Easy Happy Valentine’s Day Banner DIY

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This DIY Happy Valentine’s Day Banner is ideal for adorning mantels, partitions, or events with a easy handmade allure.

Handmade Valentine's Day banner spelling LOVE, hung across a vintage window frame with decorative mason jars on a shelf.

This Valentine’s Day banner began as decor for my daughter’s room, however rapidly confirmed how helpful and versatile initiatives will be.

This DIY banner is simple to make, kid-friendly (with some grownup assist), and appears simply as great on a mantel, a shelf, or a bed room wall.

It’s excellent for anybody who loves adorning with handmade items that may transfer from house to house.

I used scrap wooden and easy provides, and each time I see it, I’m reminded how enjoyable it’s to create one thing significant with what you have already got.

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Provide Record

Supplies for a DIY LOVE banner including twine, acrylic paint, hammer, nails, sandpaper, wood board, paintbrush, cotton swabs, hot glue gun, and stencil.

Every of my picket blocks are about 5 ½” x 5 ½”, so in case you are working with completely different sizes, you may want to regulate the printable dimension to your stenciling.

Seize the Free Printable Template

Printable LOVE banner templates showing letters L, V, E and a heart icon, arranged on two overlapping pages ready for cutting and crafting.

Prep Wooden

If you’d like all of your wooden blocks to be the identical dimension, you could must trim them with a noticed, or you’ll be able to settle for their variations, as I did. They have been shut sufficient. 😂

Four unfinished square wooden boards arranged in a grid on a fabric-covered work surface, ready for a DIY craft or home decor project.

Go over the wooden items with some sandpaper to take away any tough edges.

Subsequent, paint them the bottom colour you need. I wished mine to have a classic look, so I used a stencil brush to dry-brush white paint over the pink.

To drybrush one thing, evenly dip your brush within the paint and blot most of it off.

Then gently swipe your brush forwards and backwards throughout the block till the colours mix to attain your required look.

Four square wooden boards painted and laid flat on a work surface, with a paintbrush resting across the top boards during a DIY painting project.

Beautify Blocks

Minimize the printable into 4 squares, with one letter per sq..

The O of affection is a coronary heart, and on this block, I’ll create some string artwork, however you might do that block the identical manner because the others when you wished.

Middle the guts on prime of the wooden block and hammer the nails, tracing the guts form.

Minimize the letters from the printable to create a letter stencil, after which paint.

Because the paper stencil is not an actual stencil, my letters weren’t painted completely. Just a little little bit of paint snuck below the stencil.

However I plan to misery the blocks by sanding, so I wasn’t too involved about them being excellent.

Four painted wooden squares arranged to spell LOVE, with letter stencils, a heart template, paint, brush, tape, and scissors laid out during a DIY banner project.

As soon as the painted letters are dry, evenly sand the blocks to misery them.

Coronary heart String Artwork

Take away the paper coronary heart template from the block. It’ll tear, and that’s okay. It’s not wanted.

Wrap the string round every nail in random order, then tie it off when completed.

Heart-shaped string art made with nails and wrapped string on a painted wooden square, shown as part of a DIY Valentine decor project.

Assemble Banner

This step is solely non-obligatory. If utilizing these as a shelf sitter, they need to stand alone.

To hold the banner, use a staple gun to connect the rope to the again of the picket blocks.

Close-up of rope stapled to the back of wooden banner squares, showing how the pieces are connected to create a hanging DIY banner.

My Valentine’s Day mantel now appears to be like full!

Valentine’s mantel decor featuring a DIY LOVE banner hung on a vintage window frame, with a rustic ladder, glass jars, and floral arrangement.

Extra DIY Valentine’s Decor

Valentine’s is such a enjoyable vacation to brighten for! Listed here are a number of extra enjoyable concepts.

Close-up headshot of a smiling woman with long straight hair and a nose stud, wearing a dark top against a plain background.

Hello, I am Katie!

I am so glad you are right here. Need to make one thing fabulous? I am right here to assist!


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