Heart Mobile with Metallic Oly-Fun Fabric

Category: Decor

Heart Mobile with Metallic Oly-Fun Fabric

This sweet heart mobile was inspired by a decorative item at Pottery Barn.  Go glam this Valentine’s Day by using Metallic Oly-Fun fabric to create this pretty piece of home decor.

What you need to make this project

Materials
Oly-Fun Metallic - Gold
Oly-Fun Metallic - Red
Supplies
Dowel Rods (2)
Gold string
Glue Gun
Xyron Creative Station

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Oly-Fun® Metallic 10 Yard Bolt Red

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Oly-Fun® Metallic 10 Yard Bolt Gold

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Instructions

Step One

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Cut a 2 inch wide piece of metallic Oly-Fun fabric in red.

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Cut the strip into squares and rectangles of varying sizes.

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Place two pieces of fabric together with the wrong sides touching.

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Cut a heart shape from the two pieces. Keep the pair together.

Step Two

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Cut 29 pairs of red hearts and one pair of gold hearts.  Arrange them in5 rows of 6 hearts.

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Roll the front half of each heart pair through the Xyron Creative Station to make stickers of them.

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Now one half of each heart pair has adhesive on it.

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Step Three

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Peel the adhesive backed heart off the sheet.

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Place gold thread over the heart with adhesive.

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Place the matching heart on top of the string and press firmly.

Step Four

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Cut arrow heads and feather tips from Gold Metallic Oly-Fun.

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Wrap the dowel rods with the gold thread.

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Use hot glue to assemble the “arrows” and to glue the rods together.

Step Five

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Tie the rows of hearts on the arrows as pictured.