BE MY VALENTINE’S – PINTEREST CHALLENGE

Hello and welcome!  Welcome, to all my first time visitors.  Are you ready for some Valentine’s decor inspiration?  I am joining 11 talented bloggers in a Pinterest Inspiration Challenge.  We took one Pinterest Post to recreate with our own style.  I linked all of my friend’s blogs at the end of my page.  I hope you enjoy and get inspired.

Like many of us, we go to Pinterest, Instagram or other places to get inspired.  They are all great places to motivate us, but we shouldn’t just pin or save them, but to act on the idea.  So we decided to share with you how we created a Pinterest post. 🙂

Here is the inspirational post we took from Pinterest.  It was created by Christina from The DIY Mommy.

Here is my take on the Pinterest Post.

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Here are  the items I used for my wreath:

Let’s get started!

Making the heart sign

  • Take the foam board or cardboard
  • one paper heart
  • pencil
  • scissors

Place the paper heart on the foam board and trace around the heart.

Cut the heart out

covering your heart foam board.

  • scrap-book paper
  • pencil
  • scissors
  • your foam board heart

Place the paper with the pattern side down.  Lay the foam board heart on the back side of your scrap-book paper and trace around the heart.  *Note give yourself about 1/2 inch space around the heart when placing it on the scrap-book paper.

Draw another line about 1/2 inch from the edge of the heart and cut out on the outer line.

add the scrap-book paper to the foam board.

  • foam board heart
  • heart scrap-book paper
  • mod podge
  • paint brush
  • scissors

Apply mod podge to the back of your scrap-book page heart

Glue the paper onto the foam board heart, keeping it in the inner heart.

Cut slits along the outer heart with your scissors about every 2 inches or so.

Press over the cut parts to the back of the heart.  Reapply mod podge if needed.

Folding over the paper gives the heart a finished edge.

adding words to your heart sign

  • chalk pen or paint
  • your favorite words

Write your wording onto your heart.

wreath

You will need:

  • wire heart form
  • 4 packs of 24 paper hearts (I used all 96 hearts)
  • stapler and staples
  • hot glue gun and glue sticks
  • your heart word sign

To make the paper folded hearts

Take one paper heart and start to gather.

Gather the heart together pinching it in the center

Fold up the bottom part to meet the top part.

Pinch together.

Staple the end.

This is what it should look like.

Place the heart sign where you want it to be placed on the wire foam.  I am placing it at the left corner of mine.

To add the folded hearts to the wire frame

On the frame you will want to apply two folded hearts to each side of the wire.

Taking my hot glue and applying glue to one side where the staple is and wrap it around the wire.

Taking another folded heart gluing it over the one you just placed and pinch the two together, carefully, don’t burn yourself.

Before I started filling in my wire wreath I placed a folded heart at the top and the bottom of my heart sign to mark the spot that I do not want to fill in.

I removed my sign and started filling in the wreath.

If you notice a hole in your wreath just add a folded heart.  I glued both sides where the staple is and fit it in the hole.

Keep filling until you get to the mark you made.

Adding the sign to your heart wreath

Place the sign on the heart wreath and careful turn over the wreath and hot glue the heart to the wire frame.

I added a bow with several different ribbons and placed it at the bottom part of the heart.  I gave a tutorial on how I make my bows.  You can check that out here ⇒ {{ BOWS }}.

I know it seems like a lot of steps, but once you start it truly doesn’t seem long at all.  I love my Pinterest inspirational wreath.

PIN THIS! ⇓

Don’t forget to take a peek at all the rest of my friends blogs and how they used the Pinterest Post as inspiration!  There will be plenty of beautiful inspirations for you to absorb during this challenge.  You will love all the different styles!

Thank  you again!  Stay strong and stay blessed!

I am on yet another social media site.  It is Bloglovin’.  It is just a blog platform.  Great place to find tutorials, DIY, Home Decor inspiration and of course some great friends.  Go check my page out! Decorate and More with Tip | Bloglovin’

  XO

Terrie

19 thoughts on “BE MY VALENTINE’S – PINTEREST CHALLENGE

  1. I love the idea of using paper heart doilies to make a Valentine wreath. You have styled your wreath in so many adorable ways too! Great tutorial!

    So fun joining you for this Pinterest challenge. I hope you have a Happy Valentine’s Day!

    1. Thank you Amber. I knew I wanted to do a paper wreath but didn’t want to use book pages, I already done a wreath with those. When I went to the Dollar Tree and saw the hearts I just knew they would work well. Have a Happy Valentine’s as well.

    1. Thank you Tara. When I saw those I knew what I wanted to do with them. I didn’t want to have a complete heart with them so I decided to put the BE MINE heart there. Like how it turned out. Thank you again!

    1. Yami, Thank you! I wanted a paper type wreath but didn’t want to use a book page one, already done that. When I saw the doilies from the Dollar Tree I thought I could pull them off. They worked out great. I had a wonderful time working with you on this challenge!

  2. It doesn’t look like my comment posted. I hope it doesn’t pop up later so you end up with multiple comments.

    I love your heart and the Be Mine heart you added.

    1. Carol I was thinking the same thing when I visited your home. 🙂 I am very happy that we met and hope we can do another challenge soon. Thank you for your sweet comment. Have a great week.

    1. Thank you Emily. I wanted to create something similar but not use pages from a book already made a wreath with book pages. I am in love with your wreath and will be making one for myself. Thanks for coming over to visit. Have a great day!

    1. Yay Cindy. Glad you were able to post. Not sure why you couldn’t do it before, just glad to see you here today. Thank you. Had a very good time working with you on this challenge. Love your wreath too.

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