Happy Valentines Day Art

    Hi everyone. Happy Valentine's Day. ❤ And happy weekend to you also.

    I'm not one that really celebrates this holiday, but I do like the shape of a heart. Every now and again it's fun to make some romantic art also.  Today I'm sharing  a romantic style heart laden page for Elizabeth's Anywhere, Any Placer, Any Time with Anyone challenge over at Art Journal Journey.  I also used at least 3 types of media on my page, so I'll also be linking  up to Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge. Their challenges are always anything goes,  and this month is their challenge # 123.

    I started by using a light pink ink pad directly on the page and adding a bit of color. Then I took a larger AALL & Create stamp. I tried stamping with sand colored ink once,but it wasn't what I wanted, so I went with a rosey pink and stamped the image several times over my page.  After that I took a smaller heart stamp from the same set and stamped that in red. 

    I colored in a few of the smaller red stamped images with a marker.  Then I added my details. These included a few flowers and also a scrap  paper edge from a 49 and Market punch out set. The butterfly is from the same company, but I didn't want the color so I painted it. I used a  "tag" die cut (the shape is for wrapping threads) from paper, and I wrapped a bit of colorful yarn around it. The quote on it is from a TH set.  I had a sheet of pink paper that was stenciled with grey paint, and I used that paper to die cut several hearts. I added one of those hearts. And finally I die cut the bird and used ink and paint to color them in. The details (eye and beak) were colored with a black Sharpie.

    This page (above) is in a Dyluions journal. 

    I decided to add one more page to this post, and it is nothing fancy but is Valentine's Day appropriate. It's on the back of a sheet of music paper in a homemade spring themed journal I am playing in.

    That's all for me. I hope your weekend is starting off or has started off in a good way.