Welcome Back France Papillon Project #1 Hearts ....

"Hi all, how good to be back with some PaperArtsy offerings"!

After covering a chunky wooden heart with Snowflake, I applied 3 Adirondack Alcohol Ink colours: Butterscotch, Terracotta and Red Pepper. To blend them nicely, I repeated that step adding Blending Solution on the same felt, then dabbing it over the heart again.

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On top of that, I applied a thin layer of Claret using a piece of Cut N Dry.

I left it to dry before thoroughly distressing it with a sanding grip. I then stamped with Snowflake using this JOFY Mini onto the heart.

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To make the stamping work, I used the stamp without an acrylic block so that the shape of the stamp could follow around the shape of the heart.

I prepared my wording again using Snowflake.

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I stamped C4 on a piece of Crunchy Waxed Kraft Paper. I also got a piece of Kraft bazzil paper ready to put behind the Crunchy Waxed Kraft Paper.

As the stamping of the circles was looking too harsh, I softened it down by melting some Melt Art Natural Bees Wax over the heart with my heat gun. I placed my heart over a piece of waxed paper so that I could scrape off the melted wax, put it back on the heart and remelt it using my heat gun, until I had wax all over the heart.

And as I love hearts, one just wasn’t enough. So I kept playing on a number 8 Manilla tag, I created a crackled background using Taupe Fresco as base, Crackle glaze and Concrete Fresco as top layer. To make it look more distressed, I ran a sanding grip over it.

For my heart, I cut out a base in 2 mm cardboard running 2 pieces of it through my Big Shot with the Tall Heart PaperArtsy cutting die. 
 

I glued the 2 die cuts together with Tacky Glue, and then applied 3 layers of GrungePaste on top of each other, leaving each layer to dry before attacking the next one. Once the 3^rd layer was halfway dry, I pressed a chain into the paste, to create a mark.

I painted the heart with London Bus and Claret Fresco paint, applying both paints with a baby wipe. Once dried, I distressed it with a sanding grip. To make the chain marks pop, I filled the ridges with Van Dyck Brown Acrylic Paint. This also creates a shiny contrast with the matte Fresco Paint.

I glued the heart on the background and added a piece of the chain, attached with metal wire at the back of the tag. The wording is from the MN48 stamp, stamped with black Archival ink on Smoothy paper. I also stamped BG2 with sepia Archival ink on it and colorized the paper with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. I glued it on the tag using 3D foam.

See you tomorrow with a new project! Meanwhile go, go and have some fun playing with hearts! 

Leandra says: Love the wax, love the chain in the grunge. It looks beautiful France. Hearts are always timeless elements to use, and these are really powerful images.

Gillian says: Hearts are always a winner in my book, love the distressed/waxed elements you have incorporated into this project.