2016 #2: Crazy Patchwork Heart By Karen Daniell

2016 Topic 2: Hearts 

Hi everyone Karen Daniell here, sharing a project with you for the hearts theme.

This evening I am showing you a crazy patchwork heart. My mum taught me to sew when I was a little girl, and so I have always loved playing with fabric. I decided to use a patchwork technique for my project but using card and paint as well as fabric and lace.

Step1 – First I made my heart template. As I was working with a 12 x 12 canvas board, I took a 12 x 12 piece of paper and cut out a heart shape. I then drew the crazy pattern onto this, starting with a triangle in the centre, then dividing the rest of the heart into sections. I made 2 of these one to keep as a reference and one to cut up.

Step 2 – Using the pattern, I cut out a heart shape in Bondaweb and ironed it onto a piece of Linen Scrim. (Bondaweb is a double sided glue which is activated by heat, used in sewing to bond fabrics together). I cut the scrim heart using pinking shears, leaving about 1cm around the Bondaweb.

I then brayered Fresco Chalk Acrylic paint onto pieces of Lightweight Smoothy Card and white cotton fabric. I used Bora Bora, Candy Floss, Guacamole and Chalk on some and Spanish Mulberry, Mermaid, Guacamole and Chalk on others. On the card pieces I then over-stamped some of the smaller images from JOFY13, JOFY24 and JOFY32, using Spanish Mulberry, Bora Bora and Chalk. I then used my pattern to cut pieces of the card and fabric to fit the heart. I tried to alternate the fabric and card to give a contrast.

JOFY13

JOFY24

Step 3 – Using Jet Black and Potting Soil Archival ink pads I stamped each piece with images from JOFY13, JOFY24 and JOFY32. I then ironed the pieces onto the linen heart to bond together.

JOFY32,

Step 4 – I then coloured in all of the images using translucent Fresco Chalk Acrylic Paint. I used Zesty Zing, Hey Pesto, Pumpkin Soup, Tango, Blood Orange, Claret, Autumn Fire and Blueberry. I also used Spanish Mulberry mixed with Satin Glaze and Glass Blue mixed with a little Concrete. When I was happy with it I added a few dots of Chalk to some of the images.

Step 5 – Next I found some pieces of cream lace and glued them over the joins of the card and fabric using matt medium. I tried where possible to cover the ends of the lace. I then worked 3 lines of stitching around the heart with a variegated sewing thread.

Step 6 – Onto the corners of the canvas board I glued some scrunched up tissue paper to give some texture, then I painted it with Bora Bora and Guacamole Fresco Chalk Acrylic Paint, adding a touch of Candy Floss, Pumpkin Soup and Chalk. When it was dry I rubbed on some Rose Quartz Treasure Gold to highlight the texture in the corners. The heart was attached to the canvas using matt medium, and I also glued buttons to the ends of the lace.

To finish I stamped the alphabet from JOFY21 onto scraps of the brayered card, to spell ‘Hearts and Flowers’, and glued those to the canvas.

JOFY21

I hope you’ve enjoyed this project and that it will inspire you to have a go at some ‘patchwork’ yourself.

Karen xx

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Oh karen I really like this, so pretty and what a different way to use the stamps. The different directions of the flowers provide great movement and the lace adds perfect grounding. ~ Darcy 

We would love to see how you interpret this Hearts topic by linking what you make to our 2016 Challenge #2: Hearts, on this page HERE.

All of our bloggers love to see your twist on their ideas, particularly if you were inspired directly by their post. 

All links go in the draw to win a £50 voucher to spend on products of your choice from the PaperArtsy online store. The 'Hearts' link will close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, February 7th. The winner will be announced 2 hours later at 19:00.

NB this link is open for 3 weeks instead of 2 - all will become clear why on Jan 31st!

2016 #2 Don't lose your heart! {by Debs Wainwright}

2016 Topic 2: Hearts

Hi everyone Debs here, joining you this evening with a post about Hearts. I have a love of hearts and as Valentines Day is not that far away, it was easy to decide to make a card for the occasion. I didn't use traditional colours as I'm not that keen on red; I was drawn to a more vintage style, and Claire's little Cupid from ECL05 was perfect.

         

Step One: I created my background using the hearts from ECL05 and Archival Ink in Potting Shed on to a piece of Smoothy Card which I had cut to size. I aged the edges of the card and then mounted it onto bronze metallic card.

        

Step Two: I used Blue Bister to add a pop of colour to the background. I activated the Bister with Crème brûlée spray From Lyndy's Stamp Gang which gave a fabulous lustre to the card.

Step Three: I stamped my feature onto a smaller piece of card, and aged the edges. I distressed the edges of the card using the Archival Ink and then gently brought the colour into the middle lightly to provide some colour on the Cupid image. She was then mounted onto the same bronze card.

