February Project - Hanging Heart

Thank you to everyone who entered our January Challenge, we are truly overwhelmed at such a fantastic response!

Our challenge this month is Hanging Hearts - perfect for home decor or as a gift.

Hope you can find time to join in.  Leave a comment to direct us to your challenge entry and we will visit and comment back.

See what the designers have done - what will you do?........

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Kaz

 

Check Bubbly Scrumptious on Tuesday to see how Kaz made this hanging heart...

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Tracee

Having decided on a "homemade" Christmas for 2010 I came up with the idea of an ornament for each member of the family..

I loved playing around with this felt and the designs weren't pre-planned they were just made up for each heart.

I cut myself a template from card and then drew around it and cut each heart out individually making some large and some small.

I used a Perle thread to stitch them up with and a variety of stitches.

The great thing with these is you only need small pieces of felt, fabric and buttons are optional.

You don't have to limit yourself to Christmas either I also made a couple for everyday use (pic above)...

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Carol

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Caroline

I used Tando chipboard - Heart Wreath

I covered in white acrylic gesso and then used Stickles on the top of the whole heart and three of the crosses.  I covered three hearts in Prima paper and clustered together at the bottom of the main heart, together with little flowers, buttons and crystals.

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Di

 

I am notoriously bad for losing letters and important documents that I need to deal with so I decided to make a wall hanging document holder.  I used the Tando Creative Key to my Heart mini book set and covered both sides of the hearts with patterned paper.  For the heart with the keyhole, I cut another smaller heart from chipboard and cut another keyhole in it to give this piece some dimension.  The hearts have been glued together using a Sizzix die cut chunky paper clip so there is a bit of movement backwards and forwards between the hearts.

I cut a chipboard rectangle and covered with paper and hand wrote "Stuff I must do!"  This was hung from the last heart using ric rac.  I just used a piece of ribbon at the top to hang the document holder.  I found that it had a tendency to move a little so I found the easiest solution was to pop a bit of blue tac behind the middle heart and the rectangular piece at the bottom, this held it very firm.

Papers and envelopes slip in nicely between the hearts and, at last, I won't forget to do those all important paperwork jobs.

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Karen

I altered a large wooden heart I found in a charity shop.  Covered it with paper & added a chippie frame and the word 'US'  from Tando Creative.  I covered the frame and word with crackle accents.  Then I added lace, ribbon & a charm to finish it off.  Victoria took this pic under her mistletoe Christmas Day!

I cut out hearts from toning fabrics and sewed & stuffed them.  Then they were threaded together with beads.  I added bits of lace & a button to each one to finish.

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Sarah

 

I wanted to make a little bit of wall art for my living room so I played around with a few distressing techniques and metal work. I covered a heart in fancy tissues and distressed with Rangers crackle paints and inks.

 

I used scraps of pp and gathered buttons and beads from broken clothes and jewellery to add texture.   I also made a wire heart cage to go over the top of the whole thing.

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Sharon

 

To make the heart base I drew a heart shape on an A4 piece of chipboard and cut out with a craft knife (the heart fills the sheet). I applied a layer of Viva Decor Terra paste to the base and stamped in to it with a selection of script and swirl stamps. I heated it carefully with a heat gun to speed up the drying process and also to get a slight "bubbling" effect to the paste. Once dry I painted it with deep pink and red paint so that it went in to the grooves then lightly sponged a paler pink and cream paint to the surface. I finished the base by very lightly rubbing on berry and gold metallic paints with my finger.

 

I hand drew another heart shape for the inside and covered it with Basic Grey paper, sanding and inking the edges. The ruffle was created by ruffling ribbon on the back. This top heart was adhered to the heart base with foam pads so that is was higher. I then used a crystal swirl to add some bling and arranged some paper roses and gold ribbon to make a focal decoration. The quote was printed on to paper, distressed, inked and backed on to more basic grey paper and attached to the side of the heart.

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We all look forward to seeing what you do for this challenge!

The Vanilla Sugar Team....x