Romance in the home. 60 2.5” fabric circles, a cardboard box lid, a fabric pen, pencil, scissors, and a glue gun (or thread & needle) and say 59 minutes later …
and you’ll have this: a warm heart at home.
How To Make These Heart Shaped Wreaths with Felt
Use a sturdy or thicker fabric such as felt, but do think beyond felt!
Draw a large heart on cardboard, draw a smaller one within it, and now cut out your heart shape. There is nothing too exact about this, however, you have to ensure that the cardboard frame is substantially narrower than two or three of the folded over flowers.
Using a template (e.g. a saucer or coaster) of approx 2.5 inch diameter, draw 60-odd circles onto your fabric and cut them out.
To make the fabric ‘flowers’ or ruffles, fold each circle twice.
(tip: now use a few of these flowers to check if your heart shape will show. If so, cut it back a tat).
If you are a hotgun-kinda craft person, just use that glue-gun to tack on the flowers, one by one…
If you are a seamstress, stitch through each double-folded flower and string the flowers together. You could loop your thread through and around your cardboard base.
Stand back from time to time and stay true to any kind of technique you’re using: if you are random, stay random. If you line them us like so, keep doing that, till you complete the whole circle.
Depending on the extend of overlap you’re after, you’ll need about 60 or so circles, and you can always make some more later if you are short a few near the end.
This is a very forgiving craft, where the details do not really show. It’s fast and easy, and looks great, doesn’t it???
Other Wreaths
How to Make a Paper Wreath
Winter Wreaths
Easy Indoor Wreath from Recycled Postcards or Hearts Playing Cards
Other Valentine Day Crafts for Kids
Decorated Wooden Heart Frame
Tiny Paper ‘I Love You’ Garland (or use other famous love quote)
3 Valentine Cards: Easy, Intermediate & Advanced
Handmade Valentine Cards Ideas
and for moms running out of time, I’ve added:
Free Downloadable Valentine Cards for Kids
Other Valentines Day Crafts
Love Book – Free Modern Scrapbooking Template
Valentines Day Crafts: Candy Boxes (video tutorial)
Handmade Scrapbooking Valentine Card – Envelop – Absolutely gorgeous! (see picture)
Painting Real Heart Art For Valentines Day (originals now all sold, but hopefully still inspirational)
Digital Valentine Craft
Free Font for Valentine Greeting Cards
Valentine’s Day Backgrounds — makes great wrapping paper too
Easy to Make Valentine’s Card – Photoshop Tutorial
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