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Newspaper Heart Garland for Valentine

January 11, 2017

Oh we are VERY excited about today’s 31 Days of Love Guest post! We love a good Newspaper Craft Idea and today, Nadia from Teach Me Mommy is sharing her wonderful and yet oh so simple Newspaper Heart Garland! Shabby chic at its best. I think it looks absolutely DARLING! If you are looking for Valentines Day Decorations, this is perfect!

I am excited to share this super simple, but lovely garland idea using a humble material called newspaper as part of the 31 Days of Love series.

Newspaper Heart Garland - a great way to upcycle newspapers and create some lovely room decor. Make this newspaper DIY for valentine's day or just because!

Garlands, or buntings, are great to make for all kinds of occasions. This newspaper heart garland is perfect for Valentine’s Day or just to pretty up a girls room. Make a miniature version and use on cards or across a paper/gift bag or wrapped gift!

Newspaper Heart Garland – Materials

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  • Newspaper
  • Few buttons or heart sequins
  • String
  • Scissors
  • Glue

Newspaper Heart Garland – How To:

Decide on the width of you little “flags”. I used a certain column size in our newspaper and used that, cheated with, to cut the same width each time without having to measure. You could measure it out if you want to, mine was about 70mm x 140mm, more or less. I cut 9 in total, but you can decide how many flags you want, more would obviously give you a longer garland.

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Each newspaper strip was folded in half, horizontally AND THEN vertically. On the FOLDED side, I cut half a heart and a triangle shape, as shown below. The first cutouts were used as templates to make the rest look identical.

Newspaper Heart Garland - a great way to upcycle newspapers and create some lovely room decor. Make this newspaper DIY for valentine's day or just because!

When opened up it looks like this:

Newspaper Heart Garland - a great way to upcycle newspapers and create some lovely room decor. Make this newspaper DIY for valentine's day or just because!

If you want to save time with the cutting part, an alternative way to make these cutouts is to use paper punches. A medium sized heart punch and the corner of a large square shape punch could work.

Then, the flags were glued to the string, leaving a 30mm gap between  each one. Only a tiny bit of glue is needed.

Newspaper Craft Ideas - here is a wonderful newspaper heart garland - perfect room decor and wonderful as a Valentines Decoration too! We love Newspaper Garlands!!
Lastly, small buttons were added here and there to give our garland a little  bit of colour.

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A sweet heart garland idea, and frugal too! This craft took about 15 minutes and would be perfect for tweens, teens or adults. Change up the shape and colour and use this idea for other holidays as well!

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Newspaper Heart Garland - a great way to upcycle newspapers and create some lovely room decor. Make this newspaper DIY for valentine's day or just because!

logoThe heart cutouts were used for this pretty Newspaper Heart Collage. You would probably like to see this Hands and Heart Keepsake and Conversation Heart Cookies

Nadia is a South African mommy of two and a therapist at a elementary remedial school. She blogs over at Teach me Mommy about easy and playful activities with the aim to teach. You can follow along on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram.

Aaaah what a lovely post from Nadia! Thank you so much! We do LOVE working with newspapers – such a cheap (free) and yet super versatile craft material. If you feel inspired to do some more Newspaper DIYs, do take a look at this amazing set of Newspaper Craft Ideas! Something for everyone!
25 Great Newspaper Craft Ideas - love how versatile newspapers are and how easy they are to work with!

We also have more fabulous Valentines Day Garlands and Valentines Decorating Ideas here for you:

Valentines Decorations - so many different ideas - something for everyone...

 

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  1. Newspaper Heart Collage - Teach Me Mommy says:
    January 11, 2017 at 2:02 am

    […] showing you two ways to use the humble newspaper to make pretty heart crafts. Find this Newspaper Heart Garland over at Red Ted Art as part of their 31 Days of Love series. The cutouts from the garland […]

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  2. 71 Unique DIY Newspaper Craft Projects - DIY & Crafts says:
    September 8, 2017 at 2:07 pm

    […] Buntings and garlands are the must part of party decors for almost all the occasions. So this valentine make this simple yet fun looking newspaper heart garland and display it on your windows, doors, tables or rails as the perfect love decor. Get the more details of this simple, easy and cheap newspaper garland project right hre redtedart […]

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