Sunday, February 9, 2014

Valentine's Day Card

Instead of doing another do it yourself blog for kids on Valentine's Day crafts, I'm doing a bit more difficult, and dangerous blog for readers a bit older.
Materials:
One piece of white construction paper
One piece of red construction paper
One piece of pink construction paper
Glue, (I used Mod Podge)
Hot glue gun
Three different sizes of pearls, large, medium, small
Scissors, straight, and curvy/wavy kind
Steps:

1. Cut an eight by ten inch white rectangle
2. Fold white rectangle in half
3. Take an inch off the measurements of one side of your white square length and width wise, and cut that measurement out of the red construction paper with your curvy/wavy scissors
4. Center your red construction paper on the side of your white construction card and glue it on with Mod Podge
5. Because the glue will make your construction paper bend, what I recommend is putting the paper in the middle of a textbook, and allowing it to be flattened for about ten or fifteen minutes
6. Fold your pink construction paper, now we will make the hearts
7. Make the size of your first heart about four and a half centimeters, and make it a longer, skinnier heart, cut five of these
8. Now you will cut the medium size hearts, five of them slightly shorter than the large hearts, but wider
9. Cut out seven small hearts only about two centimeters in length
10. Your paper may be too small for these hearts, but it is very easy to simply cut a small portion of the hearts adjusting them to fit
Now for the dangerous part:
11. Take a large pearl and position it in the upper left hand corner, not necessarily right in the corner, but in that region making the center slightly off the middle
12. What I do first is position all of the hearts before I start to glue, you will want to adjust the larger hearts first in a flower like pattern around the large pearl in the center
13. Place the medium size hearts in the middle of the larger hearts
14. To finish off this flower like pattern place the smallest hearts in several places, one in the upper left corner, and two in the lower left corner, the last of your small hearts place them leading to the lower right hand corner
15. Hot glue all of the hearts down
16. Place the medium sized pearls close to the medium sized petals/hearts of the flower, and the smallest ones above the smallest hearts/petals
17. To finish the card off, write an inscription on the upper right hand corner to personalize it for whoever you want!
Get crafting!

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