Tutorial: Hearts Display with April at Gingerbread.

August 9, 2012 By 1 Comment

Although we have four monthly contributors here at The Southern Institute, I wanted to make sure that there was a place here for more of you to share the space. Once or twice a month, I will continue to invite guests to share their inspirational projects. Today, April is with us and I can’t wait to let her have the “floor”. Take it away, April!

Hello, my name is April and I share my projects over at Gingerbread. I’m a wife, mother and general DIY kinda girl. I am constantly drinking coffee, looking fs and a new project I can start. My motto is “make crazy messes and have big adventures”,  and that pretty much sums up my blog! Today I’m sharing a crafty project that involves my collection of heart shaped rocks. I LOVE hearts. I can remember doodling them in school when I was bored. I could cover an entire page with hearts! Now that I’m a mom I tell my two boys to always be on the lookout for heart shape rocks whenever we are outside. I have a small collection that I thought was going to waste just sitting on my bedroom dresser, so I thought it would be a fun idea to showcase them on canvas so I could actually see and enjoy them.

You will need: >> Heart shaped rocks  (really you could use any rock collection that holds special memories for YOU) >> Various colors of paint >> Hot glue gun >> Plain white canvas (I used a 5×7) >> Paint brush

First I painted both sides of rocks with two coats of paint. Then I hot glued my rocks to my canvas. I used a big dollop of hot glue and pressed from both sides of the canvas until the glue is dry. Some of my rocks were larger than others and I wanted to make sure they didn’t fall off. Haha.

I hope you will come over and say hi! I have a link party called Sweet Saturday for all of your crafty goodness, recipes and DIY projects! Thank you Jenny for letting me come say “hi”, I hope you have a great weekend!

april xoxo

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Jenny is a wife and mother first and foremost. You can find her here at The Southern Institute, as the founder and owner of the blog, as well as at unboundbirth.com. She enjoys blogging and sewing, cooking for her three picky eaters, and playing tennis with her husband, Tom.

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  1. kellie says:
    August 14, 2012 at 7:59 AM

    this is awesome!!! the heart shaped rocks are too fun and i love the color combination you chose. we love that song here at our house. we change the last line to ‘you have been my sunshine today’. my son has a rock collection, i bet he would love doing something like this with his favorite ones.

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