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A cute way to send a message to your someone special!
I love using found objects to make art, so making a valentine with sticks seemed like a no brainer! This is a ridiculously easy tutorial and only takes the time for the hot glue gun to heat up.

Posted by MagicalGirlMaya from Dallas, Texas, United States • Published See MagicalGirlMaya's 206 projects »
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  • How to make a model or sculpture. Cupid's Arrows Love Letters  - Step 1
    Step 1

    Your "ingredients"

  • How to make a model or sculpture. Cupid's Arrows Love Letters  - Step 2
    Step 2

    Cut out little tags from your red felt.

  • How to make a model or sculpture. Cupid's Arrows Love Letters  - Step 3
    Step 3

    Make incisions into them, leaving the middle intact, to make them look like feathers. I also took a triangular chunk out of the bottom to give them a more "arrow" look.

  • How to make a model or sculpture. Cupid's Arrows Love Letters  - Step 4
    Step 4

    Cut some hearts out of card stock.

  • How to make a model or sculpture. Cupid's Arrows Love Letters  - Step 5
    Step 5

    Hot glue the "feathers" to one end of the stick.

  • How to make a model or sculpture. Cupid's Arrows Love Letters  - Step 6
    Step 6

    Hot glue the "arrow heads" to the other end of the stick. Make sure that the point of the heart points outward so that it looks like a proper arrow.

  • How to make a model or sculpture. Cupid's Arrows Love Letters  - Step 7
    Step 7

    THIS PART IS TOTALLY OPTIONAL

    I decided to add a meaningful message to my arrow so I wrote it out on a small piece of paper, leaving a little extra length on one side of the paper so that I could hot glue it to the body of the stick. Then I rolled it up and tied it with some red embroidery thread.

  • How to make a model or sculpture. Cupid's Arrows Love Letters  - Step 8
    Step 8

    And voila! You're done! Now you just have to give it to your valentine, or you could go the full nine yards and hire a chubby baby in a diaper to shoot it at them.

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