Sunday, May 22, 2011

Little Wooden Heart

One of the things that I bought at Ally Pally in April was this little wooden heart, I had an idea in my head of what I wanted to do with it so set about altering it this morning.
I started by painting the heart with green acrylic paint and added a coat of crackle glaze over the top and then finished it off with a coat of white acrylic paint. Once that had completely dried I misted the heart with Maya mist dabbing off the excess with a tissue as I wanted it to be quite subtle. I had planned to add some bling, flowers and tissue paper but then I had another idea.


I had some Pink Paislee Butterfly Garden rub ons left on my desk from a previous project and I decided I wanted to add one onto the heart. It worked really well so I added a few more and then just kept going until I was happy with it. To seal the whole project I coated it with a layer of matt varnish, I am really pleased with how it turned out and is now hanging on our bedroom cabinet door.




TFL
xx

11 comments:

Hope and Chances said...

Beautiful Rachael :-)

Anonymous said...

This is really beautiful! Is that a real stamp? I had great fun altering some wooden pieces for SBM recently! X

Candace said...

really lovely

Katherine said...

It's beautiful

Jill said...

Oh wow Rachael, its looks so nice now! Jill x

Nikki said...

Hi Racheal! Love your latest project, so inspiring!!

My boys are keeping me busy but they're all such cuties I'll forge 'em anything!!

{hugs}

Nikki xxx

Nat said...

I love it! May do something similar for my living room :) xxx

Lou said...

wow Rachael, you are so talented it's beautiful x

Sarah said...

Pretty!!! i like very much!! x

KraftyKaren said...

Really pretty.

Karen x

Amanda said...

That is so pretty. I adore things like this, a clever idea x