Participants of this fundraiser were asked to create a ‘heart’ project, created by and/or with children, to be included in a heart project e-book and physical book which will be for sale (beginning Feb. 1st). All proceeds from the sale of the e-book and physical book are to be donated to the AHA.
With All Our Hearts
(Artwork by Kaden and Logan, age 6 years old)
For our heart project, the boys and I wanted to create a fun and unique piece of artwork that celebrated love, since February is the month of love.
This heart artwork would look beautiful hung in a young girl’s room, or it would make a wonderful gift to give to grandparents from their grandchildren.
Here’s how we made our project!!
Supplies Used:
White 12 x 12 Frame or Shadow Box
4 sheets of coordinating 12 x 12 scrapbook paper (I used sheets from DCWV Stack #7)
Fiskars Large Heart Squeeze Punch
Fiskars Paper Trimmer
Tombow Permanent Adhesive Tape
Instructions:
First, you will need to decide how you want to layer your paper. The background paper will not be punched at all, the first layer (my white paper) will need to be punched and cut in a grid fashion since you will be using the punch negatives (my measurements were 1 1/2″ tall by 2″ wide to fit my Fiskars punch), and the top two layers (the hearts stacked on each other) can just be punched without needing to save the punch negatives.
Grab your children and get ready to punch!
Using a pencil, I drew a light grid on our white paper to outline where we would be cutting out our rectangles (the negative punch area). We cut the rectangles along the grid lines using our paper trimmer before punching the hearts for this layer.
Next, the boys punched hearts in the center of all the white rectangles. After the hearts were punched out of our first (white) layer, we adhered the punch negative rectangles to our background, evenly spaced in a grid-like fashion, using Tombow permanent adhesive tape.
(Note: You can save the white hearts that were punched for another craft, or you can discard them, we won’t be using them for this project.)
For the next two layers, I gave each boy one sheet of scrapbook paper and a heart punch, and I let them punch as many hearts as they wanted.
You won’t believe how much fun my two boys had punching hearts. Maybe it was the promise of them getting to keep and use the hearts from my white paper (remember, we only used the punch negative for that layer) to make their own artwork for their teachers, or maybe it was just quality time with mommy. Whatever it was, they had a blast!
After all the hearts were punched, we slightly creased each heart in the center to give them dimension and depth, then layered the hearts, one on top of the other while applying adhesive between each layer, in the negative spaces of the white paper.
We let the finished heart artwork dry for a few minutes, then framed it in our white 12 x 12 frame.
We hope you enjoyed this craft as much as we did!
About Stacy Molter
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