'Eye Love You' Valentine's Day Artwork

Craft: 'Eye Love You' Valentine's Day Artwork

15mhhm15
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January 23, 2019

Eye Love You Valentine's Day Art Work - finished project Throughout the "dating" period - my fiancé and I would send cheesy text messages and we'd always do the emoji eye heart finger pointing to emphasize I love you, sort of in "code".

So I thought it would be cute to make this little art work. You can write "eye" so the art work flows better, but I just wrote "I".

Total Time: 30 minutes

Supplies:

cardboard piece
paper
magazine clippings
scissors
glue stick
Sharpie pens

Steps:

For my art work base, I used a piece of cardboard backing paper from a notebook measuring 7.25" x 5.5".

Eye Love You Valentine's Day Art Work - piece of cardboard notebook backing paper

I quickly cut out a piece of white paper measuring the same as the cardboard and sketched out an eye shape.

Eye Love You Valentine's Day Art Work - piece of white paper the same size with an eye sketched on it

I cut out the eye traced it and then used an oval to trace the iris/pupil.

Eye Love You Valentine's Day Art Work - cut out the eye

Eye Love You Valentine's Day Art Work - trace onto the cardboard

Flip through magazines to find solid color areas and cut into random square shapes.

Eye Love You Valentine's Day Art Work - cut out solid color areas in magazines into to random sized square shapes

you are now ready to glue the colored square pieces down like a mosaic. You can overlap, make different shapes (like a triangle, or diamond), the option is yours.

Eye Love You Valentine's Day Art Work - ready to glue

Eye Love You Valentine's Day Art Work - begin glueing the paper down to the cardboard around the eye shape, overlapping if desired

Eye Love You Valentine's Day Art Work - adding more papers

For the iris/pupil I flipped through the magazine to find a piece with a heart design then cut it to fit. Outline the eye and pupil with the marker.

Eye Love You Valentine's Day Art Work - use and oval shape to cut a piece from a magazine with heart shapes to cover the pupil

Eye Love You Valentine's Day Art Work - cut out and glue in place

Eye Love You Valentine's Day Art Work - outline the eye and pupil with the marker

For finishing up the artwork, I found "LOVE" in the magazine to glue in the center. Or you can individually cut up letters or use stickers.

Eye Love You Valentine's Day Art Work - cut out the word love or use stickers in the center of the pupil

Lastly I wrote "I" and "You" in cursive with a thin Sharpie pen. Ready to write on the backside of the art piece to use as a flat card if you wish or leave the art work as is!

Eye Love You Valentine's Day Art Work - use a thin Sharpie to write "I" and "Love" on the sides of the pupil

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Comments

attosa
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January 24, 20190 found this helpful

Adore the cheesiness that brought this to life! ;) Hub and I were the same too .. okay, still are!

15mhhm15
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January 29, 20190 found this helpful

Can't go wrong with cheesiness :P