Saturday, February 1, 2014

Mini Heart Banner

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Looking for some vintage Valentine decor?
Check out this vintage-y mini heart banner I made.
I have been coveting this metal wall file at World Market for months. Finally it went on sale and I had a coupon that was good for sale items too!! How lucky was that? Sale price + coupon.....
Yippee!!
Oh how I love thee!!

To show my love for my new favorite piece of wall decor I made this mini vintage-y heart banner.
In the photo below you can see the cool black clothesline clips I used to clip the banner to the file.
 
Here is a mini tutorial for the mini banner, first I cut three hearts with my Silhouette Cameo. I made them about three and half inches tall and two inches wide. Then I wrinkled the paper hearts, next I rubbed brown ink on the wrinkled hearts. That gave the hearts a vintage-y aged look.
I cut some four inch long strips of lace. I gathered up the lace in the middle to make lace angel wings. I cut out three cardboard hearts with scissors and rubbed some brown ink on the cardboard too. Finally with my hot glue gun, I glued everything together, the cardboard heart, the wrinkled heart, the lace and lastly the dried red roses. I even hot glued the twine to the back of the banner.

I have about 1,000 ideas for this wall file, but the first thing I put in it is this really cool vintage book about Reno Nevada a friend gave to me. I love it, what a perfect gift for me!!! It goes great with the aged look of the wall file. The book inspired me to print out a couple of vintage postcards of Reno Nevada to add to my vignette.

So the wall file will be a work in progress. It reminds me of my dads (Marvin) old office at his gas distributorship. I am sure he had something like this....and I am sure he paid way less for his  than I did for mine!!

I wanted to "valentize" the file a bit but not to much, so presto the mini heart banner! A quick easy project, I had all the materials already in my stash of craft goodies.
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16 comments:

  1. The valentine banner is adorable!!!!

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  2. Really cute Lori, even simple enough for me...

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  3. So cute, what a great idea. Love it. Thanks tons for linking to Inspire Me. Hugs, Marty

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  4. Beautiful! And I love that wall file. :)

    -andi

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  5. These hearts are precious!! I can think of all sorts of ideas to create in this way.

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  6. What a great piece...I can see why you wanted to buy it. Love the heart banner and those black clips! Thank you for sharing at What We Accomplished Wednesdays. Have a lovely week! ~Deborah

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  7. Thank you Deborah, I do love the wall file!!

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  8. Thank you Marsha! Have a great day!

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  9. Thanks Andi I love the wall file too!! I am sure it will show up on the blog all year long!

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  10. Thank you Marty! Love linking up to your party each week!

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  11. Let's make one for next year!! Thanks for stopping by Andi!

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  12. I love holiday banners, especially ones as sweet as this!

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