Valentine's Mantle

The 3d hearts are just 2 hearts with half of the top of one slit in the middle and half of the bottom of one slit in the middle. I slid them together and put a bead of hot glue on each side to hold it together.

The "Flowers" are various sizes of circles and flower cuts layered in different papers. Then I hot glued them to wilton cake dowel rods used for layering cakes.


These heart stands were made in DS but could easily be made gluing rectangles to the back of a heart. I welded a heart to a long rectangle in DS after making a copy of the altered heart I was using. I lined them up to fit as many on a page as I could. Then I cut the hearts out and the letters spelling out be mine. I wish I would have used all dark colored paper for the hearts so the letters would show up better. Then to assemble I glued the letters to hearts then hearts to the stand. I scored the stand at 4 inches, 6.5 inches, and 9.5 inches. I folded up the triangle and glued the end piece of the stand back onto itself forming a triangle and stand.

Projects I NEED To Finish

The first is a blanket made from my husband's firefighter sweatshirts. It may look done, but I still need to finish the edges.(It was supposed to be for Christmas, maybe now it will be for his birthday.) The second is magnetic board I am going to put in the frames I also have some pegboard to paint and put in them too. The magnetic board needs about 2 more coats of magnetic paint and whatever color I choose. I thought if I posted them as need to finish it would push me to finish.