Bunco Chain Garland

I've had my Pinterest account for a while now but have only recently REALLY gotten into it.  I created a board called "Garlands" and have been studying the different ways people have created them.  So, I decided to try one of my own in the popular "chain" style (or at least that is what I'm calling it).  I also have a pin board called "Bunco" where you can find the free printable that I used below.  LOVE Pinterest!

Chain Garland Tutorial

Step 1:  Print off the Bunco printable on heavy cardstock.  I get my white heavy cardstock at Wal-Mart.  It is by Georgia Pacific and is 110 lb weight paper.  (I printed off a lot of these Bunco circles!)  Make sure you have extra ink cartridges on hand!

Step 2:  Using my Marvy Uchida 3.5 inch punch (purchased at Hobby Lobby), I punched out the printed circles.

Step 3: Using my new Scotch laminator that I purchased at Wal-Mart, I laminated all the circles.  I LOVE this laminator, and I love laminating!!!  (The machine was about $25.)

Step 4: With scissors, cut out all the circles.

Step 5:  Now, using ribbon I already had, I hot glued circles to the ribbon at even increments.  I basically sandwiched the ribbon between two circles.  This chain is going in my front door garland, so I wanted images on either side just in case if the (who am I kidding, I live in Oklahoma) WHEN the wind blows you will still see images from either side.  It was handy using the polka dot ribbon.  I just counted the dots to have even spacing between each bunco circle.  Now just repeat this process over and over.  I probably made close to 30 feet of chain garland.  Will I need that much?  I don't know.  It all depends on how it hangs on the garland.  We will soon see!

Check back tomorrow for the bunco front door video, and see how this turned out!!!

Please remember to vote for Prettify Your Life in the Circle of Moms Top 25 Creative Moms of 2012 Blog contest.  Click the Circle of Moms button in the top right-hand column of this blog, then find Prettify Your Life in the list of blogs and click on the orange thumb on the right to cast your vote.  I really appreciate your support!

Thanks so much for taking the time to check out my blog!