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Kids Craft – Cardboard Art Hearts

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List of Supplies:
  1. Cardboard – leftover
  2. Scissors
  3. Poster colors and paint brush
  4. Glitter
  5. Confetti
  6. Craft glue
  7. Paper puncher
  8. Leftover yarns
Instruction:
Step (1)
Cut a heart shape from a leftover cardboard piece. Simply draw a heart using a pencil and cut along the traced lines.
 
 
Step (2)
Place the heart cardboard on a piece of paper to protect your craft space from paint and other supplies you’ll be using to this protect. Paint the heart randomly using any colors you want. Allow the paint to dry once it is done.
 
 
Step (3)
Use a paper puncher to punch a hole at the bottom end of the heart pattern.
 
 
Step (4)
Take leftover yarn strands and wrap them around 2 or 3 fingers. Wrap the strands until they end, add more strands if you want a thick tassel.
 
 
Step (5)
Take out the wrapped yarn strands from your fingers carefully and tie them with another piece of yarn at any one end. Use scissors to cut the other end of the wrapped yarn strands to create the tassel.
 
 
Step (6)
Attach the tassel with the cardboard heart using a small piece of yarn strand through the hole punched at the bottom end of the heart.
 
 
Step (7)
Apply glitter on the cardboard heart. Create any kind of pattern you want, get creative!
 
 
Step (8)
If you want to decorate the heart more, you can add confetti to it.
 
 
Step (9)
Nice you are done decorating the heart, allow the glue, paint or glitter to dry entirely.
 

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As the year comes to a close, you might be thinking about things you want to do, or do differently, in your life in the next year, and your crafting life should definitely be part of whatever resolutions or goals you set.

I feel like one of the most common goals for crafters of all varieties, not just cross stitchers, is to be more organized. Earlier this year I shared a post about organizing cross stitch supplies, and in the vault you’ll find ideas for storing embroidery floss in particular, as well as this post about how one cross stitcher uses a Caboodles box to keep her projects contained.

You might also want to finish projects that you’ve started but abandoned in the past, or to let go of some things that you know you’ll never finish (if you need help decluttering your craft supplies, I’ve got an ebook to help!).

Making more time for your crafts is another good goal, and may be especially important if you’re trying to avoid the news or social media. Start small, with scheduling in an extra 10 or 15 minutes a day, or declare that after supper is craft time, or whatever you need to do to hold that time for yourself. Doing something like a 100 day project is an easy way to commit to working on a craft regularly.

Another resolution you might consider is learning new skills or trying more difficult projects. I’m guilty of staying in the beginner zone when it comes to cross stitch for a really long time, but writing about it here has inspired me to try bigger, more colorful and more difficult projects, which is the challenging kind of fun. If there’s a project you’ve always wanted to do but were afraid to try, make this coming year the time you do it.

And if you are still learning the basics of cross stitch, check out my learn to cross stitch guide over at Our Daily Craft.

Do you have a cross stitch related resolution or something you want to learn this year? I’d love to hear about it!