Valentine’s Day decorations of red branches and heart blocks

Paint and painting is my “go-to” medium this year. So for each holiday I am going to be painting my new decor elements. Valentine’s Day is just around the corner so I thought I’d spray paint some recycled branches with Testors gloss red to make a large-scale arrangement and play with all sorts of painting techniques on scrap wood blocks using the heart and all things Valentine as my theme.

I highly recommend working on lots of different surfaces as each one holds no stress and you can just play with each one. Here is a list of the different painting elements:

Stencil

Dots

Drybrush

Arrows

Key hole

Cupcake

Letters (x and o)

Checks

Stripes

Stamping heart with recycled TP tube

Glowing

Starburst rays

Corner studs

squiggles

running stitch (dashes)

I used regular colors of Testors Paint along with metallic and Glitter. The more the merrier!

Thank you to Testors.com for sponsoring this post. All opinions are my own.

I cut my wood square chunks from scraps of leftover 2×4’s but you could use anything.

I punched the stencils out of regular sticky back paper.

Here are some of my scrap wood blocks in progress with some of the paper stencils still on. As you can see I used the inside pieces and outside. I just kept playing until each block had several colors, patterns and elements. After I liked all my backgrounds I stenciled half of them with x’s and half with o’s.

For my red branch bouquet I simply went out to the yard and trimmed my camellia tree of a few dead branches.

Then a few coats of Testors Red gloss spray paint rotating the branches in between each so they would be covered evenly I placed them in a large glass vase.

So whether you grab branches from your yard, wood from your scrap bin or buy something from the store put your Valentine touch on it with a bit of paint and spread the love!