Heart decoration and cards with Karen

Happy New Year!

I always think the house looks a bit sad when the Christmas / winter decorations come down so I have been thinking ahead to other decorations which could replace them. Finding some old rolls of tape, waiting to be recycled, sparked an idea so I gathered the supplies I thought I might use: paper, Aztec metallic paints, Eco acrylic paint, Brusho crystal colours, the tape rolls and some paper ribbon saved from a Christmas present!

Choosing some shades of pink and red Brusho colours, I also spied my wax resist crayons.

I scribbled hearts randomly with a wax resist crayon on one paper and coloured several scraps of paper with Brusho colours and with Aztec gold paint ready to die-cut and decorate a tape roll frame. I loved the wax resist paper so much I couldn't bear to cut it up so more on that later...

While the papers were drying I wrapped the paper ribbon round the tape roll, leaving a loop to hang it from, and then die cut lots of hearts from the papers.

I stuck the hearts all round the hoop and used a brush to splatter them with Eco Acrylic gold paint. A bow was die cut from the painted paper and auditioned before I decided to stamp and cut the banner in the top photo.

So, a bonus, especially as I have so many family birthdays coming up this month: I cut the wax resist paper in two, mounted each on a card base, added die cut bows and sentiments with a few embellishments and created some quick cards!

I'm really pleased with how these came out and I still have plenty of die-cut hearts left to decorate another project. Is it too soon to mention Valentine's day?!

Thanks for visiting. As always, I hope these projects have sparked some ideas for you. Feel free to leave any comments, links to your work or questions below.

Karen

Eco Acrylic Paint	Golden haired nylon brushes	Aztec eco metallic paint starter paint	Wax resist sticks	15g brusho
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