Make A Quick Valentines Heart Garland From Books

I’m back this morning with another quick and simple Valentines craft!  Today I am featuring how to make a Valentines heart garland from a book.  Okay, so yes I am slightly obsessed with book crafts these days.  I don’t know what has gotten into me.  Books, I guess.  Now, these books I found at a thrift store.  I can’t feel bad about tearing out the pages, because if I hadn’t grabbed them off the shelf they would be doomed to a life of cold and darkness without ever getting the chance to live a new and beautiful life.  To tell you the honest truth, as I create these fun book crafts, I find myself reading up on the pages I am tearing out.  I have learned quite a bit just by using them for my crafts.

I am telling you this project is so easy, I barely have any instructions for you.  The first thing I did was tear out a bunch of pages, probably like 50 or so.  I cut out one heart to get the shape I wanted and then I started to use that heart as a guide.  I cut about 5 pages at a time and got 2 hearts out of each book.

Once I had all the heart cut out, I grabbed a sewing needle and some thread.  You could use some thicker thread like twine if you have a larger needle, but mine was small so I used white thread.

I threaded the hearts onto the needle and through onto the thread.  I created 5 different strands with these hearts.  I divided the hearts up and just threaded them onto the thread.  That’s a lot of thread.  I tied off each end and left a loop on the ends so I could hang them.

Once that was done it was just as simple as hanging them,  I adjusted the lengths so that there were shorted ones and longer ones to create a swag affect.  I then arranged the hearts, separating them along the thread.

An that is all it is!  This could be hung on your wall, a shelf, or a fireplace mantle.  I love the simplicity of it and the organic shapes and movement of the hearts dangling from the almost invisible thread.  I ended up hanging this from my dining room chalkboard, that I had drawn a simple heart on.

This easy valentines heart garland will quickly become one of your favorite decorations, as it has mine.  That is saying a lot coming from someone who is not a bit fan of Valentines day or the decoration that come along with it.  I was bound and determined to create some this year that were me.  These are just that.

 

Thanks for stopping by!  you should check out some of these other book crafts I have created:

Rolled Book Page Heart Art

Make Heart Garland From Old Books

Christmas Book Ornaments

DIY Book Christmas Tree

Have a Great Day!

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