I love hearts! And there is no better way to decorate for Valentine's Day then with hearts!
Mandy from Sugar Bee Crafts shared a tutorial for Paper Strip Hearts and I just knew that I needed to make some! Here are her's hanging from a light fixture. ( I wish I had a fun light fixture to hang mine from)
Here are mine! They really are so fun and simple to make and would be a great craft to make with kids.
First I chose my paper. I chose some paper that touches of glitter in it and double sided patterend paper.
All my hearts I made the measurements just a little bit different so they would all vary in size but the strips were all 1 inch wide. For this particular heart the 2 small reds were 5 inches long, the pink were 6 1/2 inches long and the patterned red where 8 inches long.
Stack them as shown above and bring the bottoms of all the slips of paper together and staple.
This is kinda of the tricky part but after doing the first one it gets much easier. take 3 strips at a time and do the same thing, and bring all the ends together till they are even and then do the same to the other strips pulling them in the opposite direction. Then bring all 6 ends together, make sure they are even, and staple again.
Then you sill have your heart. To hang them with string I took a glue dot and put it down the center of the heart as much as I could, put the string on it and then pinched the center and the glue dot will hold the string. The string wont be supper strong but work just for hanging them.
My favorite thing is while they are hanging they just kind of slowly spin so they are always moving.
I hung some at my desk at work
Where will you hang yours?
Oh how cute are these?! Thank you so much for sharing, I can't wait to try these with my girls next week!!
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ReplyDeleteSo cute, what a fun idea.
ReplyDeleteHow lovely! I'm going to have a go at these!
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Hope you have a fabulous week!
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I know what I will be making this week with my daughter! Thanks for the great idea. Please come share at my party!
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These are wonderful and look so professional and so simple. I think we will make these at playgroup for valentines. Cheers.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE the paper choices!! Awesome job!
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Those are adorable! I will definitely be making these :)Thanks for sharing!
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I love where you hung them - great job!!
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These are so cute! I love simple decorations like that!
ReplyDeleteI am hosting a Valentine's project link party until 2/14. I would love it if you came and linked these up!
So so pretty!
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ReplyDeleteThey turned out fabulously! Love the paper you used!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for sharing and linking up to this week's Catch a Glimpse party! I'll be featuring this tomorrow!
What a great tutorial! I had been seeing this paper hearts and wondering how people made them. Would love to have you come link-up at Finished it Friday! Have a fabulous weekend!
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So cute! Pinned this!
ReplyDeleteI love these. Just found a fun craft to do this weekend! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThese are really sweet. I was actually checking them out while I was searching another party, lol. Really cute. Thanks for sharing them at our Link It Up Thursday party.
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They are lovely and easy to do, I just tried one and they look adorable, and I just used plain white paper..for trial, and they are cute.
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These are cute! Gonna try making some.
ReplyDeleteSo lovely!! I might have to give these a try, thanks for sharing the tutorial and for linking up to our Valentines Countdown Party!
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These are sooo sweet! Love how cute they look hanging from the chandelier! Thanks so much for sharing with the Pink Hippo party.. can't wait to see what you share next!
ReplyDeleteThese are so cute! I'd love for you to share at Mix it up Monday:
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Thanks so much for sharing at Mix it up Monday :) I hope you'll stop back often!
DeleteThese are fantastic and so easy! Thanks so much for linking this up at Doggone Dirty Craftin last week. Can't wait to see what you have for this thursday!
ReplyDeleteHey! Thanks for linking up to my Countdown to Valentines party, I've featured these today as one of my favorites! You can check out the post here...
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ReplyDeleteJust wanted to let you know that we featured your pretty hearts at our Link It Up Thursday party. Come on over if you would like a featured button. http://thesepeastastefunny.blogspot.com/2012/02/link-it-up-thursday-6.html
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