Valentine's Day Door Hanger

Browsing through Pinterest has made me obsessed with always having a season/holiday-appropriate wreath on my front door. I didn't have anything planned for Valentine's Day, so I whipped something up tonight.


I started  by cutting a heart shape out of thick cardboard (I used a diaper box). I'll probably use the inside heart for some other project.



I would imagine this cardboard technique could be used for other shapes of wreaths, too, as long as you don't plan to hang anything too heavy from it.






I then cut two holes in the top of the shape and tied string to each side.













I then began gluing ribbon to the heart form. I started with the two "points." I folded the edges of the ribbon over the bottom of the points, overlapping them in the back to make the flat on the front. Then I cut a slit in the top part of the ribbon and glued down each side in a way that it laid flat in the front. That probably makes no sense, but I can't think of a better way to explain it.














Hopefully this picture helps.











I then wrapped the rest of the heart in ribbon. Then I made some felt flowers and hot glued them on. Tada. All done!



The felt flowers are made by cutting the felt into circles, cutting the circles in a spiral, and rolling it up pretty tight. Then you hot glue it together.













I think it will look lovely on our door for Valentine's Day. You can see our current snowflake wreath in the background!













While I had the hot glue gun and felt out, I decided to make some felt flower brooches.

Just make your felt flowers, glue a round piece of felt to the bottom of the flower and then hot glue the brooch pin to it.






I don't plan to wear them with my sweatshirt, but I just wanted to take a picture of them on and that is what I happened to be wearing.










I hope you all have been inspired to make a Valentine's Day wreath or door hanger and/or some felt flowers.  -Kristen