When it comes to craft supplies I'm a hoarder. I can't bear to part with the smallest scraps of paper or a bit of ribbon that came with a gift or some old cardboard that could be used for some project or other. So in an attempt to destash I decided to make a heart wall hanging out of old cereal boxes that I've been putting aside for a while.
I made a large heart template on a piece of A5 card and then traced around that on the large panels of the cereal box. After cutting them out (4 of them) and punching holes so that the finished piece could be hung, I stuck the 4 hearts together to get a thick, chipboard type of effect. I also used the heart template to cut a heart from a piece of woodgrain effect paper. NOTE - I suggest placing the heart stack underneath something heavy to prevent it from warping as the glue dries.
I cut the flowers with my ScanNCut using a pattern that I designed myself and coloured them using Spectrum Noir alcohol markers, before layering them together. The leaves came from another die set. I also used some Katy Sue Flower Soft for the flower centres.
I gave the padlock die cut the same treatment as the hanging heart in that I layered up several die cuts - 5 from plain white card and one from gold mirror card - to get some dimension. I then went over the front and sides with copper gilding wax to take away the white edges.
The lettering was die cut using Sizzix Brush Alphabet dies and then I added a few freehand hearts to finish it all off. I decided to go with French as it was a present for my (French) friend's mother. To finish it off I used some thick string, which gave it a bit of a rustic feel.
In case you're interested in any of the supplies that I used:
- Sizzix Brush Alphabet dies: upper case / lower case
- Tattered Lace Lock & Key dies
- Layered Flower SVG file - download for free
- Wood background papers*
- Coloured wood grain digital papers*
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