Vintage Valentine Calendar/Frame (Tutorial)

Since today we're officially one month away from Valentine's Day, I thought it would be a good time to update my countdown calendar. 

You don't need to have a countdown calender if you want to make a version of this.  Just find a frame around your house that you're not using, add a vintage print, and a printed paper bunting and you're done.

Simple and FREE! 

The vintage art is from VintageHolidayCrafts.com.  This site is FULL of links to vintage Valentine prints.  It also has a lot of other holiday prints as well.  If you like vintage, you'll love this site!

(My sister gets the credit for this fabulous find!)

You can find the print that I used here. 

The print says:  Valentine Greeting

Ain't it nice to have a Sweetheart?

The Print

• Copy and paste the picture into a document.  (I used Microsoft Publisher.)
• Size your print, then print it onto white card stock or photo paper.

The BuntingHow to make it the colors of a vintage print.

• In Microsoft Publisher (or Word), you first select Auto Shape in your tool bar and insert a triangle into the same document as your vintage print and then size it.  Mine is an inch wide at the bottom of the triangle.
• Click on the triangle to highlight it, click on fill color in the tool bar (the paint bucket), and then select sample fill color.  Once your cursor looks like a dropper, you are ready to select a color.

• Move the dropper over the print that you selected and click on a color that you want to use.
• That color is now the fill color in the triangle.   Repeat these steps for the triangle's line color (the paint brush).
• Copy and paste the triangle as many times as you need for the length of bunting you want. Repeat for any other colors you want to use.
• Print the triangles on a piece of card stock and then cut around them.
• If you'd like to use the same print that I chose, these are the colors that I used.

• For the string, I used a thread from a piece of burlap.   It worked perfectly.  I hot glued the triangles onto the string and then taped the bunting to the back of my frame.

A  bunting would be a fun addition to a Valentine's version of this frame as well.

I've seen buntings around everywhere, but have never made one before.  I see now why they're so popular, they are so fun and easy to make! 

 Today's Fabulous Find...Vintage Valentine Prints 

and Printed Bunting

  I've entered my Interchangeable Countdown Calendar in the Valentine Challenge at the CSI Project.  Go check out all of the fabulous Valentine ideas! 

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