A proud heart

 Good morning it's time for my fortnightly blogged design team post for Visible Image. As June is Pride month I could not let the month pass by without making something to celebrate this most important annual event. I decided to make a mixed media plaque heart. Equality in this world for everyone is so very important so this stamp set below seemed perfect to use. I love Helen's definition of the word Equality. 

Equality, hope and love

I also wanted to share some love so I also used the gorgeous grungy heart from Follow your heart

and added some background stamping using the uber useful

grunge tones

This is what I got up to;

I used an MDF heart from my stash and painted it with gesso.

Using yellow acrylic paint and one of the grunge tones stamps I repeat stamped all over.

I repeated this using the other stamps in the set using red and blue paints.  Do remember to wash your stamps immediately after using paint. 

I stamped out the equality sentiment from Equality, hope and love , cut it up and matted it onto red card.

I then cut out a smaller heart shape from card by hand and coloured it using a rainbow of distress inks.

I then stamped the Follow your heart in the centre and clear embossed it, adding some white pen and then added some more grunge tones stamping around the edge.

Here is the finished plaque with its gorgeous rainbow ribbon.

A couple of close ups where you can see I added some glossy accents to the bubbles and decoupaged a couple of the elements in this lovely heart stamp.

and one final shot.

 All the Visible Image links are listed below

Visible Image group page on Facebook. Our friendly Group is here ...it would be lovely to see you there. You will see lots of gorgeous makes by the DT and customers to inspire your own creativity. 

The main Visible Image Facebook page is here; there are regular giveaways...open world wide. Do check out the Facebook LIVES and videos where you will be able to see lots more samples and ideas. 

Their Instagram page can be found here 

Pinterest here

And once again the shop web site is here; where all their gorgeous stamps and stencils can be purchased.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Bye for now,

Jane x

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