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Believe in Love Ornie

I felt like making an ornie, and decided too that I could incorporate an inchie and use this for an entry into the Gingersnaps Creations Inchies challenge.  This is the result: my Believe in Love Ornie.

Believe in Love Ornie

I started with a simple wood blank, approximately 2×3″ in size. I painted it black, then sanded the surface and the edges to give it a distressed look. Next, I stenciled on the word, Believe, in a silver color. Then I took a piece of black and white scrapbook paper and fancied up the edges, and I did the same to part of the packaging for a deck of cards, which is the red and white paper. I glued those pieces together, then found a vintage photo of young lovers sharing a smooch and glued that on top. I adhered them all to the background. I also created a heart out of the same deck of cards packaging and glued that over the “v” in Believe. I finished off the whole thing with a red fabric rosette and some white organdy ribbon.

I think this would look cute on a Christmas Tree, or even hanging on the wall or a peg rack of some sort. And what can I say? I believe in love, so I love playing with that theme any time. Just call me a hopeful romantic.

Tina

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Love Altered Hearts

When I was shopping at Michael’s recently, I found some flat wooden hearts that I thought would be perfect for an altered art project. I had my husband drill a small hole on either side of the hearts so I could make them into hanging hearts. I decided that Love would be my theme for this set of 2 hearts. I’m also using these for the City Crafter Challenge Blog’s Heart Challenge.

Altered Art Love Hearts

I started by painting the back of each 3″ heart, and the front edges, black with craft acrylics. Then I picked out two different scrapbook papers with black and white colors on them; one is a toile pattern and the other is just an ornamental pattern. I Mod Podge’d those papers to the front of each heart. Then I used copper ink on a text stamp and stamped over the middle part of the paper on the hearts. (If you click on the image, you’ll get a larger view and the text will be more visible there. )

I used digital collage sheets, in inchies sizes, to find the vintage photos I wanted to use. I got these great images from Itkupilli. I backed each image with some scrap wallpaper, which I cut with paper edge shaper scissors and adhered them to the paper-covered hearts.

I stamped the words “hope” and “love” onto some grungy paper, which I also distressed a bit with some ink. I adhered those to the heart, and also added a letter “X” sticker to one heart (for kisses) and a letter “O” sticker to the other heart (for hugs). And I added a small semi-glittered butterfly sticker to each heart too. The final touch was to add some deep red ribbon to each heart for hanging.

I just love how these hearts turned out. I think I’m going to hang them in my bedroom somewhere! And I see the potential for lots of other altered hearts in the future. I’d like to find some bigger hearts too so I can do different sizes.

Tina

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