You will need:
Wine corks
A wooden backdrop (see suggestion below)
Hot glue gun, or some other form of glue
When I decided I wanted to make a wine cork heart, I searched for a long time in all the nearby craft stores and online for a nice big wooden heart to use for this craft that wasn't super expensive, and failed miserably.
Finally I came across the website Build-a-cross.com. Yes, it sounds like an intense Christian site, but it has nice wood cut outs of almost any shape you could want!
There are a few different heart shapes, but I bought the 18 inch version of this one, and it was only $9.50! Prices vary by size:
Psst... They just e-mailed me a 25% off code "October25" that is supposed to be good through 12/31/13!
Between me, my roommate, and my parents- we drink quite a bit of wine. After about 3 or 4 months of collecting I got all excited and laid out my corks on my wooden heart...
And it covered about 1/4th of the thing.
I couldn't imagine waiting another full YEAR to finish this craft- all my vases were already over flowing with corks in the apartment. So I did a little Google search for used corks (cheating, I know. But SO worth it.)
The best place I can possibly recommend is:
This place is muy fabuloso because it gives you the option to order all red or all white wine corks. Since I most drink white wine, I was lacking a bit in the red stained cork department for the creation of my ombre heart, so I ordered 100 red wine corks.
you can say if you want red or wine corks- so whichever you need more of for your ombre you can order (for me, I needed some more red!)
So once I had all the corks I needed, I laid them all out on my table and started to organize by shade of red until I had a little red wine cork rainbow.
Then, I started at the top of the heart with the darkest reds and laid out all of my corks.
One they were all in position, I added a dot of hot glue to the bottom of each cork and glued them into position!
Now I have this lovely wine cork heart, and it's still sitting in my apartment because I'm not sure where I want to hang it! (I'm thinking next to my hanging wine rack?)
Click here to get to my original Pinterest post of this craft and re-pin away!
The DIY Wine Cork Heart is so cool. Featured you on Homemade Wine Cork Crafts
ReplyDeleteThanks!
DeleteHow did you hang it? Did u add a hook? Is it secure? Love this! Can't wait to do it.
ReplyDeleteI drilled holes directly into the wood backing to hang on nails in the wall and it remained very secure.
DeleteApproximately how many corks total did it take?
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately I did not count them. As an educated guess I would think about 300?
DeleteAwesome, thanks! This will totally help me win @ Christmas :D
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