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Cupid's Arrows Love Letters

A cute way to send a message to your someone special!

https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/cupids-arrows-love-letters • Posted by MagicalGirlMaya

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.

You will need

Project Budget
Free

Time

0 h 05

Difficulty

Pretty Easy
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Description

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.

Instructions

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    Your "ingredients"

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    Cut out little tags from your red felt.

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    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.

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    Cut some hearts out of card stock.

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.