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 Monday, January 23, 2012 « Freelance Friday: Crayon Organizer from ... | Main | Tuesday Tutorial: Cereal Box Valentine H... »
Monday Funday: Hearts a' Flutter Bugs
By: Candie Cooper (See more projects from Candie on her blog, Candie Cooper's Journal)What do you get when you put two hearts together? Wings!
And love, of course which is what these little Hearts a' Flutter
Bugs are all about!
Here are the basic supplies, but you'll also need some
Mod Podge, paint brushes, buttons, sticky dot magnets, pink paint and thick
glue.
Paint each heart silver and then decorate in a variety
of ways. One way is by sponge painting as seen here. I'm using
the Martha Stewart sea sponges with Metallic Pink Folk Art paint. This
is one of my favorite ways to add surface decoration because it's so easy!
These craft sticks came decorated like this, but you could
always cover plain ones with scrapbook paper. I'm using love themed
K and Co. die cut strips to jazz em' up even more. Look for them
in the scrapbook section of the craft store and use Mod Podge to adhere
them to the stick.
Another way to decorate the wings is with Hologram Extreme
glitter. Oh yeah!
Or with the Martha Stewart pink glitter paint that I used
in last weeks, "Sweet Heart Art" post. I put it around
the edge and a little in the middle. Glue the heart wings to the
upper half of the craft stick followed by two magnet dots.
Fold a pipe cleaner in half and twirl the ends to create
antennae. Use thick or cool temp hot glue to attach to the back of
the head. See the picture above where I added mini pom-poms and big
sequins to the end of the antennae for more pep.
You can also add a few buttons on the wings. These
bugs are easy going and perfectly ok being decorated with the extra craft
supplies you have laying around. Glue two wiggle eyes and suddenly
your Flutter Bug is alive and ready to fly, spreading love to all!
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