Heart Shaped Song Lyrics- A Valentine's Craft

One of my new favourite things to do is put Lovey Dovey song lyrics in the shape of a heart using Microsoft
Word. I saw a picture of it on Pinterest but the link led to a blog that was closed, but after some googling I came across this tutorial on how to do it : http://doitandhow.com/2012/06/19/shape-text-using-microsoft-word/.  I thought it would be the perfect Valentine's craft, so I decided to do it using the lyrics of The Book of Love by Peter Gabriel because I really really like that song. I really think these would make such sweet, personal, unique gifts. You can use lyrics, quotes, poems, words from a love letter!!! Now that would be very romantic!

Here is my tutorial:
 
Step 1: Choose your text and write into Microsoft Word. I spaced each line evenly and highlighted some of my favourite lines in red and made them a little larger than the rest of the words. The font I used was Harlow Solid Italic. I also repeated the lyrics once, simply because some of the words will be cut off when it's put into the heart shape so having the lyrics twice, each line should be readable at least once.

Step 2: Copy and paste this text to Paint. Crop the image so that there is no excess white background as the text needs to go to the very edge of the heart to retain the heart shape.

Step 3: Save the image as a .JPEG or .BMP file. 

Step 4: Back in MS Word, go to Insert and in mine I go to Shapes and there's a heart available, or in the other tutorial you go to Insert, Picture, and choose Autoshape. Once you have your heart, make it whatever size you want.

Step 5: Right click on the heart and choose Format Autoshape. In the Colours and Lines tab, find Fill Effects and click this.

Step 6: In the Fill Effects window, go to Picture and Select Picture. Select the image file that you've just saved and click insert. If it looks ok, click OK. Now you can also have the heart with or without a border. I choose to have mine without the border. To have it without a border, in Colours and Lines, where it says line, click on the colour menu and select 'no colour'.

Step 7: Resize heart if needed, print and enjoy.

Hopefully your heart now looks like mine above. I apologize if my instructions aren't very clear and I'm very sorry I couldn't put up step by step images, I have no idea how to take images from MS Word. The tutorial I've linked is very clear and easy to follow though so if you're having trouble, head over there.

Enjoy!!!
Jen x