Valentine XO Letters

These Valentine XO Letters are easy to make and a fun way to add some sparkle in to your Valentine’s Decor.

 

This month’s FloraCraft® Make It: Fun design team challenge was to create a home decor project using FloraCraft foam boards or blocks.  My original project involved the foam blocks and let’s just say,  Craft Fail!   I still think it’s a great idea, just need to figure out a better way to make it work.

Supplies Used to make Valentine XO Letters:

FloraCraft® Make It: Fun  5″ Foam Cubes
FloraCraft® Make It: Fun  Foam Cutter
FloraCraft® Make It: Fun StyroGlue
FloraCraft® Make It: Fun  10″ Wreath
FloraCraft® Make It: Fun  Diamond Dust Glitter
Chalky Paint
Valentine’s Embellishments

 

 

To make the foam letters, I  used my Silhouette CAMEO to cut an X out of paper to use as a template to trace on to the foam cube.  Since I wasn’t about to recreate the wheel and make my own O, I used a FloraCraft 10″ Wreath ring. Also,   since the wreath was wider than the foam cube, I cut two X’s out of the cube to make the letters the same width.

 

After the  X’s were cut, I adhered them together using SytroGlue.

 

Then painted each foam letter with a thick layer of DecoArt chalky finish paint in the color Escape.

 

 

While the paint was still wet, I sprinkled  Diamond Dust all over the foam letters.  Make sure your paint is really wet or the glitter won’t adhere securely.

 

 

I think they really did turn out so pretty!  Plus, I love how the letters are painted in a non-traditional Valentine’s color too, the color really makes them pop!

 

This post was sponsored by FloraCraft:Make it Fun, all opinions are my own.  

 

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