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When I was a little girl I would spend a lot of time doing various arts & crafts projects with my mother and grandmother. Over the years I have grown to love all kinds of different crafts and dabble in crochet, knitting, painting, beading, scrapbooking …
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Good morning everyone! Yesterday we were on babysitting duty because my daughter was celebrating her 29th Birthday. OMG, I feel so old stating that I have a 29 year old daughter!
Since we were on babysitting duty it was our job to entertain the princess. We played games, watched a Disney movie, went outside for bike riding & used sidewalk chalk and all kinds of other things.
After the Princess got into her creative mood, she made me some new refrigerator art which I just love! For some reason, every time she creates something new for me, it just makes me happy!!!
Every day the front of my refrigerator is cluttered with magnets and her art work! Every time she comes over, she rearranges all of my photos, magnets and of course…her art! hahaha!
Does the front of your refrigerator look like this? Do you enjoy seeing refrigerator art made by kids? I just love it! Plus, I save most of her artwork in a keepsake box that I keep in my storage room. When she is older, I will give it to her.
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Last week the Princess came over for a visit. She is 4 1/2 years old and loves to sit down and craft with her Nanny. I keep a whole bunch of crafting supplies in a box for when she visits so we primarily use up my scraps leftover from my own craft projects.
We decided to make some paper hearts to decorate our large front window for Valentine’s Day. Today, I wanted to share with all of you how we made them. It is a great project to do with younger kids.
Paper Heart Doily Window Decorations
Scrapbooking Glue Sticks
Zots Glue Dots
Scissors
5″ and 6″ Red Paper Heart Shape Doilies
Pink, White and/or Red Cardstock
Valentine’s Day Stickers (Dollar Store)
1/4″ by 5″ Sheer Ribbon Pieces
Red or Pink Staples & Stapler
Suction Cups
You can use a glue stick or glue dots to stick your red paper heart doilies onto red, pink or white cardstock. Use scissors to trim around the heart. You want to use cardstock which will show through all of the “lacy” areas of the doilies.
From cardstock, cut a smaller heart shape and glue it to the center of the paper doily. We did ours free-hand and didn’t use a template or pattern. For most of our hearts we used pink cardstock but you can use white. Decorate the center cardstock heart with Valentine’s Day stickers or alphabet letters. Some of ours say “Hug Me”, “Love Me”, “Kiss Me”, etc. Typical sayings you see around Valentine’s Day.
Cut the sheer 1/4″ wide ribbon so that it measures 5″ in length. Fold it in half and staple it to the top of the heart using pretty colored staples. You can also use glue dots if you don’t have pretty staples lying around.
Your paper hearts are now completed and you can hang them up in your windows as Valentine’s Day decorations. Even though these supplies came from my scrap box, almost all of them at one time or another came from our local dollar store.
The one large red cardstock heart came from the dollar store and was plain. We decorated it with a satin ribbon bow and some solid white alpha stickers. You can do that too if you don’t want to waste time cutting things out and using paper doilies.
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