Upcycled Valentine Decor

It is 2021 and my mind has been in over drive with ideas for rekindling my desire to share creative ideas both new and repourposed or upcycled as some refer to it. With so many quarantined or limited to where they can get suppies and the benefits from keeping your mind active, being creative with resources you have at your disposal is a clever and cost effective solution. 

Ultimately my hope is to offer fun and unique creative ideas that will inspire others to see beauty, art or function in something they might not have before.

With Valentines Day around the corner and a pile of cardboard boxes from the Christmas I knew I could get busy making decorations and share a handy DIY as well.

Supplies you will need to make this Valentine decoration are:

Double wall cardboard (pizza, packing box)

Industrial scissors 

Pencil

Heart template

Optional:

Paint

Glitter

Twine

Trace your heart template onto the cardboard and taking your time, cut out the heart. Once you have as many as you want the next step is a bit tricky.

Carefully, as if peeling a sticker remove the paper on one side of the heart. You want to take it loose from the wavy middle section of the cardboard. 

Now paint, glue glitter, grunge or leave them plain. They are perfect as accent pieces, on a boarder, or add a twine hanger to adorn a tree.

I hope you will give this a try and find more creative ideas.

My ideas for sharing recycling tips and crafts

I have been creating and making crafts since early childhood. Now I use or include recycled items as a part of my decreasing ecological foot print. If you are not sure what that is about, check this site out http://www.footprintnetwork.org I recycle everything I can in the home to the point there is one trash bag to go to the dump and 4-6 for recycling. When the economy started feeling it's burden and finances used for my hobbies was cut I had to rethink ways to keep creating. I noticed several items that could be reused in my crafts or around the house. So the tabs on soda cans started to fill a jar along with bread tags, milk jug caps, frozen juice metal ends, and that was just the beginning. Now I also save my foam meat trays (after a good washing), clear packaging from products, the plastic rings under the lids of soda, water, and juice bottles. This list goes on but I think it would be easier to show you and share ideas on how to use recycled items for you to try.