Neutral Stacked Hearts Shelf Sitter

Take a turn from the traditional pink and red Valentines decor with these Neutral LOVE Stacked Hearts. With it’s brown hearts and leopard print, this adorable DIY Valentines decor is cute enough to leave up all year round!

If you know me then you know that I am a colorful girl through and through.

BUT I absolutely do love a good neutral craft now and then. And quite honestly I am obsessed with this brown hearts scrapbook paper that I designed, and I’ve been going on a total craft kick with it!

Neutral Stacked Hearts with the word LOVE in gold with leopard print, brown, and creme colors and sola wood flowers at the bottom. The hearts have a twine bow with skeleton key on each of them, perfect for Decor for Valentines Day.

It’s not just Valentines Day that I got on a neutral kick for, I was on one last fall too and I made this adorable pumpkin and completely neutral tiered tray!

Of course my version of neutral isn’t your average version. Why is that you ask? One word……(actually it’s two…)

LEOPARD PRINT!

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Supplies Needed to Make a Stacked Hearts LOVE Shelf Sitter

Some of the supplies sitting on a table, the paint stick, pallet, and wood hears.

1 – 12″ Paint Stick
Small wood pallet
2 Jenga Blocks
Antique Wax
Excelsior
Skeleton Keys
Sola Wood Flowers
4 – 3″ Wood Hearts
Galvanized Metal letters L-O-V-E
Gold Leaf Rub n’ Buff
Neutral heart scrapbook paper
Leopard Print scrapbook paper
Textured scrapbook paper in brown and creme
Twine
Mod Podge
Hot glue gun

How to Make a Stacked Hearts Neutral Shelf Sitter

I made these Stacked Hearts on video. So you can WATCH the tutorial by clicking below.

Watch the video HERE

First, I took four wood hearts and traced them onto 4 different coordinating pieces of scrapbook paper and then cut them out.

Tracing the wood hearts onto the scrapbook paper.

Next, I decoupaged the scrapbook paper hearts onto each of the wood hearts. To decoupage, you add a nice layer of Mod Podge onto the wood heart, and then put the paper on top.

Don’t worry if it’s not exactly lined up because we will sand it in the next step.

Decoupage the neutral hear scrapbook paper to the heart.

Using my Gator Sander (you NEED one of these if you don’t already have one!), I sanded off all the excess paper.

Sanding the excess scrapbook paper off of the hearts.

For the base, I stained a wood pallet with Antique Wax by painting it on and wiping the excess off with a baby wipe.

Staining the wood pallet base with antique wax.

Then I stained one regular 12″ paint stick.

Staining the paint stick with antique wax.

And 2 Dollar Tree Jenga Blocks.

Staining the jenga blocks with antique wax.

I had these galvanized metal letters, but I wanted them gold so I used my finger to rub on Gold Leaf Rub n’ Buff.

Rubbing gold rub n buff on the galvanized metal letters.

The hearts were a tad thick, and the edges were plain wood, so I decided to Rub n’ Buff the edges of the 4 hearts as well.

Rubbing gold rub n buff on the outer edges of the hearts.

To put it together I used hot glue to glue the paint stick down into the slats of the pallet. I used two Jenga blocks to reinforce it, one in front and one in back like you see below.

Gluing the paint stick into the wood pallet base with hot glue and reinforced by Jenga blocks.

Then I glued the hearts onto the paint stick in a wonky fashion, overlapping them slightly.

Then glued the L-O-V-E to each of the 4 hearts (I decided to keep the letters straight since the hearts were already wonky).

Putting the gold letters on each of the neutral hearts.

The base needed a lil’ somethin’ somethin’, so I glued some excelsior on the pallet around the paint stick.

I finished the base off by gluing two cute sola wood flowers, one in front and one behind.

Sola wood flowers and excelsior at the bottom of the stacked hearts.

The very last thing I did was tie a skeleton key onto a piece of twine to make a shoestring bow.

I made four of these, one for each heart, and glued them to the top “humps” of the hearts, alternating left/right.

A twine bow with e skeleton key on the top of the heart.

The completed Stacked Neutral Hearts is truly stunnnnninnggggg!! I am ObSESSed with a capital ‘O’!

If you aren’t into the neutral Valentines Day, don’t you worry I have plenty of traditional pink, red, and conversation heart crafts too!

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