Categories: Decor, Oly*Fun, Patriotic, Summer, Outdoor

I wanted something fun to put on my garden flag for the summer. I came up with this cute rendition of the American Flag & one of my favorite lines from America the Beautiful “Land that I Love”. I also made my flag longer than most garden flags and I love how it turned out! Oly-Fun doesn’t fray and is fade resistant, both great qualities for making this patriotic garden flag!

What you need to make this project

Materials: 1 Oly-Fun Craft Pack in Twilight; 3 Oly-Fun Craft Sheets in Snow

Supplies: Acrylic Craft Paint in Red & White; Paintbrushes; Stencils or Craft Cutting Machine; Ruler & Pencil

Instructions

Step One

First cut the blue Oly-fun- for the base of the flag cut a piece of Twilight Oly-fun to 13″ x 26″. Fold over the top 1 1/2″ and sew it down so you have an opening to slide the flag onto your garden holder. It’s best to have a 1″ opening.

Step Two

Next you will want to place your stencil for the words. I used my Cricut Explore to make my stencil and cut it out onto the Cricut Stencil Vinyl. The stencil vinyl adhered well to the Oly-Fun and didn’t allow much bleeding to occur, which was nice. You could also use letter stencils and do something simple like “USA”.

Step Three

Once the stencil is on you’ll want to paint it- I used white for my letters. When painting Oly-fun make sure to have something behind our work because the paint will bleed through. To paint the stripes I used a dritz erasing pencil and a ruler to mark 1 1/2″ strips. I painted every other stripe red.

Step Four

To finish off the flag I cut stars out of white Oly-Fun and sewed them on. The white oly-fun is slightly see-through and because I wanted the stars to really stand out I painted a layer of white craft paint on each star and let it dry before sewing them on to the flag.

Patriotic Garden Flag