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January 17, 2013

Conversation Heart Hanging

I am a huge fan of Valentine’s day.  I’ve heard all the criticisms out there for “love” day, but you know what?  I just like the idea of having a special day to celebrate those I hold dear.  I still show my affection year-round, but why not go all out just one day? And I’ll be honest-I’m not going to turn down an excuse to get gifts.  Not to mention, I’m a sucker for the extra special dinner, the flowers, and especially the chocolate.

Most everything is the same as the original except I used pink vinyl and pink ribbon instead of red.  I liked the idea of making the hearts look just like the candy.

I started out by painting the wooden heart plaques that I ordered last year from Ben Franklin. If you noticed, I didn’t say that I sanded them first.  I LOATHE sanding!  You may want to do that if you make these, but I was perfectly content skipping the step, and you can’t tell (at least I can’t) unless you look really close.  That’s how I feel about ironing too.

Anyways, I had every color except pink in my huge box of supplies!  I couldn’t believe myself.  But it didn’t deter me.  I applied what I learned in my elementary school art class and mixed some white and red paint until I reached the desired color.  🙂

Then, I cut the vinyl on my Silhouette and applied it to the hearts.  I used the Mandingo font.

Next, I hot glued the plaques to the ribbon and voila!  There you have it.  Total time was around an hour and a half, if you count the time it took for the paint to dry.

This craft cost me around $11 TOTAL, and the shop where I saw this was selling EACH personalized heart for $11, plus $10-$12 for shipping!!

 

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Hope you won’t be afraid to try it and make it your own!  Happy Pinning!

Filed Under: Crafts, Uncategorized, Valentine's Day

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  1. Becky says

    January 19, 2013 at 6:16 pm

    Yay! I'm so excited this - because I am addicted to Facebook as well...looking forward to many more posts!
  2. Jared and Jessica says

    January 19, 2013 at 7:49 pm

    LOVE IT!!! Why can't we live closer to each other so we can do these fun projects together!!! I need a crafting partner!
  3. Tiffany says

    January 21, 2013 at 3:42 pm

    How cute! You are so good at this!
  4. Chad and Catherine says

    January 21, 2013 at 6:43 pm

    Cute cute! Do you have a link that you could post for where your ordered the wooden hearts?
    • Christine says

      January 21, 2013 at 7:43 pm

      The wooden hearts were plaques from Ben Franklin online. You can just do a search for them on their site. Hopefully they still have them. I think mine are 7" wide.
    • Joni Barnwell says

      February 7, 2014 at 8:24 pm

      They also have these hearts at Hobby Lobby and you can use the 40% off coupons on them!!!

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