This project has been in the making since Christmas when I asked for a deep box frame from Hobbycraft for an idea I had for my newly decorated “guest room”
I had made a friend a small jewelled heart on canvas a while back and always said that I would make myself another bigger version when I had the time …… famous last words as that was at least three years ago!
The first thing I did was to cut the heart out in white card to fit the centre of the frame ……
….. which I then covered with all the clear, turquoise, green and pearl flat backed gems in various shapes that I could muster …. I thought it would take forever but a couple of hours did it …. as I watched Emmerdale, Corrie and Grand Designs …..
I used Crafters Pick “The Ultimate” glue which I found dried pretty quickly, this in turn made me work pretty quick too! The fiddle-farty bit was filling in some of the smaller gaps which were left when I had almost finished, I dropped seed beads into them after I gave up on tiny flat backed gems using a cotton bud as being just too fiddly, even for me!
To add a little more dimension to the heart in the frame I used foam sticky pads to stick it on to the background ….. and really that’s all there was to it …. simples!
I have a four more smaller box/shadow frames from Ikea to use up now, but as of yet haven’t had any other brain waves as to how to fill them …… but that, I expect, is only a matter of time!
