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Saturday 17 August 2013

Heart Tag


Over on PaperArtsy blog France challenged us to create hearts using Grunge Paste. I free hand cut the heart out of board then gave it several layers of Grunge Paste, the chain I used to make impressions was a very shiny silver coloured one, so that needed a bit of paint on it to age it. I used a blue, brown and green acrylic paints on the chain and also in the chain embossed areas. The heart was painted with a mix of red paints, mostly Blood Orange and Claret. 
The tag had a base coat of London nights which I then covered again with Inky Blue to make it a bit darker.  Then I used the crackle glaze and finally a mix of Mushroom and Snowflake.
The sentiment is a Tim Holtz stamp and was stamped using Archival Black.
Here's a close up of the detail.


11 comments:

Kazkrafts said...

oooooooooo loving this Karin, the red and blue together looks great and the chain is a fab addition.

Alison said...

This looks fabulous Karin! xx

Paula J Atkinson said...

Love it, Karin. The chain around the heart is brilliant.

Carol Q said...

that looks great Karin - love the crackle background.

Craftyfield said...

Great tag! Love how you painted the chain impression, it turned out so much better than mine!

Julie Lee said...

I love this. The crackle background and the chain look really great and the heart is a really dramatic colour. Julie Ann xx

Lin said...

Great tag Karin!!

Gillian .... said...

Lots of fab elements here Karin, looks great. thanks for joining in the PA fun.

Trish said...

A wonderful heart!

PaperArtsy said...

I love how the 'aged' chain turned out!! SO many subtle colours on it looks really patina'd

craftimamma said...

Fab piece Karin. Love all the texture both on the tag and the heart and the aged chain is brilliant.

Hugs
Lesley Xx

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