Paper Heart Banner

Paper + Cricut + Sewing Machine = sweet and easy Valentine's Day banner!

I made this banner a few days ago so that I could add some color to my Valentine's Day vignette. I wanted to make something easy, cheap and cute - I already had all of the materials for this!

Want to make one? You'll need:

• Some fancy scrapbook paper in "Valentine's colors" - I think all of these came from one of those big paper "stacks" - I want to say it was stack #7.
• Cricut cutting machine, or a paper cutting machine of some sort (Silhouette, die cutter, etc) or a steady hand - if you're going to use a Cricut, I used the George and Basic Shapes cartridge, size 2 on "paper saver", and on my 6" Cricut.
• Thread and sewing machine

Get your paper ready to cut. I used three different colors, one is red with stripes, the other red with pink circles, and pink snake skin (ooo, fancy). Since they all came from the same stack, they matched pretty well.

Then, cut out four size 2/paper saver per piece of paper. If you're not using a Cricut, the hearts are about 2" wide.

Once you've got 12 hearts cut out, figure out the pattern you'd like them to hang in.

Before you start sewing, pull a fair amount of bobbin and top thread so you'll have a good tail to hang your banner from. I did not need to change my tension or anything when sewing the paper - I have a Singer Heavy Duty 4423 and my tension was set to "3" and thread width was "3" - which is a pretty normal tension, nothing high or low.

Then, just begin sewing and feeding the next heart as you go along! Simple! When you get to the last of your hearts, pull another fair amount of bobbin and thread to make another tail on this side of the banner.

That's it! Now you've got a super cute banner for Valentine's Day! You could use the same idea for other holidays too!

Add it to your holiday vignettes! :)

Hope you enjoyed this little tutorial!

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