Rainbow Heart Transparencies

Here's a super easy way to decorate your abode for the upcoming day of LOVE…

Rainbow Heart Transparencies

To make your own you will need:

cardstock

tissue paper (rainbow colours and white)

scissors

glue stick

To begin cut out a heart shape…cut out the inside too.

Now using your glue stick, glue white tissue paper to the underside.

Then…cut out strips of rainbow coloured tissue paper…

layer it side by side in the colours of the rainbow.

Trim off all the excess and it should look like this…pretty huh?

To put up in the window I put a few dabs of glue, (with the glue stick), on the backside…

the glue washes off easily when they come down…I find it looks nicer than tape and holds really well.

And that's it!  These are so easy to whip up…and they look so pretty.

Here's to celebrating LOVE in all its glory!

Share the LOVE Top 10 Valentines Day Crafts!!!

With Valentines day looming on the horizon, we wanted to share some of our personal favourite LOVE day
crafts from the World Wide Webisphere!

Just click on the images below to take you to the FULL tutorials!

Valentine Gnome & Felt Heart Pin Craft

from GardenMama

(we miss you GardenMama…come back!!!!!)

Cardboard Art Hearts

From Little Bit Funky

Heart Strings

from Little Birdie Secrets

Stained Glass Hearts

from Passengers on a Little Spaceship

Cardboard Heart Locket

from The Cardboard Collective

Felt Gnomes

from How to Run a Home Day Care

Mixed Media Valentines Postcards

from iHanna

Tissue Paper Window Hearts

from The Enchanted Tree

Love Inspired Suncatchers

from Twig and Toadstool

Heart Mobile

from The Magic Onions

Be sure to check out our WINTER section of crafts for some more

great Valentines inspired ideas!

Share the LOVE, (and ideas)!

Pinecone Love Fairies

One of our friends came over with pinecones in her pocket…

thinking they would inspire a little "something or other"…and they did!

Pinecone love fairies…just in time for Valentines Day!

To make your own you will need:

pinecones, any size will do

wooden beads

paint and paint brush

wool felt in red & pink

scissors

glue gun and glue

To start, paint some faces on your wooden beads.

Someone suggested to me to use a toothpick for doing the little eyes and mouths…

it actually works!

Let them dry.

While your faces are drying, cut out some little heart shaped wings…

cut out small red hearts first, then glue them onto your pink felt 

and cut around them…

size your hearts according to your pinecone…

bigger pinecone=bigger heart "wings"

Now using your glue gun, glue the wings onto the back of your pinecone.

Thread a piece of yarn through your wooden bead "head" and glue into place.

Glue this onto the top of your pinecone.

Embellish to your hearts delight…we added a little pink crown and a heart on her belly!

After all she IS a little LOVE fairy!

I always like to add a bit of pink on the cheeks as well…I use a beeswax crayon for this.

And here's the end result…

a sweet little LOVE fairy who is sure to spread LOVE where ever she may be!

Happy Love day Crafting!!!!

A Warm Fuzzy for Valentines Day!

We just put Christmas away…now let the LOVE crafts commence!!!

Here is our latest craft over at the "gnomestead"…the WARM FUZZY.

(because who wouldn't want a warm fuzzy little pal to keep you company on a cold winters day)!

To make your own you will need:

white roving

pipe cleaners

needle felting needle

peg person

fake "fun" fur

wool felt

glue gun and glue

To start cut a pipe cleaner in half…now wrap a little bit of roving tightly around your pipe cleaner…needle felt it into place…this should take you a minute tops.

When both sides of the pipe cleaner are done, wrap it just under the "head" of your peg

(you can glue it into place, but I found it held just fine like this).

Now take a small rectangle of "fun fur" and wrap it around the base…

hot glue this into place.  

Do the same with a square of "fur" around the head…glue it into place…

glue all the seams down.

(the fur will cover up any weird spots where the seams have overlapped etc.)

Glue on a couple of googly eyes…just one eye…it's up to you.

And lastly, cut out a tiny heart from felt…glue it to your fuzzy monsters tummy.

Here's an example of the other warm fuzzy monster we made!  

And here are some cards…click on picture and enlarge however you wish…

I designed them on PicMonkey.  

I got the term "warm fuzzy" from my guidance councillor in elementary school.  

She used to call HUGS, "warm fuzzies"…one of those things that has stuck with me!

These might also just be nice for a day when your children just need a "pick me up"…

who wouldn't want a warm fuzzy monster to hang out with?!

Wishing you all a warm and fuzzy day!