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I'm about to blow y'all's mind because if you've been on the internet at all and you are into birthday decorating or anything along those lines just like aent decorating you've probably seen these craft paper banners okay I have seen them all over the place I've even had them painted um like for my daughter's birthdays and I just want you guys to know that you can do this on your own so I'm going to show you today how you can take a cardboard box and your cell phone and make your own design and make your own little birthday banners y'all are going to be hooked this is the coolest craft project I've done in so long and I cannot wait to show you guys how to do this so let's go ahead and go over what you're going to need to complete this project so you're going to need a cell phone that has a flashlight obviously I've got a flashlight here or you can just use any standard flashlight um you're going to need some inkjet transparency film now I have written in permanent marker here which side is the front which side is the back because it does matter when you're using inkjet transparency film which side you print on but this paper is not super expensive um you can get on Amazon I'm going to link everything down below in the description for you guys but this stuff has come in such good handy for lots of different craft projects and it's perfect for what we're going to be doing today so inkjet transparency film I've got a box here this just like literally a standard box I want to say I'll tell you guys the size measurements on this but y'all it does not matter that much how big or small your box is this one is a little over 12 in by a little almost a foot it's almost a square box okay so nothing super crazy just a box that you've got laying around that you don't mind to cut into and then I've just got some tape for the Box I've got this roll of craft paper now this is the Dollar Tree element they have these rolls at the Dollar Tree you're going to be able to get probably two or three banners out of this craft paper roll so you're going to get more than one and it's only $125 for a roll of this which I think is such a good deal and then obviously you're just going to need some paint in the color scheme of your choice so we're going to be doing a cute little Tutti Frutti happy birthday banner for Holly's little girl in the studio and I've just got some paint brushes here in a variety of sizes as well and you're also going to need to make sure you've got some white paint cuz we're working with this craft paper Brown when you go in with colors like yellow or orange if you don't put a white base on them they're very dull so we want to make sure everything is popping off of that craft paper so we'll put down a white base first and then I've also got some black just for the letters and stuff like that you're going to need a box cutter and that is everything that's it you guys obviously you're going to need a printer because we're printing on inkjet transparency film and we are using the Canon Pixma I'm going to link everything below for you guys so if you want to get your hands on a new printer that's the one that we recommend so once you get into canva we're going to create our design so I'm just going to select created a design here and then we're going to go to custom size now we're going to be printing this on an 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper so technically we could put it on that size document but we've got to consider the shape of our Banner which is more rectangular so I'm going to make this 8 by 4 so we're going to do 8 by 4 in and then we're going to create a new design and then from here you can start adding in elements that relate to your party now you've got to remember this is going to be the shadow of whatever element you put on it so you don't want to get anything that has a lot of detail unless you have an artistic hand and you can go in and paint those details later what's going to help a lot right here is picking basic shapes and basic fonts that you can trace that have a simple outline so we're going to start by adding our text and I'm going to just start with happy birthday and we're going to be using the font Mary Catherine this is a makers going to learn font if you are new to our Channel we are a membership based crafty subscription service so you basically become a member and then you get access to all of our fonts and our files we've got thousands upon thousands of both and then you can use them for your own personal use as well as commercial use so we've got happy birthday right here I'm going to add some spacing just a little bit and then I'm going to duplicate that and we're going to type in Emerson we're going to do this font in a script just to give it some playfulness and this font is called Baby Cakes this is one of my favorite script fonts I am going to Kern the letters so they're a little bit closer to one another and then we can make it a little bit bigger so cute and now we can go in and add add our fruits so we're doing a Tutti Frutti theme so there's going to be lots of cute little fruits that we can use here and we're going to use these shapes from the maker going to learn website which I think are adorable and we're going to throw in a little pineapple over here now the fruits are behind the words and so if we want to separate the fruits from the words you can actually add a stroke on your text meaning there's an outline around your letters so I'm just going to select this happy birthday then come up here to effects and we're going to select outline and then I'm going to change this from a gray outline to a white outline and it's at a 50 point thickness which is actually perfect for what I need but I'm just going to copy and do the same exact thing for Emerson as well so I'm going to select Emerson select outline and then change that to White which kind of separates the text from the actual images so you're still able to move these images around if you want to and you can move the words around but it still keeps them separated now we are using colored images here so before we go to save it we're going to need to change these fruits to either a black or super dark gray so what I'm going to do is select the image and then we're going to go to edit and I'm going to go to Duo tone and you can see there's this mono option here this is going to darken it which is going to allow us to get a better Shadow effect when we actually go to emit the shadow onto the wall so we want to make sure that these images are super dark and if for some reason that's not dark enough you can even go to adjust and you can turn that brightness all the way down okay this is going to make it completely dark so I've turned the brightness all the way down the contrast all the way up and then the Highlight can just stay where it's at so we'll repeat so with the pineapple we'll just turn the brightness all the way down and the contrast all the way up so once everything is completely blackened we're going to go ahead and hit share and download so we're going to be downloading this as a PNG with a transparent background if you don't have pro access that's totally fine just download it as it is your printer is not going to print the white part anyways and then I'm just going to hit download so now we will just open up our image and you can see there's a white outline around it obviously that is totally fine it's not really going to print