For Valentine’s Day we made a plethora of puffy hearts as our Valentine craft. These sweet heart ornaments would make a lovely Valentine for teachers, friends, or relatives… or hang a bunch together as an adorable, colorful, wall hanging.
This Valentine Heart Ornament post was originally published on Feb 11, 2014 @ 08:24. It is fun valentine craft to make with kids. I still have my rainbow heart ornament wall hanging on my dining room wall.
Puffy Heart, Valentine Craft Materials:
- Muslin Fabric
- Washable Fabric Pen
- Fiber Fill
- 6 Stranded Embroidery Floss
- Needle and pins
- Water color or acrylic paints
- Heart Pattern (draw and cut out a heart to use as a pattern)
- Pinking Shear
To start your Puffy Heart Ornament Valentine craft, trace a heart pattern onto a sheet of muslin. Cut two pieces of muslin (one with the heart pattern and one plan) into a square leaving at least an inch around the pattern. Line up the two pieces and pin together.
Using all 6 strands of embroidery floss, use a running stitch to outline the valentine heart and sew the pieces together. You can hide the knot between the two pieces of fabric.
Leave about an inch wide opening to stuff the heart.
Loosely, stuff the valentine heart ornament with fiber fill and then finish sewing the heart closed. Hide your knot between the layers.
Once your heart ornament sewing is complete, used watered down acrylic paints or water color paints to paint your heart. You can paint your heart solid or mix colors together. Painting some areas lighter and others darker, creates a lovely molted effect. Each Valentine heart ornament can be completely unique.
Feel free to use more than one color or paint patterns. Be sure to paint at least a 1/2 inch beyond your sewing stitch.
Hang your Valentine craft ornaments to dry.
Once your Valentine craft puffy heart ornaments are dry, use pinking shears to cut out around the edge of the heart, approximately 1/4 inch away from your seam.
Use the 6 stranded embroidery floss to create a hanging loop for your Valentine heart ornaments. Thread the floss onto the needle folded in half, doubling it to 12 strands. Pull through, slide the needle off, and slip the ends through the loop. Tie off the ends of the string and trim. If you want to make a wall hanging your loops should be slightly longer than the height of your hearts from bottom point to center dip.
You now have a lovely Valentine heart ornament.
They can be hung separately, given away as Valentines, or you can link them together to create a rainbow heart wall hanging. To link them, slip the purple heart loop over the blue heart loop and let it drop down. Now slip the blue loop over the teal loop, and so on.
Hang your Valentine craft heart ornaments by the top loop.
If you would like, you can use printed fabrics instead of painting plain muslin to make your Valentine heart ornaments.
Photos- MB 2-10-14