Tuesday Tutorial: Hanging Hearts

Good morning! It's Lexi on the blog today bringing you a simple tutorial on this happy Tuesday. The inspiration behind this post came from, where else, Pinterest. *sigh* I really could waste hours, if I had hours to waste!, on that site. Surely I am not the only one, right? Lately I have been pinning Valentine's Day inspiration--already? It's almost hard to believe that it is next month. 

How fun are these crayon hearts, courtesy of Martha Stewart? (I think I need to make them with my kiddos.) I took the general idea of the hanging hearts and translated to a layout using the Farmhouse line. 

First, I decided what pic to use and the title. I knew I wanted the hearts to fall from the top of the page so I scrapped my title and photo closer to the bottom. 

I used my Cameo to cut out all the hearts, but you can just as easily use a heart punch. The only heart punch I had was tiny and I wanted some bigger hearts with varied shapes, so using a die cut machine came in handy.

Looks valentines-y already :)

Start to arrange your hearts to get an idea of their placement. I knew I wanted them falling in a straight line leading to the photo and title. 

To get dimension, stack your hearts on top of one another and sew down the middle. I like to add several layers, with different patterns and heart sizes. 

I loved the frosty look the wax paper gave the crayon hearts in the original inspiration image, so I punched smaller vellum hearts to add to the layout. Some are sewn with the bigger hearts. All the paper used is from Farmhouse, except for the red/white dot, which is from Holiday Style. The smaller hearts all come from the Farmhouse Flowersack and worked perfect for this idea.

another view-

and all together now-

I loved this little tag and used some of the twine in the Farmhouse wrap pack to tie it around the photo. You can see a few of those vellum hearts peeking out. 

While I had these scraps and this idea of hearts on my mind, I decided to whip up a card too. Do you ever do that? Make a card with your scraps after creating a layout? The negative space from the cut out hearts were perfect as a background for a Valentine card.

All of this is from the Farmhouse line as well. I added the label sticker on top of a piece of lace from the Wrap Pack and a scrap of linen material. You can see the negative space from the hearts that were cut out...and a few vellum hearts sewn down. A mini, more simple version of the layout.

Are you already thinking Valentine's Day? Maybe you are now! If you do try your hand at a hanging hearts layout or any kind of Valentine's project using October Afternoon we would love to see! Link us up here or add it to our inspiration-filled Flickr gallery :)

Thanks for joining me and have a great Tuesday!

 

Comments

[Helen]

I love the idea of using the different sizes of hearts on top of each other, then stitched down the middle. So cute!

[Shana]

I would love to download that title as well but it is not coming up in a search. :-( Would have the name? Thank you!

[Lexi Bridges]

Gina--the font is actually it's own shape purchased from the silhouette online store :) Hope that helps!

[Bibi]

This is really cute! Love all the hearts.

[sibylle2011]

I love these hanging hearts! Really nice :)

By the way.. I ordered the paper from October Afternoon (Farmhouse and Holiday Style). The delivery was scheduled for today and I'm very excited !!

[Gina Baj]

Hi I would love to know the font you used for the title you and me, I love it.

[Nirupama Kumar]

how about hanging stars?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/61291223@N03/6716766735/in/pool-770617@N25

I think i'll have to make those hearts soon!

[Kelly]

Great layout! I love it!

[virginie]

so cute !

[Court's Crafts]

VERY beautiful!!!

[Melinda T]

Another pinterest addict here! :) And thats pretty clever, never thought of using the crayon hearts idea on the layout, but I love it! Thanks for sharing!

[Val]

Hey, you are not the only one. I do spend ages on Pinterest - it's adictive!!