anything anyways we just need these black elements so that we can get a Trace so from here I'm going to go file print and make sure you have your correct printer selected I'm going to go to media and quality so we can feed it from the rear tray and then I'm going to select best quality and then we're going to go to layout and I am going to select flip horizontally now for some reason you don't see this you can save your image pull it back into canva and then flip your image that way because you can't just flip text in canva easily um let me actually show you guys how to do that just in case you are unsure so let's say that you wanted to flip this image let me show you if I select everything it's not going to give me the option to flip my image if I select just this pineapple it does give me the option if I select the words it doesn't give me the option so what you need to do is save it as a PNG just like we did we're going to duplicate this page or add a page and then we're going to upload what we just saved so that happy birthday PNG we're going to upload that from our downloads okay it's sitting in our downloads and now it thinks it's an image so canva thanks it's an image meaning it's going to allow us to flip our image so you can select it pop it in and then we're going to be able to flip okay does that make sense so that way everything is on one level it's easily K is going to think that it's an image so we can flip it horizontally and then you can save it and just print it as is or you can do it how we did it the first time where we saved it and then we mirrored it from the print dialogue box and then just go ahead and hit print okay so I did explain you guys how to flip your image but honestly y'all this is a inkjet transparency film meaning it's transparent so if you need to flip your image you can simply flip your paper over okay easy peasy right so this is our piece now I did not change the duo tone on our pineapple and it did come out a little yellow and green that's okay we'll reprint it so that it's completely black so you are going to need to make sure to use the duo tone filter and then lower your contrast to make everything completely black but really this is so dark it's still going to cast The Shadow pretty well so make sure everything's super dark and then from there you're going to need to get your box all right so this doesn't have to be super neat or anything as long as your design is showing you're going to be good to go so I'm going to just take a sharpie and kind of trace a line can even kind of put some dots down here and then just make sure that your design fits within the square that you're drawing on here okay and then we'll just set this to the side get your handy dandy box cutter and we're going to cut this Square out be super careful here okay and then you want to make sure you're putting your image onto your box reversed and we're just going to take some tape and make sure that our design is taped to our box all right and then from there this is where we're going to put the phone in the box we're going to project it on the wall and we will start tracing so let's go over and we're going to get that done okay so I'm just going to roll this all the way out I'm going to put some tape down on one side so it kind of holds it while I'm trying to work and then we can put it up on the wall that would be great like just lay it over [Applause] okay so then we're going to take our box that we made we're going to put our phone down inside of it with the flashlight on okay flashlights on I don't know if you guys can see that and it's going to go inside your box okay now we're going to place it and we may have have to move it we may have to adjust have to like prop it on some stuff but we're going to get it we're going to figure it out and it's going to work so you can kind of see you can kind of see right now we've got the lights on can y'all see we're getting like a very faint projection here let's turn the lights off and you''ll really be able to see it since I have my actually doing it go ahead all right so I finished tracing this it really did not take that long you guys um you probably can't even see it from where you're at but we're about to paint it white so you're really going to be able to see it but this was so easy to trace I just I can't believe I've waited this long to create one of these I was so intimidated by it and it was just so easy so we're going to lay this on the table and we're going to start painting so I've got some different Deco art paints here you can use whatever brand of acrylic paint that you prefer just make sure if you are using lots of color that you get a good amount of white because we're going to need to paint everything white first and then we'll go back in with the colors because a lot of times when you're using colors especially like yellow and orange on this brown they're very transparent so you want to make sure everything's painted white and then go back and paint the top coat with the color so we're going to start off with the white and paint everything that's going to be colored in white and I think we're going to do our words in Black so we won't actually have to do those twice we can just go straight in with the black and paint them that color so I'm going to start by painting our first coat on the fruits and I'm just going to put our paint on a paper plate just Kicking It Old School nothing fancy and then I recommend any of the horse hair paint brushes most of the time these have the blue handles if you go to um Hobby Lobby and they have Brown bristles the black tacon wash setet is really good um but the blue handles with the brown hairs those are my absolute favorite these are honestly not bad either though so I'm going to get out I like these rounded tip ones let me show you all the difference really quick so depending on what you're painting honestly like don't overthink this I'm just giving you guys a little bit of advice if you're painting something that has rounded edges or is a little bit more cartoony such as this birthday banner a rounded Edge brush is going to be better if you're painting something a little bit more crisp or modern or precise a square tip brush is going to be better so like this one but I personally like my style fits with these rounded brushes a little bit more so that's what I'm going to be using but if you're just really confused because I know there's thousands of brushes y'all don't overthink the brushes just get you a variety set and then figure it out from there okay so we're going to go ahead and get started we're going to speed this up so you guys don't have to sit and watch me paint for however long this takes me I'm hoping not very long though so we shall see [Music] all right so we finished painting it now we're going to go hang it up so you guys can get a good final shot I think you all are going to love it all right what did you all think about it I think this turned out so cute and honestly it's one of the funnest crafts that I have done in a long time funnest is that a word I don't know let me know in the comments uh what you all think about this craft and if you're going to be doing this for your own special events coming up if you liked what you saw you can join in on our crafty membership for just a doll I put a link in the description for you all so you can click that link and for $1 you can have access to all the files and fonts that we use today 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