Fabric Heart with Rosettes

My original plan was to have a Giveaway today, but I need to delay it for a few days....trust me, it's gonna be really good!  It will be worth the wait.  I promise.

I made this lovely heart a few days ago.  I found the tutorial here.  She has such a lovely blog with lots of fun ideas!  Some people are so dang creative. I just luuurve the name of her blog too....

I love how it turned out.  It only took me something like 30 minutes!  of course I HAD to add a few of the cute rosettes.  So easy and it was fun to make:)

I know my walls are so bare and soooo white!  Actually it's kindof a dirty white.  I need to paint them REALLY bad.  That is my goal during spring break this year.  I just need to figure out what colors to paint them.  Any ideas???

That's one of those cute little felt flowers in the center.  SUPER easy:)

Notice my fabulous Valentine's day Subway art!  I LOVE it.  I really love that shelf too.  My hubby made it like 15 years ago (when cut out hearts were all the rage!).  I can't part with it since he made it for me, so I spray it a different color every 6 months or so.  This is my favorite color. Antique White. I think it will look better up there when my walls are a different color!  Sorry.....rambling again.

Sick of Valentine's Decorations yet??

I can't help it.  I  keep making Valentine decorations! I really don't have that many Valentine crafts (until now!). I hope you don't mind if I share a few more with you this week.  Here is what I made on Saturday:

 

Since I bought 4 of these MDF boards at the Craft store the other day, I had to make another Valentine decoration!  I love how it turned out.

Follow the directions from this tutorial.   I added a cute heart cut out from old music paper, a clear "love" cut out, and a few chipboard hearts I had in my stash.  I also cut the XOXO with my Cricut and stuck it on the clear plastic window.  

I have a few other adorable crafts to share, but I will save them for later this week!  Thanks so much for visiting me.  Have a wonderful Monday!

Feb 14th Valentine Block

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I was going through my craft room the other day and I came across a block sitting on the ledge that was calling me to do something with it.  I grabbed some Valentine paper, some modge podge, and some ribbon and went to work! 

This is what I came up with:

Watcha think?

It took me like 30 minutes or less to make.  I couldn't find my brayer, so the paper has some wrinkles in it, but no biggie.  I am soooo not picky!

I dusted off my Cricut and cut out that cute little heart on the right.

 I think I may make a few more and give them to the ladies from church I visit every month. 

I am really excited to share my other Valentine craft I have been working on.  Check back in a few days! 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

I Heart You Valentine Flower Pot decor Tutorial

 I couldn't wait any longer!  I had to come up with a cute Valentine decoration for my house.  I really like how it turned out.  I especially like the fact that I only used stuff that I had around my house and I didn't spend ANY moolah on it! 

Isn't it lovely?  I love how it turned out!  It took me about 2 hours to make.  It's hard to tell, I would do some, then go do something else.  It didn't seem very long though!

Wanna know how to make it?  Here are the directions:

 Supplies:

1/8-1/4 yd of 2 coordinating fabrics

same amount of cotton batting

flower pot

3 sticks cut in different sizes

buttons- I used 6

ric rack

glue gun

Burlap- just enough for 3 small circles

white tissue paper

sewing machine (or you can sew it by hand)

paint- I used Americana and mixed Spa Blue and Salem Blue together

Green floral foam- just a little square block

First, you have to pick some cute material.  I chose MODA Basic Grey's Blush Fabric.  Super cute!  I love the colors.  For the heart shapes I googled heart templates and got tons of different sizes of hearts.  I chose 3 different sizes and printed them out, cut them out and used them to cut out my fabric hearts.

Here is what my flower pot looked like before.  Not too bad, but I have had it stored away for a long time and it was scratched. I wanted to paint it Robin egg blue to match with the fabric!

I didn't do this, but I should have painted the pot first, so it would have plenty of time to dry while you sew your 3 hearts.  I put 3 coats of paint on my pot.  Oh, and paint your 3 sticks! 

Now, sew your hearts.  I cut out the batting a bit larger than the fabric hearts, so it stuck out a little from the edges, then I used pink and red thread to sew around the hearts. 

Next, I cut short strips of large and small rick rack and got glued them on.  Then I glued 1 button on the end of 1 of the pieces of rick rack.  Don't burn your fingers!  That stuff is SUPER hot.

Now, here's where I kinda stopped taking pictures.  Sorry, I got really excited about posting this, I forgot to take the dang pictures!  

When you get the hearts all done.  Hot glue the hearts onto the sticks. I also cut out a piece of fabric and glued it on the back to cover up the stick. 

Cut out 3 small shapes of burlap, and fabric to glue on the pot.  I just randomly cut out my shapes to look kinda like posies (I know, they don't really look like posies). 

After I cut out the shapes, I frayed the burlap a little, meaning pull out some of the burlap so it looks frayed on the edges (I hope that makes sense!).  Now glue the fabric shape on top of the burlap, then a cute little button on top of the fabric.  Glue each shape onto the pot.  I glued on 3. 

Here is a close up of the burlap and fabric flowers.  I also sanded the flower pot a little around the edges and I like how the red came out from underneath, don't you?

Lastly, put the green floral foam in the pot.  I had to cut mine quite a bit to get it to fit.  Then I stuck my cute little hearts in randomly.  To cover the nice green foam, I cut strips of white tissue paper and wadded it up, then set it in the pot.  

Here is a close up of the hearts.  Can you see the very small amount of snow we got overnight?  Yea, neither can I.  But it's there, promise:)

Now, display it so your friends and neighbors can see it and be jealous that you are so crafty!  Enjoy.

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