Tagged Hearts! by Amanda Pink

Hi Everyone

Welcome to my Thursday weekly DT post.

Today I am sharing a grungy mixed media tag that features some of That's Crafty!  MDF and White/ Greyboard hearts.

The tag itself is a Thats Crafty! MDF Tag #8. A fantastic surface to work directly on to as (in my experience) it stands up to all types of art/ mixed media mediums. Nice and sturdy too.

There were a number of layers involved in creating the tag background beginning with a couple of coats of gesso to prime the tag. Next, I adhered torn paper to a few areas of the tag before introducing some colour. For this I used a couple of the new PaperArtsy's Fresco Finish Acrylic paint colours: Grape and Blue Bayou.  I then gently brayered over the tag with some Black Acrylic paint so it caught in some areas and not others.

For a touch more detail I added some stamping using the text part of one of AALL and Creates stamps.  

I also created some crackled circles using Crackle paint with a 13Arts stencil.

The focal feature is made up of 4 hearts, 3 of which are either That's Crafty! MDF Hearts or That's Crafty! White/Greyboard Hearts.

For the largest of the hearts I stippled it with black acrylic paint and dried the paint with a heat gun. I held the gun close to the paint so it would 'bubble' to give texture which I then 'caught' with some That's Crafty! White gesso.

The medium sized heart was lightly crackled with crackle paint. 

The smallest of the 3 hearts was one 'I made earlier' to coin a good old 'Blue Peter' phrase. It was simply treated to layers of Acrylic paint roughly applied by finger.

The three altered hearts were adhered to each other and embellished with a metal heart before being adhered to the tag atop a couple of rows of Tim Holtz designer tape.

To finish off the tag hole I covered it with a metal eyelet and then threaded it with some strands of black twine. 

Products I Used:

That's Crafty! MDF Surfaces: Tag #8
That's Crafty! MDF Surfaces: Hearts #5,
That's Crafty! White/ Greyboard Surfaces: Hearts #3, #1
That's Crafty! White Gesso
DecoArt Crackle Paint
Black Acrylic Paint
PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Acrylic Paints: Grape, Blue Bayou
That's Crafty! Multi Purpose Adhesive
Tsukineko Versafine Ink: Onyx Black
AALL and Create A7 Stamps: #292
13Arts Stencil: Aqua Flora Collection Dots and Numbers
Tim Holtz Designer Tape
Palette knife
Brayer

Thanks for stopping by today. 

Wishing you a creative week 

Take Care 

Amanda

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