Beautiful Valentine's Day Decor String Art
Grab some scrap wood, nails, and string to make a vintage-inspired piece of string art just in time for Valentine's Day!
For my Valentine project, I grabbed a piece of scrap wood and some vintage string to start. I always loved the look of string art and thought it would be fun to do a simple heart.
I started this piece of art by drawing a heart on my board with chalk. The best part about using chalk is that you can keep redrawing until you get it just how you like it.
Once I had a heart shape that worked, I began banging in nails about half an inch apart around the outline.
I kept going until the entire heart was covered in nails. The only ones I strategically placed were the two at the points; one at the top and one at the bottom.
With all of the nails in place, I gave the entire board, nails and all, a coat of white paint. I purposefully put the nails in first so that I could paint them white and have them blend into the board.
I started my pattern by tying the end of the vintage pink sting to the nail at the top point.
Next, I looped it around the bottom point making sure to push the string down so that it was close to the wood.
After looping it around the bottom nail, I went to the next nail at the top working to the left first.
Each time I went back to the bottom, I always looped it around the same middle point nail. This created the fan pattern I was looking for on each side of the heart.
After finishing the left, I used the same piece of string and started working my way to the right in the same way.
When I had completed the entire heart, I tied a knot at the bottom point and tucked the end under the strings.
A few little paper flowers finished off my string art.
This little Valentine’s Day project was quick, easy, and didn’t cost me a thing… win 💗 win 💗!
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I love hearts, ,all kinds
this is a keeper
can’t wait time make
thx💕💕💕💕💕
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My 9 year old great granddaughter likes to do the string art. I think this would look so good in her room & I know she would love doing it.
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That's so cool! I hope she enjoys it. It was really fun to create ;)
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