Paper Fruit Slice Banner

Finished fruit slice banner hanging on a white wall.

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This cute fruit slice banner is perfect for summer parties! The layered SVG file is designed with holes for easy hanging. Just cut cardstock with your Cricut, layer and glue, and string together to create this delicious summer part decoration!

Keyword: Banner, Fruit

Author: Cori George

Equipment

Ingredients

Instructions

Upload the Fruit Banner File to Cricut Design Space
Upload the SVG file to Cricut Design Space (see Uploading SVG Files to Cricut Design Space if you need help). You can resize them if you'd like—for this project each one was made 6" wide.
That's it! You're ready to cut your fruit banner. Click Make It in the upper right.
Cut Your Cardstock for Your Fruit Banner
If you have a Cricut Maker 3 or Cricut Explore 3, you'll see a Mat Selection window. Because we are cutting on cardstock, choose On Mat. If you do not have one of these newer machines, you won't see this screen.
On the next Prepare Screen, you'll see all of your images laid out on their respective mats. You can also learn How to Fit More on a Cricut Mat and Save Material if you'd like! For this, the project copies was changed to "5" to cut each fruit five times to make several banners.
On the Make Screen, you'll set your material to cardstock. Make sure you have your fine point blade in your machine, insert your mat, and your Cricut will cut your project!
Cut all the mats for your fruit banner until you have a pile of fruit banner pieces.
Glue Your Fruit Pieces Together
Now we need to assemble the fruit banner. Simply layer the pieces together to make each piece of fruit and adhere with a glue stick or spray glue. You'll notice that instead of having you glue every single seed, there's a layer behind the colored layer with the seed cutouts, so they seeds show through without any tedious gluing!
You can see how each layer works here (all three citrus fruits are assembled in the same way):
String the Banner
Once your glue has dried, string the fruit banner pieces using a length of ribbon! If you'd like, tape the ribbon to the fruit piece on the back so they don't slide around. You're done!