The title says it all. For anyone who's never seen the film, "Jerry Maguire," it is the best Valentine's movie EVER. The phrase, "You had me at hello" is one of the more iconic phrases in my vocabulary, and it is the creative catalyst for this altered art project. And best of all, I used materials from my stash!
I started with these somewhat "cugly" striped coasters
which I immediately painted with black acrylic paint. Bye stripes!
While the coasters dried, I cut out three squares of beautiful vintage
scrapbook paper to fit the coasters, and rounded the paper at the corners.
Next, I adhered the paper to the coasters with matte Mod Podge.
I usually use a glossy finish for my projects; however, this matte finish
lends itself nicely to a vintage, romantic feel.
One more coat of MP on the top.
I edged the coasters with a bit more black paint, giving it a distressed look.
Then I dug deep into the dark corners of my craft closet in search of love--
love-themed embellishments, that is.
I hit it big when I found a set of large white chipboard hearts.
The chipboard has great texture, so I decided instead of covering them,
to stamp a French script design using black ink. Voila!
I continued embellishing the coasters with love-ly charms, acrylic flowers, baker's twine, chipboard, washi tape, acrylic tag, and a rub-on. Then I typed up the wonderful phrase, adhered it to red chipboard and finished all three coasters off with additional Podge.
Then I contemplated how to display these coasters. For those who know me, you are probably thinking well, of course, she is going to use a lot of ribbon. That's what I thought. However, I decided to return to the dark depths of my craft closet to see what other crafty treasures await.
Lo and behold, I found a distressed green wooden frame. It was one of my Home Goods clearance finds I bought a few years ago for $3.50.
Only problem: the signage. It reads:
That will never do. Unless this project is a gift for my dog.
How nice that Coconut already taped up the sides of the frame, so all I had to do was paint the inside of the frame in a warm antique white hue.
Then I adhered the coasters to the inside edges of the frame.
I kinda like it.
And I know Tom C my husband will like it, too.
