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Sunday 23 October 2011

Home is where the heart is....second post today!

Hey there bloggers,
Well my second offering today has amazed me!! It started life as a very cheap canvas and I am thrilled with the results!! So here she is:

I wanted to enter the houses challenge over at The Octopode factory @  http://toffchallenge.blogspot.com/ but didn't really know where I was going to end up...quite often I have a firm idea of where I am heading at least, but this time I went with it and loved where I ended up!!! I may even hang it up !!!!!
I started with my scrummy dylusions paints and added colour to the canvas board, then when dry I added some white through sequin waste, dried (yes I blasted it with my heat gun!!!) I added some of the rusty red colour using sponge dabber to soften some of the white. I added some aged mahogany distress ink around the edges when dry..( I couldn't not, if you read my previous post I didn't use any DI and was still shaking!!!).
Onwards, I took Lilys house Digi and just added colour to the heart, using DI.I also added some grass, a Lily rubber stamp.
The font was from the computer and I cut a heart to put 'heart' onto using Tim movers and shapers die, coloured using DI.
The small hearts were made using the same die, I cut them from clear shrink plastic (forgotten how much I love this stuff,) then I made the whole. They were coloured using alcohol inks.... which I then remembered were flammable!!!, so wondered if that and heat was such a cool idea?
I heated the pieces with some trepidation, but was ok...phew!!!!
I added two as smoke from chimney and the rest to the wire to hang the piece up.
I am entering this for:
houses @ http://toffchallenge.blogspot.com/
new beginnings i.e new house @ http://ceschallenges.blogspot.com/

Thanks for stopping by, let me know what you think?
I am really pleased and can see a few more hangings coming on !!!!
Have a happy inky day
Ta Trace x

7 comments :

  1. Aw this is brilliant! Such rich colours, how you get that background as you do really intrigues me! Love those hearts too! Judy x

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  2. A fantastic canvas, looks really fabulous.

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  3. oh you should be pleased hun this is just brilliant the detail is just amazing love it hugs cherylxxxxx

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  4. love the colours really cool

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  5. Love this! Great take on our challenge over at CES....good luck! xx Jenny xx

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  6. Fabulous!! Love the hearts especially! Thanks for playing along with our New Beginnings challenge at CES, Juliexx

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  7. awww... such a gorgeous card thank you for joining our new beginings challenge at CES.
    Hugs Kaylou xx

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Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and leave me a comment..it means a lot..hope you like what you see. Trace x