Pink Pearled Lovebird Heart

I've always loved the idea of lovebirds and I'm not sure why.

Yes, I'm a hopeless romantic....

We have an abundance of cooing doves here

and I have to admit I love hearing them throughout the day

chatting away.
With our third heart Candace and I wanted something different but still romantic

and the doves seemed to be calling out to us.....:)

 (insert cheese here...oh yea it already is here.)

Well really, my little girl had something to say about what color we chose

and it's no surprise....she's all about pink!

We painted this heart a nice brown burnt umber

which has a "stain" appearance when you water it down a bit.

(can you tell which pictures my crappy camera took and which one Candace's did?)

Paired with some pretty pink paper, little doves, some cute cherry blossom buds and pearl corsage pins

all that was missing were the love words. 

Sometimes it can be really hard to find the perfect paper when you have an idea stuck in your head.

We knew we wanted something light and vellum was the perfect fit.

We googled "famous love sayings" and up popped all sorts of fun quotes.

We combined them all on a word document, picked a light shade of tan and printed them off.

After trimming them into a smaller version of the heart we

glued them on with a glue stick along the edges.

Next we plucked the little blossoms off the branches and skewered

them with the corsage pins.

These blossoms were plastic and the pins held them perfectly in place.

It was so easy my daughter had a blast putting them together!

We just trimmed off the excess pin with some pliers and hot glued them in place,

out lining the edges of the vellum word heart.

We glued on the little love birds which got a quick highlight of that

Gorgeous German Glass Glitter from Meyer Imports,

glued on a bow to hang it from and there ya go!

We've been pretty busy this week working on our latest "knock off" project

and we're really excited to do the big reveal!

Now if we can just get spray paint to cooperate with this cold weather!

Stay tuned......

Hearts Adore

 

I have been eyeing a scalloped wooden heart Nicole has had hanging on her fridge for about twelve years...seriously has it been twelve years already?
It was one of the first crafts she made when she was newly married.
It was one of the first projects that inspired us to investigate saws,
since it's so hard to find great wood shapes to craft with.

I finally got her to cut a few out for us to decorate.
 Nicole's original heart was scalloped like this one,
but in the center there were several dried rose buds.
Very simple and beautiful. 

When we had the blank scalloped heart in our hands,
our minds started whirling with all the ways to decorate it.
So we've made up 3 different hearts to show the possibilities!
 
Today we have our first heart and we used fake silk hydrangea blossoms,

 pearl beads, and that yummy Meyer Imports glitter.

This particular glitter is the 80 grit pink and it is luscious, like working with little crusted diamonds. 
It also happens to be our mom's favorite color of pink. 
When we pulled it out of the package, we both said, "That's Mom's color!" 
Our mom is a rose pink fan!

We are getting some really good use out of that Opera music book!

  We Mod Podged sheet music on the unfinished heart, after first painting it cream. 

Nicole Mod Podge's paper quite a bit and the easiest way is to first trace and then cut.

  There are less edges to sand if you do this.

We plucked apart the blossoms and hot glued them on the heart.

The hydrangea bunch had little buds that we dipped in glue and then glittered. 

We also wiped a little glue  randomly on the blossoms and shook glitter over it. 

We glued the pearl beads on last. 

I love the mix of the pearls and glitter! 

We have been so impressed with this glitter, it definitely adds a WOW factor to any project!

To finish it off, we added an "Adore" banner.  This was really simple to make. 

 Print your words, cut it into a strip, fold the edges, and clip the ends for a finished look.   

The great thing about this heart is that it's pretty enough to be up all year!

Stay tuned this week for our reveal of the other two hearts! :)

If any of you want an unfinished scalloped heart to decorate as you please, you can order them here.

Glittery Goodness!

I think you all can tell that we kinda like glitter. 

We did a happy dance when we received a package of {gorgeous} glass glitter

from Meyer Imports in the mail.  Love this stuff. 

 You know how after crafting with synthetic glitter you have it in every nook and cranny of your house, all over your face...and sometimes on your husband and children? 

 Really embarrassing when you go out in public, especially for the husband. :)  

The glass glitter is different. It's heavy and pretty much stays where you are working.  This glitter is so beautiful to work with. We were especially taken with the bold and vibrant colors of the pinks and reds.

Perfect for a little Valentine crafting.

For this "be mine" craft, we used cupcake liners.  There are so many fun choices in the stores.  I fell in love with the cupcake wrapper crafting after watching Jen from Tatertots and Jello use them last year.

We found chipboard pieces, especially made for banners in all sorts of shapes at Craft Warehouse. For these, we ended up drilling a couple of holes and adding wire so we could move them where ever we please.  

The glitter gives it all a little pop and shimmer, which we love!

After arranging these for pictures, I ended up turning mine into magnets.

 A great way to decorate those magnetic boards so many of us have.

Thanks Meyer Imports for feeding our little crafting addiction!

 ( If any of you need glass glitter, be sure to check them out!)