Heart Door Decoration

My front door is decorated yet again with a foam board and streamer design. Since Valentine's Day is coming up, I made a red heart.

 The decorations are so easy to make and they take no time at all. This time I just cut out a heart on a piece of foam board I had left over. The heart is about 14 inches wide by 9 inches high. I could have made a much bigger one, but was toying the with idea of making it on "O" in the word "LOVE." Maybe next year.


Instead of creating a ruffled look, I simply folded the streamer to make pleats. I wanted the maintain the clean, straight line of the edge. I could have drawn lines on the heart to make sure everything was perfectly lined up, but I wanted to finish quickly. I hate having my hot glue gun plugged in with my 2 year old wanting to get in the way.

I just drew the heart on the foam board and cut it out with an exacto.

This is what the edge looks like once cut.

The point of the heart has a piece of streamer covering it that is not pleated. The same is true for the "bumps" on the heart. I glued these pieces first. Then I simply pleated the streamer, ran a line of hot glue and put it down. I wrapped the edges around and glued them down. For the "v" in the top, I glued down a strip then cut a slit to the "v." I just put a tiny dot of glue there and pushed the streamer down.

Started adding streamer at the bottom.

As simple as folding over and gluing.

A few streamers glued down.

All done.

Keep an eye out for the four leaf clover for March.



Am I the only person who liked to decorate their door every month? I don't like those over-the-top, the whole front stoop is decorated thing. I just like a little something to make me smile when I come in my door.

(update 2/19/2014) Thanks to the moisture today, my heart has become ruffled.

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Door Decor over Christmas

After making the number two for the door when it was our son's party, I knew I wanted to do something more. I had some left over green streamer and the Christmas tree idea came to me.

Cutting the tree out of the foam board was really easy. I just used a ruler and a box cutter. (I put a piece of scrap cardboard under the foam board so that I didn't damage our wood floor.) I painted the "trunk" brown with some acrylic paint I had. I then attached the streamer with hot glue a little at a time. I used a low temp glue gun so that I could ruffle the streamer while the glue was hot. Starting at the bottom, just glue, ruffle, glue, ruffle and when you get to the end of the row you cut the streamer and move up. I glued the streamer to the back so that the side of the tree was covered. I attached the tree to my door with a command strip. (I only used one since the finished piece is really light.)

The silver star is from the dollar store and taped above the tree to the door.

The door decoration is super easy to do. We decorated it with some sequins, butterflies and cupcakes. I let the kids use my butterfly and cupcake punches on some glitter foam we picked up at the dollar store. I am sure you could just as easily add small tree ornaments.

 

  I am picturing a glitter or sequin heart for Valentines day. I will be sure to post a picture if I do.

Thanks for stopping by,

Yadi

Door Decoration

For my son's birthday, I made a number 2 to go on the door.

Our local Dollar Tree has some foam board. Part of the party decor was a tree that would go across the room. (We have a beam that divides our rooms.) I painted the foam board with brown acrylic paint. To vary the color, I watered down the paint. Once the paint dried the paper began to peel. So I did what any person would do, I peeled off the paper and used it to decorate the beam. I was left with the foam part of the boards. This "left over" board is what I used to make the number for the door.

I free handed the number and then used an exacto knife to cut it out. It did not matter that I had multiple pencil marks since the whole thing would be covered by streamer.

I used my hot glue gun (low temp) to attach the streamer to the number. The reason for the low temp is that I scrunched the streamer to make it ruffle. While the glue is hot, I pushed it together with my finger. High temp would be too hot and maybe even melt the foam.

I started at the bottom. The first piece of streamer I just glued down. I made sure to wrap it around to the back to cover the foam. I then began to ruffle it. All the pieces wrap around to the back. I also found it easier to just pull it off the streamer roll and cut once I was done making the ruffle.

For the very top, I just glued down a piece of streamer and wrapped it around to the back. To hang it on the door, I used a Command Strip. The number is really light.

While I was doing the number, I got an idea about decorating for Christmas. I made a Christmas tree for my door!!! I used the same technique. I see more door decorations made this way in my future!

How about:
a red heart
a four leaf clover
an Easter egg
red, white, and blue star
a pumpkin or bat

Of course, I have two other kids with birthdays. I am thinking of either their birthday number or their initial.

I will post pictures of my Christmas tree when it is done.

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