Day 331 - Map of hearts

Valentines day is almost upon, and although I'm not hugely into it, I thought I would do something small and silly.

I found this guide to winning scrabble at the op shop the other day in the half price shelf, for $1.50. Mr Crafty and I used to play scrabble a bit, but he could never beat me, so it ended up becoming a bit of a thing. Most of the time these days we are too tired to do much at night but it would be fun to play some games together again, and I thought he might get a bit of a giggle from the book.

I decided to wrap it using some of an old map (used last week too).

I made some hearts to go on top. It was really easy.

First I cut strips about 1cm wide and folded them in half. Mine were about 15cm long.

Then I used a little bit of tape to stick together the two ends, then poked the creased bit at the top downwards to make a heart shape as shown below. I put a little bit of tape near the top of the heart here to make it stay in the heart shape. You can see the tape in the picture.

And here's a completed heart.

And then I glued them to the top of my wrapped book.

Day 323 - A picture to tell a thousand words.

This is a special picture for Mr Crafty. It's our 10 year wedding anniversary this year. It's not until April, but I will be making him a few things to celebrate and this one came to me so I decided to make it early.

I like the way it has layers and textures, symbolising the many layers and facets of 10 years of marriage.

I began with an old map of the alpine area. This is an area where we went hiking about a month after we met, lugging our heavy packs up the side of a steep mountain, and camping for 2 nights, one of which we awoke to find our tent covered in snow. I glued this map first to a canvas.

Then I photocopied these birds from a skirt I have (also used early in my 365 project to make a card), cut them out and stitched around the birds with some embroidery thread. Mr Crafty is a bird lover. Bird nerd.

Glue went under and over the birds, and then came the next layer, with some help from Frankie magazine. The birds got their colour from the magazine pages.

Ten words popped out at me from an old dictionary, randomly, just thoughts about our marriage.

I added them to my picture. Then some button eyes. The glue is still drying in the picture so it has a little white haze, which will dry clear.

My crafty and the kids made me these fortune cookies this morning. :-) What a beautiful morning it was.