Make a Happy Valentine's Day Banner with Shaker SVG File

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Make Valentine’s Day extra special with a shaker banner! This SVG file helps create a fun, interactive decor piece perfect for your home or party.

Red glittery banner spelling 'LOVE' with bold outlined letters and scalloped edges, perfect for festive or romantic decorations using a layered SVG cut file.

These paper-cut decorations are perfect for your Valentine’s Day decor!

You can create a banner tailored to any celebration or occasion designed with a customizable SVG file that includes the entire alphabet.

Whether you’re sprucing up your home or adding a touch of love to your Valentine’s party, this fun and versatile project is a fantastic way to celebrate the season of love.

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Craft Video Tutorial
Supply List
Download the SVG
Cricut Design Space
Glue Paper Pieces
Add Filling
String Banner Together
Final Thoughts
More SVG Crafts

Craft Video Tutorial

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Supply List

Supplies for crafting a layered shaker banner, including gold and red cardstock, red sequins, adhesive foam roll, precision craft glue, and a green Cricut cutting mat.

Download the SVG

Alphabet SVG file set featuring bold outlined letters, a heart shape, and colorful banner pieces perfect for crafting personalized shaker banner decor.

Cricut Design Space

For the following steps, I'll be using Cricut Design Space.

If you use Silhouette Studio or a different design software, your steps may be different than mine.

To start, upload the SVG into Cricut Design Space and add it to your Canvas.

Design space interface displaying layered SVG cut files for creating a shaker banner, including alphabet letters, heart shapes, and banner pieces in red, green, and gold.

The banner size is about 3x4 inches but can be resized to fit any need.

When designing files, operations cannot be assigned to lines. This means all lines are imported as cut lines.

A few lines need to be changed before the file is cut.

Start by highlighting the entire design and ungroup.

The first section I'll focus on is the rectangle with holes on each end. Two lines in this piece need to be changed to score lines.

Highlight this section. The layers panel shows that the lines are cut.

Design panel in Cricut Design Space showing a layered SVG cut file for a shaker banner alphabet set, including letters, decorative banner pieces, and customizable shapes.

Highlight only the line layer, then click edit, operation, and change the lines to score.

Screenshot from Cricut Design Space showing operation settings for a layered SVG cut file, highlighting options like cut, draw, score, deboss, engrave, and print then cut.

Back on the canvas, you can see that the lines have changed from cut to score.

To finalize this section, highlight the score lines and the shape they are layered on top of and attach.

Screenshot from Cricut Design Space showing attached layers for a layered SVG cut file, including letters, banner designs, and layers for scoring and cutting operations.

The next section to change is the banner flag with the heart pattern.

Highlight that drawn heart pattern and change those lines to score. Then attach the scored layer to the flag base piece.

For my banner, I am going to create the word Love, so I can delete all of the letters that I don't need.

I also need 4 banners, one for each letter. So copy and paste the banner pieces to get to 4.

Cricut Design Space screenshot showing a layered SVG file with grouped banner pieces and letters arranged for cutting, ready to create a shaker-style banner design.

The pieces are now ready to be scored and cut. Click Make it, and choose the material for each mat.

The green mat is the acetate sheet.

Follow the prompts in Cricut Design Space. It will show what tools to load and for what mats.

A Cricut machine cutting red cardstock on a green StandardGrip mat, with a hand pressing the play button to start crafting a layered shaker banner SVG cut file.

Glue Paper Pieces

Apply glue to the back of each gold piece.

A crafter applying precision glue to a gold heart cutout for assembling pieces of a layered shaker banner SVG design, with other banner components in the background.

Then, center it on the thicker-cut black piece of the same shape.

A crafter attaching a gold heart cutout onto a black base as part of a layered shaker banner SVG design, with additional pieces like red cardstock and black frames visible nearby.

Repeat for all gold and black pieces.

Remove the protective sheets on the front and back of the acetate pieces.

Apply a thin glue line around the back of the black pennant piece and adhere the acetate shape.

Attaching a clear acetate sheet to a black cardstock frame with precision glue, assembling a layered shaker banner SVG design, with other pieces visible nearby.

The base pennant pieces are scored and have an engraved line around the inside.

Apply the adhesive foam along that line.

Applying adhesive foam strips to a red scalloped cardstock piece, preparing for assembly of a layered shaker banner SVG cut file, with other elements arranged nearby.

The foam strips can be difficult to handle.

Leave the top protective she in place, and try not to touch the sticky side. Instead, hold the strip by the sides.

Make sure that all of the sides butt up with each other. If there are any holes, the filling can shake out.

Applying adhesive foam strips around the edges of a red scalloped banner piece, ready for layering in a shaker banner SVG cut file design, with additional elements nearby.

Add Filling

Carefully add the resin rhinestones to the center of each banner flag with a spoon.

Use a measuring spoon so all of the flags have the same amount.

Adding rhinestones with a spoon onto red banner pieces lined with adhesive foam strips, preparing for assembly in a shaker banner SVG cut file design.

Carefully peel back the strips to reveal the sticky on the foam strips.

Place the assembled acetate pennant on top and press it into place.

Attaching the acetate-topped frame to the red shaker banner filled with rhinestones, finalizing the assembly of the layered SVG cut file design.

Apply glue to the back of each letter, and center each on a different banner flag.

Attaching the gold and black "heart" cutout to the center of a completed shaker banner panel, with red rhinestones visible through the acetate layer.

String Banner Together

Place the banner pieces in backward order, E V O L, then flip them face down.

Apply glue to the scored rectangle piece and place one at the top back of each flag.

Gluing them to the same spot on all of the flags.

