all of them {printing, cutting, laminating, cutting, and assembling}, but I'm so excited!

They are all ready to go so all I have to do is pull them out and hang them up!  I have wire that runs across my room, so it will just be a matter of quickly clothespinning the banners to my wire and... decorated!

Don't look at my messy floor and house, but here are how they look... I love them!  Halloween is my favorite one!

I'm so happy with how these turned out!

I have a pack with all 6 available in my TpT store.  It's on sale for a few days at $1 off!  Just click HERE to check it out!

Speaking of buntings... did you download this freebie from my Facebook page?  There will be a new freebie posted Monday, so if you haven't grabbed this one... go go go!  It's only available to "LIKE"rs of my blog on Facebook!

I LOVE how it turned out!

And last... yesterday I blogged about other bunting banners I had created and promised some winners!

So... #4 Sarah, #8 Karmen, #11 Courtney, #33 Carol, and #46 MsR, I have e-mailed you the bunting banner you liked best!

I'll be spending the rest of the afternoon working on a surprise for the bloggers who come to our Michigan meet-up tomorrow!

If you haven't RSVP'd and think you're going to come, let me know!  You can check out the blue and white little button there at the top right of my blog for more info!

Happy Friday!  It's date night in the Bainbridge house so I can't wait for my hubby to get home from work!!!'

WAIT!  One more thing!!!!  If you downloaded my 100 Club from TpT, go re-download it!  It got an update late last night... think more buntings!!!!