Monday, January 30, 2012

Valentines/Pinterest

My day started with I need to get the Christmas decorations in the atic ( the atic opening is in my computer/craft room). It never happened tho. So I got out some of the craft goodies I needed to make a heart wreath.

  • double sided scrapbook paper (couldn't find) so I settled with onesided
  • stapler
  • elmers glue 
  • paper cutter
Sounds easy right.
I cut 8 1 inch strips (length 12 inches), folded them in haft, then put the open ends together to form a heart and stapled them (stapler broke). They are so cute (got stapler working so so, but working). I started glueing them together, got them all done and I look at it and thought what is going on. The glue made the paper wet and made it fold were the glue was. I just looked at it like oh my.
  • adhesive tabs
So NOW I have to start over with a broken stapler. I cut all the strips, got the stapler to work and thought ok now get the adhesive. Wrong again the adhisive wasn't strong enough to with stand being held up 5 secs.
  • raffia
  • hole puncher
So I punched holes and tied them together.

for something I thought would be a fast project ened up taking a little longer. 



4 comments:

  1. I think for all the trouble it gave you it turned out great!!! maybe next time get some of those glue dots they hold anything!

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  2. Thanks so much for linking up to my Valentine Link Party! I appreciate you taking the time to do that! I like the raffia look with the hole punches.

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  3. I love the look of raffia :) Thank you for sharing with us at my Handmade Valentine party on www.SummitStreetJoy.com! :)
    xo,
    lauren

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  4. That pretty cool and at first I thought those were cookie cutters. Thanks for linking your project to Cowgirl Up.

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