Step Four: I stamped my words onto leftover card, and mounted them to match. Next came the heart, which after stamping onto the bronze card, was cut out.Using a heat tool on the heart for a few seconds changed the bronze coating giving it a wrinkled look. This was then put in place.

                  

Final Step: I assembled the card and once it was completely dry I painted the Cupid's body using Fibralo water Soluable pens, I love these pens over Fresco Acrylic Paints as the colour moves really well. Lastly I added some little gold pearls to finish the look.

 

Claire's heart from ECL05 is just the perfect size for the card, but I think it's a little dominated by the amount of blue in the background. I think I'd use a less Bister next time to give a more subtle affect, which is what I was after. I do love the colour though!

I would love to see what you create with your hearts. You don't have to have 'love' on your mind as hearts can be used in many ways, for example,  you use hearts to create flowers, or in your backgrounds for added interest, or why not string up a few for a wall hanging? The choice is yours!

You can find more about me on my Blog, Pinterest, and Facbook. 
I also teach a journal class monthly at Birds in the Barn in Essex.

Hugs Debs xx

Perfect use of Bistres, and how fab that your heart went kind of wrinkly looking! Love the soft sparkle too, thanks Debs for sharing with us tonight! ~Leandra

We would love to see how you interpret this Hearts topic by linking what you make to our 2016 Challenge #2: Hearts, on this page HERE.

All of our bloggers love to see your twist on their ideas, particularly if you were inspired directly by their post.

All links go in the draw to win a £50 voucher to spend on products of your choice from the PaperArtsy online store. The 'Hearts' link will close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, February 7th. The winner will be announced 2 hours later at 19:00.

NB this link is open for 3 weeks instead of 2 - all will become clear why on Jan 31st!

2016 #2: Mixed Elements Heart {by Lin Brown}

 2016 Topic 2: Hearts

Hi everyone Lin from Yoursartfully here.

Tonight I'd like to share with you a post about recycling and Bister Powders.

My challenge was to make a project using some stamps from the Urban Snapshots range for the theme of hearts. This had me scratching my head, trying to figure out a way of tying the two together. After searching through my stash of substrates in search of anything heart shaped, it suddenly dawned on me that it really couldn't be more simple than using the iconic shape of a heart to show and share my love of trees.

With the idea in the back of my head that we should all be better at recycling, I thought this would be a great opportunity to share a project with you that uses left overs from some experiments I did with my Bister Powders. 

Step One: I gathered together some scraps of fabric that I had used for Bister Powder experiments. I had spritzed the fabric with water before sprinkling on the Bisters (I used Yellow, Blue and Green). Sometimes I needed to spritz more water to get the powder to dissolve which made the fabric very wet. Because of the amount of water involved, I laid the fabrics on paper to mop up some of the liquid. These papers turned out to be very useful as you will see a little bit later. I also used the powders through some stencils too, to try and control the patterns a little bit. Whilst the patterns were not crisp images, they turned out to be very useful.

Step Two: I drew a heart on some tracing paper so that I could use it to decide which area of the patterned fabric to use. Moving this over the fabric is a great way to help you decide. I did also stamp my tree on the tracing paper to give me insight into how it would look,but foolishly forgot to take a photo of that!!!

Step Three: Using Archival ink, I stamped the tree from Urban Snapshots Nature 1. I love how the background looks like a stormy sky. This is why it is such a good idea to use the tracing paper trick......placement is so important.

Step Four: Now for the mop up papers that I mentioned earlier. This was just cheap copy paper but look at the great patterns that were left behind. The one at the top/left is amazing. The fabric I used had a tiny pattern printed on it and this acted as a resist....so cool. The other two pieces were linen with chunkier weave which also left behind some great patterns.

Step Five: I chose the paper with the least amount of colour as I wanted to stamp other images from Urban Snapshots Nature 2 and 3.

Urban Snapshot Nature 2

Urban Snapshot Nature 3

Step Six: This final shot shows how I used small pieces of my recycled papers behind the heart and a layer of lace between the heart and background before stitching everything together.

When I make a project, I always feel that it's the small finishing touches that transform a project that you like into a project that you love. In this instance, it was the addition of the small label. Luckily, I thought to do this before fixing everything to my canvas!

I hope this project has inspired you to to use up some of those papers and fabrics that you can't bear to through away and to take a look at the stamps in the Urban Snapshots range. There are some fabulous images in this range which I hate to admit, I had completely forgotten about but I will definitely be using them more often now. In fact I think I might make two more canvases to enable me to create a triptych

Thank you for joining me this evening.
Lin  from Yoursartfully 

The subtle effects from the Bister Powders has created the most wonderful backgrounds. It is interesting to see how the powders react/take on different surfaces. The images and natural canvas background gives this project a real ethereal feel. Thank you for sharing your creativity with us. ~Gillian

We would love to see how you interpret this Hearts  topic by linking what you make to our 2016 Challenge #2: Hearts, on this page HERE.

