Masculine Birthday Banner Made with Cricut Imagine and Club Scrap

I started with an assortment of Club Scrap papers from POPs packs, and chose from my blacks, grays, whites, cream, and few taupe shades.  The larger size is 4x6 and I used a corner rounder on the bottom corners. The smaller size is 3x5.

 Some of the tools I used are pictured below.  I used direct to paper inking on the edges of the base papers in Club Scrap hybrid ink, ruby and Club Scrap India Ink in black, Club Scrap Pigment Ink in white.  Distress Ink in weathered wood and spiced marmalade, and Adirondak ink in slate.  I used foam dots between most of the layers.  The brayer is pictured because I used it to press the paper onto the Cricut mat for better adhesion.  I used the tonic red handled scissors to cut the foam dots because they are teflon coated to prevent sticking :)  The Cricut spatula is very helpful for getting cuts off of the mat, but not necessary.  I also used the Cricut Imagin JT and Country Carnival cartridges in my Imagine and E2.  Also, not pictured is the twill ribbon in natural that I strung the whole thing up on~

 This is the Tonic Punch system that I used to put the holes in the 4x6 mats where I wanted to string them on the ribbon.  In the finished picture you don't see the holes because I covered them with the 3x5 after I strung the ribbon through.

 Here is a side view of one of the panels.  The layering order is from top to bottom:

• Colored letter from Country Carnival cut on the Imagine
• Foam dots
• Letter shadow from Country Carnival cut on the E2 from Club Scrap basics in Black
• Foam dots
• Image layer from JT cut on the Imagine
• Foam dots
• Image base from JT cut on the Imagine
• Club Scrap Bookbinding Padding and Laminating Adhesive (AKA: acid free glue to use on just about anything!)
• 3x5 mat with inked edges
• Foam Dots
• 4x6 mat with corners rounded and inked edges

 This is the finished banner haning on our mantle for my 17 year olds birthday today!!!