Using scraps.

For Valentine's Day this year I decided I was going to just use what I have to decorate the house instead of buying decorations.  1) because we don't really need to purchase more decor that only I appreciate 2) and to save money.  So I made a few things from stuff I already had on hand. 

This is one of the things I made.  It was inspired by another craft blog I read but since I didn't have all the supplies on hand that she used I had to tweak it to suit what I did have and this is what I came up with.  I used a pizza box lid, a scrap of material, a stapler, a rubber band, 4 plastic grocery bags, ribbon scraps and a lapel pin.  First I drew as big a heart as would fit on the pizza box lid and cut it out.  I bunched up the grocery bags to use as stuffing and stretched the material over it all and pulling it tight I stapled it into place.  Because I didn't want to cut the material so I could use it again for something else I had a lot left in the back so I gathered it all together and used the rubber band to keep it in place.  Then I wrapped the long piece of red ribbon around the fabric "bun" and stapled the ribbon at the top of the heart so I could hang it.  I tied the brown ribbon in a bow and stuck the lapel pin through it and into the heart.  Then I hung it on the wreath hanger on the front door and admired my handiwork!  I was quite pleased with how all my scraps turned out for V-day decor.