I think gold may be my new favourite colour.
When I’m thinking up ideas or colour schemes they all seem to somehow include gold. I find myself buying clothing with gold accents, purchasing gold washi tapes,choosing colour palettes that incorporate gold well… This is a colour trend that I can get on board with! Hopefully my overuse won’t ruin the appeal, lol. Well anyway… you can see why I settled on Gold Heart Art for my daughter’s room.
So when I was thinking about artwork I wanted to add to my daughter’s room, gold was an obvious choice!
Materials:
Cricut Explore Air 2
Close to My Heart Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge
Close to My Heart Artbooking Cricut Cartridge (or any cartridge for a different font)
Cricut mat
White cardstock
Gold shimmer paper (recollections) or gold vinyl
Glue or double sided tape
Picture frame
Instructions:
To begin, I drew up a diagram just like the one below on my Cricut Explore Air 2. The only heart shape I could find that I liked, was one from the art philosophy cartridge that had a large circle around it, so I just cut the entire image, making sure the heart was as large as I wanted it (approx. 6″ wide). Then I added the handwritten “love” from my artbooking cartridge.Cut on the gold shimmer cardstock.
Once it was cut I had to carefully remove the inside “heart” pieces from the outline. The inside pieces will form your artwork. Here’s what you are left with when done…
The next step is to place and align your heart components on the white cardstock. This is the most time consuming part of the project. Make sure to be patient and measure accurately or it will show in the finished product!
Finally, you glue the pieces in place on the white cardstock, and place it in your frame.
I have some other projects that will join this artwork in Ellie’s “big girl room” one day. For the sake of pictures, I put it in the middle of her other nursery artwork to get a feel for what it would look like.
I LOVE the finished project. It was super quick to make, and I’m very happy with how it turned out :)
Hope you like it!
Since this post was written, this Heart Art was transformed into my daughter’s New Big Girl Bedroom :)
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This is such a great project, and I love the photo of the wall with all of the art. It’s beautiful. Thanks for joining Take Heart Ideas challenge. Faith
Thank you Faith! I’m glad you like it! It’s the start of our second gallery wall for Ellie :)
I don’t have the cricut, but I do love this project! So beautifull!
Thank you! Any other cutting machine would do just as well :)
This is gorgeous!!!
Thanks Kristi!
Lindi, I love this. Pinned it. Please stop by my blog and share it on today’s blog hop if you haven’t already?
Sinea from Ducks ‘n a Row
I just stopped by and shared it! Thanks for the invite :) and thanks for the compliments! Glad you like it :)
What a beautiful addition to a pretty collection! It is lovely. Thanks for taking the H2H NO B&T challenge!
Thank you! The challenge was perfect timing because I was already working on this project :)
I love this project! It is simple but so elegant and so adorable! Great job and thanks for sharing! PINNED!
Thank you! I think it will be elegant enough to stay in my daughter’s room as she grows up too!
I wish you didn’t start with owning a cricut machine! I don’t own one. I would love to do this project! Too cute! Thank you for linking up with Creative Style Linkup! Have a blessed weekend!
Thanks! My cricut is one of my favourite purchases – worth every penny! lol.
Very pretty. I love your entire wall collage. I can’t wait to get my cutting machine so I can do cute projects like this. Thanks for sharing on Merry Monday.
Thank you :) The wall was a lot of work! I’m so happy with all of the finished pieces :)
I love it! So elegant, simple yet stunning! Thanks for playing along with H2H challenges.
Brandi R.
h2H challenge DT member
crzy4scrapbooking.blogspot.ca
Thank you so much Brandi! :)
It turned out so pretty. What a lovely gift this would make for anyone. Thanks for the inspiration.
Thank you! Yes! It’s a perfect gift idea! And it could go anywhere! Office, girl’s room, nursery – good thinking Jeanna!
So pretty! I love the gold and often find myself on a gold kick. (o:
This gold kick will likely be continuing for a while! Lol. Thanks for visiting!!
I FREAKING LOVE THIS! Thanks for sharing! I think it would be great for my new linky party starting this Saturday at 8pm called “Found & Foraged” Can’t wait to party with you at http://www.houseofhipsters.com
Woah, this is soooo cute!!
And soooo easy to make!! Thank you :)
So glad you shared this at our linky party! Hope to see you next week.
I love your art wall! It looks so effective with the white frames!
Thanks for linking up at the Talented Tuesday Link Party :-)
Thank you!! It took a while to get the whole wall together, but I love the end results!
This turned out really cute! Thanks so much for sharing at the Create & Share Link Party. Hope to see you again tonight (7:00 PM MST)! http://www.designsbymissmandee.com/
Such a lovely craft! I love it paired with the other decor on the wall! This is being featured at this week’s link party. http://www.thelifeofjenniferdawn.com/2014/11/a-little-bird-told-me-117.html
Thank you so much for the feature Jennifer!! Can’t wait to link up more projects :)
I love this, I don;t have any cutting machines but I am thinking I could create something “inspired by” with my craft knife – oooo my mind is whirring with the possibilities!
I’m so glad you’re finding some inspiration here!!! I have so many more amazing ideas in my head now too :)
Love this! It looks great on the gallery wall!! Thanks for linking it up to On Display Thursday!!
Thanks Emily!! So glad the gallery wall is done now :)
Thank you so much for linking up at Found & Foraged! PINNED! Hope to see you again this Saturday night at 8PM at http://houseofhipsters.com
G’day Looks great! All blog comments appreciated and sharing is caring today!
Cheers! Joanne @ What’s On The List #SayGdayParty pinned
Thanks Joanne!
Bought myself a Cricut yesterday! Can’t wait to try this out! Hope to see you back and Found & Foraged tonight http://houseofhipsters.com/
Amazing!! I hope you like it! I LOVE my cricut so much! Happy Black Friday to you :)