Love Heart Mosaic Project

With Valentines Day in a few days time I've been inspired to use the love heart theme in this weeks project. This fun mixed media mosaic has been created using contemporary tiles combined with handmade polymer clay flowers.

For anyone that may have missed last weeks tutorial, I demonstrated how you can create these beautiful embellishments. The beauty of making your own embellishments is that you have the freedom to create them in the size, shape and colour of your choosing, giving you total freedom. If you would like to revisit this tutorial just click on the button below:

Another technique that I've demonstrated in this project is how to grout the project without getting any grout on the embellishments. This is really important as there is nothing worse than your beautiful embellishments getting covered in grout. If you'd like to know how I've done this I have created the video below demonstrating how I make this love heart.

Materials used in the project:

• Tiles
  • Mixed glass melts
  • Mixed glass dots
  • Mixed glass triangles
  • 1 x blue glass gem
• Handmade flower embellishments - Make your own with our easy to follow tutorial
• Weldbond adhesive or any good quality PVA adhesive
• Black grout
• MDF Love heart (limited quantity available)
• Glass Tile Cutters - you can get away without using them, but if you would like a close placement of tiles then you will need them.