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52 Weeks of Pinspiration {Week 42}–Fall Photo Banner

Hi friends.  Welcome to Week 42 of my Pinspiration series.

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Well it’s really starting to feel like fall around here.  The leaves are beginning to change and I finally bought a few pumpkins for the front porch.  And as you might be surprised to know, I’ve taken about a zillion pictures of them.  Smile  Because that’s what I do.  LOL

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Anyway, in this fun class I’m taking over at Big Picture Classes  (yes, I know…I am a total BPC junkie) they encouraged us to make something fun with our photos.  Get them off the screen and into our hands.  So I thought it might be fun to make a fall photo banner and headed straight to Pinterest for a little inspiration!pinspiration

For my banner, I decided that I would make my photos 4 inches by 4 inches.  So in Photoshop Elements I brought up my first photo and cropped it into a square.leaves crop

Next I added a little flag element up at the left-hand corner then added an ‘a’ on top of it.  Lastly, I resized the photo to 4 x 4 inches.leaves with banner and flag

I did that for all eight of my fall photos spelling out the word A U T U M N.  Then I created a blank 8 x 10 inch document and grouped 4 of them on the document for printing.

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After I printed them out, I used my handy paper trimmer to cut them out.

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And then I rounded the corners and punched a hole in the upper corners.2012 10 17_4853web

So cute!

All that was left was to string them onto a length of twine (4-5 feet is good) and make a raffia bow at each end.

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I’ll just let you know right now that it’s much easier to start stringing from the end photo rather than the first one.  Just sayin.’

Don’t ask me how I know.  Winking smile

Finally I just used some clear tape and hung it up on my dining room buffet.

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Can I tell you?  I am totally in love with this little guy.  So cute and so easy.  You wouldn’t even have to go through all the trouble of Photoshop (you know me, gotta make something harder than it needs to be) – just print out some 4×6 photos and crop them down to whatever size you want.  Or not if you don’t want.  It would be super cute no matter what size I think.

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I think what I love about this most is having some of my favorite fall photos hanging around.  Literally!!

I really encourage you to do something fun with your photos.  Honestly, it’s amazing to me how a fun little craft project can really lift your spirits.  I know from personal experience.

Happy fall friends.

Love, Kelly

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  1. Carrie says

    October 20, 2012 at 11:14 am

    I want one!!! That is so cute!!! 🙂

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  2. Stacey says

    October 20, 2012 at 1:19 pm

    I just love your shots. The banner is great!

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  3. Cathy H. says

    October 21, 2012 at 2:07 pm

    Gorgeous fall banner! Love all your photos! Hope you don’t mind, I pinned it to Pinterest!! If I can find a few free hours this week, I am so making one of these!!

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  4. Susan says

    October 22, 2012 at 10:39 pm

    Very creative! You have such wonderful ideas!

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  5. Naomi says

    October 23, 2012 at 10:31 am

    I really love the bokeh in your pumpkin photo and I am totally “copying” your banner idea. I saw Tracy’s video about it but I wasn’t going to make it but you have definitely convinced me. 🙂

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  6. Pam says

    October 23, 2012 at 7:50 pm

    So, so, so beautiful. It shines! I really love the rounded corners and the font and actually, the whole thing. If I could sit and look at this and eat the mac and cheese, I’d be one happy camper. You inspire, oh you do. Lovely post and the tendril shot of the pumpkin stem is great!!!

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