Ladies Night Out with Arts in Bartlett

Crayon Stash

Heart Charms

On January 21st, I lead a Make-it, Take-it project at the Arts in Bartlett’s Ladies Night Out event.

I decided to do a little Valentine’s Day Charm project that visitors could take home and hang in their windows or tie to a package for that someone special. I was inspired by a project I saw about 10 years ago in a Family Fun magazine and my Cricut machine.

Heart charms on adhesive back card stock.

Using my Doodlecharms Cartridge and some adhesive backed card stock I found at the craft store, I cut out the heart charms shapes in both forward and flipped image positions as it is an asymmetric design. It was fun choosing the colors to work with. I was able to get 2 sets from each sheet of card stock.

On a sheet of waxed paper you shave tiny pieces of crayon using a paring knife to get about this amount of coverage. 2 – 3 colors is enough or you might end up with a muddy mix. Fold over the waxed paper onto the shavings, sandwich it between 2 pieces of parchment paper and heat with a warm iron. Just touch the iron to the paper lightly. If you want swirled patterns, gently move the iron around a bit.

crayon shavings

Heat with an iron

melted shavings

Here are some samples of color mixes I came up with.

Get creative with your colors!

Next I used a cookie cutter that just happened to be the correct size and traced around it. Cutting it out with a 1/4″ selvage allowed it to fit inside the charm cutout perfectly.

cookie cutter template

I then sandwiched the waxed paper between the 2 pieces of the charm card stock, lining them up to match the cutout insert and the outside edges.

A piece of pretty ribbon was added for a hanger.

This could be a great children’s project with proper supervision. I did a similar project with my own kids when they were young.

Pretty charms ready to give.

AiB member with Cecilia Green, Director of the Arts Center

Kathryn Benton of Color My World

Here are some of our visitors that night and their creations. Aren’t they beautiful?

Lovely!

Wonderful!

I hope these charms bring great big smiles to the receivers just like they did to these creative ladies here.

Hope you enjoyed today’s post!