Heart {Cosmo Cricket}

I recently had the pleasure of meeting Julie Comstock of Cosmo Cricket at Winter CHA. She was doing a short presentation for Crafter's Home and at the end she made a joke and then doubled-over, laughing at herself. "Oh my goodness," I thought, "I love this girl!" Later, I found Julie at her booth and gushed over the eye-candy that made up her catalog of new releases. The canvases, mason jars, wood veneers and colors...all right up my creative alley. I walked away with a few new products that I hugged tightly against my chest, willing something beautiful to become of them. I brought them home and set them out so I could look at them until I finally had that ah-ha! moment. Junelle Jacobsen did a paper-roll technique in one of her art journal pages and I new then that I needed to incorporate that onto my heart canvas. I just love how it turned out! Here's what I did:

 

 

Gather your supplies:  

Cosmo Cricket: Creative Canvas- Heart

Wood Charms- Feathers

Self-Adhesive Glitter Sheets- Tinseltown

Tiny Text Stickers

Glubers

Other: Patterned paper scraps (similar colors), book paper, music paper

Paper Doily

3 pieces of twine (6"-12"long)

Resin flower or button

White Cardstock scraps

 Small piece of burlap

2 label punches or die cuts

White Ribbon (about 24")

 

 

First, trace your heart on the back of your glitter paper. Cut it out and adhere to the canvas. Next, we need 11 rolls of paper for our heart. Pick your middle color, it will be your longest piece. Crinkle it up, smooth it out and roll. Use a small amount of adhesive to secure the roll to itself. I didn't use scissors for this part- I just tore off what I needed. Once you have your roll, you can tear off the ends to make it the size you need for your heart. For the doily wrapped piece: fold and tear your doily in half and layer it on top of the patterned paper and roll it up. Tie your twine around three of the rolls.

 

To adhere the rolls to the heart, I carefully laid 1.5" Glubers all over the heart and started with the middle piece. Don't push anything down, yet. Get all of your pieces on the canvas and arranged how you want it- now you can push down on the paper to adhere to the Glubers. Don't worry about smooshing your rolls, you can re-shape them once they are secured to the canvas. I squeezed a little bit of glue under all of the ends of the paper rolls, just to make sure nothing moved.

Using your label die-cuts, cut the a glitter shape and a white shape. Layer those cut-outs on top of your piece of burlap, adhering each layer with a Gluber. Attach the three layers to the rolls using another Gluber. Using glue, adhere the wood "Love" word and glue the resin flower in the center of the "O."  Pick out a couple words from the Tiny Text stickers and stick to white CS; cut out; trace around words with black pen. Use glue or adhesive to attach to the paper rolls.

Now for the really hard part (*wink): fold your white ribbon in half and attach to the back of your heart with scotch tape. Voila! An artsy + elegant project that's just perfect for Heart-day or any day.