Easy DIY Valentine’s Day Paper Heart Art

With Valentine’s Day coming up fast, you may want to give your home a pop of Valentine’s decor. How to make a quick and easy project for the holiday? Use this easy DIY Valentine’s Day paper heart art craft tutorial.

This paper heart Valentine’s Day art project is so easy to make and looks adorable. It would be perfect on a mantel, a bookcase, or on a wall, as I did. It’s budget friendly–made with simple supplies that you probably have on hand.

If you have a few minutes, you can have this art decor gracing your home today.

grid of four heart art framed in cold

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Paper Art Inspiration

Recently, I gathered 14 ideas for Valentine’s Day decorations. Several of these crafts used paper of some sort to create pretty decorations. As you can imagine, most of them used hearts as the main subject of the decor.

These projects perked my interest. I knew I had supplies on hand to make a heart art project for our home.

Last year, I recyled several picture frames stored in our garage. I wanted to use these gold-painted frames filled with art in our entry to add color, pattern, and interest.

I found lovely chinoiserie prints to fill the frames. These are my “every day” art.

gold frames with chinoiserie art

In the fall, I changed the prints to pumpkins and leaves when I ordered this set of nine fall printables. I picked six leaves to frame. I must have forgotten to take a picture of them framed on my wall.

autumn leaves and pumpkin art

For winter decor, I found three printables (set of two trees, 1 tree, 3 trees) that reflected trees in winter.

For Valentine’s Day decor, I went a different direction and created my own designs.

Supplies to Make Valentine Hearts to Frame

I found several sheets of pink patterned scrapbook paper in my paper stash. These were the inspiration for my Valentine’s art.

Here are the supplies you need to make this easy Valentine’s art.

Like me, you may have all the supplies to make Valentine’s heart art.

Make the Framed Valentine’s Heart Art

This project is so easy and takes about an hour to complete.

I’m assuming that you already have frames ready to use. Pick the size and number you want to use for this project.

Step 1 – Gather your scrapbook papers. I had five sheets of pink patterned scrapbook papers. I also found a few paper hearts that I had used in previous projects.

sheets of pink patterned scrapbook paper

Step 2 – If you are using a Cricut, in Design Space, find a heart shape you like. Size it to fit the frames and give you variety.

Cricut Design Space to make hearts

For some sizes, I duplicated the heart to cut two at a time. I ended up cutting hearts in three sizes. This is why I love my Cricut. It makes sizing and cutting so easy and fast.

Cricut Design Space to make hearts

Step 3 – Cut the hearts in the different papers until you have a variety of patterns in different sizes.

pink scrapbook paper in Cricut cutting machine
hearts cut in different sizes

Step 4 – Begin to arrange hearts of various sizes and patterns. Place hearts on a piece of white paper and play with the arrangement.

Step 5 – Once you have an arrangement you like, turn one heart over at a time and apply repositional tape across the back.

applying repositional tape to back of heart-shaped paper

Step 6 – Open your frame and remove the backing. Place your heart inside and reassemble.

back of frame
Valentine's Day heart art in gold frame

Repeat the process with your remaining hearts and frames.

Hang and Display Your Heart Art

My six frames have 3 different styles. So they line up in a grid, I try to keep the frames in the same order on our entry wall.

grid of four heart art framed in gold

You may notice that I mixed up the number of hearts, the size, the patterns, and the arrangement for each frame.

grid of four heart art framed in gold

Other Options for the Heart Art

This fun valentine’s day craft can be customized in so many ways:

  • use a 5 X7 frame
  • place the hearts on canvas and omit the frames
  • use an easel to hold the art on a mantel, table, or bookshelf
  • use one size of heart, but in different patterns
  • use one pattern in different sizes
  • use different variations of heart shapes

That’s how easy this project was.

Since I have leftover hearts, I added a couple to a piece of cardstock. I cut slits in the cardstock and used a piece of sheer pink ribbon to make a bow. It sits on an easel on our chest in the entry.

heart art with ribbon on an easel

Want more easy Valentine’s Day projects?

If you need a super simple, super fast, super inexpensive Valentine’s Day DIY project, this one is for you. Be sure to PIN it to your favorite Valentine’s DIY Pinterest Board. Here are some of mine:

pink PIN it button
Valentine's DIY paper heart art
blog signature with heart graphic

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