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Wire Hearts

By Debbie Brothwood

Wire and mesh are perfect for card making

giving the designs depth and the added bonus

of the sparkle of real metal. Although the cards

are all different, the materials given will make

any or all of the designs.

Materials Required:

Silver wire mesh.

Scrap of Gold fabric mesh: SME07.

Thin Black enamelled wire: AWR08.

Hot glue gun: ADH09.

Clear glue sticks: ADH10.

Small pliers: AWR11 and wire cutters:AWR10.

Acrylic paint: Gold, White and subdued Greys

and Greens.

Gold pen, wire and 2 small beads.

Cream and Black thread.

Scraps of card and/or hand made papers: Black,

Dark Brown, Maroon, Cream and Gold.

P. V.A. Craft adhesive and sticky tape.

Card mount: SF03U or DEC3U, White or Cream.

To Make The Cards:

Gold Heart:

Tear a strip of cream hand made paper to

approx. 3.5cm wide and to about the same height

as the card. Using P.V.A. glue, stick the paper

strip close to the left hand edge of the front panel

of a parchment cream card.

Cut a 3.5cm square of gold and a 2.5cm

square of dark brown card. Using the diagram,

make a template and cut a heart from the fabric

mesh. Glue the mesh onto the brown square

then glue this in turn onto

the gold square.

Cut two 14cm lengths of

gold wire and curl one end

of each, this can be done

by hand or by winding the

wire just a turn or so, round

something quite slim such as

a fine paintbrush handle. I added a 7mm tube

bead to the other end of one wire and a tiny

gold ring to the second wire, any small beads

will be fine.

Sticky tape the wires to the back of the square

containing the heart. Place the square about

three quarters of the way up the card and glue

into position. Lightly bend the wires a little to

give them shape.

Actual Size

Wire Heart:

I made the background paper for the heart

as follows. Take a small piece of white card and

place it onto a larger piece of scrap paper. Heat

up the glue gun and load with a clear glue stick.

Squeeze the glue lightly onto the white card

moving the gun around so thin squiggles are

made randomly across the card. Allow the glue

to blob in some places by keeping the gun still

for a short while before moving on again. This will

give contrasting areas of glue.

Once the glue has cooled and set, paint over

with a random mix of greens, greys and gold acrylic

paint. You don’t need to cover every bit of the paper

with paint as tiny white areas showing through add

to the hand made effect.

Now for the heart, cut an 18cm length of black

wire and bend it to shape using the close up picture

to guide you. Cut the background paper to 4cm x

5cm and place the heart onto it.

Using black thread, stitch the heart onto the

paper using about 8 stitches in total round the heart.

Keep the stitches small

on the front of the work

by bringing the needle

up close to the wire and

back down again just the

other side of the wire.

Use tape to hold the ends

of the thread on the back.

Cut a black oblong

4.5cm x 5.5cm and glue

this behind the worked

heart. Glue the whole

assembly onto the card

mount.

Maroon Heart:

My heart is painted in

maroon and white to give a

marbled finish, you could use

a piece of marbled card or

maroon card with a little white

paint swirled over it. Cut out

the heart using the diagram

to make a template.

Actual Size

Cut a 14cm length of thin black wire, make a coil at

one end, place the long end of the wire across the ‘dip’

in the top of the heart and bend it round behind the

heart so it hangs down beneath it. Bend the lower end

into a loose ‘S’ shape and trim if necessary. Use a little

sticky tape on the back of the heart to hold it in place.

Cut a 3.5cm x 6.5cm oblong from black card and

glue it onto the card mount. Cut a 10cm length of silver

mesh and place it over the mounted panel. Gently

pull and bend it to distort the shape and make it more

interesting.

Glue the heart onto the mesh and whilst the glue

on the back of the heart is still wet press both onto the

card panel adding a little more glue if necessary.

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