DIY String Heart

I bought a birch wood square at AC Moore. Which allowed me to smoothly leave indents for the nails and hammer them in quickly.

I printed out the outline of the design I wanted, drew lines about 1 inch apart where I wanted my nails to be and I lightly traced the heart on the wood. Everywhere you draw a line make sure to  indent the wood with a sharp pencil clear enough so you know where to hammer the nails after you paint and glaze(opitional) it.

Along with the wood for my base I purchased black spray paint. I evenly sprayed the wood waited for it to dry and sprayed it a second time. 

I let the spray paint dry over night before I painted the glaze that I bought from Home Depot on to the wood and I used two coats. I allowed the glaze to completly dry over night.

I bought a supply of nails with the glaze and paint brush at Home Depot. 

Using the measurements on my design and the pretty noticeable nail holes I was able to easily insert the nails. I hammered the nails in and left them out about and inch when the nails are an inck and a half.

At last the three day process mostly filled with waiting ended when I double knoted my string color of choice that I bought at AC Moore on the nail at one point of the heart. It doesn't really matter where you start you just want to tie it tight enough so u will be able to cut off most of the excess string. I wrapped it around every nail trying to make it look sort of messy but also even. Once I had string connected to each nail I wrapped the string around the whole heart 3 times. To make the string stay on each time I wrapped it once around both points . Then I doubled knoted it to a nail.

The main string art heart I used for the example was spray painted black and then I glazed it. I also made two more slightly different ones that I gave away as great holiday gifts. 

The one on the left I only glazed and the one on the right I only spray painted it black.