Southern Ridge Trading Company: Barbed Wire Heart Frame

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Sweet Tag with Katelyn Grosart

Hey Southern Ridge Trading Company fans, Katelyn here. Today, I'm thrilled to be sharing with you my Sweet Tag. To create my tag, I've used a variety of our Love themed chipboard pieces. You'll want to read below as I share with you how to recreate my Sweet Tag at home.

To start, you'll need a Chipboard Tag. Ink the edges of the tag using Walnut Stain Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Trace the chipboard tag around a piece of patterned paper of your choosing. Cut the tag out. Punch a hole at the top of the paper tag. Distress the edges of the paper tag. Ink the edges of the paper tag using Walnut Stain Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

You'll need two patterned papers that coordinate with the paper used for the tag. Cut one piece that measures 2 3/4" x 3 3/4" and cut a piece out of the other patterned paper that measures 2 1/2" x 3 1/2". Fussy cut or die cut a frame out of coordinating paper. Distress the edges of the paper. Ink the edges of the papers and frame using Walnut Stain Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

From the Corrogated Hearts, you'll need the medium heart. Apply Emboss It Ink to the heart and sprinkle White Satin Pearl Embossing Powder over the entire surface of the heart. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Ink the edges of the heart using Walnut Stain Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Choose one of the keyholes from the Med Key Holes package. Apply Emboss It Ink to the keyhole and sprinkle Molten Dimensions - White Wonder Embossing Powder over the entire surface of the keyhole. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool.

From the Word Mix #2 package, you'll need the Sweet word. Apply Emboss It Ink to the word and sprinkle Molten Dimensions - White Wonder Embossing Powder over the entire surface of the word. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool.

Next, you'll need the Barbed Wire Heart Frame. Apply two coats of Victorian Velvet Distress Paint to the frame. Once the frame has dried, ink the edges of the frame using Walnut Stain Distress Ink and a blending too with foam.

Apply two coats of Candied Apple Distress Paint to the Jessie Heart. Ink the edges of the heart using Walnut Stain Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

From the Love & Hearts package, you'll need two hearts. Apply two coats of Candied Apple Distress Paint to one of the hearts. Apply two coats of Spun Sugar Distress Paint to the other heart. Once the hearts have dried, ink the edges of the hearts using Walnut Stain Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

The last thing you'll need is two large white roses, two small white roses, eight red roses, four pink roses and three aqua flowers.

Adhere the paper tag to the chipboard tag. Adhere the 2 1/2" patterned paper piece to the 2 3/4" patterned paper piece. Foam square the 2 3/4" paper to the middle of the paper tag. Adhere the frame to the 2 3/4" paper.

Foam square the large red heart to the middle of the 2 3/4" paper. Adhere the corrogated heart to the middle of the large red heart. Adhere the barbed wire heart frame overtop of the corrogated heart.

Adhere the keyhole to the middle of the barbed wire frame. Adhere the two hearts as desired to the keyhole. Adhere the sweet word to the middle of the hearts.

On the bottom right hand side of the large red heart, adhere one large white roses, two pink roses, four red roses, one aqua rose and two white roses.

On the top left hand side of the barbed wire heart frame, adhere one large white roses, two pink roses, four red roses and two aqua rose.

To finish the tag, tie a bow at the top of the tag using White Seam Binding Ribbon.

Here are a few closeup photos of the finished tag.

Here is the finished Sweet Tag.

Southern Ridge Trading Company Supplies Used:

- Chipboard Tag

- Corrogated Hearts

- Barbed Wire Heart Frame

- Jessie Heart

- Love & Hearts

- Med Key Holes

- Word Mix #2

- 20mm Roses: White

- 15mm Roses: Pink

- 10mm Roses: White, Red and Aqua

Other Supplies Used:

- Emerald Creek Craft Supplies: Molten Dimensions - White Wonder Embossing Powder and White Satin Pearl Embossing Powder

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Paint - Candied Apple, Spun Sugar & Victorian Velvet, Distress Ink - Walnut Stain and Blending Tool with Foam

- Ranger Ink: Emboss It Dabber

- Mintay Papers: Love Letters Collection

- Misc: White Seam Binding Ribbon

Thanks so much for joining my today!

- Katelyn

Friday, September 14, 2018

Pretty In Pink with Tracy Moreau

This little Heart Ornament is an easy to do project for even the most inexperienced, It uses Southern Ridge Trading’s Barbed Wire Heart OrnamentDecoArt fluid Acrylics , a simple technique and a delicate but simple line drawing. A Gel pen or ultra fine tip Permanent marker and you are all set to create this sweet little barbed Wire Heart!

Start with a Black Base coat of both the Background surface and the barbed Wire. Let it dry well . Dry brush the barbed wire frame with a little White and let it dry. ( Should look like a dark Grey) Let it dry. Apply a coat of White in a vertical fashion with the Oval Brush. it should look quite Dry and some of the black should peek through in places. Using the Stamp and Black Fluid acrylic stamp the surface in a few places to add a little pattern to the Background. It should be quite sparse and irregular.

Stroke is a few indistinct flowers and leaves using heavy thinned Primary Magenta and Green Gold. Trace and transfer the flower to the surface.

Make three values of PINK using the Primary Magenta and the Translucent White. and Base the Petals of the flowers with the Mid value. With the darker value apply a wash of colour to the centre of the flower. Use the Lightest Value to add a float of highlight to the tips of the Petals.

Apply a wash of the green Gold to the Leaves and stroke in Fine tendrils with thinned Sap Green. Shade the Leaves with floats of thinned Sap Green.

Deepen the shadows of the flowers with floats of thinned Primary Magenta. Let it all dry then Outline all of the petals with fine scribbly lines using the Gel Pen.

To Finish up, Stroke in a few fine highlights to the Barbs on the barbed Wire Fram. and Glue the two pieces together. I used a strand of Pink Satin ribbon for a hanger.