Tagtastic 2 Kit - Valentine Heart

Hi Everyone, it's Brenda here from Bumblebees and Butterflies and I'm really excited to be publishing my first project here on Andy's blog as part of his new Creative Team. Some of you will know that I love Andy's grungy style and have learned masses from him both from his on-line workshops and real life workshops, his teaching has helped me develop my own style over the years I have known him.
I'm calling this look pretty grunge because it incorporates a bit of Andy's style and a lot of mine, to me there's a sort of feel of masculinity about it but plenty of femininity too. So with Valentine's Day coming up I thought I would throw in a heart and some fabric and use some of the red and pink colours in both the DecoArt media acrylics and the chalky finish paints to create background layers and focal elements in what might also be called a shabby style.

The Tando Creative chipboard elements here are from one of Andy's new kits coming out that will be released on the 18th February at the Stitches trade show in Birmingham. I have been lucky enough to have a pre-release play and apart from the fabric, ribbon and arrow everything else is from the kit. If you saw Dee's fabulous post last Friday she used the same set but different elements so you will see it is really versatile. I added some other bits from my supplies like this arrow which shows how you can mix and match with your own collection of embellishments.

Cheesecloth is my favourite go-to item when playing in the shabby style and it fitted in perfectly with the elements and style.

The heart has lots of layers of paints, stenciling and stamping before a coat of clear crackle glaze and don't you just love the cracks that appeared after I rubbed in some white antiquing cream?

Do keep your eye on both this blog for lots of inspiring projects yet to come and also on Andy's Face Book page for more projects and to keep up with all the news.

If you would like to see the process steps of how I put this together then they are all over on my blog.

Have a fabulous week.

hugs Brenda xxx

Check out Andy's new Stamps below!

http://www.andyskinnercrafts.com/store/c10/Illusionary_Artists_Stamps.html

Tagtastic 2 kit - Released 18th February 2018
Stencil - Dot Stream

Stamp sets - Industrial, Shabby Chic, Handle With Care

Mixed Media Acrylics - pyrrole red, quinacridone magenta, titanium white, raw umber
Chalky Finish Paints - romance, relic, everlasting
Medium - white crackle paste, clear crackle glaze

Brenda Brown

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