How to Make an Easy Valentine's Day Banner

Valentine’s Day is coming. For me, it’s not a day in which I usually have a lot of decorations, but I thought it would be nice to make an easy Valentine’s Day banner for my classroom.

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Last Christmas, you may have noticed that in my 12 Day of Cricut Christmas Crafting, I made a number of burlap banners. I’m going to take the same concept and make an easy Valentine’s Day Banner. I’m going to use bonded felt and burlap.

Supplies Needed to Make an Easy Valentine’s Day Banner

burlap fabric – available in craft stores or fabric stores; you would substitute other fabric for the banner – just make sure it is substantial enough to hold up to being a banner.
felt – also available in craft stores or fabric stores
fabric glue or heat and bond
twine to hang the banner
decorations (optional) – check out your local dollar store for coloured twine and other decorative items

How to Make an Easy Valentine’s Day Banner

Check out my Cricut Design Space Template for the banner template, as well as the heart template. You can access it for free in my Free Resource Library. The password for my Free Resource Library is located at the bottom of my newsletters when you subscribe.

Decide how long you want to make your banner – this all depends on where you want to hang it. I made mine with 5 banners – I like odd numbers.

Duplicate the number of banner templates and hearts in Cricut Design Space by the number of pieces you want in your banner. To do this, select the item (either the banner or the heart), select Edit (top left), copy and then paste the number of times you would like. Do the same for the heart. Alternatively, you could also change the number of “Project Copies” (top left) when you select “Make It” (top right).

Cutting burlap is messy – leaves stuff all over my pink mat. I always have to clean my mat after cutting burlap. Cutting felt is also messy. Since burlap is messier, you may wish to cut the felt first – that way your mat isn’t so dirty when you go to cut your felt.

For cutting the felt, I prefer to attach Heat and Bond to my felt BEFORE cutting it. I like the ease of simply ironing on the felt, as opposed to gluing. I also find that cutting bonded felt keeps my mat cleaner!

Check out my post on How to Make Bonded Fabric in order to add Heat and Bond to your felt. Once applied, I cut the bonded felt using the “Heavy Fabrics (like Denim), bonded” setting on my Cricut Maker and use my pink mat. The Maker asks for the bonded blade, but I switch it over to my rotary blade and it cuts fine.

To cut the burlap banner templates, I use the “Burlap” setting and a pink mat. I also use the rotary blade.

Please note that since you are cutting the banner template and the hearts on different settings (burlap for the banner template and either felt or bonded fabric for the hearts), you can only cut ONE item at a time. In other words, cut out the number of banner templates, then cancel the cut (bottom right). Then “Make it” again – this time for the hearts. That’s because whatever cut setting you chose for the first item, will also be used for the second item. Basically, you need to reset the cut setting.

Since burlap frays a lot, I like to spray it to help it maintain its shape (and not fall apart) before assembling the banner. This is the same spray I used for the Christmas banners, as well as my crochet. You can read all about it here.

To attach the hearts to the burlap fabric, you can either glue on (if you simply cut the felt) or use an iron, Cricut Easy Press or heat press to apply the bonded felt.

How to String Up the Banner

There are a number of ways to string up your banner. I used twine found at the dollar store to hang up my banner.

Fold over the top part of the banner and sew in order to make a tunnel to feed the twine through. You may wish to put some decorative items between each banner piece so that they don’t shift.
Fold over the top part of the banner and glue it shut with the twine inside. Once this is glued, it will not move so be sure to leave ample twine at the beginning and end so that it can be hung properly.
Use decorative, mini clothespins (found at the dollar store) to clip on to the twine. This is great as you can reuse the clothespins and twine in order to change up your banner with each event or holiday.

I made a couple of easy Valentine’s Day banners. The first one uses plain burlap with alternating pink and cream-coloured hearts.