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Posted: by Angie on 02/08/10 4:18 am EST - 0 comment(s)

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Custom Valentines always touches your heart!   With newspaper, modge podge and Rust-Oleum's Stops Rust Spray Paint you can customize your Valentines!   Wrinkle small balls of newspaper and form a heart - tape together with masking tape to keep the form.  Lay wax paper to cover the heart shaped form.  Cut brown paper bags into strips.  Modge podge or paper mache the brown paper strips over the wax paper.  Constantly smoothing out the modge podge as well as the strips of brown paper.  Allow to fully dry.  Once dry, remove the newspaper balls from the inside.  I wanted to share the versatility of Rust-Oleum's Stops Rust  - not only does the spray paint perform top notch on metals - but leaves a glossy, snazzy even coating over paper as well.  I hung my paper mache valentine on my front door and everyone who walks in comments on the glossy"ness" of the heart and vibrant red color.  With two light coats of Sunrise Red in a gloss finish, you can complete this project for under five dollars.  I like paper mache decorations for certain holidays because it is always light and easy to hang up - windows with suction cups a light piece of tape will hold up the decorations and they do store nicely.  You can also customize your heart with a special secret message, scroll your valentine's name in the  middle or a simple "Happy Valentine's Day" does the trick as well. 

 

Angie's philosophy is simple: take on projects that are affordable and easily achievable. Look for inspiration in magazines and make the projects your own. Hers are real projects for real people and they don't require you to have a background in art. Test

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