Heartland Paper: Valentine's Mobiles on Studio 5

For those of you who tuned in to Studio 5 today, here are the instructions and images of the Valentine Mobiles we created.

You can also watch the complete segment on Studio 5's website at http://studio5.ksl.com/.

Ingredients you will need:

Heart Doily punch, die-cut or Silhouette Digital Craft Cutter for cutting images (We used the Martha Stewart Fancy Heart Punch) (We are sold out of this punch until Wednesday, February 10th. We are having more air shipped in, please call and have your name put on the list if you would like one.)

Paper in desired colors- you will need enough paper to cut 136 images (We used Bo Bunny Dot cardstock in red, brown and pink and clear vellum for our butterflies)

14” embroidery hoop

15-20 yards of coordinating ribbon for tying around base

Fishing Line

Sturdy wire for cross hairs of chandelier

Glue Dots

Scissors

Ribbon or trim for hanging the chandelier from ceiling

Instructions

1. Cross two wired in the center of your large circle base so that they meet in the middle of the circle. Wrap ends of wire around circle where they come in contact. This will create a cross in the circle so that you will have more surface to tie shapes to.

2. Tie ribbons in knots around circle base. This will give weight to the base of the chandelier and also cover up whatever your ring is made of. The closer your ribbons are, the more ribbon you will need, but the fuller it will be.

3. Begin cutting or punching hearts from paper. You will need a total of 68 completed hearts for your chandelier. We put a colored cardstock and a clear vellum piece together for each heart, so we cut 68 of each.

4. Cut 17 pieces of fishing line to about 20”. Each piece of fishing line will have 4 hearts attached to it.

5. Begin attaching hearts to fishing line with glue dots. Place glue dots in the center of each heart. Run the fishing line up the body and then attach the front piece of the heart over the top. This will create a sandwich for the fishing line. Place hearts about 3-4 inches apart on the line. Leave plenty of extra line at the top of the strands so that you will be able to tie it on to the hoop at the right height.

6. When you have attached all of your hearts to the line, begin tying them on to your base. You will tie on heart strings at three levels. The one piece of line that is tied at the cross point in the middle should be the longest. Then, you should tie one line to the center of each of the wire spokes slightly higher than the center piece. The rest of the lines should be tied around the outer ring slightly higher than those in the middle. Each quarter of the outside circle will have 3 lines tied to it (one at each point of the cross and two between each point).

7. Use ribbon tied to each cross point to hang the chandelier from the ceiling or other area. (We tied a large bow at the top to create a soft fluffy look.

To create this mobile, use the silhouette or other die cutter to cut owls or other images (cupcakes would also be very cute!). Follow the instructions as above, but instead of an embroidery hoop, gather sticks from your yard or neighborhood and form a cross to hang the images from. We used twine to bind the sticks together in an X form.

To create the ribbon mobile, use two embroidery hoops in different sizes. Apply the cross bar to the top hoop. Tie each hoop with ribbon. Die cut chipboard and paper hearts to hang from the center of the cross bar. To connect hoops, tie equal lengths of fishing line onto bottom hoop at four points (so they cross in the middle). Drape the fishing line over the top hoop and adjust it so the hoop hangs evenly.