Happy Valentine's Day!

I wanted to make some hearts that look like heart milagros, but they are not quite finished.

The first set I took these wood angels (left) and cut the bottom of them to look like fire or a crown. I then glued it to the back of a paper mache heart.

Here is the front side.

And I might well make a handful.

The other set, I used wood appliques and cut them each into two pieces. I cut them with a bit of a curve so they would fit to the top of the heart. I just used a dremel with a circular blade.

Here they are with the wood pieces attached. I used regular gel to attach the two and have a thin piece of paper on the backside to help hold them together.

I've gessoed all of these, but still need to paint them and add gold leaf.

Resin Hearts

I made a bunch of resin hearts this past week. Here is my collection.

I use plastic hearts that come with candy inside as my molds. I cut a hole in the back using my dremel, to pour the resin in. I tinted my resin with red alcohol ink.

The one on the left has broken red glass in it. The one on the right has Christmas tinsel in it.  I had to tap the mold quite a bit to get the resin to go through all the tinsel.

The one on the left has a magnifying lens, clock spring, some kind of gear that I threaded with a wire.  The one on the right has a heart shaped cooking tin.

The one on the left has pink coated wire, the one on the right has plastic star garland.

This one has rusty wire inside. It is hard to see so I took another picture with it back lit. I attached the nails with Epoxy clay, and painted the clay and nails bronze when the clay was dry.

 

Black and White Heart Assemblage

Taking up where I left off here, I finally glued down all the parts and pieces and stamped "you have my" on the left side. I may add some white accents, maybe dry brush some white on the textured frame.

Assemblage-Unchain My Heart

I have had this assemblage in the works for a very long time.  The upper portion was figured out at least a year ago, but this week I finally decided what to do with the lower box.I did not take step-by-step photos when I was putting it together this week so I will describe the parts and pieces. The body is an old clock. I took out the clock face and mechanism. The lower portion had a piece of glass with a print of a landscape behind it. It also had a gold eagle at the very top and gold tone curlicues on the sides which I removed. I sanded and painted the body white.

Unchain My Heart.

For the top portion, I re-used the gold tone ring that held the glass cover and clock mechanism. I used Apoxie Clay to attach the filigreed plant stand (wheels removed) to this ring, and used more Apoxie Clay to attach the ring to the wood clock body.  The hand is a plaster cast of my own hand, I had to sand away a lot of the back side to have it fit in the hole.  The heart I made a long while ago. I broke a red glass vase that I got at the thrift store, put the pieces in half of a plastic heart from the craft store (with silicone spray on the inside so the resin would not stick). I made a red resin and poured it in.  It was still very difficult to get the resin out of the mold once it was set. I used a hammer to break the plastic and then it came right out. I made a couple other hearts at the same time, some have red electrical wire in them instead of glass. I plan to make more hearts for another project, so I will do a blog post of it in the future. For the chain, I bought a bunch of watch parts and cuckoo clock chains at a yard sale this summer, so I used the chain on this project.

I used more cuckoo clock chain, new golden tone jump rings (that I sanded and blackened with Novacan Black patina solution), and keys for the lower portion. I also blackened some of the keys as well, to give them an aged appearance.

It was wonderful to complete this piece since it has been on the back burner for so long. What do you think?