I will say right up front —- this little craft was messy. It kept small hands busy for quite awhile –but for a price! So if you don’t LOVE glitter stop reading! You will like these hanging hearts better!
We took our empty food boxes and cut out hearts. The Cricut made quick work of the cutting, however scissors work great! For the Cricut we used a deep cut blade set to 5 with maximum pressure. This will vary with the box weight and how sharp the blade is. We cut one heart from the Plantin Schoolbook Cartridge
at 5 inches. Use center cut so when it is finished it will go back to the center of the heart and you can cut another heart inside. We cut our next heart at 2 1/4 and then again at 2. This allows the heart inside to move when hanging. (Remove the 2 1/4 inch heart)
Sew through the hearts with sewing machine set on long stitch length. Leave plenty of thread at starting point for hanging.
Spread glue onto cardboard
Sprinkle with glitter. Allow to dry and repeat on back.
We did try to cut a 7 inch heart with two hearts inside (in background of third picture above). Because of our technique (excessive glue and glitter) the 7 inch heart would not hang straight.
Once my daughter was finished and the hearts were mostly dry, I placed them between parchment paper and sat a book on top for awhile to flatten them.
If you are looking for more ways to dress your house up for Valentine’s Day try this Valentine doormat, make some fun painted soaps for your bathroom, decorate with these stain glass hearts or make an inexpensive heart wreath.
Fabulous!
Thanks for the specific instructions! I have a Cricut…I have Plantin Schoolbook… I CAN DO THIS!! Woo hoo!!
How cute are those. What a great kids project (or a project for the kids in all of us who love Valentines Day!)
Oh this is great! I can imagine the center ones turned to the side for a different effect. Thanks for a project for the grandkids party.
Can’t wait to try it! I love having more Cricut ideas to get more use out of an amazing machine- Thanks.
Love them, what a great craft. Hey I sweat glitter in my house, lol!
I don’t have a Cricut cutter but I do have lots of cookie cutters that also have the smaller matching version that can easily be traced. This craft is going to go along way with different celebrations(black cat inside of a pumpkin perhaps). Good one!
Those are really cute!
This is way too cute! I am going to try this with my daughter. She loves glitter and hearts so perfect. I just wanted to say that I absolutely love your website.
Very cute!
We have a valentine/birthday party coming up…thanks for the GREAT decorating idea!!!!!
How cute! And what a great way to recycle 🙂
What a cute craft…I can see a bunch of these hanging in a window! Thanks for sharing!
Nice and easy Valentine’s project! Thank you!
How fun!