Hi Everyone

Love is in the air this week as Valentine's Day looms this Thursday and I have some love for you in the form of a grungy heart tag with lots of rusty textures.

I have had so much fun and made so much mess creating this tag lol

Here's What I Did:

My starting point was the tag which is a size 8 That's Crafty MDF tag and it's all about the layers. First layer was to add some torn book pages and strips of washi tape onto the tag. Onto that I scraped on some heavy white gesso and left it to dry. I then gave that a watered down layer of That's Crafty sandstone paint. I then layered on Decoart gold paint, onto that a watered down layer of quinacridone gold. I then smeared around the edges Decoart crackle paint and left that to dry. Once that was dry I sponged around the edges of the tag with burnt umber, quinacridone gold and paynes grey darkening all around. I then rubbed into the cracks of the crackle with colbalt blue teal.

Next was to make up my components to add to my tag. All the pieces I have used are That's Crafty substrates. The heart is MDF and the wings and large and small cogs are That's Crafty greyboard pieces. I started with the heart.

I used 2 hearts and with a fine tooth saw cut one of the hearts in half.

I began with the complete heart drawing a line down the centre and then glueing on the smaller hearts some being cut to not cross the line as I had to glue the cut half of the heart on. I also added some texture sand paste on parts of the cogs and then painted then all, firstly with a base coat of grey and then layering up the colours that I had used for the tag until I had the result I required. 

For the other side of the heart I glued on some of the teabag paper that That's Crafty sell (I'm falling in love with this paper) I crumbled it up before glueing it on with matt medium. I tore the edge as I wanted the torn edge to overlap the cogs so it looked like the heart had been torn open. It was then given a couple of layers of Christmas red paint and then I added a watered down black paint to it to tone it down and give a grungy look. It was then glued into place and I trimmed off all the spare teabag paper.