I can now take the wraps off my mystery project. I made three little hanging heart ornaments for friends, one of whom has not yet received hers, but since she doesn’t visit my blog, I thought it was safe to reveal all!
One friend asked me some time ago if I would make her a hanging heart ornament for her bedroom wall, and I couldn’t find the sort of papier mache or MDF heart that I wanted, with a hollow centre. Eventually I managed to find a set of three little heart-shaped photo frames on Ebay and decided to get these, and alter them, and it worked really well, particularly as I had two spare ones to make up for two other friends. I began with these two, as they were more urgent – we were planning to meet up for lunch but it has had to be postponed until after Christmas.
The three little heart frames as they arrived.
I took them apart and saved the glass and the back pieces for potential use in projects in the future, as I only wanted the hearts themselves.
The next step was to paint the frames with gesso.
After this I painted them with a base coat in acrylic, and added some crackle glaze.
The frames with the top coat applied.
The brown and turquoise ones crackled fairly well, but the silver one did not – I didn’t really mind, though, because on that one the majority of the surface would be covered with roses anyway, and I quite liked the streaked effect of the purple paint showing through the silver.
As seen on previous posts (please scroll further down for details) I made a selection of paper flowers to embellish the three frames.
I also made a selection of leaves.
I didn’t use all of the flowers and leaves, and reserved the rest for other projects.
I was now ready to begin with the first of the three hearts.
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