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February 3, 2013 ·

Valentine Craft – Simple Heart Banner

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Valentine’s Day decorating doesn’t get any easier than this. As y’all know, I don’t go overboard when it comes to decorating for the “sub-holidays” as I call them. Valentine’s Day counts as a “sub-holiday”. I mean, if the kids don’t get off school for it then it’s a “sub”. Make it easy, quick and pretty and I’m your gal. Don’t you agree? So to give a touch of a lovey-dovey feel to my home, I made a Valentine Craft that is a Simple Heart Banner, made out of scrap paper, book pages, and wax paper. Certainly you have those 3 items in your home already. Let’s make a banner!

Heart Banner

 

Valentine Banner

To make a Paper Valentine Banner you will need the following:

Wax paper

Card stock in cream or white

Book pages

Sisal or hemp string and ribbon

Scissors (plain & decorative) & a hole punch

Cut out several hearts out of your wax paper, cardstock or book pages. The size is up to you. I chose 3 sizes, large, medium and small. I used an antique cutting scissor and regular scissors to cut the hearts out.

Valentine craft

Each heart was stacked together according to size and then hole punched in the corner. I used twine for the thicker papers and ribbon for the more delicate paper.

Valentine Craft

If you take a large section of wax paper and fold it in half so it is 2-ply then you can iron it (on low heat) for just a second or two. It forms a nice thick layer of wax paper that looks like Capiz Shells. I love the translucent look and it is a micro-fraction in cost compared to real Capiz. Use some type of a sharp metal tip to write sweet Valentine messages on the wax paper hearts.

Valentine Craft

Tie each heart on to your sisal twine and voila! You have a pretty paper Valentine banner. When I turn the fireplace on, the heat waves make the hearts all a-flutter. It’s very pretty.

Valentine Craft - Paper Heart Banner

You can use a heart stencil if you like or free-cut the hearts, it’s up to you. I used book pages from my Twilight books… those count as ROMANCE, right? 

Kim

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Comments

  1. jkeppel says

    February 3, 2013 at 3:20 pm

    OMG Kim, I just discovered your AMAZEBALLS blog!! Thank you for such a wonderful Sunday morning treat. I have been frantically reading your old posts and I am in awe of your talents and style. Thank you for sharing your creativity! 🙂

  2. Heidi @ Decor & More says

    February 3, 2013 at 9:51 pm

    I love this — simple and sweet. I’m not a sub-holiday decorator either! But I’ll have to give this one a whirl. 🙂
    xo Heidi

  3. Juju says

    February 11, 2013 at 10:37 pm

    Making this today! Thanks Kim!

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    January 12, 2014 at 11:41 am

    […] My simple heart banner was pulled out of the attic from last year and strung below. This easy Valentine craft has faux capiz shell hearts, paper hearts, and book page hearts. Nice, light, and subtle is the look we’re going for. […]

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