Here’s an easy project to make with your kids. I bought two packages of foam craft hearts from my local craft store. They were on sale and ended up costing me $2 for each package. I used left-over scrapbook materials for the rest of the project. This is what I used:
- Foam hearts
- 4 different, coordinating scrapbook papers
- Ribbon (one kind for each banner)
- Foam and chipboard flower shapes that I use to make cards/scrapbook
- Jeweled brads I had on hand
- Stampin’ Up scallop paper punch
- Scallop craft scissors
- Glitter glue (I had it on hand, but you can get it at Walmart for $1)
- Paper punch
- Glue stick
- Hot glue gun and glue stick (or big glue dots)
I did two different garlands: one big and one small.
- First I decided what I wanted my garlands to say.
- I punched a hole in each side of my hearts.
- I took the scrapbook paper and traced around the smaller sized hearts and cut it out using my scalloped scissors using the four papers.
- Then I attached the paper to the foam hearts using a glue stick.
- For the smaller banner, I punched out a circle for each of the small hearts using the Stampin’Up punch and attached those to the foam hearts using a glue stick.
- I used some ribbon I had in my supplies and cut 5 inch strips to tie between each of the small hearts. I cut 6 inch strips of ribbon to tie between the larger hearts. I then tied the ribbon to the hearts and left a knot in the center (but you could tie it in a bow instead).
- I laid each banner out on a table and used the glitter glue to make a polka dot border around a few of the hearts in each banner in a random pattern.
- I let the glue dry over night.
- I printed out my wording using my computer. I think the font I used is Ariel. The font size I used for the small valentines is 130 point. I think I used 260 point for the large hearts. You can also download some really cute fonts from www.1001fonts.com that would be cute also.
- I cut out the letters using regular old scissors and then attached the letters to the scrapbook paper in the center of the hearts. I used glue dots, but you could use a glue stick.
- I then embellished the hearts using scrapbook flowers and brads I had in my supplies. If you don’t have these you could cut out flowers using colored paper or flower punches and glitter them up to make them cute. I hot glued them onto the garlands.
Ta da — That’s it. A cute, easy, fun Valentine’s project for $2! Thanks for stopping by and have a Fantastic Creative Friday! PS — Did you hear???? Stephanie Nielsen is back posting the Nie Nie Dialogs for the first time since her accident.
