I am so so SO excited to be sharing the FIRST guest post on This Idyllic Life tonight!! Meet my friend, Taurie, and enjoy her DIY post for Valentine’s Day. š While you’re at it, make sure you make it a habit to check out her other adorable, light, and real musings at Eye Love You Blog. She also has one of the prettiest Instagram feeds EVER {@eyeloveyoublog}. I just love this girl. xoxo, SHANNA
Hi everyone!Ā Iām Taurie from Eye Love You Blog and Iām so excited to be guest blogging today!Ā With Valentineās Day coming up next month, I thought Iād pop in and share a super easy DIY craft to āfestifyā your home š
Check out these soft, whimsical watercolor heart garlands.Ā Itās okay.Ā Iām in love with them, too.
What youāll need:
- Regular old computer paper
- Watercolors
- A computer/printer
- Photo stickers/glue stick
- Bakerās twine
- Washi Tape or something to hang it when youāre done
I started by painting five sheets of computer paper with my new watercolors.Ā I used whatever colors I liked and mixed them together on the page in different strokes and patterns.Ā It really doesnāt matter how it looks when itās done, just as long as the colors are pretty⦠because weāre going to cut them up in a minute, anyway š
Then I opened a word document and inserted 12 clipart hearts onto a page so that it looked like this: (I just copied and pasted each heart to make sure they were all the exact same size)
I put my dried watercolor paintings into the printer with the backside up so that it would print on the back and not the front.
I cut each heart out and paired them with another heart that had a similar color scheme, so that when the heart flutters around on the garland, it looks related, but not identical on both sides.
To stick each pair of hearts together, I used photo stickers, like the kind you would use for scrapbooking.Ā I ran them down each heart in a Y-pattern so that both āwingsā of the heart would stick together and so that the bakerās twine would have something to keep it centered.
On each garland I had seven hearts, but that could vary depending on how long you want each one to be.Ā I hung them from the ceiling using my go-to dĆ©cor tool:Ā washi tape.Ā They really look so pretty hanging in my dining area⦠I might just have to find a permanent home for them after Valentineās Day is over š
Ahh thank you, Shanna! Writing this guest post was pretty exciting for me! š