Friday, February 12, 2010

Valentine's craftiness

A few more peeks at my Valentine decor. Here's my muffin tin table, dressed for the holiday. I'm really tickled with how it turned out for Valentine's so I'm going to leave it this way for a while.
I'm a big sucker for tissue honeycomb decorations, so when I saw these at Michael's I knew I could do something fun:
The package included three honeycomb medallions and a plethora of glittery white hearts, which I gave to Maren.
For the centers I created pleated pinwheels from old dictionary pages and topped them with 4" doilies and glass-glittered hearts cut from vintage bingo cards. In the center of each heart is a K & Co scrapbook embellishment from a few years ago. Then I hot-glued the pinwheel to the center of each medallion.
I bought a package of cut dowels at Michael's as well and hot-glued one to the bottom of each pinwheel.
They're stuck into a piece of floral foam in a vase that held flowers from The Mister a few years ago. They were easy, inexpensive and fun to make!

Speaking of lollies, there's a great video tutorial over here at House of 3. Rhonna's lollies are made using paper rather than tissue honeycomb and there are some good techniques for making the pleated pinwheels that were new to me.

I'm still doing Valentine crafting--a little late to the game, I know. In process is this coffee filter ruffled heart 'wreath', also from House of 3. I've also started a project involving vintage prize ribbons. My hot glue gun is calling me....

6 comments:

  1. Beautiful! Is Maren getting into crafty fun too?

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  2. Wow I LOVE that muffin tin table! How cute is that. and the lollys are adorable. Hope you have a Valentine's Day full of fun and love!
    luvs and glitter
    ~jen

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  3. Those are so cute!! I have really been in a crafting/decorating slump lately - maybe because of our impending move. Or maybe because I'm just lazy!

    Hope you have a great Valentine's Day!!

    Lori

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  4. super cute, makes me want to make a lolli!!

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  5. Ooh la la! Love your V-day decor! Lovely all around.

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