Valentine's Decor: 5 Min Wreath

 

Want a fast and easy project to add a little Valentine's Decor to your home? All you need are a few supplies and a hot glue gun and you're good to go!

Supplies:

• Small Wire Wreath Form (Dollar Tree)
• Valentine's Ribbon (Dollar Tree)
• Glittered Heart Picks (Dollar Tree)
• Hot Glue Gun and Glue Sticks

I ended up not using the foam roses shown here. 

I removed the ribbon from the spool to make it easier to wrap the wreath form. Bend a small length of the ribbon over the wreath form and glue down. Once secure, wrap the entire wreath form, glue when wreath is fully covered, and trim. Tie a small length of remaining ribbon in a square knot as shown. 

Put a dab of hot glue on the back of one of the heart picks and glue to covered wreath. Trim the stem. Continue positioning, gluing, and triming the remaining heart picks. Use remaining ribbon to tie another square knot and trim ends. 

Easy Peasy and Done! 

The black white and red on the ribbon went well with my Clay Pot Bottle Toppers so it's sitting on our bar for now. May move it. May not! 

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Valentine's Decor: Unplanned Clay Pot Bottle Toppers

 

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Some of my favorite projects are ones I didn't plan. I mean I had a conceptual idea for these but I started out thinking I was going to make them into Gumball Machines! Then I decided I didn't want to but didn't know quite what I was doing with them. Even when I finished, I didn't plan to put them on bottles. I thought I'd put them atop those glass candle sticks you can get at Dollar Tree and then realized when I went to get them from my craft closet, I only had one. And that's when I saw the empty tequila bottles I'd saved because I liked the shape! Welcome to how my brain works. Still here? 

Supplies: 

• Small Clay Pots (Dollar Tree)
• Foam Roses (Dollar Tree)
• Valentine's and Star Confetti (On Hand)
• Acrylic Paints (On Hand)
• Glass Ornaments (On Hand)
• Clear Dimensional Glue (On Hand)
• Paint Pen (On Hand)
• Baker's Twine (On Hand)
• Charms (On Hand)
• Bottles (On Hand)

First step was to clean residue from the clay pots. I just use baby wipes from the Dollar Tree for this. Then I painted the rim of the pot white, the base black, and went around the rim with a gold paint pen. 

I grabbed clear acrylic glass ornaments from my after Christmas sale stash, cleaned the outsides with glass cleaner, and removed the hanger. 

I grabbed some Diamond Glaze which is magical stuff that you can use as glue or for mixed media projects. I poured about a tablespoon into the ornaments then discovered some of the confetti was too big to fit through the opening but was able to push them through by folding them. They sprung back flat once they were inside the ornaments and the smaller confetti fit just fine. Swirl the ornaments to distribute the confetti. Used the handle of a small paintbrush to move some of the larger pieces. I let the ornaments dry overnight to ensure they were good and dry. 

Using hot glue, I glued the ornament cap upside down as shown. It now functions as a base for the ornament which I also used hot glue to secure. 

I found these foam roses at Dollar Tree so I pulled those out and then hot glued the around the bottom of the ornament. 

To finish, I wrapped some black and white baker's twine over  where I'd gone around with the gold paint pen, securing in place with a couple dots of hot glue. Then I finished with some charms from my stash. 

A little ironic that I used French themed charms on Tequila bottles but...

The best part? The clay pots sit perfectly atop the bottles so I didn't even glue them together meaning I can make more of these clay pot toppers for a different season and use the same bottles! Or, next time I'm at Dollar Tree I can remember to pick up another glass candlestick! 

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Valentine's Decor: The Year Round Tree

 

Last year, I told Mr. Chocolate I'd ordered a "Halloween Tree" which prompted a sideways look. He figured I'd ordered a black Christmas tree (which I debated and still love for a Halloween tree) but some part of me must have known the future because I decided to go with a lighted cherry tree. At the time, it was intended to just be a Halloween tree and then once I had it up and decorated, guess who didn't want it to come down when Halloween was over? So it then became a Fall tree I decorated with layered paper leaves and silk Fall flowers. It went away for Christmas when the Christmas tree came out and when we were taking it down, guess who asked if the tree he'd given me a look about was coming back? I debated about doing generic Winter but then I knew I was going to want to do something for Valentine's day so I skipped ahead and made layered heart ornaments and decorated some clear acrylic ornaments for it. 

Supplies: 

• Cardstock
• Foam Tape and Foam Dots
• SVG file
• Digital Cutting Machine
• Acrylic Ornaments
• Adhesive Foil

The image I used was from Creative Fabrica (3d-layered-heart-21). 

I wanted to go with a non-traditional color palette and I decided on black white and gold so I grabbed those papers out of my stash. 

I imported the file into my Cricut Design Space software, sized and then cut each layer, repeating the color pattern: black white gold

You can see that each layer becomes more delicate bottom to top. I used foam tape on the less detailed layers, then switched to foam dots as they became more detailed. 

Black base layer then white layer.

Then gold layer and repeat with the remaining three layers. 

I'm so entranced by these layered cut files! I love how you can peek through them and the depth they create! Once I assembled all of the hearts ( I did 8 ) I added coordinating black and white ribbon with hot glue so I could hang them on my tree. 

I love the lights against the layers, especially at night. I also had some clear acrylic ornaments left over from Christmas projects and decided they'd be perfect with this version "the tree". 

I had some bright silver adhesive foil in my stash and used an image from Cricut Design Space for these. 

I did 9 of these and the foil is so easy to work with I didn't even bother with transfer tape and just removed the hearts from the carrier backing and placed on the ornaments. 

I saved the parts left behind because look at the cool pattern you can still play with! To finish these, I added some black and white twine. 

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