I've been wanting to make these wooden conversation hearts for a while now. Three years to be exact. Go ahead and read THIS POST to refresh your memory, I'll wait.
Well, I finally got around to doing it. Earlier this summer I found some wooden heart plaques, I wasn't even looking for them. Every other time I happened to be at a craft store and happened to remember to look for the wooden hearts, I couldn't find them so of course I had to get them.
The first step was to paint the hearts in pastel colors. I used some of the acrylic paint my daughter got for Christmas and added some white to it so it would be lighter.
Then, I used my Silhouette machine to cut out the names in a dark pink vinyl.
I was on a roll and did this much in two days. Then, I couldn't find the staple gun. So my progress came to a halt. Finally I took the time to really look for it and there it was, neatly put away with the rest of the tools in the garage. For some reason I thought it would have been left out with the last staple gun project which, by the way, is still unfinished and sitting in the basement.
After a two week hiatus for this project, I picked up where I left off by stapling some wide ribbon to the back of each wooden heart. I used dark pink ribbon to match the vinyl letters.
Then I doubled over the top of the ribbon and put a key chain type ring on it so I could hang it.
I didn't want the ring to show so I prettied it up with a bow made out of the same ribbon.
In my original post about wanting to make these wooden hearts, I thought I would hang them in the foyer. Then I realized that might look weird since I don't have any other Valentine's Day decor in there. So I decided to hang on the wall next to my fireplace since the mantel is where all my Valentine decor is.
This is the before picture of that wall. I just took down the two pictures and hung the hearts from the top nail.
The ribbon and hearts cover up the bottom nail so it all looks nice, and not too low for little ones to pull at.
Here's the Valentine decor on the mantle. In the original post I mentioned how I wanted to make a cute heart banner. Well, I never got around to making that but I did find this pre-made heart banner at an after Valentine's Day clearance.
I still display the 'You & Me' sign, which is just a gift bag I put into a frame (you can read all about that in THIS POST), and the infinite love block I made in THIS POST.
I still haven't made the LOVE blocks, but I did add this LOVE sign. It's just a thin wooden LOVE key glued onto a card stock frame.
From this angle you can see all the Valentine decor.
What Valentine crafts have you made? Link up in the comments below.
