How to Make Industrial Metal Hearts
03 February
Valentine's Day is right around the corner and I've been working on a couple of projects to decorate my home!
I have some old corrugated galvanized steel sheets that I found at the dump that I'm using in today's project.
How to Make Industrial Metal Hearts
I have two sheets of this corrugated metal, they look like they have been through a fire or something but I like the patina.
See what else I made with them here: Antique Mall Booth Update - Artist's Supplies Addition
I know my dad thought I had finally lost it when I asked him to store them for me for a while!!
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Supplies to make your own
- Metal
- Tin snips
- File
- Crop-a-Dile punch (if you want to make the hearts into a garland)
For this project, I just needed a small piece of metal.
You'll need a set of tin snips that have a straight cut, left cut, and right cut snip and a rasp file
Make a pattern from a scrap of paper then use the straight snips to cut a small square large enough for the heart from the metal sheet. This will make it easier to handle when you are cutting out the heart.
Then use a pencil and trace the heart onto the metal.
Cut out each heart using a combination of straight, right- and left-angled snips. I'll be honest... this takes a little bit of effort with this kind of metal. I cut a total of eight hearts but I was pretty much over it at six 😂
The metal will be SHARP so be careful!! In fact, you really should wear gloves but that's not how I roll yo! 😎 Sorry, dad!
Once you get the hearts cut out, use the rasp to file down the edges and remove any sharp burrs.
If you want to make your metal hearts into a garland, then use the Crop-a-Dile to punch holes in the top of each heart and used some jute twine to string them together into a garland.
If you want to recreate these, but don't have any of this kind of old corrugated metal, here are some ideas to get the same look:
- you can buy sheets of corrugated metal from Lowe's or Home Depot for about $20 and distress it with paint
- you can buy a roll of metal landscape edging border on Amazon and distress it
- you can use a tin soup can that you have flattened out
- you can make them from cardboard and cover them with paper that looks like corrugated metal or metal textures scrapbook paper
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Posted by: Tania | Little Vintage Cottage
at 03 February
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