The windows got cleaned this fall and my heart art for the front line workers were removed because the heat from the summer had melted the crayon and caused a few marks on the window panes. I decided I needed a new technique for my new heart art that would alleviate the issue of marking up the window. After an afternoon of checking out stained glass art on line I decided that I would glue heart shapes to a piece of white tissue paper. As I was looking for the box of solid tissue paper I found a box of my own "art" on tissue paper, napkins, paper towels, dryer sheets, etc that would most certainly make wonderful hearts so that is where I stayed. After ironing my papers I folded them several times and cut out half hearts by hand with scissors just eyeballing it. This yielded hearts in a variety of shapes, colours and textures!! I put a piece of plastic on the top of the freezer and collected my supplies - hearts, white glue, water, white tissue paper, a stir stick and a paint brush. The little container had some watered down glue I used for
this gift wrap collage project and it had some gold glitter in it so I went and found the gold glitter glue too. I started applying glue to the top of the white sheet of tissue and placed hearts into it and then added more glue on top and then added more and continued the process until the sheet was completely covered with hearts. I left it to dry overnight and it peeled off the plastic easily. I wanted a sheet for each window so I made another one the next morning and by late afternoon I was able to peel it off the plastic as well.
You can see both of my panels above and a close up of a red heart where you can see the gold glitter.
Below you can see my two panels mounted to the windows out front using a bull clip and a suction cup hook for each one. I am very happy with how they turned out. When they are no longer needed on the window I will be able to use them as backgrounds for my cards!!
Therese
