Tiffany Johnson Creative #100daysartplay Challenge - Day 25

It's Day 25 of Tiffany Johnson Creative #100dayartplay Challenge - a quarter of the way through.  This is day four of a week of using "Household Items".

This is my Day 25 make.  I started using a piece of cardboard from a cereal box for the background.  I covered the cardboard with pieces of scrunched up and smoother sticky packed foil tape.

I mounted the foil covered cardboard on to a piece of teal coloured card.  Using the off cuts of the teal card, I cut it into thin strips and stuck them in position over the copper foil, alternating from the edge of each side.  

Moving the prepared background to one side, I took some white paper straws, arranging the position of the lengths till I was happy and put some tape along the middle on both sides to retain the position.  I then wrapped the central area in more copper tape.  I then positioned and glued the drinking straws on to the background using double sided sticky tape.

For the central embellishment.  I glued two layers of 2x2" pieces of cereal box cardboard together.  With more of the same cardboard, I die cut two hearts and glued them together then glued them to the middle of the square.  I tore off a strip of copper sticky backed tape and scrunched it up into a tight ball, I then smoothed it out a little and positioned over the cardboard.  

I used a paper stump to outline the heart and I smoothed over the surface of the heart using an old store card.  I then went over the whole square, including the heart with a black Sharpie pen, then rubbed off the surplus using a piece of kitchen towel and then a soft cloth to buff it.  Finally, mounting the square on to the background using foam pads.