7 of Hearts - Remastered by Amanda Pink

Hi Everyone

Welcome to my Thursday weekly post.

This week I have been dabbling with a little paper crafting. Its something I don't often do so I 

 enjoyed changing things up a bit. I have used 13Art Papers along with some of my own embellishing touches to create a piece of 'postcard art' to share with you today.

The panel itself is a That's Crafty! White/Greyboard surface - postcard size (square corners). I think this is my new favourite size to work on so I'm sure I'll be sharing more postcard art in the coming weeks.

I worked with His and Hers Remastered papers by 13Arts. The papers are available from the shop along with a range of other 13Arts paper designs each of them gorgeous, good quality and very affordable.

As well as covering the postcard with paper I also cut and covered a few lengths of greyboard from offcuts  I had left over from previous project. All sides of  the covered pieces of greyboard and postcard are sanded and caught with paint. I built up the overall design placing a couple of the smaller 'pieces' in two of the opposing panel corners

 and stacking two of the longer lengths on top of each other along the middle of the postcard.

I also painted a couple of pieces of thin dowel and tucked then into the small gaps between the postcard and the focal feature....

... which is made up of a That's Crafty! MDF heart treated with grit paste and acrylic paint.

and a smaller paper covered That's Crafty! White/Greyboard heart, both of which are mounted onto a kraft card heart shaped mount

To finish the design I embellished at various points with doubled up eyelets and mounted the postcard onto a piece of black cardstock cut to size.

The layered elements help give the finished postcard good dimension.

Products I used:

That's Crafty! Surfaces: White/Greyboard Postcards, Square Corners
That's Crafty! Surfaces: White/Greyboard Hearts #1
That's Crafty! Surfaces: MDF Hearts #3 
That's Crafty! Surfaces Grey/Whiteboard
Kraftcard
Black Cardstock
13Arts 6x6ins Paper Pack- His and Hers Remastered
PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Paint - Buff

Ranger/ Tim Holtz Distress Paints: Black Soot, Ground Espresso - Any brand of acrylic paint will work. That's Crafty! carry a vast range of acrylic paints which can be located here 
Ranger Grit Paste - you could use That's Crafty! Sand Paste
That's Crafty! All purpose Adhesive
Sander or Nail File
Eyelets
Small pieces of dowel
Paper Trimmer/ Guillotine

I hope you have enjoyed your time here with me today and that maybe my '7 of Hearts- Remastered' postcard art has offered you some creative inspiration.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by . 

Wishing you all a great week and hope to see you again next ... same time same place

Until then 

Take care 

Amanda 

(ink-a-pink)

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