Here's a fun, quick and easy Valentine project you can make on your own or with the kids.
Just take a piece of crepe paper, roll it around a dowel rod on one side and then on the other side do the same, making sure your rolled paper rods come together in the center.
Stand the rods up and from the bottom, start pushing down on the paper with your fingers, crushing it together until all of the paper is crushed .
Remove the sticks from the paper and you have what I would call crepe paper scrunchies!
Now ready to make whatever you want!!!
One cool thing about these scrunchies is that they can be expanded a bit - by pulling them out and or glued together to make them longer!
To make the heart, I glued the end together and pushed and glued the center down, forming a small heart.
Then, I rolled more crepe paper together in different colors . . .
crushed down together and . . .
glued one end together to make the scrunchie longer and then wrapped & glued them around the smaller hearts. . . .
forming an adorable larger heart!
Imagine making several of these to place around your home for Valentine's Day decorating, or use in gift giving on wrapped presents, or you can do as I did, and glue a scrunchie covered stick to the heart and place in a potted plant or flowers . . .
Either way, this scrunchie crepe paper Valentine heart is sure to be a hit!
Take a little time to
enjoy
and
Happy Crafting!
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Gail, love your crepe paper heart! Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteSo cute Gail!
ReplyDeleteI love this!! Very creative Gail!
ReplyDeleteThat turned out great Gail! I love the combination of colours.
ReplyDeleteMy dear Gail, this is amazing and so cute! How do you come up with these incredible ideas? Love it :) Hugs to you!
ReplyDeleteYou've just reminded me of crepe paper flowers we would make when I was a kid using the scrunching method. I love your heart!
ReplyDeleteHow cute and a great tutorial on how to make this. Thanks for sharing on the Spring Craft Blog Hop. Pinned and Tweeted.
ReplyDeleteOh this is too cute! so easy to scrunch the crepe paper and then you could do it in any color for an occassion but beautiful in pinks/red! So simple and yet unique :) Thanks for sharing with us!
ReplyDeleteGreat project! Love it! Thank you for for sharing tutorial!
ReplyDeleteHave a fabulous week!
Hugs and love from Portugal,
Ana Love Craft
www.lovecraft2012.blogspot.com
cute layers!
ReplyDeleteOh that is just genius Gail!! I'm so intrigued by that scrunchie process! You come up with the best things and most of the time, I've never even heard of the techniques! You constantly inspire me my friend! (And you know I love plant jewelry or anything that dresses up a plant!)
ReplyDeleteSuch a great idea to make the scrunchies out of crepe paper! Your heart is adorable! Hmmm....thinking of other ways this unique craft technique could be used for other occasions too. Thanks for sharing this with us.
ReplyDeleteCrepe paper scrunchies look great as a heart. Also loved the wine cork wall hanging.
ReplyDeleteFun project for a great display for Valentine Days! Thanks for sharing this on Fabulous Friday, stop by this week for another party..
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