Queen of Hearts Banner Using Dollar Tree Heart Doilies

I created a Queen of Hearts Banner that could be used at a Alice in Wonderland Party, a Casino night and for Valentine's Day.  I've had these Heart Doilies, from the Dollar Tree, that I bought quite a few years ago.  A few years ago I created a Easter Banner using Tulip Doilies.  I loved how they came out and have been wanting to make a Valentine's Banner.  When I've been working on my Mad Tea Party this past month I decided to create this one.

I bought a few decks of cards from the Dollar Tree to use for crafts.  I took out the Queen, King and Jack of Hearts out of the deck.

Took these 3 cards and glued them on 3 red heart doilies.  That could have been enough but I wanted 5 hearts all together.  So I took 2 white hearts and glued 2 crowns on them.

 I found these at The Graphic Fairy (under search type in crowns).  I attached the white and red heart doilies to a black ribbon, then put it on the top of my front window. 

Then I glued the Doilies on Contrasting Card Stock, White on Red, and Red on White.

 Below the window I set up my food for the tea party.

I love how this came out and that I can use it for more than one occasion.                                                                          

Easter Banner Using Dollar Store Doilies

Last year I started to create two Easter Banners.  One for my mom, who we celebrated with and one for myself.   Originally I was going to make a Valentines Banner and picked up red,pink and white heart doilies at The Dollar Tree.  Well when they had tulip doilies I had to get them for Easter.

  My mom loves Yellow Tullips so I've made one for her and one for me.  I gave it to my mom for Mother's Day instead.  Even though it says "Happy Easter" it's a cute Spring project.

First I glued the yellow tulip doiles to card stock in bright orange, green and pink. On top of the tullip doilies I glued vintage images which were found on several websites (see bottom of post for links) and printed them out in 2x4 or 3x5 sized images.

After that I punched in holes with a single punch.  I chose to make 5 tulips per banner but you could make more.  I think it works best of you use odd numbers.  After I had the holes punched I threaded  green ribbon for my mom's.  

This year I found some cute purple twine at Michael's.  I'm using that for my banner.

What I like about this project is that it can be modified to meet different styles, holidays, materials and more.

I want to make more banners for other holidays and occasions.  Maybe I'll make one for 4th of July with vintage images, like the ones I have here.

These are some of the images I used

from Magic Moonlight Free Images

The Graphic Fairy  Then look under the Easter Category.

From BumbleButton I got:

Some of the images,I posted, were used for my mom's banner.  I'm so excited about all the images I found. I'm grateful to all the websites and blogs that are willing to share these free images.  If you have a favorite site for free vintage images please share in the comments.  I save my images, for most holidays, here.

Have you used an Olio Board Before?

The other day I found out, from another bloggger, about the site to create Olio Boards (mood boards). You can create almost any kind of mood board and upload your own images too. The board I did here was for a
Modern "Alice in Wonderland" Board contest. I used images that Olio had and uploaded more images. I did this one just for fun and had a great time doing it. On Olio they mostly have furniture and home decor compared to Polyvore which mostly has fashion. I found Olio easier to work with.

What do you think of my first Olio Board? 
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