Curled Heart

These hearts make great decorations, especially for Valentine's Day (all though this is a little late for that). They are simple, but neat looking, easy to make hearts.

Materials:

-String and needle

-Paper (I used both card stock and printer)

-Hot glue

1) Cut a strip of paper from your sheet, long ways.

2) Fold your strip in half

3) Starting at each end, roll up your paper until you get to the center, like this:

4) Put a dab of hot glue on the insides of the curls, to connect the two ends and make the heart shape. Make sure it is heart shaped (which should happen without having to shape it too much) and do your best to make the two sides even.

5) Once you have made as many as you want, pull your thread through the center of the bottom/point of each of your hearts, and again through the center of where you curls meet. Also, put a small dab of glue under each heart, so that they don't slide down to the bottom of your string.  

Decorate Your Shelves

If you have a set of boring, white shelves, you can easily spruce up the area by putting decorative paper in the backs of the shelves, like this:

Materials:

-Some sort of decorative paper (I used wrapping paper because it's cheap and easy to work with)

-Staple gun or tape (for if you don't want to put holes in your shelves)

-Tape measure

-Scissors

-Pencil

1) Measure out the size of each shelf back

2) Cut a piece of paper to fit the area, and it's a good idea to make it a little big, just in case.

3) Starting in one corner, staple/tape your paper. Then move across, making sure to push out any air bubbles

4)Trim the edges to make sure they are straight and clean. And you're done!

Day 8

For our eighth day of inspiration, we have a cool Birthday decoration: Take photos from a person's lifetime and hang them in the shape of the age they are turning. It really adds to the decor, and is really interesting to look at.

Party Streamers

 I made these fun streamers for a Birthday party a while ago; and they looked really cool. They were easy to make but it took me a while to make enough to fill the whole door way.

Materials

-Multi-colored sheets of paper (1 per streamer)

-Scissors

-Ruler

-Pencil

1) Mark along one side of your paper (vertically) at the odd inches, 1,3,5,7,9. You should use pencil so you can erase the marks, but I used marker so it would show up better

 2) On the opposite side of your paper, make a mark on the even inches, 2,4,6,8,10

3) Cut from each mark you made directly across you paper to the other side, ending about an inch from the other side of the paper, to leave the strips connected.

4) Once you do this for all of your marks, if you simply hold the paper by one end, it will fold down into a cool streamer!