Birthday Banner and Nautical Flags

How about we end the week with a happy note? And what is happier  than bunting? Well, colorful, birthday flag banners, of course!

I made these for my husband’s “surprise” birthday party back in May. Notice the scare quotes, my husband’s friend forgot it was a surprise and called him to confirm the time before the party. Heh!

Birthday Banner and Nautical Flags: I wanted to do something different, so instead of cake candles I made nautical flags spelling the birthday boy’s name.

The good thing is that this can be put into an envelope and taken out every time there is a birthday, which we did when it was Nadia’s birthday last month.

The flags are basically triangles cut out of scrapbooking paper and letter hand-drawn and cut out of blue paper. Then I glued the letter to the paper and passed the flags through the serger leaving a long string at the beginning and end. Easy peasy.

To separate the words I left a blank flag in between and hand-drew a birthday cake on it. And there’s our official birthday banner.

I forgot to take a picture of the actual thing, but instead of writing something on the store-bought cake for my husband’s party (I had no time to bake one), I made two nautical flags spelling the letters B and K (my husband’s initials). He laughed when he saw it.

As it turns out the flags had another meaning I failed to take into consideration: They are also the international signs for “dangerous cargo” and  “man overboard!”.

I am happy to report that the party was fun, and nobody fell over the balcony rail all day.

Aunt Clara