Monochrome Heart for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

Today I've got an MDF Heart to show you, decorated with dies and stamps by Leonie Pujol.

First I cut some flowers and leaves from black card using the Flower Bursts dies and rubbed on some Pebeo silver gilding wax.

For the centres I used this one - I snipped into the die-cuts and rolled them up with a quilling tool.

I shaped the flowers on a foam mat with a large ball tool 

then glued three layers and one centre together using a glue gun

To decorate the heart I took some ivory card from my stash and traced around an MDF heart with a pencil.

After cutting the heart out and glueing it to the MDF using Mod Podge, I sanded the edges to get a flush finish. Before splatting on some black ink I covered half of the heart with some kitchen roll.

To get the splats I pressed a black Memento inkpad onto my craft mat and picked the ink up with a large wet paintbrush, then tapped the brush over the top of my project.

Next I took one of the stamps in the Gimme Texture set and stamped around the edge of the heart, starting at the top.

Oops, missed a bit - I'll fill it in with a black fineliner at the end :o)

The sentiment is from Leonie's Hey There Dreamer stamp set.

For hanging the heart up I poked a hole through the card with my pokey tool (from the back first so it lined up with the hole in the MDF), and attached a loop of black spotted organza ribbon by knotting it at the back. I attached three of the flowers with a glue gun then after a bit of umming and aahing I tucked a couple of leaves in at the top to finish it off.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Artistic Stampers  Black and white
City Crafter Challenge #369  Black & White
Creative Craft Cottage Digi Creations #76 Monochrome
613 Avenue Create  #199 Anything Goes w/Optional Twist: Monochrome
Southern Girls #163 Ribbon or twine
Craft for the craic Handmade flowers, not a card
Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies Challenge July

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Love Heart for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

I've another Leonie make to show you today, using the 'Off She Flew' stamp set

First I stamped the stitchy heart onto red georgette fabric, then turned it over and ironed onto a used tumble drier sheet with interfacing in between.

I stitched over the stitch marks with some silver thread and then cut the heart out.

To make the background I dabbed worn lipstick distress ink onto my craft mat and spritzed it with water before dragging a piece of Sheena's Stamping Card through it.
When it was dry I stamped some of the solid hearts all over with the same ink and then flicked a little rich gold paint at it.

At this point I glued the card onto an MDF heart with Mod Podge and cut off the excess.

To make the border I stamped the tip of the solid heart all the way around the edge using Versamark ink and then sprinkled on'Classic Pewter' embossing powder. I also used the same powder to do the sentiment.

To finish off I added a button and some red organza ribbon.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Simon Says Stamp (Mon)Monochrome
Craft Rocket Challenges #16 Monochrome
Sweet Stamps Technique Challenge Anything but a card
 Crafting from the Heart #114 Anything Goes (Always)
We Love 2 Create #11 Anything Mixed Media Goes
A Vintage Journey - Sew Special (include fabric)
Sweet Stampin Embossing (and stamping) 

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x