Last week I shared a few ideas about how I would like to decorate our house for our big birthday party. I decided to stick with mint and bright yellow and pair it with a dark gray. I love this color palette! I also drew silhouettes of the Mr. and I for our invitations. I loved them so much I’m getting art prints made for our bedroom.
The party will be here before we know it, so I started making some decorations. The first thing I started with is making custom flags for paper straws. I was very easy to make and I love the way it looks. I even made a little tutorial so you can make them too. I’m loving little flags right now and these would be perfect for a wedding or a 4th of July party.
UPDATE: I made a free template for Word. All you need to do is type in the text boxes, choose your font color and print! I recommend printing it on smooth 8.5″ x 11″ card-stock. If you only want the text to appear on one side of the flag, delete every other column of text in Word.
Free Paper Straw Flag Template for Word
1. You will need paper straws (I purchased mine here), colored card-stock paper, the template above, and an desktop printer. You will also need narrow permanent double-sided tape.
2. Use a straight edge and x-acto blade or paper cutter to cut your soon-to-be-flags into strips.
3. You should have little strips of paper that look like mine above.
4. Use permanent (not removable) double-sided tape. Place this on the back side of the paper strip. I tried using a glue stick and they didn’t hold up. I also tried using removable double-sided tape and this also didn’t hold. PVA glue would probably be the best adhesive to use, but I was too impatient to wait for it to dry.
5. Wrap the paper strip around a straw. Then use small, sharp scissor to cut a triangle out of the end of the flag. This give it the oh-so-cute flag shape.
And that’s it! Easy, right? I can’t wait to make these for summer dinner parties and just about every occasion!
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The Gray Goose said,
June 22, 2011 @ 5:31 pm
Thanks for featuring our straws! This is a super super cute spread!
Sarah said,
August 2, 2011 @ 4:40 pm
Update: I made a free template for Word!
chrissy said,
December 3, 2011 @ 6:18 pm
Sarah, can you please email me the word template??? TIA
chrissy556@gmail.com
Laurie Davis said,
January 2, 2012 @ 12:42 am
Thank you for this tutorial and free template!! I just made it my own and printed it out and it’s perfect!! You now have a new follower!!
Sarah said,
January 2, 2012 @ 4:25 pm
So happy to hear that! Thanks so much Laurie!
Princess said,
February 10, 2012 @ 5:12 pm
Thank you so much for the tutorial and template!!!! How do I change the font though for all of the boxes at once? I want a cursive font instead of the Helvitca. Thank you!
Sarah said,
February 10, 2012 @ 8:05 pm
Princess, thanks for downloading the template! Unfortunately, Word will not let you change the font of multiple text boxes at the same time. I will absolutely try to find a work around in my next Word templates. Thanks for stopping by!
Fortuna said,
March 13, 2012 @ 2:44 pm
Thank you so much for your post! You present really easy instructions and my flags came out perfect. And your template was so helpful! Love your site!
HelloAix said,
March 21, 2012 @ 2:09 pm
Thank you for the template ! that’s fantastic –> new twitter follower ! can’t wait to read yout tweets
Evan’s Dinosaur Birthday said,
April 11, 2012 @ 3:45 pm
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Easy DIY Cupcake (or Drink) Flags | New and Blue - Wedding Blog said,
June 5, 2012 @ 6:18 pm
[...] browsing online I came across this darling website (Sarah Hearts) that had a super easy and free template for cupcake or drink flags. I have wanted to make some [...]
Chelsea said,
June 7, 2012 @ 5:02 pm
Whatta great freebie! I just spent ten minutes customizing these for my upcoming engagement party. I downloaded that font from your previous freebie post “Later On” — too cute!
I love the way they came out; thanks for sharing!
Leigh's Wedding said,
June 11, 2012 @ 2:16 pm
Hi there!
Unfortunately, the link to the free template is not working. would you mind emailing it to me at nicciharrell@gmail.com? Thanks!
Striped Straws, Striped Straw Flags, said,
June 21, 2012 @ 2:26 pm
[...] prefer something a little more personal check out these cool tutorials from come on ilene and Sarah Hearts.For the DIY divas in search of a favour idea – what about straws on bottles of cordial as [...]
Leslie said,
July 6, 2012 @ 1:43 pm
Love the page!
Meena said,
September 3, 2012 @ 8:57 pm
Thanks so much for sharing your template, it worked out great for me! I made drink flags for my travel themed wedding and wrote “cheers” in different languages. They look awesome :) Cheers!
Stephanie said,
October 25, 2012 @ 2:09 am
Hi, I was wondering if you could print these out on label paper? so all you have to do is cut them and then fold around the straw since both sides are sticky!
Thanks!
Sarah said,
October 25, 2012 @ 9:46 am
@ Stephanie: Yes, that’s a great idea! I haven’t tried it myself but I’m sure it would work.
Melissa said,
December 20, 2012 @ 12:34 pm
I just wanted to say thank you for posting this tutorial.
I am by no means a DIY girl but this is pretty much idiot proof. I’ll be making these flags to add to straws for our wedding. :)
Melissa
Sarah said,
December 20, 2012 @ 12:59 pm
@Melissa Congrats on your engagement! I’m so happy you’ll be using them! I’d love to see photos of them after!
Lena said,
May 12, 2013 @ 5:44 pm
Thank you! I needed a strip template and this is perfect! :)