Attaching red ribbon holders to the top of a shaker banner panel, with a hand pressing to secure the pieces in place.

Cut a ribbon that is longer than needed. It is better to have extra than not enough.

String the ribbon through the holes.

Threading a black ribbon through the red ribbon holders on the back of assembled shaker banner panels to create a cohesive banner design.

Place the banner flags evenly apart from each other, and apply a thin glue line underneath the ribbon.

Securing the black ribbon to the back of the red ribbon holders with precision craft glue to ensure the shaker banner stays in place during display.

Press the ribbon into the glue and let it dry completely.

Final Thoughts

This is such a fun banner to make, and it is also fun to play with!

Shaking the flags so the filler moves around is quite addictive.

Completed red and gold shaker banner spelling "LOVE," featuring glitter-filled panels, bold lettering, and scalloped edges strung together with a black ribbon.

The Shaker Banner SVG is also completely customizable and can easily be used to say ANYTHING!

There are also lots of filler choices! Glitter, sequence, confetti, or really anything small and thin.

What will your shaker banner say?

More SVG Crafts

SVG crafts are some of my favorite to create!

Here are a few more fun ideas.

A mason jar treat holder filled with colorful heart-shaped candies, adorned with a red heart tag that says "for you" and tied with twine for a sweet gift presentation. — Mason Jar Candy Treat Holders

A red treat box filled with gold-wrapped chocolates, topped with a cute panda holding a pink heart that says, "A little treat for someone sweet." — A little treat for someone sweet.

A red and white Valentine-themed holder with a cloud cutout, neatly displaying six chocolate nuggets wrapped in gold, silver, and red foil. — Chocolate Nugget 6 Pack

Comments

Bren Fey (BrenDid)

February 08, 2016 at 11:10 am

So cool! I didn't even know you could make a plastic sleeve!

Michelle Marttila - Happy Heart Made

February 09, 2016 at 11:53 am

I love everything about it…those plastic sleeves are so cool!!!

Suzy

February 09, 2016 at 4:32 pm

Wow, this is very cool. A lot of this is new to me - never knew you could make your own plastic sleeve, the fuse ruler, etc. Thanks for the great info.

- Katie
  
  February 10, 2016 at 7:23 am
  
  You are welcome Suzy! The Fuse tool is one of my favorites!
  
Marie, The Interior Frugalista

February 10, 2016 at 9:30 am

Wow, I had no idea you could make a plastic sleeve nor have I ever seen the banner cutter (which is now on my Must Buy List).

Katrin

February 10, 2016 at 1:54 pm

How clever Katie! I love banners too, for decorating and anything really! But you've taken this one to the next level, how professional and how great to be able to have it outside! You are one equipped girl, I love that banner punch board, so cool!

Laurie

February 11, 2016 at 9:16 am

This is adorable! Such a cute look for the door too. Thank you for sharing with us at Brag About It. Pinned and tweeted to share!

Laurie

February 11, 2016 at 10:36 am

Wanted to pop back over to let you know that your project will be featured at next week's Brag About It Link Party! Hope you can join us. Party starts Monday at midnight.
~Laurie

- Katie
  
  February 12, 2016 at 7:09 am
  
  Awesome! Thank you so much Laurie!
  
monica

February 12, 2016 at 4:41 pm

I love your creative mind! I have never thought of doing this, I want to make some banners now! I really like your idea of using newspaper print. Something about it just speaks to me! Thanks for sharing this awesome craft!

- Katie
  
  February 13, 2016 at 8:36 am
  
  Thank you Monica, sometimes my ideas work and I just love it when that happens. 🙂
  
Marilyn

February 13, 2016 at 2:32 pm

Love your banner, very creative! Great tutorial!

- Katie
  
  February 14, 2016 at 8:28 am
  
  Thank you Marilyn! I am so glad that you found it useful.
  
Lynn Streifert

February 14, 2016 at 5:50 am

Hi Katie, I absolutely love your banner video and I'm so inspired by all your creations! I sure hope Stampin' Up! will offer us the punchboard because I would love to add that to my collection. Happy Valentine's Day thanks for all your awesome crafting !

- Katie
  
  February 14, 2016 at 8:28 am
  
  Thank you so much Lynn. It is a really fun punch board!
  
Life Loving

February 14, 2016 at 2:35 pm

What a great decoration. It's really creative and effective. I love it. No pun intended!

Sally @ Life Loving
#LifeLovingLinkie

Lisa B.

February 17, 2016 at 7:01 am

Good Morning!! I'm stopping by to let you know your post has been selected as a Feature for the Welcome Home Wednesdays Link Party!! Stop by this morning to see your post linked up and don't forget to grab your "Featured Button" too! Thanks for linking up with us!! 🙂

denise/DIY Crush

February 19, 2016 at 6:06 am

This is suuuuuper cute! Love the glitter! Thank you for sharing at my craft party!! Be sure to link up again every Thursday at 7pm EST. I'll pin every instructional post!

Chloe Crabtree

February 20, 2016 at 6:59 am

So cute and so fun! I have been thinking about making a banner that says SPRING for on my mantel. I didn't even know about these tools you used! I will be checking this out. I am pinning this to my party decor board! Thank you so much for coming by Celebrate Your Story. I hope we see you again this week. The party opens at 8:00 PM on Saturday night!

Charlene Asay

January 30, 2017 at 11:47 am

This is so so cute. I hope that you will join us at Family Joy Blog Link Up Party this week.

Deborah

February 04, 2017 at 11:37 am

Very cute. Now I want to make a banner! Thanks for linking to the #homemattersparty

- Katie
  
  February 06, 2017 at 8:14 am
  
  I am so glad that you like the banner, Deborah! It is a fun one to make!