Your Hearts Desire February Pinworthies

Hi everyone x It's Annie here with the details of our pinworthy choices for "Your Hearts Desire" Challenge.  As always it is very difficult to choose from all the amazing entries and we thank everyone who hopped on board with us in February. It's always a pleasure for the Creative Guides to visit your blogs to view the creative process and to leave a comment,

So in no particular order, here are our Pinworthy choices :

 #11Barbara of Ya Ya Scrap

 Barbara created this amazing textured Etcetera Tag using plaster/Nuvo Mouse and various other elements. The  textured Snowflake and heart are just stunning......such a clever design.

#15 Kerstin Of Scrapbook Dreams

We absolutely adored Kerstin's  celebration box and the beautiful decoration/embellishments, but in particular the amazing heart that takes centre stage.

#24 Cathy of Oddly Appealing

 

We loved Cathy's textured heart that was baked, patina'd rusted and painted with an amazing grungy outcome.

I will be sending your Pinworthy Badges to you shortly ladies xx

Once again, thanks to each and everyone of you who entered our February challenge and we hope that you will also consider entering our 5th Anniversary Challenge,

"Celebrate The Journey" 
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Here is a reminder of our Birthday Challenge Description.
 

"Back on the 7th March 2014 we tasked ourselves to design, devise, invent, imagine and construct to inspire and encourage you to take this path with us and what an incredible journey it has been so far. Many of you have been here since the beginning hopping on board when you can and it's been amazing seeing all your contributions as we've travelled together.

We are hoping that lots of you will join the journey for our Birthday challenge. To do so we are asking that you include the word or any images that depict a 'journey' or even something that shows a creative journey you are on. Please tell us how your project fits the theme in your blog post and remember to create in one of our preferred styles of vintage, shabby, mixed media, art journaling, industrial, timeworn or steampunk."

The challenge theme runs until Thursday 4th April at 18:00 and you can click HERE to view the wonderful projects created by our guides. 

   Can't wait to see what you create!

Lots of Crafty Hugs

Annie and the Creative Guides xx

Your Hearts Desire Tutorial

Hi Everyone xx Its Annie here with the Step by Step Tutorial for my project that was created for our "Your Hearts Desire" challenge theme.
You had better grab a cuppa as there are lots of photographs to view and details to read!!

 

 My canvas measure 8" by 8" and the heart is about 3.5" by 3.5" The heart is polystyrene and I cut it in half so it would lie flat.

 Gesso was applied to the canvas and to create lots of texture I took a palette knife, lightly pressing then lifting all over the canvas.

 You can see that I also added some Art Stones while the gesso was still wet.

 Whilst the gesso  on my canvas was drying I applied some to the heart, enabling me to adhere paint to it xx

 Some lace was adhered to the corners and sides of the canvas

 Followed by some hot glue from my glue gun.

 The photograph below shows the glue applied on each side of the canvas.I then applied more gesso to cover all the embellishments.

 Whilst the gesso was drying I applied some book pages to a piece of grunge board, using my brayer to flatten them on after gluing. I did not want to apply sealer to the top at this stage as I wanted to use distress ink directly on to the paper.

 The distress ink  was then sealed with Judikins Microglaze, which I have had in my stash for years and is now called Tim Holtz Distress Ink Micro Glaze

 Taking Tim Holtz Layered Wings die by Sizzix I cut the wings, ensuring that the book writing was the right way up. Decoart Quinacrodone Red was applied to the heart.

 To dry the paint quicker I applied my heat gun and a "Happy Accident" occurred as the polystyrene expanded creating amazing textured detail on the heart. I adored the colour once I had given it two coats of Quinacrodone Gold

 Tim Holtz Distress Stains in Cracked Pistachio, Vintage Photo, Dried Marmalade, Squeezed Lemonade and Twisted Citron.

 Decoart Gold metallic paint was then dry brushed over the lace, glue and stones and I loved the way this changed the canvas details/textures.

 Some stamped script was applied in Archival Sepia Permanent Ink. The edges of the canvas were then inked with Black Soot Distress Ink

 A close up of the top right corner. You can really see the gold details on the lace, stones and glue.

 Bottom right corner of the canvas and look at the texture on the polystyrene heart...its amazing, looks like skin of a raspberry!!

 And a final pic of the finished project.

 Thank You for sticking with me and I hope you have been inspired by some of the details/techniques used. The challenge remains open until the 28th February so there is still time to enter. Just click HERE to view the inspiration provided by the Creative Guides.

Huge hugs  and Happy Crafting

Annie xx