DIY Book Baby Shower Decorations

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Make some adorable book-themed baby shower decorations with card stock, string, and your Cricut machine! This is a very easy and inexpensive Cricut project to make. 

I recently had the chance to plan a baby shower for a friend of mine, and it was fun to bust out my Cricut and make the baby shower decorations. I love any excuse to celebrate, but especially baby showers. The Cricut Maker is my favorite craft tool because it's really easy to use and the possibilities for what you can create are truly endless.

Something I didn't know before I actually started using my Cricut machine is that the Design Space software that you use to create Cricut projects has TONS of designs to choose from. So, you don't have to go searching all over the internet to find a specific kind of file or be a graphic designer. Just browse the projects gallery in Design Space and choose a ready-to-make project and then follow directions. There are easy ways to search too, so you can simply search 'baby shower decorations' and lots of beautiful ideas will come up. It's glorious! 

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Book Baby Shower Decorations

One of my favorite baby shower themes is BOOKS. I think book baby showers are awesome because 

1. A lot of young families appreciate their little libraries started.
2. It's so fun to hear what children's books other people love and why they mean a lot to them.

I think that talking about books can be an awesome icebreaker because almost everyone has at least *one* book that they love! So, when I saw that Cricut had a mini book banner design as one of their ready-to-make projects, I knew it was meant to be.  

In the past, we have shared some other really fun baby shower ideas like this Hot Air Balloon Baby Shower, our 'Ready to Pop' Baby Shower, and an especially fitting one to go along with this post: Where the Wild Things Are Baby Shower. Browse ALL of the ideas on our baby shower ideas page.

How to Make the Mini Book Banner with Cricut 

Mini Book Banner

Make some simple book-themed baby shower decorations out of just card stock, string, and your Cricut machine.

5 from 4 votes

Print Pin Rate

Active Time: 2 hours hours

Total Time: 2 hours hours

Makes: 2 Mini Book Banners

Author: Pretty Providence

Cost: $10

Video

Equipment

• Cricut Maker
• LightGrip Mat
• Single Scoring Wheel
• Cricut TrueControl Knife
• Yarn or String (10' (3 m))
• Hole Punch

Materials

• Cardstock Light Pink
• Cardstock Dark Pink
• Cardstock Brown
• Cardstock Cream
• Yarn or String
• Hot Glue

Instructions

• Open up Cricut Design Space and open the mini book banner design. See notes section for a link to the designs.
• Put a piece of colored card stock on one light grip mat, and a piece of cream card stock on another light grip mat. Have a scoring wheel and a fine-point blade ready.

Cut Paper with Cricut Machine

• If you want to edit the project or make the books a different size, select Customize, then use the tools in the Edit panel to make changes before you cut.
• Follow the prompts in Design Space to cut and score the book pieces from the cardstock.
• Insert the single scoring wheel when prompted.
• Remove the cardstock pieces from the mats and repeat the process until you have cut the number of books you want for your banner. 
• Fold the pages along the scoring lines, accordion style.

Assemble Book Banner

• Use hot glue to stick the folds of the pages together to look like book pages, using all three folded page pieces.
• Use hot glue to glue the end papers of the folded book interior onto the inside covers made from cardstock.
• Using a hole punch make a hole in the corner of each book, then string books onto the twine.
• Make as many books as you like for your banner, in assorted colors!

Notes

Click here to find the design. You can customize the design if you want to make the books different sizes, or cut more than one book at a time.

I made a design file that allowed me to cut 4 book covers at once to make the most of my time and materials. Here is that design in Design Space. 

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