Hello and a very Happy Valentines day from myself the design Elf and Sarah-Jane the Fruit Pixie!!
For St Valentines day I have made a sweet heart project for you and I have taken some photos along the way to show you how I achieved it.
To begin with I took one of the Creative Expressions MDF hearts and painted it using the Cosmic Shimmer chalk paint in Nude.
I cut one of the BoBunny large doily's apart and glued some of the lacy pattern to the top and bottom of the heart.
I then used one of the Creative Expressions masks - Damask and some Cosmic Shimmer chalk paint in warm white this time to stencil through it.
Some of the Creative Expressions self adhesive pearls and also their pearl corners were added for decoration.
I chose some of the Bo Bunny petals, cut them down between the petal shapes and added either one of the Creative Expressions self adhesive pearls or a self adhesive crystal to the centre of each flower and folded them up.
Then I took a butterfly from the Craftwork cards Time flies and added some of the pearls along the middle. Using a quickie glue pen I added some of the Cosmic Shimmer Sahara Gold glitter around the edge.
It then needed a sentiment and so I chose the Visible image stamp Just making memories and stamped it in black onto a scrap of Craftwork Cards paper and cut it out in a rectangle and mounted it onto card. I added a thin line of glitter again with the Quickie glue pen around the sentiment.
I used a hot glue gun to attach the flowers and butterfly. I realise I covered up my stencilling but sometimes that happens as a project evolves. Never be afraid to cover something up you like if that needs to happen. After all you know its there!
To finish I cut up one of the pearl corners to add a flower to the sentiment and then used the remaining pearls to fill in any gaps.
This is such a sweet mixed media project that would be lovely as a Valentines gift but also as a gift for a bride on her Wedding day. You could use the colours of the wedding too. I think mine might become a Mothers day gift.
You can find products from -
Creative Expressions, MDF heart, mask, pearls, pearl corners here - http://www.thefruitpixie.co.uk/creative-expressions-461-c.asp
Cosmic Shimmer paints and glitter - http://www.thefruitpixie.co.uk/cosmic-shimmer-311-c.asp
Bo Bunny flowers and doiley - http://www.thefruitpixie.co.uk/bo-bunny-448-c.asp
Visible Image stamps Memories stamp- http://www.thefruitpixie.co.uk/visible-image-640-c.asp
Craftwork Cards butterfly - http://www.thefruitpixie.co.uk/craftwork-cards-8-x-8-collection-pack-time-flies-25760-p.asp
Hope you have enjoyed this project and have a very Happy St Valentines day too
Love Katrina
