Heart with Flowers

Another quick post today as I am off to work in the shop this afternoon & then it's straight out again to teach our next workshop featuring Zentangle & dreamweaver stencils (see previous posts).

Tonight is our second Zentangle workshop & I'm intrigued to see how tonight's group get on in comparison to our first which was on the 16th.

 Hopefully I'll remember to take some photos so I can show you.

 

 

I wanted to show you something heart related today as we are fast approaching Valentine's day, although my heart isn't red or pink.

 The shop deliveries of Valentine's cards & gifts have long been arriving & are on the shelves so I thought I'd make a few heart shaped crafty items, more of which I will post at a later date.

 

I've also been working a lot with flower stamps & dies lately so flowers had to feature in my project too.

 My daughter's name is Daisy so I always seem drawn to flowers!

 

 

I used an MDF heart from Indigoblu, primed & then painted with a pale yellow acrylic paint.

I then used a Creative Expressions mask & spread texture paste through it onto the heart.

When dry I then decided to paint over the top with the same pale yellow.

 Distress inks in mustard yellow & brushed corduroy & then bronze gilding wax were blended over the surface.

The flower stamp is from Woodware & I stamped all 3 sizes several times in sepia archival ink, cut them out, added the same distress inks & layered them up, shaping the petals to add dimension.

I then added the swirls with gold pearlised pva from Creative Expressions & flat backed pearls in the centres of the flowers. Don't look too closely, the glue is still wet!

 

 

 

The sentiment is also a stamp from Woodware which I stamped in sepia & tore around the edges & distress inked. The final touch was the gold organza ribbon to hang.

 

All these products are available to buy in my shop Out Of The Blue.

 I really enjoy creating these projects to show you & our customers what they can make using them.

 

I hope you like my project, any comments are much appreciated.

 

See you soon

 

Amy x



Mr Zentangle Owl

Morning everyone. Hope you've all had a good week & have lots of crafty plans for the weekend?. I'm hoping to have a day of crafting tomorrow & I've gathered a nice stash of crafty goodies from the shop to try & come up with some new projects for future workshops.

My card today is another Zentangle card as we have another workshop this Thursday using the Dreamweaver stencils for Zentangle.

This particular owl stencil proved to be very popular with our group last week, not surprised really, as owls still continue to be a very popular theme in both our craft & gift sections of the shop.

 

 

This was actually my first attempt at Zentangle & I quite liked the result.

Once I'd finished the owl I simply mat & layered him onto black & white card stock & patterned paper. I die cut some flowers & layered them up, punched a strip of white card with a Martha Stewart border punch, stamped the sentiment from Indigoblu & edged the black card with white pearl cosmic shimmer pva. I also added some faux stitching .

 

One of my New Year's resolutions was to enter more blog challenges, so I'm going to enter this card in 2 today.

 The first is Country View Challenges where the theme is Monochromatic

& the second is Crafty Cardmakers and more where the theme is Black & White & you can win goodies from Woodware.

Pop over & take a look, there's some fab projects on both.

 

That's it from me today, I'm off to work in the shop.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

See you soon

 

Amy x

 

Poppy Heart

Well I don't know where that last week went, & now we are into June!

 At least we are now experiencing some Summer weather at last & I'm pleased to say our camping trip over the bank holiday was a great success due to the sun shining.

 

My post today is a wooden heart decorated with blazing poppies in blues.

Both the MDF heart & Poppy stamp are from Indigo blu.

The sentiment is a Creative expressions stamp & the butterfly stamp is one by Kanban that I've had for ages.

 

 

I gave the heart a layer of white gesso & when dry applied a layer of aqua acrylic paint.

I then stamped the Blazing poppy directly onto the heart with black ink & coloured areas with promarkers .

The areas around the image & the particularly the edges of the heart were sanded back to reveal the white underneath.

I stamped the poppies onto white card & coloured with promarkers, I then cut them out & shaped them with my fingers to make them look more 3D.

These were then stuck onto the flowers on the heart with cosmic shimmer pva glue. I did the same with the butterflies & added stickles glitter glue here & there & gold cosmic shimmer pva dots in the centres of the poppies.

The sentiment was stamped in black & heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

Lime green ribbon to hang finishes the heart.

 

Thanks for visiting my blog, please pop by again soon to see what we're up to in our next workshops, the next one is this Thursday & we will be using Crafty Individuals Stamps.

I'm off now to get packs together for our group of crafty ladies.

 

Amy x