Valentine Love Birds Crafty Sisters

I don't know what it is about Love Birds~but I can't get enough of bird themed Valentines!
I knew this month I wanted to make something with birds and this weekend as
I was watching a show with a Valentines Day dance I was inspired what to do.
I've always disliked how this holiday seems to be only about 2 people in love....
My true life love story isn't just me and my hubby, it includes our little girl too!

So here's our family of little Love Birds~Love Is Tweet Bird Cage!

I first cut out my little shapes from 3/4" MDF.  That is my favorite wood to cut out of.
It's easy to cut, easy to paint, too dusty for my taste but it works great!

I predrilled my holes, sanded down my sides and then did a base coat of Americana Light Buttermilk paint.

Using a few scraps left over from previous projects I then covered my birds with cute papers.
Don't forget to add some eye balls!

Using thick fencing wire I then created my bird cage.  Each end is threaded through the base and curled over so it won't slip through.  You can find this wire in the fencing department at Home Depot for less than $5 and the roll will last you forever

Once all the wires were in place I took a shorter piece of wire and wrapped it through the top to create some stability.  With some of the excess wire I was able to thread on a little heart finial topper.

Just tie on some cute ribbons and print a cute little label off the computer, adorn it with some glitter and you are good to go!

So "Tweet!"

Hey there everyone!

It's Wendy here today to share my "lovely" addition to this month's theme...

I've been wanting a set of chunky little birdies for awhile and Krystal's theme was a perfect excuse to make some. These are my little "LOVE" birds.

As I said I wanted chunky so I used a pine 2 x 6 and my jigsaw to cut them out. The wings and feet are cut from 1/4 inch MDF.

Just a quick saw note...if you're cutting wood that thick the jigsaw is the way to go. It's SO much faster than a scroll saw and you won't go through 700 blades trying to cut out one little critter!

I painted the bodies but paper covered the beak, feet, and wings. I used my drill to make a small hole in the top of each one to add some feather hair and then drilled through the boy's beak so he could hold the flower for his lady friend.

To make the flower I rolled a small strip of felt into a rosette and then glued it onto a twisted piece of craft wire. I twisted the felt leaves into the stem and also added a small scalloped felt circle to the back of the rosette to cover the wire. Then just slipped it through the drilled out hole, adding a little bit of hot glue to keep it in place.

I cut the tree trunk from the 2 x 6 and the leaves from the 1/4 inch MDF.

I used the milter saw to cut a well into the center of the trunk for the leaves to sit in. One, so that it was balanced and two so that I can take it out and easily store it.

The trunk was painted the leaves took paper and mod podge.

Definitely a fun and not to hard project.

 Just what I was needing!

{I'm sharing the patterns for the birds and tree trunk on my blog if you'd like a few birdies of your own!}

It's good to be back and crafting with WYLTC again!

These ladies I get to craft with each month are pretty awesome and too, I can't wait to see what all of you are making for your February decor.

Thanks Krystal for a great theme and inspiration project! Until next time...

Happy Crafting.



Valentines Crafty Sister Style

Hi it's Nicole & Candace from Crafty Sisters

showing our take on Krystal's hanging Valentine!

This year we have really liked the soft subdued natural tones

for Valentines day so we were excited to

implement them into a Hanging Heart door hanger.

Santa brought me a Sawzall for Christmas

and we eagerly put it to use cutting down some branches from my yard.

You guys know us and how giddy we get for any excuse

to use power tools!

We cut down a branch that was approximately 6 feet long

and about 2 inches at the thickest diameter.

You can use rose snippers or a chop saw to cut the branch into 1/2" pieces.

We recommend using a saw if one is available

or your going to have a tired and sore hand....

Next we cut out a chunky heart from a 1"x12" pine board

with a jigsaw and sanded it smooth.

Using wood glue we then adhered all the little branch pieces.

Since our branch was fresh it took a while for it to dry.

What was cool was that as it dried the little branch pieces cracked.

It was completely unintentional but we loved the effect!

To paint it we made a cream "white wash" that

we literally poured over the top and let drip off in the sink.

It would take way to long to get into all those nooks and crannies

if you did it by brush alone.

After it dried over night we lined the edge with a strip of cream burlap

that we just glue gunned on and also created a bow tied with twine for it to hang from.

Pretty simple and fun to make!

You could really do a wash of any color over this and it would be great!

Thanks for the great inspiration Krystal!

We can't wait to see what the rest of you gals do!

{Love} Heart

Hello everyone!  Krystal from Sassy Sanctuary here.  It's my favorite time of the month again!  Wood You Like to Craft time!!!!  Since we are in February I naturally wanted to make a project for the big "LOVE" day and I needed something for my front door.  So this is what I came up with.

I never know what to call these kind of things..... I guess its a wreath but not really.  The official title could be a wooden-heart-mobile-door-hanging-thingy.  :)

Whatever you want to call it, it was super fun to make!

All I did was get some plywood and cut out the heart shape with my jig saw.  From there you can decorate it however you want!

I covered the center heart in a piece of scrapbook paper.  Distressed the heck out of it and then hot glued on the little wooden letters.  I got them at Hobby Lobby.

The outer heart I just painted by hand in stripes using colors from my paper design.

As you can see the stripes are far from perfect.  I knew perfect wasn't going to happen so I varied the width and style of each strip so the imperfections would look on purpose.  And I distressed the heck out the that too!

It still needed a little something at this point so I made some felt flowers and put an arrow through the whole thing.

The arrow was a last minute add on.  I ended up just using a couple of skewer, like the ones for kabobs, that I had in my kitchen stash.  Its just hot glued to the back of the heart and then further secured with some felt hot-glued over the top.  The arrow tip and bottom are also just hot-glued on pieces of felt.

It was really a simple thing but I think the arrow made a big difference with the cuteness factor!

Oh, and I almost forgot to mention that the two hearts are simply attached to each other by a peice of ribbon stapled to the back.  I also made a little loop at the top to hang the whole thing from.  You need that! :)

So that's it!  My Valentine's wood project.  And it does look pretty dang cute hanging on my front door.  Love it!

I can't wait to see what the rest of the WYLTC ladies come up with!

And in case you haven't figured it out yet, our theme this month is "LOVE" and we can't wait to see all the cute, wooden, Valentine's Day projects out there.  The link party will start on Friday so be sure to come back and link up!

Thanks for reading!