Rainbow Mixed Media Heart

Valentines Day crafts and decor don’t always have to be pink or red, you can make cute and fun heart decor that has all the colors of the rainbow, like this Rainbow Mixed Media Heart! You can even display this one all year round in your craft room like I do!

Rainbow Mixed Media Heart with a black and white background with animal print stencils, with a big heart in the middle that is made up of several smaller scrapbook paper hearts, that are rainbow color striped from left to right. DIY Valentines Day Home decor and crafts.

If you’re new around here then WELCOME! I’m Amanda, AKA “Manda”, and I am obsessed with all the colors of the rainbow.

So when it comes to Valentines Day, I don’t always stick to the traditional red and pink, I swing to the wild side and do lots of different colors of the rainbow!

Last year I made a super cute Stuffed Hearts Bouquet with Pink, yellow, green, blue, and purple, but this one I used ALLLL the colors with pink AND red.

And I couldn’t be more happy with how it turned out!

If you aren’t as much of a color fanatic as me, you could totes make this using all mini red or pink hearts, or even red AND pink hearts to be more of a traditional Valentines DIY.

But I actually made this for my craft room, so it’s not technically Valentines at all, and it’s staying up year round.

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Supplies Needed to Make a Rainbow Mixed Media Heart

Wood Background (I used the back of a Dollar Tree sign)
Various scrapbook paper
Black paint pen or Sharpie
Animal print stencils
Paint: White and Black
Tim Holtz Distressed Ink in Black Soot
Acrylic alphabet sta mp set
Black and White Bakers Twine
Mod Podge
Hot glue gun

How to Make a Rainbow Mixed Media Heart

I made this Rainbow Mixed Media Heart on video. So you can WATCH the tutorial by clicking below.

Amanda holding the completed project up on a facebook live thumbnail.

Watch the video HERE

The best way to see how I do this background is to watch the LIVE replay, but basically I ripped up a bunch of black and white colored scrapbook paper into about 2-3″ chunks and then Mod Podged it to the wood board in a patchwork style. If any was hanging over the edge I just sanded it off with my sanding block.

I then smeared white paint over it with a pallet knife so that you could sort of see the scrapbook paper through some of it.

The background of the project with neutral scrapbook paper covered in white paint.

After that I used my Tim Holtz ink and a spouncer to stencil on the different animal prints in small sections around the board.

The background of the project with black mermaid print stenciled on.

I then used a large heart template and used that to outline the shape of the heart onto the background using small black dashed lines.

Black dashed lines around the outside of the rainbow heart.

Once I had the outline of the heart, I Mod Pod Podged a ton of smaller colored hearts onto the center. I did this in strips of colors, in the order of the rainbow from left to right.

I used my Cricut to cut a ton of different size and colored hearts, but you could totally cut them out by hand it would just be way more time consuming.

The big heart in the center is made up of tons of smaller scrapbook paper hearts in lots of rainbow colors.

Then I ripped small pieces of Muslin and stamped them with “Love”, “U”, “to”, “Pieces” on each one.

I glued them to the right side on the heart so that the read vertically from top to bottom, and then added black dash marks with my black pain pen.

Small pieces of muslin that say "Love U to pieces".

I finished it off by adding a black and white bakers twine hanger. There were already holes at the top from where the Dollar Tree twine hanger was, so I just used those holes to string the bakers twine through.

How fun, unique, and creative is this Rainbow Mixed Media Heart!? I am so in LOVE, no pun intended!

How darn cute does this look with my Tiered Tray and the Stuffed Heart Bouquet on top!? Perfect for Valentines Day, but I keep this one up in my craft room all year! (It’s rainbow theme)

The completed rainbow heart craft next to a Valentines Day Themed tiered tray.

Are you going to make a Rainbow Mixed Media Heart? If you do, I’d love to see it! Pop on over to our free Craftspiration Facebook group, and join in on the fun by posting a pic of your Tiered Trays, DIY’s and crafts. I just love to see all your creative and crafty creations.

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