It’s time to start thinking about Valentine’s Day and how you want to decorate for it. I started pulling out my decorations and I decided that I want to make a simple rustic looking heart to add to my decorations.
The supplies that I’ll be using are:
1. Corrugated Cardboard
2. Rice paper from European Excellency
( optional)
3. Hot glue
4. Small tree branches from outside
5. Warm white acrylic paint from DecoArt
6. Decoupage
7. Paint brush
8. X-acto knife
9. Scissors
10. Spanish moss
11. Paper for a pattern
The first step is to cut a heart out of a piece of paper. This heart will be your pattern to trace onto the cardboard. You can make your heart as big or as small as you want.
I want to expose some of the corrugated cardboard on my heart. You want to be sure to trace your heart onto the corrugated cardboard in a horizontal direction.
Once I had the heart traced onto the cardboard I then used an x-acto knife to cut it out.
Once I had the cardboard heart cut out I then ripped some of the cardboard to expose the corrugated cardboard as shown in photo above.
You can show as much of the corrugated cardboard as you want. Once I was done ripping the cardboard I then painted both sides of the heart with the warm white acrylic paint.
Once I had both sides of the heart painted I then added a piece of rice paper to one side.
You can find the rice paper that I’m using on European Excellency by clicking my referral link down below.
https://europeanexcellency.com/?ee=6
I will be using the birds on my cardboard heart.
I added some decoupage onto the heart and then added the rice paper.
Once I had the rice paper onto the heart I then glued on some small tree branches and Spanish moss.
I want to add my heart to a large distressed spool from our website.
I added to wooden kabob sticks up into the heart to hold the heart onto the spool.
I trimmed the kabob sticks and then placed them down into the hole of the spool. You can find the spool on our website by clicking the link down below.
https://theshabbytreeboutique.com/shop-mBiWY/p/distressed-large-wooden-spool
You can find the bird nest that I added to the spool on our website by clicking the link down below.
https://theshabbytreeboutique.com/shop-mBiWY/p/mossy-bird-nest
You can add a fun candle ring for a pop of red. The candle ring that I used is from our website. You can click the link down below to find the candle ring.
https://theshabbytreeboutique.com/shop-mBiWY/p/35-bursting-astilbe-candle-ring-sangria
This heart is very easy to make and can be created so many different ways. I hope you’ll get creative and give this heart a try.
