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

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