February 7, 2016

Love Deputy

Howdy Folks!!  It's me, Shari with you today and I've just been given a Love Warning from the....


She's patrolling the blogosphere and handing out love citations to remind everyone that there's one week left until the official Day of Love-Valentine's Day.  Let me show you how I set up this love-trap for the Deputy--


I started today's card with creating the background panel.  I taped this Inky Hearts stencil from StencilGirl, over the mixed-media paper panel, that I had also taped down.  I didn't want the panel or stencil to move. 


I spread translucent embossing paste over the stencil with a palette knife...
 


....and carefully lifted the stencil to reveal all of those wonderfully stenciled hearts!  While the embossing paste is wet, it's opaque, but when it's dry....
 


...it's clear.  Because I applied a kind of thick layer of paste over the stencil, there's a lot of fun texture, that I tried to capture in this picture.  I can't wait for the next steps! 
 


I sprinkled Merlot Color Burst onto the panel.  I know this doesn't look like much now, but wait until you see what it does when spritzed with water---
 
 
The Color Burst literally bursts with color---I love this part!  After taking this shot, I spritzed a little bit more water and Merlot CB onto the panel and started to dry with my heat tool. 
 


I LOVE all of this color and I love the resist effect of the stenciled hearts--exactly what I was going for! 
 


I ran the panel through my sewing machine and stitched an outline around each heart then stitched the border and inked the edges with Black Soot DI. 
 
 

 
I punched these hearts out of shrink plastic and colored with alcohol ink.  I didn't know what size these were going to shrink down to, so I punched out 4 of them--I know that at least one of them will be the right size!
 


I carefully shrunk the plastic hearts down with my embossing heat gun.  As I'm dealing with a Love Deputy here, she needs the right adornment for her belt buckle. 
 


I stamped this deputy of love from our Cowgirl Strength set, onto mixed-media paper with black pigment ink and heat embossed with clear EP.  I fussy cut her with my finger knife and adhered the heart to her belt with a dab of diamond glaze. 


I took this picture while the glaze was still wet, so it looks a little milky, but it dried clear and adhered that heart firmly into place. 
 


Using the letter block image from our Secretary Pool set, I stamped it once onto mixed-media paper with black pigment ink and heat embossed then stamped it again on a piece of mm-paper that I had colored with Merlot CB, with white pigment ink that I heat embossed with white EP. 



I fussy cut the letters that I needed to spell out Love Deputy and edged each letter with Black Soot DI.


I gave the background a splatter of Hunter Grey Twinkling H2Os, heat set, then adhered the letters and the Love Deputy onto the panel with matte Decou-Page.  I outlined the words and LD with a combo of Black Soot DI, Picket Fence DS and white gel pen.  I kept trying to add some kind of embellishment, but I so like how the background came out, that I'm leaving it sans embellies.
 
Thanks so much for having a visit here with me today--I know that today is a big day in the U.S. for many a football fan, so I do appreciate you stopping by!!  Oh, I wanted to let you know that my schedule here at the Artistic Outpost Blog is going to change, a little bit, to every other Sunday, so, I'll be back with you on Sunday, Feb 21st, and I'll be counting the days until then! 
 
 
Designer: Shari Trumbull

8 comments:

Scrapintheattic.com said...

Shari this is such a great background, love that resist, it doesn't need embellies! Hugs Jan x

Bev Polen - Guneaux Designs said...

Shari, I came to your blog after seeing your card on Splitcoaststampers. All I can say, is WOW!!! Love it!

Aimeslee Winans said...

Adorable card and great tutorial, thanks! xoxo

Juliz Design Post said...

Such an inspirational card Shari, I love it.
Julie x

Anonymous said...

Gorgeous colours and such a fun card. Shari, you are becoming Queen of Shrink as your use of shrink plastic is inspirational!
Wishes
Lynne

Deb said...

Great card Shari, love that background and your love deputy! Deb xo

Terry said...

I so love your "Love Deputy" and she is doing an outstanding job sharing the love! Brilliant background, Shari! Love this!

Blogoratti said...

Very lovely piece of work, and nice details. Greetings!