My Heart Is Dotty....

...about Ten Seconds Studio metal and Grungepaper...but you all knew that anyway LOL Here is the finished piece that was on my workdesk this morning...and...oh boy, I am a lucky Hels today...Postie brought me a pressie! Yes, he brought me a new Sizzix die...nowt special about that??? Wrong!!! Cos it is one of the new Mr T'Holtz's Alterations!!!!! And...I was very dubious about getting this because I have a 'Bug and not a Big Shot...but...I tried it out, kinda cringing slightly when it went though the machine...but it worked!! I used a B plate on the bottom, then the die, then some Grungepaper and then another B plate for cutting onto. I haven't tried it with Grungeboard yet...not sure which plate I will need because it did feel a bit "tight" with Grungepaper...I will let you know...if you hear some screeching you will know I have busted the Bug LOL




The base for this piece is a Maya Road chip heart shape, which I covered with TSS metal which had been pressed over the dotty mould. I squashed most of the dots back into themselves...using paper stump and refining tool to do this...(I would love to be able to take the credit for this technique...but it was the brilliantly clever Lin Brown who showed me how to this...she calls it a controlled squish!) then out came the Glimmer Mists; Jazz Blue, Marshmallow and Creme De Chocolat, all spritzed over the top and heated up to dry. I just kept going with them til I had the depth of colour I wanted.





Dur! Silly Hels had only gone and forgotten to age the metal with black paint...so I made a whoops moment and tried to put black paint over the top...which promptly cleared off most of the Glimmer Mists ... yikes, I then had to start again with the colours...and actually, I prefer it now!




I used some Rusty Wire and a rusty bell...(check it out...isn't it just cute...and it tinkles too) to make a hanger for it...I curled the wire at the front to make it stay...and then used a Studio 490 sentiment, stamped onto metal and popped into a frame...and stamped some teensy flowers - which are also Studio 490 - onto gold metal....oh, and yep, you know that gold paint I lost last week??? It turned up today, hidden in the basket I use to keep my Glimmer Mists in...goodness knows how it got in there! I used said gold paint to edge the whole piece and also change the colour of the snaps which I used as flower centres.




So...onto the Alterations flower...coloured with Distress Inks, overstamped with more 490 stamp backgrounds and then curled in my fingers, piled up and stuck together...and finally, I rummaged in my junk box and found a gemlike dome which must have been in some kind of naff earring years ago...but the colour is perfect and it has some staining on it, which matched the colours of the flowers... That's all from me for today...two posts in one day!! Please wish me luck for tomorrow morning... I have got to go to the hospital...nothing serious...I just have to have three MRI scans on my back and I am a bit of a scaredy cat...but finally, they might find out exactly what is wrong with me...*hey, I have left myself wide open for jokes about my mentality there haven't I? ROFL*

Hels x