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!