pinterest attempts (ITLS 4015)

Mike gave me some roses for Valentines day when we were dating. I hung them up to dry in my parents basement, and that is where they have been ever since. I saw a cute idea on pinterest to put them in the shape of a heart in a shadow box. There was only one dozen, so I just had to do the outline of the heart. Amber helped me and we got them all glued on and it looked pretty good. Then I went to put the paper in the shadow box, and the roses were too tall. So we ended up not putting the back of the box on, and just putting the paper in there so it would squish them less. They still got squished a little, so it doesn't look as good as it did at first. BOO!





Once we finished with the roses we were talking about this cool crayon thing we had both seen. You use hot glue to glue crayons to a canvas, and then melt them with a hair dryer. We decided to give it a try. We were at my parents house and didn't want to drive all the way into Logan to buy a canvas to put it on. So we decided to try a 'rough draft'. I used crayola crayons on a piece of textured card stock, and Amber used cheaper crayons on poster paper. (We tried a little bit of everything to see what would turn out the best) The crayola crayons melted a lot darker and thicker. The cheaper crayons melted and the wax was a little more see through, but it melted together cooler (sorry I don't have a pic of that one). Anyways, it worked out better than we thought. The paper curls up a little at the bottom and when it does the wax cracks and falls off, but we weren't planning on keeping these ones anyways so its okay. Now that we know what crayons are better and that it actually works, we are planning on making good ones on canvas this weekend. Hopefully they work!!!! :)