As promised, I have a fun and easy Valentine's Day craft project inspired by the available-for-pre-order new book Just Us Girls:48 Creative Art Projects for Mothers and Daughters to Do Together. I whipped up these fun arrows made with pencils and paper that I displayed as a mobile, but would make a great Valentine to pass out in class or to all your friends and co-workers.
I love the arrow as a Valentine motif, and inspired by this arrow project in Just Us Girls, I thought I'd give it a try.
I die cut hearts out of a variety of scrapbook paper, glued the hearts together so each side had a pretty print on it, and made it a bit sturdier.
To make the feather end of the arrow, I folded a piece of the scrapbook paper in half and glued it together.
Using the template I sketched out below, I cut the feather parts out.
WARNING!!! This is the part that you need to be super careful with. Cut slits in the end of the pencil and the eraser. Take especial care when doing this. Also make sure to make your slits in the same orientation, or your heart shape points and your feathers won't align.
To make the mobile, I simply tied the pencils to a piece of yarn and slid them to make them balance at the angles I liked.
Valentine arrow template.
More about the Quarry book written especially for mother and daughter crafting time:
Just Us Girls: 48 Creative Art Projects for Mothers and Daughters to Do Together
by Cindy Ann Ganaden
Explore and nurture your mother daughter bond and create a keepsake that you’ll cherish forever with
Just Us Girls. This highly-illustrated craft and activity book includes 48 heartfelt, earth-friendly projects to make together, including: dolls, press books, wreaths, crowns, earrings, handmade fossils, dreamcatchers, wands, garland, and much, much more. The projects mix and explore themes of beauty, magic, and appreciation for the natural world, while moving through the seasons of the year. Many projects incorporate upcycled materials, objects from nature, and simple home ingredients.
Activities are broken up into sections by season: spring, summer, fall, and winter, providing you with a year’s worth of fun and memories. Each activity is designed to bring you closer to each other and to the world around you. This book also includes a tear-out materials page (in the back of the book) to jump start your creativity, and a pocket at the back to store drawings, photos, and keepsakes.
Part scrapbooking, part memory-making,
Just Us Girls makes a great gift for moms, daughters, grandmothers, granddaughters and women of all ages.
In her past life, Cindy Ann spent over 13 years working as an art director and design manager. And just over a year ago she made the leap to full-time artist and illustrator. Cindy Ann’s been lucky to work with and learn from some amazing brands including Old Navy, Chronicle Books, Klutz, Time Inc., and Papyrus. Cindy Ann’s time working with these corporations has given her an appreciation for what goes into developing and manufacturing a product line and it has helped strengthen her sense of vision, foresight, and creative thinking.
Cindy Ann is known for coloring outside of the lines and on the walls! Originally from the East Coast, she now calls the Bay Area home. When Cindy Ann is taking a break from capturing her imagination within the pages of her sketchbook you can find her crafting and baking brownies with her daughter Ava Blu, husband, Jay and Boston Terrier, Penny.
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