Hanging Heart

Materials required

• Tracing Paper
• Pencil
• Salt dough
• Roller
• Craft knife
• Acrylic or fabric paint
• Paintbrushes
• Paperclips
• varnish
• Glue

Procedure to make heart:

First prepare the salt dough to make the decoration. Mix together 2 cups of flour and 1 cup of salt. Add 1 cup of water gradually to the mixture until it is stiff but not sticky. Knead the dough for about ten minutes until it is smooth and manageable.

Roll the dough out on a flat surface with a roller in 1cm thickness.

Draw a heart shaped design. Place the design over the rolled dough and mark the squares with a needle or a pin. Then cut out the heart carefully from the rolled dough. Smoothen and round the edges with a moistened finger. Alternatively you can cut out the design from the rolled dough on your own, with a knife without the help of the design

With a knife carefully deepen the lines of the squares without going too deep so that the squares are not cut off. You can either fill the heart with squares or leave both sides free as in the figure.

Cut a paperclip in half and insert into the top of the heart. Make as many hearts as you need. Allow to dry thoroughly for a few days.

Paint with acrylic paint in the colour of your choice, leaving alternate squares plain. Allow to dry. Apply five coats of varnish. Thread some ribbon through the loop made by the paper clip and tie in a bow. You can hang your hearts from the wall.

Thermocol Wall Hanging

Materials :

• Satin Ribbon any colour
• Water Colour
• Brush
• Woolen Thread any two contrast colours
• Thermocol
• Marker
• Fevicol (glue)
• Scissors
• Artificial leaves
  

Making :

Basket : Draw the shape of a basket with marker on a thermocol piece. Cut it out through the outline. Make designs with water colour on the basket, as i have taken brown colour to decorate

Flowers : Take a woolen thread and wind it five to six times around two fingers. Tie the threads in the middle and cut off the ends of the windings on each side. Spread the threads and press with the hand firmly to get a shape of a flower. Mark the center of the flower with sparkles, or kundans ,or else with mirrors.

Make around 15 flowers and 10 leaves. Apply glue on the flowers and leaves and arrange them on the basket tastefully. Wind red satin ribbon over the handle of the basket.

Now your flower basket is ready.