3D Heart Art!

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Hi! I hope everyone had a fun weekend, we kept busy even though it was cold and snowy for part of the  time, which equaled drinking lots of hot chocolate! I feel like this month has flown by is thanksgiving really next week?! I’m not ready!!

So I’ve been wanting to do this project for awhile because I absolutely love 3D art! So I was so excited to start and actually finish this project in one day!!  

So here is my version of 3D heat art!

Supplies You Will Need

Frames - I just bought mine from the dollar store

Fabric - I used 8 different colors of fabric, but you could do this with just  4 colors or even 1 depending on how many you want to make.

Glue any kind OR you can use modge podge

Hot glue gun

Scissors

Sewing machine

Flat push pins(optional if your frame already has a way to be hanged)

Paper

I bought these frames earlier this summer and spray painted them white.

Pick out 8 different fabrics or you can just do 4 if you want the hearts to be just one color.

Next cut out 3 hearts  one big, one medium size and one small

Next  I cut out a big square and a small square to fit the big and small hearts on  out of my main fabric (the polka dot) I did this for each color

Then I cut one medium square out of each of my solid colors using the medium heart shape I cut earlier

Then go ahead using your glue (or modge podge) paint the right side of all your fabric squares.

Let it dry, it may start to curl so I just put them between some books

I also cut out a piece of cardboard to fit on the back of the frame as the background  and then I hot glued fabric to it – it’s ok if the back isn’t pretty nobody’s going to see it!

Then place the cardboard on the back of the frame.

I also had some flat push pins and glued one on the back of each frame as well because there wasn’t anything to hang it with.  (but this is optional if your frame has something to hang it on the wall)

Once the fabric was dry I cut out my large and small hearts on the polka dot fabric and then my medium hearts on the solid fabric

Go ahead and fold all you hearts in half and then place the  medium heart on top of the large heart matching up the perforated lines SEW straight down that line.

then place your smallest heart on top lining up the middle lines.I then repeated this for the other colored hearts.

Then go ahead and turn your heart over using your hot glue gun glue just down the middle and then place onto the middle of your frame.

And then i just repeated the sewing and gluing for the other 3

Blank Wall

Pretty Wall!

I love how they turned out, the hearts are just popping out of the frame! 

Tell Me About Yourself Award!

Its been a cold weekend…we got a few inchecs of snow and little miss hailey loved it! She even helped daddy shovel the walk!

I received the “Tell me About Youself” award from Mikki at Moms Best Nest Its sure has been fun to receive  awards and pass them on! If you haven’t checked out  moms best nest. Be sure you do she has some really great posts! I especially loved her tutorial for a schoolwork gallery definitely something I want to try! Thanks again Mikki for passing on this award to me!

Now the rules for this award are:

1.I must tell 7 things about myself

2. pass this on to 15 other bloggers

So here goes 7 things about me

1.      I love sewing cute girly things for my daughter

2.      I’m not a big fan of snow…especially when it sticks around for 7 months (I really miss my southern California winters)

3.      I have a big phobia of spiders –which unfortunately I think I’ve passed onto my daughter

4.      I love to play the piano and hope to teach my Hailey to play someday. 

5.      Driving on snow and ice is NOT my favorite thing to do in the winter.

6.      I Love breakfast food and could eat it every meal of the day

7.      I love to go running, even if I can’t run more than 2 miles at a time…it’s a work in progress ;)

Step 2

Here are the lucky 15 bloggers!

1.       http://amomjustwingingit.blogspot.com/

2.       http://lovelongtime.blogspot.com/

3.       http://www.lateyoungfamily.blogspot.com/

4.       http://balancingthedream.blogspot.com/

5.       http://www.thegrantlife.com/

6.       http://www.mommylivingthelifeofriley.com

7.       http://elizakprints.blogspot.com/

8.       http://thediaryofaworkingmother.blogspot.com/

9.       http://creativecarmelina.blogspot.com/

10.   http://chocolatecoveredbuttons.blogspot.com/

11.   http://greenchickadees.blogspot.com/

12.   http://www.sweetsewnstitches.com/

13.   http://pinkmamasplace.blogspot.com/

14.   http://notesfromthenelsens.blogspot.com/

15.   http://justmethroughwords.blogspot.com/

Have a great rest of your weekend....what's left of it!

Best Play Dough Ever!

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We’ve had a shortage of play dough in our house lately-which Is a bad thing according to a 2 year old! It’s one of her favorite things to do….. and one thing I know is that I’m so  tired of buying play dough! So today when Hailey asked me for the hundredth time to play with play dough…and we had none…I thought now was the perfect time to make some! 

These instructions are for THE BEST play dough ever!! I love how smooth it feels and I don’t think I’ll ever buy play dough EVER again! It’s also really quick to make so I made a few different colors.

Here’s what you’ll need:

1 cup water

1 cup flour

1/4 cup salt

1 tbsp vegetable oil

2 tsp. cream of tarter

Food coloring (I usually put 4-6 drops depending how dark I wanted the color

Combine all the ingredients together in a  pot.

Turn the stove on to medium heat and continuously stir until everything sticks together into one ball

Then place onto wax paper or you can just use your counter top

Let it cool a couple minutes and then knead it until smooth.

Then if you want more repeat…I ended up making 4 colors and then I got tired of making it. Another idea is you could put glitter in it to give it a little sparkle, if i had glitter at the time i would definitely have  done that!

Keep it in a sealed container (I just used sandwich Ziploc bags)  and if it becomes a little dry after time put it in a bowl and knead a little water into it.

Then let the kiddo or kiddos have fun!

So much fun!

 The cookie cutters were her favorite thing to use.

I eventually got out the 'rockin roll' aka the rolling pin for her to use as well and she loved that!

Have fun making play dough for your kids!