Ideas for decorating a room with streamers and a sign?!
Ideas for decorating a room with streamers and a sign?
I have 3 or so rolls of crepe streamers and a happy birthday sign.. any ideas of how I should do the layout of the room? Pictures is what i would really like, but anything else is wonderful.
Answers:
I always decorate the same way for birthdays, and it always looks nice. I am sorry, as I have no pictures, or I would scan them and upload them somewhere for you to look at.
I always buy four rolls of streamers, two each in two colors, and I make sure the colors coordinate with my banner or sign. I staple two different colors of streamers to begin. I happen to have a light fixture in the center of almost all my rooms, so that's where I anchor the streamers, but if you don't, you can tape the stapled end, and then blow up a couple of coordinating balloons, and put them over the anchor site to hide all the tape. I work from the center of the room out to the corners, twisting the crepe paper as I go so that both colors show. I let them hang so they give a nice, curved effect, then staple the two pieces together and anchor again with tape high in each corner of the room; if you have enough crepe paper, you can leave two long streamers hanging down a bit, but that isn't exactly necessary. I do four of those, one to each corner of the room. Keep the streamers together, so that it's like one streamer with two different colored sides, and try to twist them at the same rate so they all look pretty much the same when done. Also, leave a little slack for that graceful curve, but make sure it is very small, so it doesn't hang down and get in the way of tall people's heads. To cover the anchor sites at each corner, I either blow up a few balloons, if I have them, or make a bow from left over crepe paper, and put that over the taped spots.
I then post my sign or banner at one end of the room. Usually, if my party includes food, I put it all on a table at one end, and let guests serve themselves, and I post the banner over the table. If I have extra streamers left over, I frequently do some small swags of streamer by the banner, and leave other pieces hanging down from the ceiling. I cut those either on a diagonal or into a point up triangle, like a ribbon, to give them a nice finished look. (To cut ribbons or streamers into a finished inverted triangle, simply fold them in half lengthwise very loosely, and cut up on an angle from the outsides toward the center, which leaves an equal, both sides matching " ^ " in the ribbon.)
You can do the same thing without two colors of streamer on each swag--just twist them to make them look nice. If you have different colors of crepe paper, alternate your streamers for a fun look.
If you don't have a natural built in anchor spot, like a light fixture, and you don't have balloons, make a big bow to go over your anchor spot in the center of the room. Just wrap crepe paper around a piece of cardboard about a dozen times (more wrapping if the cardboard is quite big--your bow will be the same size as the width of your cardboard). Slide it off, and holding it by the center of the wrapped parts (in the middle), make a small notch on either side with scissors. Tie a piece of string, or use a twist tie, in those notches to make the whole thing hold together. Separate out the different loops, and fluff them up, and shape them to make a nice, full bow, and then tape that over your anchor spot.
I know it's hard to picture some of the things I have said, and I really wish I had pictures to show you. I did find a website that shows how to make bows:
http://www.save-on-crafts.com/howtomakeb...
I also found a picture and some directions that look pretty much like what I do:
http://www.birthdayexpress.com/bexpress/...
Hope this helped at least a little. The main thing is: HAVE FUN!