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DIY Valentine’s Day Banner

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Valentine’s day is a celebration of hearts filled with love, longing for love, waiting for love, yet unknown to love, ready to share the love, swimming in the joy and passion of love, going nuts being in love, giving more love than before, expecting to receive love and… so on and so much more.

For me and in my craft world it is an appropriate time to create something that reflects love, passion and hearts. So I have made a DIY banner for Valentine’s day with fabric cut in the shape of hearts and it has super-cute print on it. To add a little more craft to this banner I have connected to each bunting a hand-knit flower. Hope you all like it.

So the first step as always is to make sure you have all the material you need for to create this banner. Prepare the material so that you don’t have to worry about anything when you are in the middle of doing things.

  1. Designer fabric print (of your choice)
  2. Pencil
  3. Pellon iron on backing
  4. Satin ribbon
  5. Rotary cutter or Scissors
  6. Fabric knife
  7. Heart shaped stencil (I couldn’t find one in the market so made my own. It is very easy to make it. If you are good at drawing, draw a heart shape on a white sheet of paper. The size should be approx 6 x 6 inches. You can also find a heart shape on internet and print it (if you use a shape from the internet make sure you have the permission to download that artwork).
  8. Needle and thread

Now we are ready to start with our DIY Valentine’s day banner project-

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Use a heart shaped stencil to trace the flower pattern on the fabric.

 

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You can trace as many designs as you want on the fabric, just remember to do so on the back of the fabric. I drew 7 buntings, you can draw more or less depending on the length of the banner you want to make.

 

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Now you need to add firmness  to each bunting. To add weight and stabilize the bunting you would need to add an “Iron On Backing”. You can get them at Jo-Ann (http://www.joann.com) or Hobby Lobby (http://www.hobbylobby.com/) or your local, favorite craft store. (http://www.joann.com/peltex-1-side-fusible-interfacing-20-w-x-10yds/prd49910/)

 

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Put your  heart shape on top of  Iron on Backing. Use hot iron until fabric is fused with Iron on Backing.

 

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See instructions below in this picture.

 

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Lay a single pennant on a foam board. Cut two small slits on the fabric with fabric knife or scissors.

 

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Repeat the same for all pennants and then put a satin ribbon through the slits of each.

 

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The shape of the pennant doesn’t have to be heart-shaped, you can choose any shape you like.

 

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To decorate the bunting ever more I have used knitted flowers (http://www.thethinthread.com/2013/knitting-in-2013-new-beginnings/). You may add any type of decoration to the bunting. I have done something simple and used the knitted flowers which I created few days ago.

 

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Tuck your decoration with needle thread .

 

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Love is in the air and this is how my DIY Valentine’s day banner finally looks like. Feel free to use this DIY to create your own and share them here. I have also put this final banner on my Etsy shop.

 

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Thanks for reading the post and if you enjoyed it or would like to share somethings, please let a comment below.

 

Butterfly Designer Banner Bunting

The cutest and brightest Butterfly banner for girls of all ages. Decorate your room with it or use it as party decor. All your friends are going to love it.

This banner has 8 in long & 9.5 in wide, single sided 5 flags. Attached to a coordinating length of ribbon that measures approximately 47″ in length. Flags are made with designer Cotton Fabric. and 30″ inch extra ribbon is given.

You can adjust the spacing between individual flags as per your needs and it’s so lightweight that you can hang it even with everyday tape!!

 

 

More fun craft ideas!

Last week I had a great time creating fun jewelry/accessories like holiday forehead bands, jingle bells bracelet and Christmas stockings with custom names on them.

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I have been thinking that may be I can take this idea a step further and can make something similar for babies and pets so that they can also say and share the spirit of Christmas. With that in mind I have started to work on hair clips for babies and scarves for pets. How does that sound? Here is the picture of all my tools of the trade that I am using. Pretty simple, right? Well tomorrow I will post a  picture of the first finished item. I hope it comes out good!

Thanksgiving is fun!

I have been playing with many ideas since last few days and wanted to create some artwork in the spirit of Thanksgiving and the Holidays. Every time I would sit on my desk, draw some new designs and then would drive up to Hobby Lobby to find items that I can use to create these designs. My good friend Morgan has helped me so much every time I am there, answering all the silly questions I have with the same enthusiasms and happiness on her face. I realized then that I should come up with something that reflects and states loudly “happiness and fun”. Something that you can wear and show it to all. Like a headband, bracelet or jewelry. Like Morgan’s smile!

This has been a fun project and specially because Morgan and her gorgeous cousins came over to my place and modeled with all the items I had designed. They are so much fun and so cute. I had a great time shooting their pictures and thanks to all of them for making this a truly fun project.
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