Hey everyone - I'm back! And this time, I have something different! I have been wanting to make a new Valentine's craft since I am so sick of snowmen! And I just love Valentine's Day - the colors, the hearts - it makes me smile! So, after spending a ridiculous amount of time searching the internet, I found just what I wanted! And here is what I came up with (click for a bigger view)!
On the circles it says, "My heart is tied to you." I lifted the idea (OK - I copied it!) from a card I saw in a gallery at Two Peas. The user is cutups and you can see her card gallery
here.
My version looks like a card, but it's actually not! It's a 6x12 artist's canvas that I got from Hobby Lobby (it was $6.99 - more than I wanted to spend, but oh well!). I used From the Heart by Digi-designs by Nicole.
I debated on making the layout in Photoshop and printing that (one page to print) or printing each paper separately and cutting everything out that way (6 pages to print). I decided to print each paper (went to a copy shop and printed them 12x12 - then I have extra for other projects) and cut everything out, just to give it that extra dimension.
So...here are the steps:
Paint the canvas
Ink the edges on the center hearts, circles, and dotted paper
Stitch around the edge of the dotted paper
The red heart is "chipboard" - I glued the heart to some cardboard from a cereal box, trimmed and filed the edges.
Mod Podge everything on (first the dotted paper, then the larger hearts, then the ribbon, then the chipboard heart, then the circles)
Make bows with jute and hot glue them in place, fraying the edges
That's it!! I put it on an easel up on my fireplace mantle, and I LOVE IT!!!
