Two Hearts

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There are several challenges that caught my eye and inspired me this month which I would like to join in with and I will list them below,  so today I am sharing a card I have been working on for the last few days which dabbles in mixed media something I am fairly new to and always learning mostly by experiments that don't always work lol, but hay ho that's crafting and that's what I love about it. 
I apologise for the photo's but the last 4 days have been grey and overcast dreadful for photography and to get these I had to balance the card onto a large plant in the conservatory.

 

I started with a 6x6 piece of paper from Tim Holtz paper pad vintage shabby which was a pale greyish colour I covered this in picket fence distress stain to lighten the colour next using a Stencil I applied texture paste and left to dry, now as you know I am not the most patient of people  and hate to wait so this part of mixed media - playing the waiting game is hard for me  .....soooooooo I got some other craft stash out and made some backgrounds..............much better than  doing h*******k while I waited don't you agree lol. Sorry I am rambling back to card or else we will be here all day.........texture paste dry I then dry brushed the paste area with Adirondack paint lake mist, when dry this and other parts of the paper were painted with clear rock candy distress crackle paint I also applied paint and crackle to one of my hearts which I die cut from corrugated card with a Sizzix die (very old have had it years). My second heart cut from card was covered in  brushed pewter distress stain using distress ink pumice stone around the edges. Distress inks (as before) were added to all the crackles on my wall and heart, also distress ink pumice stone was added to the distressed edges of the main paper which I tore and curled first.  Tissue tape was added to the paper and the heart, chit chat stickers were added to my "wall" firstly the edges distressed with pumice stone.

sorry about the colour in this photo

 

Next step I made my card blank in white card and stamped the lovely distress corners one of my fav stamps from the Tim Holtz visual artistry collections range of stamps , using distress markers in the same colours as above inks and the spritzer tool these were added in various places on the card edges also onto the main paper, I also added some black soot very liberally. This done the main paper was attached to card blank and I added very small buttons to the burlap flowers and added knots of twine, the wooden word "love" was distressed with tea dye distress ink and an Idea-ology metal tab (precious) was added beneath the heart.

 

again sorry for the greenish tint on the photo really wish the sun would shine here soon!



 

Phew hope you managed to stay with me through this long post, as I mentioned at the beginning several challenges inspired me to make this card,  I really enjoy the challenge of mixed media which I am always nervous about but have come to the conclusion the only mistakes are learning curves lol.

The challenges which inspired me are

 New to me The Mixed Media Card Challenge #8 Love

 A Vintage Journey Tic Tac Toe  - Ribbon/twine / Die Cuts/Stains

Artist Trading Post  Exchange February Challenge- Love is in the Air

 Craft Stamper Magazine Make It Take It Challenge February - Stencilling

Thanks for looking. until next time




Ingredients
Tim Holtz
Distress Inks/distress markers pumice stone, tea dye, black soot. Distress stains picket fence/brushed pewter. Paper pad, Idea-ology, Distress crackle paint clear rock candy, Tissue tape, Stamps Visual Artistry Collections, Spritzer, chit chat stickers, Ranger Adirondack Paint Dabber lake mist.
Others
Sizzix die, texture paste, wooden word, burlap flowers, small buttons, twine, hot glue gun, Stencil Tando , card