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Thursday, 1 August 2013

Clarity stamp August Challenge - Animals

Morning All and thank you so much for all your fantastic entries on the Claritystamp Challenge Blog.
Good luck to all our entrants - some lucky chickadee is going to win a £50 voucher to spend at Claritystamp.
My project for this month uses a heart shape hanger.  It all started with a wooden heart I bought from. My local Craft Shop.  When I got it home I wondered if it would work on grungeboard (I had some grungeboard which I'd never used!!) so I drew round and cut out the heart.  It's sooo flexible - I love it.

I then painted the grungeboard with gesso and English Cottage Artist's Townhouse Teal.  Then using the Claritystamp alphabet stamps and Black Archival Ink I stamped my wording "Home is where the ...... is.  I had a Clarity cat stamp in my stash (sorry to all the dog lovers) which, I thought, went well in this project.  Finally I had some newly acquired Kromer Crackle which I couldn't wait to use.  This dries white so mix it with a small amount of acrylic paint for a better effect.  One thing I wasn't prepared for was how long it takes to dry - DAYS - so I would advise you leave yourself plenty of time.  I was so pleased with the effect so it was well worth the wait.   Then I rubbed over the crackle and round the edges of the heart with Treasure Gold.

A piece of toning ribbon and all was complete.

                                          
  


11 comments:

  1. This is gorgeous Yvonne, love the crackle and wax it really makes it ping! x

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  2. A fabulous heart Yvonne, I love what you've done with it. How funny that we should both use the heart for our DT projects, we must be psychic, lol. Hugs P xxxx

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  3. Fabulous Heart Yvonne! I love the colour and the crackle looks brilliant with the gilding wax over it!!! x

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  4. I NEEEEEEEEED this yvonne Lol!! Think i have said that before lol. Great project and so effective :-) xx

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  5. Great project Yvonne and lurve the crackle, fab inspiration for this challenge :-) xx

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  6. That is beautiful Yvonne. Things like that are so popular in the shops at the moment but they're so expensive. It's so much nicer and more fun to make your own. The Kroma Crackle looks fab (that's another thing I must have a go at). Mine will have a dog on it though. lol x

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  7. Great project Yvonne , and I am with Lynne.....love the cat but would love a dog even more......x

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  8. This is beautiful Yvonne, lovely project X

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  9. What a great heart I love it the crackling has turned out into a lovely delicate pattern with the guilding giving it that extra ping. love it but mine wouldn't have a cat or a dog maybe my bed lol xx

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  10. Fab heart Yvonne, love the cat and super colour shading. xx Flora

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  11. Love the altered cat heart and I know teal is your fave colour....it's one of mine too. x

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