All Loved Up

 Happy Tuesday everyone. 

I'm posting today with a new journal page because over at Try It On Tuesday we are starting a new challenge. For the next 2 weeks our theme is All Loved Up. 

Thanks to all of you who joined us for our last challenge which was  Add a Quote.  

When I made my page today I really focused on the background.  I'm not sure it's the most traditional Valentine's style page, even though I used some traditional elements.

I started with a page that had some black leaves on it. That's about as un-Valentine's as you can get, isn't it? Other than the leaves the background what white, so I used pink paint to color it. I was hoping I could make this page work for something other than fall or Halloween.

I found this sheet of pink printed acetate in some recent cleaning. It had lots of rectangular printed squares like a quilt would have, each rectangle different. I  cut out a few and added them on my page.  Then I took a rose covered roll of washi tape and used bits of that on the background also. 

Finally, I took some plain white tissue paper and stamped some heart and heart related images on it.  I cut out 2 of the big hearts and used matte medium to attached them.

After my background was dry, I thought it now looked loved up enough for this challenge. To finish it I stamped the be mine and the love you circle words (an old set from Technique Tuesday), cut them out, and also added some pen dots to the white space around the letters. I also added this cute TH couple and gave them each a mini heart sticker. 

As always, at Try It On Tuesday, you have 2 weeks to enter the challenge. All kinds of art is accepted. 

And I would be remiss if I didn't encourage you to check out the design teams art also. They have some lovely art.

 I am also linking up to Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's challenge at Art Journal Journey. This month the challenge is "What's Your Style?" , and this is an example of my experimental thinking as well as my  occasional romantic style. As well as AJJ, I am also linking up to Creative Artiste's challenge #79. The theme at Creative Artiste is always Mixed Media- Anything Goes, and I definitely have some various types of media on this page. 

I hope to see your romantic inspired art at Try It On Tuesday.

Thanks for visiting my post today.