Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine’s Day Sign in two sizes – one that’s perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

Today we will be making a Heart Topiary Valentine’s Day Sign in two sizes with different color schemes.  Use the larger sized sign in bigger spaces like your front porch and the smaller one to dress up vignettes around your home.  This is a fun project with lots of personalization possibilities.  Let’s get started!

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Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

Supplies you’ll need to make your own Heart Topiary Valentine’s Day Sign:

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

First, we are going to use the smaller topiary heart sign kit with a pink and metallic color scheme.

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

To begin, I used Tobacco Road Voodoo Gel to add a basecoat of color to multiple parts of the kit.

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

You can get a visual on the pieces I stained below.  To stain the pieces, just add some stain to the surface and rub in using a clean cloth.

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

Next, paint the pieces shown below with the color Endless Shore.

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

I used a makeup sponge and small paint brush to add the color to these pieces.

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

When using a makeup sponge to paint, be sure to pounce the paint onto the surface in even coats.

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

For the “shiplap” style heart, I used a paint brush to add the color Endless Shore to every other section of the piece.

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

Then, I used the same small brush to fill in the polka dots on the flower pot.

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

Next, use Moonshine Metallics in Gold Digger to add color to the ends of the arrow and small middle heart.  Once again, I used a small paint brush to add this color.

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

Now, add the color Conch to the heart pieces shown below.

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

When adding color to the piece below, I only painted the outer edge because the middle will be covered with another piece we already painted.

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

Using the end of your paint brush, add polka dots to the perimeter of the heart shape.

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

Next, I added a chippy paint look to the heart that I stained earlier in the steps.  To begin this process, sporadically add Clear Wax to the surface of the heart using a chip brush.

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

Then, add a layer of the color Endless Shore and let dry.

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

Once dry, use painter’s tape to remove some of the paint.  This is how I create the chipped paint look.

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

Now it’s time to finish everything up by assembling with adhesive.

I used Starbond Instant Adhesive, but feel free to use your favorite instant adhesive for this portion of the project.

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

Once the gold heart had been glued to the heart banner shown below, I changed my mind and decided to paint the rest of the piece using the color Conch.

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

I think this small heart topiary sign is just perfect for smaller areas around the home.  What a fun way to celebrate!

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

Now let’s make a large heart topiary!

Begin by painting the flower pot portion of the kit using the color Anchor.

Then, use the color Fluff to add a coat of color to the pieces show below.

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

I used a makeup sponge to add the color to the smaller pieces.

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

Now use the color Honky Tonk Red to paint the hearts pictured below.

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

You can see that I used a brush for this step.

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

Next up is the color Peony.  Add it to the hearts pictured below.

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

Then, add the white polka dots to the pot.

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

And polka dots to the perimeter of the large heart using the end of your paint brush.

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

Now grab your adhesive and assemble your finished product.

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

This larger topiary sign is perfect on your hearth or front porch!

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

Two sizes with two different color schemes – how fun!  Which color scheme will you recreate.

Learn to make a Heart Topiary Valentine's Day Sign in two sizes - one that's perfect for your porch and another for inside your home!

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