Canvas heart for Valentine's Day

Hello! Happy Valentine's Day! Enjoy every way of love that make s your life richer!
For this special day I'm offering some love themed inspiration with my Canvas heart. And today not only the base is canvas but also the heart is from this material!

  

 

 Hearts are not perfect or better said - they are not intact. Many thing an event can hurt the heart and can produce scars and sporadic bleeding but somehow it stays together and becomes stronger. An experienced heart can offer a strong support and it can always keep it's shape. Just have some thread and a needle at hand and some adequate medicine to help it heal. Enjoy your hearts!

I decided to use a canvas heart from Canvas Corp. I filled it with some cotton and started to give to it some color with different inks. I also teared it a bit and "repair" the damage with some evident stitches.

At 7 Gypsies you can find these lovely apothecary bottles and I love how I can use them in a symbolic way for representing the medicine. I just dropped inside some High Impact Paint from Tattered Angels let dry overnight... I just love this detail!

 The bleeding.... Glimmer mist of course. Tattered Angels invented this product so much time ago but is still so modern and absolutly necessary...

 Smal details? A lovely bird that sings our favorite song, some gears that continue the tic-tac.... All from 7Gypsies.

I had some huge pins but they had a pearl hat. Nothing easier - I just painted the hats with some Tattered Angels Black High Impact Paint.

 

Have a lovely Valentines Day every day!

Another tattered heart

Hi there! Valentine's day is over but I have another tattered heart to show you and in this gothic fairytale style it can be a heart for all year long. The main actor are again the Sizzix, Tattered angels, 7 Gypsies and Canvas Corp products. Again I decided to make the wings out of something different: tehy are a perfect combo between some CC burlap, different colors of Tattered Angels Glimmer mist and Baseboard and  Sizzix Movers & Shapers Magnetic Die - Mini Flouris. I wanted them to be a copper like.

 

To make the stitches pop out I decided to make the iside edges of the heart black and I used the Tattered Angels High impact Mixed Media Paint.

I have to tell you that there are new releases from Sizzix this month:

Cherished

Cherished is the adorable new collection by Eileen Hull for Sizzix®. Perfect for all types of crafts from Cardmaking and Papercrafts to Scrapbooking, Home Décor items and even 3-D creations, this collection has so much to offer! Featuring the cutest of designs, the Cherished collection allows you to create gorgeous projects for the most special family occasions all year round! You will find everything from cute zoo animals including an elephant, giraffe, lion and monkey to beautiful bows, ribbons and labels. Some of the Scoreboards™ XL dies in this range will also make perfect little gifts and decorations with mini albums, building blocks, a cradle and even a baby’s shoe available! Start crafting now and create those special keepsakes to welcome a new born baby, celebrate a child’s birthday or Christening or even to decorate a nursery!

Tim Holtz Alterations

Tim Holtz® is back with some fabulous additions to his Alterations™ collection. The incredibly popular Tattered Florals die returns bigger and better than ever before as a Bigz™ XL die creating even more project possibilities! These leaf and floral themed dies are just perfect for any type of crafting from cardmaking and scrapbooking to home décor items and much more!

 
 Have fun creating!

Love potion Valentines Message bottle 2013 No.2

Hello everyone!  Here I am back with a new bottle for the upcoming Valentines day. I used a normal soda bottle and covered  it with some paper. To make the look of it more soft and romantic I added some lace but themost important piece is surely the pierced heart that was made using the Sizzix dies! I fact the heart is a piece of grungeboard made with the Sizzix Bigz Die - Heart, Stem & Leaves and covered with a shower of glitter. The arrow is a combination of two pieces of the same die: the Sizzix Movers & Shapers Magnetic Die - Mini Flourish and adding a small piece of gungeboard for the pointed part of the arrow. This die cut transforms a normal arrow to a shabby chic masterpiece. The bottle is completed with a velvet pink bow with a butterfly that was made with the Sizzix Movers & Shapers Magnetic Die Set 2PK - Mini Butterflies Set. 

There is something intresting that is happening at Sizzix for the Valentine's day:

Right now you can download 10 FREE exclusive Sizzix designed papers to use with your handmade cards, scrapbook pages, tags, gifts and much more!!!! Don't forget to get some help with this gorgeous opportunity!!!!

I have some days let to make my last Valentine's message bottle, so see you soon!!!!

Love potion Valentines Message bottle 2013 No.1

I'm back with a new Valentine's Message Bottle. I already started to make them last year (here is the last year version) and I decided I'll make a tradition out of them. So here is the first Valentines Message Bottle. A new version for this year, new dresses for these glass protagonists. This  year I covered them with some acrilyc paint and played with distressing them. The central decor is made with Sizzix dies: Sizzix Framelits Die Set 3PK - Frame, Damask for the background laced label frame, totally covered with glitter that besides giving a great shiny effect it also provides a good resistancy of the swirls. I just love how this frame adorns the bottle - a perfect romantic element. There is also the heart in the centre, using the Sizzix Bigz Die - Heart, Stem & Leaves
- a double layered die cut: grungeboard + patterned paper, glued together .

This is the first bottle of the 2013. Be prepared for the next ones :-)

Love is in the air

A quick post for another valentine's idea. Do you have an empty spray can? If yes than you can put it together with some wire, paper and some nice embellishments and you can have a sweet valentines gift or home decor. You can write a romantic message on the back of the can and surprise someone you love. Do you love the idea?

For making the word love more shiny I used the Tattered angels Glimmer glam Lipstick Pink - 3 coats needed!!!

Have a nice Valentine's day!!!

A pocket full of ....... love

Yes, big things can be in a small pocket and mine is full of love. Five love canvas like tags are witing squeezed in this pocket. There is a lot of space at the back of every tag to write important and sweet love notes and prescious photos. What is better than this to spoil the one you love?
The base for the tags are just paper bags so some of them are also pockets that have to be filled with something intresting and a lot of love scented embellishments and s also the "Love" element that I made using some poly clay.







Enjoy these days and don't forget to spoil someone:-)

Valentines message in a bottle

Hello! I'm back with my second valentines project. It's always nice to leave a note on valentines day to the ones you love and why don't replace a card with one or more messages in a bottle. You can leave them in different corners of your house for an unexpected surprise.
Grab an empty glass bottle. Any sort of bottle will do. The funny part of course is the decoration: I decided to dress them in bottles with love potion. And here's a tip: before decorating them apply clear crackle paint on the bottles for an extra vintage and prescious look. At last just put the rolled love letters inside and you are ready for Valentines day :-)

Have a nice day!

Love nest

Here's another Valentine's project, something you can use to surprise the one you love: two hearts enjoying their love nest. It can represent you and the one you love, your house, your feelings. IN this sense you can use it as a gift for Valentine's day or simply to decor your home and give to it some extra atmosphere.

What are your plans for Valentine's day? I hope you have some enjoyable hours with the one(s) you love, to surprise and be surprised... But I have also something else important happening tomorrow: my mom's birthday and so I have to get going and finish something special for her that I'll post obviously tomorrow to preserve the surprise!

Paper dreams to all!