As you guys have noticed, I am extremely into Valentines Day
this year! I find that the crafts are so cute and not to mention so fun and
easy to make. Sunday morning I headed to my moms studio still in my pj’s
determined to make the Valentines Framed Candy Heart project. A few hot glue
gun burns later I was admiring my finished project. This crafts looks more expensive than cheap,
which is inspiring! Together this craft cost me $7.
The Valentines Framed Candy Hearts look excellent placed
against the back splash in the kitchen, hung, or placed on a side table along
with some pretty flowers or some more Vday décor.
Items you will need:
Brown Wrapping Paper
White Picture Frame
Candy Hearts
Glue Gun
Cardboard
Step 1: Make a sturdy back page for your hearts. Meaning,
where the photo would usually sit in the picture frame place a piece of
cardboard there so that the hearts will have something strong to sit on because
the hearts end up getting heavy. Once you have the cardboard piece ready, I used brown
wrapping paper as a background for the hearts. Just glue a sheet of brown paper
to the cardboard.
Step 2: With the background ready, trace a large heart in
pencil onto the background. The heart outline allows you to fill the heart in
with the candies perfectly.
Step 3: Time to start gluing! Now you can glue the hearts on
in any pattern to fill-in the larger heart. Once the hearts are glued on make
sure you rip off all the excess glue strings from the hearts. Once that’s finished,
put the finished product into the frame and voila!
One week today is Valentines Day! I have plenty of Vday
crafts and recipes if you’re in need of any ideas for your special someone. You
can find all my Valentines blog posts right here, VALENTINES.
Anyways, I’ve made some Valentines Cards for my west coast
pals. The cards that I created are made out of all recycled paper that was lying
around the house! I used red & pink construction paper, brown scotch
wrapping paper, pink wrapping paper and newspaper. I also used old birthday cards
for the background of my cards to prevent them from bending. I then cut out all
shapes of hearts, glued them to the old birthday cards, and then I used
scissors to cut a nice border around each heart card. Once each card was
complete, I used black and gold sharpies to write Valentine messages on them. Super
cute, super easy!
