A whole lotta love...

So, in my last house, I had a plate rack on either side of my entertainment center that held cute metal accents.  At Christmas time, I put Christmas plates in them.  They just didn't work out in my new house, so I never hung the plate racks.  This past Christmas I couldn't bear to not put up my cute plates, so I had my hubby hang one of the plate racks up in my kitchen.  After Christmas was over, I thought it would be more fun to keep the plate rack seasonal instead of just buying plates to go on it.  So, I came up with this great idea.  I would cut out wooden squares and decorate them with seasonal scrapbook paper and embellishments.  The ones I did for January did not turn out cute, so you don't get to see them until I redo them for next year.  However, I love my Valentine deco squares! So, here's how you would make them...

Supplies:

• 9" wooden squares (I got mine at Lowe's and had the nice gentlemen that work there cut them out for me)
• wooden heart shapes (these you can buy from your local craft store or wood store)
• Scrapbook paper
• paint
• stain
• sand paper
• mod podge
• glue gun
• embellishments (ribbon, chipboard shapes, etc.

How to:

1.  Paint

 wooden squares (I just painted mine white)

2.  Paint wooden shapes

3.  Sand all painted stuff.

4.  Stain all painted stuff.

5.  Cut out scrapbook paper (a little smaller than wooden square)

6.  Mod Podge paper to wooden square.

7.  Glue wooden shape to wooden square

8.  Embellish to your own desire.... what I did was I used my Cricut to cut hearts out of chipboard.  Then I heat embossed some pink stuff on the chipboard hearts.  Then I just tied a ribbon on the heart and glued it onto the wooden heard.  

Didn't they turn out cute???  (You should have seen the january ones)

I plan on making these for every month and I'm excited to get started on my March ones... I need to get going on that soon.