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XOXO Lipstick Wall Art

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Hey ladies! Did you just finish doing your wall with something like this peel and stick wallpaper and want to add a little more to it? Add some colorful wall art to your bedroom or beauty studio using an unconventional writing tool: lipstick! This simple DIY is bold – and can show off your favorite lipstick colors. Check out one of our fun, beautiful DIYs for Valentine’s Day: XOXO Lipstick wall art. For some, it might be more straightforward to know the difference between acrylic and canvas prints so you can buy the print you’d like so you can get that Lipstick wall art look but anyway back to making some ourselves!

Supplies:

  • (1) 11 x 14 White picture frame
  • 11×14 White poster board
  • Gold, metallic, acrylic paint
  • Paintbrush
  • Lipsticks (your choice of color)

Step 1:

This is optional, but if you want to add some color to the matte board inside the frame, paint it. Here, I’ve chosen a gold, metallic paint from FolkArt. For a seamless look, paint each side with vertical strokes, so that the brush pattern on the matte board is consistent. Paint a couple of coats to ensure all of the white board is covered. Set it aside to dry. It should dry pretty quickly – this one dried in about 10 minutes.

Step 2:

While the matte board is drying, very lightly with a pencil, draw the XO pattern. You’re only using this as a guide, so want to draw lightly – just enough to get an idea of where the letters will be. If the strokes are too thick, it will show through the lipstick.

Step 3:

Grab two of your boldest, baddest lipstick colors. Lightly trace the lines you have made with the pencil, creating the XO pattern. Press down lightly, so that it does not break (you still want to use it afterwards)!

Step 4:

The lipstick does not need to dry, but you do want to make sure there aren’t any areas that are too thick because it may transfer on to the glass front of the frame. I found that standing the frame up on a table and taping the image to the matte board that way, rather than laying it face down, helped keep it from transferring onto the glass. Add the cardboard back to the frame and you’re ready to hang it!

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Hang this wall art in your room, to compliment any colorful pictures or 5 piece wall art examples you already have; or brighten up a bookshelf with this vibrant art. It’s a simple DIY that is girly, sweet, and also, makes a wonderful gift idea! We can’t wait to see you try it!

Do you like making your own artwork? Why not invest in an artwork scanner so that you can make digital copies of your masterpieces. Go to hereon.biz for a useful guide that can help you to find an artwork scanner of your own.

XOXO Lipstick Wall Art was last modified: April 5th, 2017 by SparkandChemistry
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Floral Garland Card Holder (with ProFlowers)

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In continuing with our Valentine’s Day post, I had a last-minute idea to create a simple, floral garland to hang on the wall, on which I would attach any cards I receive. This is another fairly easy DIY that you can do with a dozen or two roses and any other greenery you have on hand. Wedding season is almost upon us, and this wall hanger display could be a great addition to any wedding decor. Flowers are an important part of weddings, from the groom’s white rose ribbon boutonniere to the bride’s wrist corsage, so we thought this floral garland would be perfectly appropriate for the wedding season. You could also create this after a wedding or formal event with the flowers from your event; that way you could hold on to them just a little bit longer! We were ecstatic to receive these beautiful roses from ProFlowers, which worked extremely well for this project.

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To achieve this “viney” look, you’ll need: a 3′ wooden dowel (about 5/8″) thick. Depending on how many flowers you attach, this could get heavy and you may need a dowel that’s a little bit thicker to hold them. You’ll also need roses or flowers of your choice, floral wire, fishing line or clear filament for hanging cards, and command strips to hang it all on the wall.

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Using the wooden dowel as an anchor, attach the green stems and leaves with the floral wire. Overlap the stems for a fuller effect, making sure to cover the wire and dowel.

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Cut the stems of the roses pretty short for easier attachment- again with floral wire. Place them strategically throughout the garland, making sure to fill in any gaps or holes where one would see the dowel.

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Hang Command Strips to attach the garland to the wall.

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Cut about 24″ of clear filament, join the two ends with a double knot. Don’t worry too much if it coils around itself- the weight of the cards should stretch it out. You can cut it at multiple lengths to add some variation. Loop the string around the garland, place the cards in the string and let it hang.

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The string is so clear against my gray walls- it appears as if the cards are floating.
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Pretty simple, right? Add as many Valentine’s Day, wedding, birthday cards, etc. as you want. Also from ProFlowers, I had some left over tulips and rose petals, so I decided to create an ice bowl that would be great to hold a wine bottle or another beverage for tonight’s Valentin’s Day dinner. I essentially submerged tulips and rose petals in water between two buckets and let it freeze overnight.

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For this project, you’ll need a large bucket and a smaller one. They were both plastic- picked up from my local dollar store. Because plastic is a malleable, I found it easier to remove the ice from a plastic bucket as opposed to a metal one (similar to way a plastic ice cube tray works). The smaller bucket sits in the larger bucket and the larger bucket fills with water. The smaller bucket will start to float as you fill up the larger one, so add a weighty object (something that’s okay to freeze) in the smaller one to hold it down. Begin to submerge any flowers or whatever fun objects you’d like to freeze in the water. Place the bucket in the freezer and let it all freeze overnight.

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The next day, let the bucket sit outside of the freezer for a bout 5 minutes before attempting to remove the ice bowl. It will melt a little bit, and the smaller bucket should slide out easily. If you aren’t serving your beverage immediately, put the bucket back in the freezer until time to serve. This ice bowl lasted about 30-45 minutes before the flowers started to poke out of the sides due to melting.