All of our bloggers love to see your twist on their ideas,  particularly if you were inspired directly by their post. 

All links go in the draw to win a £50 voucher to spend on products of your choice from the PaperArtsy online store. The 'Hearts' link will close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, February 7th. The winner will be announced 2 hours later at 19:00.

NB this link is open for 3 weeks instead of 2 - all will become clear why on Jan 31st!

2016 #2: Romantic Hearts Wall Hanging {by Liz Borer}

 2016 Topic 2: Hearts

2016 Topic 2: Hearts

2016 Topic 2: Hearts

2016 Topic 2: Hearts

Hi there, Elizabeth here again. Today the topic is 'Hearts ' and I have unashamedly created a very pretty , romantic Wall hanging because there is a particular date in early February that will be with us all too soon.

 

The base of the Wall hanging is made from heavy card or thin MDF painted with white Gesso. The background is made from white fabric. I cut the fabric larger than the base and allowed a little extra to use later. I made the fabric quite wet and then sprinkled Brusho colours over the fabric (I used Gamboge, Violet, Crimson and Scarlett). I coloured the fabric this way because I wanted the colours to spread and blend together. This created some interesting colours especially when the gamboge and violet mixed.  

Once the fabric was dry I ironed it and then stencilled all over it using various stencils. I covered the whole fabric using Nougat paint. Where the different stencils came close I dabbed paint onto the fabric to fill in the gaps. When finished I had a patterned piece of fabric with the bright base colours showing through the stencilling .  

I then took another piece of white fabric and coloured it the same way but used less of the violet Brusho (because it's a very deep colour). This piece of fabric was much pinker than the first. When it was partially dry I screwed it up to create creases and dried it with the creases in place. Once dry I used the firm side of a piece of cut and dry foam to carefully rub Chalk paint over the fabric to colour the creases. Again I ironed the fabric once the paint was dry. 

 
I cut three hearts from cardboard to use as backings for the fabric and cut the fabric slightly larger than the card so that it could be wrapped around the card. The fabric was then stamped with a script stamp from HP1216 and then flowers from HP1009. I used Archival Inks Jet Black and Plum, alternating the colours on the different hearts. To make the hearts puffy I stuck wadding onto the card bases before sticking the fabric over the hearts and folding it around the back of the card .  

HP1216

 HP1009

Once the hearts were complete I felt that they would not stand out from the background as the colours were too similar. So I mixed a little violet Brusho with some Matte Glaze and rubbed it around the edges of the hearts. I mixed some of the gamboge with Matte medium and painted this over the flowers to add interest.    

The first piece of fabric was adhered to the base, folding and sticking it around the edges. I then stamped the butterflies from HP1506 randomly onto the fabric using plum and jet black Ink. Finally I stamped flowers from EEB06 over the fabric using plum ink .   

HP1506

EEB06

The quote was stamped onto fabric painted with Nougat. The frame was stencilled with texture paste to create some interest. Once dry I painted it with violet Brusho mixed with Matte Glaze. I then rubbed White Fire Treasure Gold over the frame, around the edges of the base and around the edges of the hearts .   

I finished the hanging by sticking lace across the base and then sticking the hearts in place. I rubbed some Royal Amethyst Treasure Gold onto four little hearts and then attached beads and pearls onto the hearts with Glossy Accents glue. I also stuck similar beads to the main hearts. Some of the flowers on the hanging were made from left over coloured fabric die cut with a spiral flower die. These had to be stitched to create the flowers. The hanger at the top of the piece was made from coloured jewellery wire wrapped with lace. The little hearts were hung from the base using the same wire. Finally I stuck on the framed quote and the flowers .
 

I never know exactly how one of my projects will look until they are finished, but I enjoyed creating this and exploring fabric painting. I hope this project inspires you to try some of these ideas. I'll be back again soon with another project.

Liz

Such a wonderful detailed and intricate background to this wall hanging Liz, the colour pigments from the Brusho Powders are beautiful. Love how the fabric hearts have been created and how they add dimension to the center piece. Thanks again for sharing your creativity with us. ~Gillian


We would love to see how you interpret this Hearts  topic by linking what you make to our 2016 Challenge #2: Hearts, on this page HERE.

All of our bloggers love to see your twist on their ideas,  particularly if you were inspired directly by their post. 

All links go in the draw to win a £50 voucher to spend on products of your choice from the PaperArtsy online store. The 'Hearts' link will close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, February 7th. The winner will be announced 2 hours later at 19:00.

