Although I ran out of time to post this before Valentine's Day, I wanted to share a version of a project I'm currently working on. Just arriving in stores now is the new line of "From My Heart" dies by my creative designer friend Eileen Hull with Sizzix.
Eileen and I are super excited to be teaching another class together in April,
using this really cool heart box she designed.
Eileen's Scoreboard Dies are innovative designs for cutting thicker materials like matboard. For my sweetly simple Valentine version, first I painted
a sheet of 140-pound Fabriano watercolor paper with a soft wash of
Golden's Light Magenta acrylic paint. Then I used Eileen's heart-box die to cut two heart shapes for the top and bottom of the box, running the top heart through a texture plate. Using another die from her new line, I also cut several sizes of flowers with heart-shaped petals from the same painted paper.
For a little glitz, I doodled on the flowers and outlined the heart-box top with Ranger's Liquid Pearls in Platinum. After the Liquid Pearls dried, I stacked my flower layers, cutting into some of the flowers to fluff the petals.
Next I die-cut a second set of two hearts and box sides from heavy Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper and assembled the box. To make the white paper blend better with my painted paper, I dabbed the edges with Tim Holtz's Distress Stain in Spun Sugar. Then I adhered the textured heart to the top of the box and added the layered flower.
Thinking it would be fun to add a Valentine sentiment to the box, I die-cut a banner from Bristol paper using an old Sizzix banner die (which I couldn't find online anymore). With a Pitt black ink pen, I doodled the word "heartfelt" and filled it in with a Prismacolor watercolor pencil, also shading the tag ends. Using adhesive only on the tag ends, I shaped the banner into a slight curve.
This heart box will be so easy to tailor to many occasions, including Mother's Day.
I'll definitely be making more boxes as Eileen and I prepare to teach our class together.
(Our Sentiment Box class will be held at Angela's Happy Stamper in Reston
on April 9th (6 pm) and April 13th (1 pm). Come join us. :)
