Valentine’s Day Garland and Mantel Display

In honor of Valentine’s Day I wanted to share with you a Valentine’s Day garland  I made. It was actually originally made as a Christmas garland. All I used was twine and scrap material. I cut the fabric into strips measuring 9 inches in length 3 inches wide. It depends on how long you want your garland, but I used about sixty strips. I just kept tying the strips to the twine and bunching them together.

I just happened to have some red material with hearts. I was trying to come up with something to dress up my mantel for Valentine’s day. I still had my Christmas garland hanging up. Yes, I’m one of those who is very reluctant and slow to take down Christmas decorations. I do it a little bit at a time. All of a sudden I had an aha moment. I could re-purpose it  into a Valentine’s Day garland.

I went to my craft room and started looking for more scraps of material. I ended up finding some pieces of felt in white and pink. I also had some red foam sheets. I made a heart template and traced a few hearts, cut them out and hot glued them onto the garland.

Here is the finished product. I wish it hadn’t frayed on the ends. I need to do some research to see how to fix that. My aunt gave me the small basket filled with Christmas goodies so I decided to use it since it had red trim. I already had the LOVE candle and made the heart candle last year. You can see it in last year’s Valentine’s display. I got the wooden blocks on sale last year from Dayspring. What do you like to decorate with for Valentine’s day?