I’m so excited to be able introduce a new weekly (or maybe bi-monthly, depending on time constraints and such) blog column from our wonderful, fabulous design team member Grace Tolman.
For this week’s inaugural post, Grace shares a wonderful heart themed project that she created using leftovers from our February 2010 Main Kit.
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Heart Frame
By Grace Tolman
The Crazy Daisy kits are always chock full of supplies. You will always get lots of leftovers. The February one is no exception and here’s a little, quick and easy project that I made with my leftover pattern papers.
Since it’s the love month, I decided to make an altered wall art.
To make it, you’ll need a few things….
* Your leftover papers from the kit
* A styrofoam heart (or circle if you prefer)
* A ribbon (long enough to cover your styrofoam and a little bit more for a ribbon to hang the project on the wall)
* A few embellishments (flowers, buttons, sequins, etc)
*A die cut machine (this just makes the process faster, but if you don’t have any, get a template for the flowers and cut by hand)
After you’ve grabbed your supplies, start by cutting out flowers from your pattern papers using your die cut machine. Cut them in varied sizes.
Then cover your Styrofoam with the ribbon. Since the heart was an odd shape, I decided not to cover the top and bottom pointed corners. I thought that the whites won’t show after I cover it with the flowers. Use a glue gun to adhere the ends of your ribbon.
Start layering and adhering your flowers onto the heart. There’s no science to this, the more random it is the better.
Add flowers to the middle of some of the flowers. I only used three here but you can add more.
Tie a bow from the leftover ribbon and adhere the tips of it on the back of the heart.
After looking at my heart, I was not happy with some of them not having centers so I grabbed some buttons and glue gunned them onto the centers of my flowers. This gave each piece a finished look.
If you have everything on hand, this project should only take you no more than 1 hour.
Here’s a few more close ups…
Good luck and have fun with the February kit.
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Thank you Grace for sharing your talents and creativity. You really rock and we are so grateful to have you on our team!
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