Love Defined

(cross posted with The Blanket Stitch)

Hello! For today's post I have been busy making a wonderful heart decoration that was picked up from a craft shop, and I have been umming and ahhing over what to do with it ever since. Its actually taking me a fair while to get it made, due to not really knowing what I wanted. 

 

 When I made my 'Imagine' canvas a few weeks ago I loved the colour of the paint so much that I ended up painting the heart while I was at it, however, from there I didn't know what I wanted to do, so it had been left untouched, until now.

I was also making something for Fathers Day, and when I finished that I decided to keep going and finally finished the heart! 

 

 I started with a smaller heart I had painted that I knew I wanted to attached to the main heart. Using a Paris stamp and Victorian Velvet Distress Ink, I created this look on the smaller heart.

On the larger heart I stamped, again using Victorian Velvet Distress Ink, a sheet music background.

  

Using some pink wire, I added this to heart, and wound it round the stick.

    

For the centre of the piece, I used some cream paper, stamped quite haphazardly with Old Paper Distress Ink and edged with Vintage Photo to give it an old look. I then rolled the top and the bottom to make it look like an old scroll. Then, using a Tim Holtz stamp I stamped the centre of the scroll, using black archival ink.

 

Underneath the scroll I have placed a tag shaped piece of card, with a floral pattern.

  

To the right hand side of the scroll I have added a small silk/fabric flower.

  

This was really simple to make in the end, and I left it with this as I feared if I added anymore it would become to fussy. 

  

The final outcome... ...What do you think? 
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What I love most about working with wood is just how free you can be to create something completely unique.

I picked up these wooden words, along with many other, from Hobbycraft and decided I would make a wooden sign for my bedroom.

I picked the three words I associated with and set about painting them, choosing white and a raspberry pink to match my room. I also had to decide which order to place them in.

Once they had been painted I fed some pink wire through some pre-drilled holes and made up the sign.

What I love most about this sign is that it totally represents me!

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Decopatch is  great way to make quirky gifts for friends, family or to sell.
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If you’re anything like me, you’re always on the look out for a new and interesting craft to take your fancy! It was while at the Knitting & Stitching show in October that I found Decopatch!

Having always been a great craft lover, when I saw the gorgeous signs & the gorgeous papers I was hooked, and I haven’t looked back since!

Doing Decopatch really is easy, just get your wooden sign, get your decopatch glue, cut your paper up into postage stamp sized pieces and glue! Glue the wood first, place the paper down, haphazardly (think collage!) and then glue over the top to seal it. It really is very easy, very addictive and looks very effective! (check out the picture above to see the effect)

You can decorate anything with the decopatch papers, from wooden signs to wooden tables, from wooden chairs to cardboard boxes. This is a new craft for me and I am still discovering all the many ways I can create a masterpiece out of paper.

Items can specifically be bought from places like Hobbycraft to start you off, but if you're anything like me, you'll soon be investigating on your own all the many things you can decopatch on.

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