Showcase your Creativity by making this step by step Paper Heart Showpiece at home, using just a metal wire, cardboard, paper and few more basic supplies! It’s an ideal gift for your partner!
Required material
- Paper
- scissor
- Pen
- Cardboard
- Glue
- Fluorescent Paper
- Brush
- Thread
- Beads
- Metal wire
- Lid container
Method
1. Mark heart on the paper
Fold a paper in half and start making half the heart on one side of the paper.
2. Cut heart mark using scissor
Use a scissor to cut the heart out, you made in the previous step.
3. Make two heart mark on cardboard
Use the previous step’s heart as a stencil and replicate 2 hearts on a cardboard piece.
4. Cut both heart mark
Now, cut out the cardboard hearts.
5. Glue the Sides
Glue the sides of the cardboard hearts and paste them together.
6. Marking
Draw the hearts on a fluorescent paper, preferably red in color.
7. Cut Fluorescent Paper
Cut the fluorescent heart using scissors.
8. Paste both Sides
Paste the fluorescent hearts on the cardboard hearts.
9. Covering Edge
Cover the edge of the heart using strips of white sheet. Repeat doing the same step with 3-4 strips.
10. Paint White Color on the Edge
Paint the edge of the heart with white paint.
11. Thread in the bead
Insert a bead to one end of the thread at tie knot so that the bead doesn’t roll down.
12. Paste bead on the Heart
Use an adhesive to attach the bead to the heart as it is done in the picture above.
13. Give shape to the metal wire
Take a metal wire and bend it, so that it forms a circular shape.
14. Cut extra wire
Cut the extra wire using a sharp tool so that the wire takes the shape of a somewhat waning crescent moon.
15. Paste bead on the top
Once you are done with shaping the wire, paste one bead each on the ends of the wire.
16. Stand the wire
Use a strong adhesive to glue the bottom of the wire to the lid of any container.
17. Paint on the wire
Start painting your wire with the color of the bead you have chosen!
18. Knot heart shape on the wire
The last step is to knot the heart shape to the metal wire.
19. Ready
Voila! Your handmade metal heart showpiece is all set to flaunt your creativity!