Valentine's Day Projects

Love Letters!

Pinterest is my new time zapper. I saw this idea on making letters out of cardboard. I did L O V E.

First you need a bunch of cardboard. I measured so the letters were all about the same size. Then cut the top out and make a bottom for each letter. I then cut about an inch wide cardboard pieces for each letter for the sides and then taped the letters together. 

It takes a lot of cardboard.

The finished letters. It does not matter that there is holes in the side of the E since the yarn will cover it. I even cut out a heart in the O. And again it is not perfect but the yarn will cover it. The directions I saw said to glue yarn on the end but that did not work for me so I glued pieces of scrap paper to the ends that correspond to the yarn.





Finished letters. I tightly wrapped yarn and then did some loose wrapping to add some texture.

Something I added that I did not see on Pinterest is I used pipe cleaners to add some Valentine's Day elements to each letter. Lips for the L; heart for the O; XO for the V; and an arrow for the E.