Love heart number 2

Hi everyone. 

This is my new wooden love heart I made.

If you have seen my other blogs you will see I am really enjoying this type of craft.

I started with a wooden heart and started placing objects on the heart till I get the look I like. 

As you will notice from my final piece the shape of the heart and other items have changed.

Next I put a grunge paste tree bark effect all over the heart.

To this i gave a white coat of fresco paint, then  started applying various coats of different blues starting off with the lightest.

To the outer edge i started getting darker with french roast and a small amount of black dress. To this I added a gold edge.

Next I decided to paint my items before I stuck them down to the heart Instead of after as i have done before.

These were painted with my blue fresco paints and finished off with some treasure gold (great product to use).

I then stuck down my flatter Items before i added an amount of cheese cloth which i had paint with gold fresco paint. Then the remainder of items were stuck on the cheese cloth with bits of the cloth appearing between my items.

I added a small heart on the left side which was painted and stuck on more of the gold chesse cloth 

And my final finished heart... 

Many thanks for looking.

Jamie 

Love heart

Hi everyone.

This heart is made for a love theme. This heart was recently bought for me to give it a make over.

Mr first step was to place some items on my heart to get an idea of where I was heading.

As always I take a photo so I know where to put the items back.

Next i wanted to give the small heart some texture, so i put some grunge paste through a stencil.

I next started to glue my items down and give the whole thing a coat of gesso.

I started to think the background needed something, so i stamped in black some words all around the heart and gave this a few coats of white fresco over the top.

I originally had the idea to paint the small heart red and the flowers with creams and browns. Well after painted the heart red and a few coats of browns to the flowers i scraped that idea as it was not going together well. So i decided on lilac fresco paint and vintage plum wax. 

These two colours were all that i used.

I gave all the embelishments a brush with my plum wax and before i glued my last few flowers in place i added some cheese cloth behind them.

I added a butterfly which had some lilac and plum added to it. 

Not bad for a £1 on sale heart! 

Many thanks for taking time to look at my photos, any comments would be welcome.

Jamie