DIY Valentine’s Day Banner

I can’t believe we are already through the first week of February!  The snow days really threw off my rhythm of the week.  And because I have used January to do some introspective work, I decided to have some fun with a Valentine’s Day craft.  I love this holiday, and I decided to comb Pinterest for some inspiration for some DIY décor.

I found this banner by VickyBarone.

I loved it and used is as inspiration for my banner (since I could not replicate it exactly because her skill set is just a *tad* above mine, being a professional artist and all).

First, I cut out rectangles out of brown cardstock.  They measured approximately 2 1/2" x 5".

Then, I picked out some printed cardstock that I had from my Thanksgiving project to use as the first mat.   I made these about 2" x 3 3/4".

I found some coordinating color cardstock for the second mat. These were about 1 1/2" x 2 3/4".

I glued the printed cardstock to the brown piece of cardstock.

I glued the coordinating cardstock to the printed cardstock.

Then I went to PicMonkey and found a font that I liked (Special Elite) and printed it out on white cardstock.

I cut the letters out into squares and stuck a double-sided sticky mounting square to add some dimension.

I cut some twine and put it on the floor so I could space out the letters.  Then I used the  gold glitter clothespins to attach the letters to the twine.

Then I hung it up.  I love how it turned out!

But I wasn’t done decorating.  I found these awesome printables from SoHo Sonnet.  You know when you print something out, and the colors turn out all meh and washed out?  These colors were *exactly* like they were on the screen, even the glittery gold color!

Have you done any fun (and easy!) projects lately?  Be sure to share – I would love to hear about them!