Make a Floral Garland Card Holder (with ProFlowers)

2/14/2015

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In continuing with our Valentine’s Day post, I had a last minute idea to create a simple, floral garland to hang on the wall, on which I would attach any cards I receive. This is another fairly easy DIY that you can do with a dozen or two roses and any other greenery you have on hand. Wedding season is almost upon us, and this wall hanger display could be a great addition to any wedding decor. It would look great next to some cute quotes on love. You could also create this after a wedding or formal event with the flowers from your event; that way you could hold on to them just a little bit longer! We were ecstatic to receive these beautiful roses from ProFlowers, which worked extremely well for this project.

Picture

To achieve this “viney” look, you’ll need: a 3′ wooden dowel (about 5/8″) thick. Depending on how many flowers you attach, this could get heavy and you may need a dowel that’s a little bit thicker to hold them. You’ll also need roses or flowers of your choice, floral wire, fishing line or clear filament for hanging cards, and command strips to hang it all on the wall.

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Using the wooden dowel as an anchor, attach the green stems and leaves with the floral wire. Similar to the floral garland centerpiece post, overlap the stems for a fuller effect, making sure to cover the wire and dowel.

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Cut the stems of the roses pretty short for easier attachment- again with floral wire. Place them strategically throughout the garland, making sure to fill in any gaps or holes where one would see the dowel.

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Hang Command Strips to attach the garland to the wall.

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Cut about 24″ of clear filament, join the two ends with a double knot. Don’t worry too much if it coils around itself- the weight of the cards should stretch it out. You can cut it at multiple lengths to add some variation. Loop the string around the garland, place the cards in the string and let it hang.

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The string is so clear against my gray walls- it appears as if the cards are floating.

Picture

Pretty simple, right? Add as many Valentine’s Day, wedding, birthday cards, etc. as you want. Also from ProFlowers, I had some left over tulips and rose petals, so I decided to create an ice bowl that would be great to hold a wine bottle or another beverage for tonight’s Valentin’s Day dinner. I essentially submerged tulips and rose petals in water between two buckets and let it freeze overnight.

Picture

For this project, you’ll need a large bucket and a smaller one. They were both plastic- picked up from my local dollar store. Because plastic is a malleable, I found it easier to remove the ice from a plastic bucket as opposed to a metal one (similar to way a plastic ice cube tray works). The smaller bucket sits in the larger bucket and the larger bucket fills with water. The smaller bucket will start to float as you fill up the larger one, so add a weighty object (something that’s okay to freeze) in the smaller one to hold it down. Begin to submerge any flowers or whatever fun objects you’d like to freeze in the water. Place the bucket in the freezer and let it all freeze overnight.

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The next day, let the bucket sit outside of the freezer for a bout 5 minutes before attempting to remove the ice bowl. It will melt a little bit, and the smaller bucket should slide out easily. If you aren’t serving your beverage immediately, put the bucket back in the freezer until time to serve. This ice bowl lasted about 30-45 minutes before the flowers started to poke out of the sides due to melting.

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I hope you enjoyed this post! I love working with flowers because there are so many different crafts and fun floral arrangements and displays that make a great addition to any party or event. Let us know what you think by adding a comment below!

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Floral Garland Card Holder (with ProFlowers) was last modified: April 5th, 2017 by SparkandChemistry
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Paper Heart Earrings

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For this DIY, you’ll need:

  • Red Cardstock
  • Fiskars Heart Paper Punch
  • Elmer’s Craft glue stick
  • Earring backs
  • Hot glue gun

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You can definitely do this craft while catching on the latest episode of your guilty pleasure TV show. Punch out at least 12 hearts for each earring using your Fiskars heart punch. Begin gluing your hearts together with your glue stick. You don’t need to use a lot of glue, just use enough to cover the whole heart. Once you’ve glued together two equal stacks of tiny hearts, use just a dab of hot glue on the flat part of your earring back. Quickly place the earring back on your heart stack, pressing very gently. If you press too hard, the glue will spill over and become sloppy. That’s it, you’re all done!

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This is a great DIY gift to hand out to your friends on Valentine’s Day. They’ll just love it!
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Upcycle Your Old Greeting Cards

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If you still have cards in storage from years ago, why not put them to use again? If you need a quick way to send out a message to your loved ones, instead of going out to buy a pack of new postcards, try to find some old greeting cards to reuse and send. You know here, we always find a way to reuse before tossing. If you don’t save your greeting cards, here’s a simple craft to get you to start. For this 5-minute DIY, you can use birthday cards, Christmas cards, or for this example we’ll be using Valentine’s Day cards. if you have a friends birthday coming up soon then it would be the perfect time to try out this awesome new technique. Although, if you are in need of more birthday card ideas then you could go to https://craftyclub.co/!
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First, gather your supplies. You will need:

  • A greeting card of your choice (the inner left page of the card should have no text on it)
  • Craft knife
  • Ruler
  • Pencil
  • Pen
  • Cutting mat/board
  • Stamp
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On your cutting board or mat, and with the ruler as your guide, cut down the middle of the card along the fold. You should now have two separate pieces. As you can see, the inner-left page of the card is blank. The blank side will be used for the postcard. The other side you can continue to save, or toss.

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Go ahead and create your lines for the postcard with a pencil. Turn the page horizontally and after measuring to find the center, draw a vertical line down the middle of the card. Draw four horizontal lines on the right side of the line you first drew, keeping everything centered. If you need to view a postcard before drawing, do so. Go back over these lines with a pen. I used a Sharpie fine point pen and it looked great.

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Now you’re ready to write your sentiments and you’re all done! You have an instant postcard you can tell the recipient that you created from another greeting card. This makes me want to send postcards to everybody, now! HAPPY DIY!

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