Gilded Coffee Filter Valentines Heart

by Kelli @CraftShackChronicles

2 Hours

Easy

Valentines has never been a holiday that I've gone all out for when decorating, but I do love to decorate my mantel for each holiday. I'm working on a hanging wreath of sorts for each occasion, and I needed something easy and light weight for Valentines Day

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Since I wanted to hang this decoration over an already very heavy mirror over my mantel, I wanted it to be light weight. I started with a cardboard cutout of a heart, and coffee filters. LOTS of coffee filters! I used almost 800!

I dipped some of my filters in a watered down red paint (1/4 cup water and a few drops of paint) and other filters I painted with Metallic Lustre gold wax. (aff) I love the gilded gold paper effect! I left the rest of the filters white.

If you hold the center of the coffee filter and twist, you create a flower. Repeat this step a few hundred times.

Use a small dot of hot glue to attach your coffee filter flowers to the cardboard heart. If you don't want to use 800 coffee filters, you can space the flowers out a little bit just make sure you're covering the cardboard.

I packed my filter flowers in very tightly, squishing as many as I could onto the form.

Isn't the gold pretty?

I glued a ribbon loop to the back of the cardboard, and painted the cardboard a light pink, since it would be hanging from a mirror. If you wanted to hang it on a wall or inside door painting the cardboard isn't necessary.

You can check out more fun Valentine's projects and the full tutorial for this project through the blog link below.

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Sarah Cari-Roberts on Jan 27, 2016
Do you think cereal boxes would hold up to all those filters?

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Linda on Feb 04, 2016
I'm curious as to why you used the Metallic Lustre Gold Wax instead of another type of acrylic paint.....Does it dry faster? Thank You so very much for responding

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Shelby @ The Weathered Barn Studio on Feb 07, 2016
...So pretty and I think you could also do " all white' or whatever colors you prefer ? I was curious as to how long this took you...in total time ...:)

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Marilyn Pat Jurman on Feb 17, 2016
Thank you for sharing your idea. Your directions are clear and make me think that I could make one myself. The finished product is beautiful.

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- Kelli @CraftShackChronicles on Feb 17, 2016
  Thank you @Marilyn Pat Jurman for the kind compliment!
  
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Zada Smith on May 22, 2017

Yes. I would like to know the approximate proportion of the three colors.

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