Distressed Wood String Heart Art

This cute string art heart decoration uses a cast-off piece of wood, small nails, and embroidery floss for a simple and sweet craft.

Active Time30

Total Time30

Yield: heart

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Cost: $1

Piece of distressed wood, any size The 2 examples are 2×4 ends cut 4″ and 5-1/2″ long
Small nails (1/2″ – 3/4″) In silver or brass
Embroidery floss in red, red-pink (example), or pink
Heart image clip art printed and cut out

Sand edges of your wood piece, if needed, and use a piece of looped tape to hold the cut-out heart image on the wood where you’d like it.
Hammer nails into wood around the heart starting at the top and bottom and evenly spacing the nails across from each other around the heart shape 1/2-inch apart. Hammer as straight as you can, but don’t be too worried about it – the imperfection is one of the charms of this!
When all the nails are in place, tie the end of the embroidery floss to a nail and trim close to the knot. Then just start looping the floss around the nails.

You’ll want to make sure you go around the edge with floss in order to outline the shape.

And of course taking the floss in all different directions through the heart is the fun part.

Keep looping until it’s as full as you’d like before tying off, again trimming close to the knot.