Origami Love Lollipops

With valentines day just around the corner, the girls and I made some super simple lollipop filled hearts to pass out to their friends. 

Here is a quick how to for you!

To create you will need

magazines or old calenders

scissors

lollipops

hole punch

double sided tape

1. Cut a square out of an old calender or magazine. 

2. Cut your square in half to create a triangle.

3. Fold the top point of the triangle up as shown.

4. Fold the left side up. 

5. Fold right side up so that your paper forms a square.

6.  Flip your paper over. 

7. Fold down the top corners of the paper over to the sides.

8. This creates the heart shape!

 9. Gently unfold your heart and punch a hole at the tip of your heart.

10. Slide your lollipop into the hole.

11. Place a piece of double sided tape on your lollipop and and fold the top back down.

12. Add a bit more tape on the sides and fold back up.

13. It should now look like this ~ almost there...

14. Fold in the top and side points to round out your heart.

Fini!

So lovely to play with flower photos this time of the year. Their bright colors remind me that spring is sure to come!

*Warning* folding these hearts may be addictive! Once we started it was hard to stop. It was such a delight to see how quickly & magically each flower photo became a heart.

We look forward to passing out some flower dressed sweet love. 

Here's to spreading the love!

Hanging Hearts!

Here's a super easy Valentine's inspired craft! 

Hanging hearts!

First make some heart templates.  Cut out hearts of varying sizes.

Trace onto cardstock...one big one and one slightly smaller...in 3 sizes, (and 2 of each size...a front and a back)

Cut them out...

and sandwich some tissue paper in the middle...put glue around the heart and press...

Put some string in between all the hearts...for hanging and you should end up with a little something like

THIS!

Don't be limited by red and pinks...go crazy with your colours...these are easy and really pretty to have hanging around the house...I think I'll keep them up until spring...we're deep in the heart of winter here and I need all the colour I can get!!

Happy Heart Making!!!

xo maureen

Love n' Acorns

With Valentines day approaching...
 I wanted to share these nature inspired ~ love offerings.

Hope you enjoy!

To create you will need

Modeling beeswax

Fimo clay

Acorn tops

Walnut shells

We created some of our love filled acorns with modeling beeswax ~ warming it in our hands until it became malleable ~ then shaping it into acorns and adding our acorn caps.

  

The beeswax is so lovely to work with.

We also created them with fimo clay, following the same idea of warming the clay in our hands and then shaping.

After they were shaped to the acorn cap, we took the cap off and baked (according the the package instructions) then glazed. When all was dry we glued on our caps. This clay is incredibly durable after the baking and glazing process.

We roasted our walnuts at 225 F for about an hour ~ works like magic for easy opening! Next we scraped out the meat (and nibbled...nibbled...nibbled...so good!)

We placed our love acorns into the hollowed walnuts shells...

 adding a small sweet love note to the other half of the shell.

We then tied up our walnut acorn treasures for valentine gifting.

Love to spread the LOVE!

Love has no desire but to fulfill itself.  To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.  To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.  ~Kahlil Gibran

Big love to you all

~ Shanti  ~