NB this link is open for 3 weeks instead of 2 - all will become clear why on Jan 31st!

2016 #2: My Heart {by Lynne Moncrieff}

2016 Topic 2: Hearts 

Hi everyone, Lynne Moncrieff (Adorn) here this evening to share with you a post focusing on the theme of Hearts. When, in 2015 I had a Guest post for PaperArtsy, the assemblage I created featured a beautiful ESN linked hearts stamp which I stamped into paperclay. Stamping into paperclay appeals to me for many reasons, especially as a way for us stampers to extend the versatility of our stamp collection. For this tutorial I wanted to return to the hearts stamp, once again stamping into paperclay but this time with quite a different style and outcome to the finished artwork.

Now, I might not be one to get giddy over embellishments but let's talk about Prima Relics and Artifacts! Those creamy, smooth resin embellishments are wonders, blank canvases ripe and ready for us to throw whichever mediums we wish at them. Marrying them up with the stamped paperclay allowed me to create a whimsical art doll. She is ready to give her heart to you. 

Step One: After rolling the paperclay I stamped the linked hearts from ESN11 into it - no need to ink up the stamp.

 ESN11

Step Two: As I only required the large heart, with a craft knife I cut directly through the linked smaller heart. Paperclay can be cut with a knife/scissors before or after it has dried. 

Step Three: Working with the paperclay and an Art Doll Face mould could not be any easier! If you are new to working with paperclay, a few factors determine the drying time:-the thickness of the paperclay element, humidity and temperature. It's always a good idea to make a batch of elements at one time, saves time in the long run. 

Step Four:- A base layer of colour in the form of Distress Stain Spray Tattered Rose was misted onto a large white/greyboard tag before applying Grungepaste . Once dry, I followed with Translucent Paste applied to a heart stencil. To this, I applied Fresco Finish Blue Oyster, Blush and Prawn mixed with Brown Shed (please don't look too closely at my messy bottles!)

Step Five: After the texture and colour was laid down, I set about stamping with Archival Ink Watering Can. Below are the three stages of stamping. 

Step Six: Dipping into the colours used on the tag along with a dash of Sherbert, I lightly and shabbily painted the paperclay elements along with a wooden frame and hearts and two Relics and Artifacts hands. For the Relics and Artifacts wings, I first misted with Tattered Rose, leaving to air dry before dabbing on Nougat and Blush. Note:- I removed the eye screws from the Relics and Artifacts after painting but that is a personal preference only.

Step Seven: The fun part, assembling the art doll on the tag, with my adhesive of choice, Golden Gel Medium. Little touches such as raspberry velvet ribbon, lace, rhinestones and a MOP heart button and to add just another hint of texture and detail to the tag, I swiped Blue Oyster onto deli paper, stamped the handwritten script from ESN18, tearing into fragments before adhering with Gel Medium to the background.

ESN18, 

One final detail photograph to share with you of the heart she clasps in her hands. This wooden heart was painted with Brown Shed mixed with Prawn before stamping My Heart from ESN11 with Staz-on Jet Black. I had to alter the configuration of the sentiment to fit the heart, inking up a word at a time. To give a beautiful shiny layer I applied Liquid Glass.

It is always fun to take a loved stamp and work with it in a different way, play around with it, creating something that is a little bit different to your "go to" style. Maybe for the Hearts theme you will delve into your own heart stamp collection. A small heart repeatedly stamped in a circle could form a flower head or a single heart to create another style of quirky flower, completing the flowers with a simple hand-drawn stalk. By stamping into paperclay it would instantly bring extra depth and interest to your artwork and the benefit of paperclay, with it being so light, once dry, it is suitable for cards or small tags as well as larger pieces of art. 

Re-evaluating this project, I would probably take the step of either stamping a face into paperclay or adding hand-drawn features. It would also be fun to extend the doll to include legs and dressing her with a skirt of lace. I hope you will have fun exploring your heart themed stamps.

Lynne Moncrieff

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This is so lovely Lynne, the doll face and the overall colour scheme is so serene. The different levels of dimension all compliment each other from the grunge paste to the paper clay to the hands and heart. Thanks for sharing with us. ~Darcy 

We would love to see how you interpret this Hearts topic by linking what you make to our 2016 Challenge #2: Hearts, on this page HERE.

All of our bloggers love to see your twist on their ideas, particularly if you were inspired directly by their post. 

All links go in the draw to win a £50 voucher to spend on products of your choice from the PaperArtsy online store. The 'Hearts' link will close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, February 7th. The winner will be announced 2 hours later at 19:00.

NB this link is open for 3 weeks instead of 2 - all will become clear why on Jan 31st!