overview

Valentine’s Day Banner

Updated: August 20, 2025

With the following step by step tutorial you are going to learn on how to make gorgeous decorative banners by using your Cricut skills and adding some new skills. In this opportunity the theme is Valentine’s Day, you can change the design to match any occasion.

Difficulty: beginner
Design: ~40 minutes
Assembly: ~55 minutes
Cutting: ~25 minutes
Material Cost: ~$15
Final Size: 4” x 5” individual banners/cards

Skills

In this tutorial, you are going to learn/practice the following functionalities: 

  • Slice Images/shapes
  • Add Shapes and Images 
  • Resize Elements
  • Delete Elements
  • Attach Elements
  • Change colors
  • Weld Elements

materials

  • Cricut Machine - For this project, we are using Cricut Maker.
  • Cardstock with valentines patterns ($6.99)
    • 4 sheets with 4 different designs.
  • Cardstock 65 lb 8” x 11”  ($24.53)
    • White -> 3 sheets
    • Very light pink -> 3 sheets
    • Pink -> 2 sheets
    • Red -> 1 sheet
    • fuchsia -> 2 sheets
  • Glue ($12.74)
  • Scissors
  • Ribbon ($10.99) 6 yards in total
  • Optional: Ink ($10.99)
  • Optional: Hole punch set ($12.99)

files

No custom files for this project

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