A Horseshoe For Good Luck And Red Hearts For Love

DIY Heart Love Sign

I have all the bases covered with my diy heart love sign. You can make the sign with things you find in your junk drawer or linen closet.

DIY Heart Love Sign

Well, it’s a new week and I have a new project to share. In honor of Valentine’s Day  (coming soon) I put together a junk project featuring a heart. I’m not big on decorating with hearts but for Valentines Day I can handle it. This heart love sign is perfect for the vintage junk lover.

Miss Sofi always wants to make heart cookies when she’s at the house. Just about every Friday night we cut the store bought ready-to-bake Chocolate Chip cookies into heart shapes. I tried to get her to do Christmas trees, candy canes, stars, anything but hearts  during the holidays but she’s a diehard heart fan.

I made a few “Love Signs” in the past and thought I would try something different this year. I went through my junk stash and came up with the “I” letter, the rusty horseshoe, the cutter quilt, and a reclaimed piece of wood. The heart is a template I cut from plain old white paper.

{ Junk Stash }

I painted the board white but after a little thought and looking at the items I gathered for the sign I decided to paint over the white with turquoise.

Once the paint was dry I distressed just a little with sandpaper then “ aged “ the paint with Howard’s Wax in Golden Oak. See how the dark wax gets into all the rough places?

You may notice that the “I” is not the original piece of junk I selected for the project. I just didn’t like the real “I”. I tried the white side of the I and the blue side, then added toner to age it….still didn’t work. I told the JTS it looked like a dog bone. It took me another hour or so to find the perfect “I”.

I hot glued the horseshoe and metal keyhole thingies in place while I hunted for screws. I used hot glue only on the hearts and the red/silver handle. I would have preferred to screw the handle on too but didn’t have a good way to do that.

A simple wire hanger for the back.

I think I’m in Love. The red hearts pop against the turquoise……..one of my favorite color combinations.

The vintage red and silver metal handle has been hanging out in my junk stash forever. It came off of a cabinet door. It’s just like the one on the Hardware Christmas Tree cabinet door. You notice the base of the handle has white paint on it. It looks like glue….but it’s paint.

Reclaimed Hardware Tree

I used Howard’s Wax on the rusty horseshoe. Isn’t that little red heart the cutest.

Recycled projects are one of my specialties. These are 3 of my favorite upcycled  “Love” projects…Love Letters Assemblage Art…..Red Upcycled Love!…..Junk Love. (click any pink link to view the projects.

Thanks for being here. I love you guys, Kathy

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