DIY Valentine Backdrop + DIY Valentine Cards

Happy Monday everyone! Steffany and I shared this DIY Valentine backdrop + DIY Valentine cards over at The Ribbon Retreat last week as part of a blogger competition. There will be 3 blogger projects to vote on so we’ll be asking for votes when it’s time! 🙂 Hop over to The Ribbon Retreat for more details. We are so excited to be part of this little competition! We are pretty excited about the project we came up with and sure hope you LOVE it too! Can you believe it’s already time to think about Valentine’s Day?! We love to add personal touches to our Valentine’s Day celebration, so we decided to make a simple Valentine Photo Backdrop. We can’t wait to share it with you AND share some great ways to use the photos, including EASY DIY Valentine cards!

Here’s what you need to make one for yourself:

Ribbon in different sizes and patterns
Flowers
Tri-fold presentation board, large poster, or even just a wall
Tape
Props (optional)

First, lay the ribbon on a flat surface and cut, alternating the lengths. This is all a matter of what YOU think looks good. 🙂

Cut the wider ribbons into a ‘V’ at the ends, so they look nice and finished.

Use a lighter to seal the edges of the ribbon.

Then tape the ribbon onto whatever surface you’re using as the backdrop itself. We used a tri-fold presentation board and it worked really well. We added a few flowers to the ends of some of the ribbon.

Then it’s ready to go! Grab a little cutie, and some props if you’d like, and snap away! This is Steffany’s little guy, Breken – such a cutie!

Once we got the perfect shot, we added a digital heart with the message “Happy Valentine’s Day.”

Adorable! Okay, so we’ve got the cute picture- now what? We came up with a few really fun ways to use the picture too!

First up, we printed the picture out in wallet size to use as Breken’s Valentine cards this year. We’ll add a little treat and he’ll pass them out at the school party and to all his friends instead of store bought Valentine’s. Personalized, unique and inexpensive! It was about $2 to print out enough for his whole class. This is as close to homemade Valentine’s as we get. 🙂

Next, print the pictures to 4×6 and send some snail mail! Can you imagine how thrilled Grandma will be to pull this out of the mailbox for Valentines Day?! We love the idea of celebrating ALL the people we love.