How to make a salt dough heart with roses.
Sculpt a salt dough heart for a Valentine's Day gift. This post features the step-by-step process for making the heart. This is a link to the salt dough recipe and instructions for making the salt dough.
Step 1: Roll two pieces of dough into long strands.
Step 2: Twist the strands of dough.
Step 3: Form the twisted strands into a heart shape and place the heart on wax paper.
Step 4: Create a liquid paste by mixing a piece of dough with a small amount of water. Use this past to connect the strand ends and to glue on leaves and roses.
Step 5: Form a leaf from a lump of green dough and press lines into the leaf with an opened paper clip.
Step 6: Glue the leaves on the strand. Dip a paper clip in the glue mixture and insert into the top. 
Step 7: Place three leaves at the top of the heart.
Step 8: Roll out a small ball of red dough into a narrow strand.
Step 9: Flatten the strand.
Step 10: Begin rolling the strand by pressing on one edge so the other will flare out like the center of a rose.
Step 11: Continue rolling until the center is formed.
Step 12: Flatten tiny balls of dough and place around the center. 
Step 13: Overlap the dough petals. 
Step 14: Place the glue mixture in the middle of the leaves and then press the dough rose in the center. 
Step 15: Press the bottom of the dough rose down using the end of a paint brush. 
Step 16: Roll two rose centers and add next to the main dough rose. 
Step 17: Gently lift the wax paper and place on a cookie sheet. Dry in the oven at 170 degrees all night. Turn the dough heart over and dry all day until the back side is hard. You can spray varnish on your rose to preserve the color. 
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