Love Me Do...

Hello!
I have a few hearts to share today...

I was playing with tin cans (....... coming soon to a magazine near you, but don't say I told you!!!), and I liked the result to much I wanted to use them on more projects. The inside of a baked bean tin has fabulous ridges, great texture! (other things may too, I didn't look! We have enough empty bean tins to last me hours without ever looking in another variety!)
I cut the tin initially with a pair of tin snips from the DIY store, but once the metal was bashed nice and flat, I discovered you can use Tonic scissors (the Tim Holtz ones) to cut the metal very easily. Just be careful, the edges will be very sharp!
I cut out some heart shapes, then coloured them with Vintaj patina ink. This is the red colour, Garnet. I edged them with a little blue paint, stamped them, then sanded the whole thing a little. Because of the ridges, the sanding works really well!

The hearts were than attached to a chipboard panel. I painted the panel with gesso first, then added smears of red (Dash Of Red) and cobalt....

I added a little stamping too!
As the hearts are metal, they need attaching securely. Strong glue would work, but I chose to use large eyelets. My cropodile went through both the metal and chipboard easily!
I finished by wrapping some wire around the panel, just to carry on the metal theme!

I thought it looked a little too shiny though, so toned it down a little with more Vintaj ink!
Some Chit Chat stickers added to the hearts gave me my title...Love Me Do!!
Have a great day!
Trish xxx