painting hearts with credit cards

Ohhhh, you’re going to love this one!  Easy, Free-sy.  I think that should be my new motto. It’s how I love to craft.

A few months ago, someone (I can’t remember who, I’m sorry!) blogged about this simple painting technique, and I stuck a few expired credit/gift cards in a drawer, making a mental note to try this, and then I completely forgot about it.  This past weekend, while doing the big playroom overhaul, I came across the cards, and decided that we’d give it a go this week.

This process is crazy-easy, and oh-my-goodness, you are going to loooove the results.

Could the list of materials get any shorter or easier?

Here’s what you’ll need to create your masterpiece:

• An expired credit card
• 3 or 4 colours of paint
• a “canvas” (we used white cardboard).

Squirt some paint on your canvas (we used 4 colours – a couple of pinks, a lilac and a burgundy).

Hand your credit cards over to the kids (hmmmm, you don’t hear that often!), and tell them to get scraping!

Ooooooooo!  Isn’t that YUMMY?!!

The rest of it is fairly self-explanatory.  Once the paint had dried, I cut a large heart out of  each of the pieces of cardboard.

Then the Hooligans glued crumpled squares of tissue paper all around the edge of the heart.

And there you have it!  Simple, free, and pretty darn cute!

I loved the whole scrape-painting process, that we made a few more works of art to hang on the walls of our new playroom.