Flying Heart Card

A Doodled and Painted Card

This card would work for a wedding, a baby, an engagement, Valentine's Day, etc. I left the inside blank so the sender can send it for whatever occasion they choose.

I started out by making a background using Dylusions paints and a Dylusions stencil. I believe the paint colors were Funky Fuchsia, Cherry Pie, and Pomegranate Seed. The stencil is a abstract brick design.  After the paint dried completely, I used a white pen to doodle a border. 

 

Then I cut a small piece of paper, rounded the corners and doodled a flying heart inside a frame, inspired by Joanne Sharpe's Doodle Art and Lettering book.  I water colored the heart doodle.

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And that's it!  This card will be heading for sale at Spring City Vintage in Colfax, Iowa.

 

 

Creative University 2012 Layout

In February of 2012 I was fortunate to attend Tresa Black's Creative University art retreat near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.  I took lots of pictures and, of course, have only scrapbooked I think three layouts.  A few weeks ago I was in the mood to scrapbook, and made this two-page layout of only the beautiful views from the long weekend:

 

This is a poor picture, but you can see I used plain CTMH outdoor denim cs with just a band of B&T paper and some slate cs.

I used a mat on just the larger 5x7 photo on this page.  I added glittery letters and lots of bling and white embellishments.

 

The long border of bling on this page is from Recollections.

 

Here's a close-up of the white and silver embellishments.  I used some bling swirls, some single rhinestones, some rub-ons, and I doodled with my white pen.  Of course, since I was writing directly on my layout, I misspelled "university" and had to squeeze the "r" in after I noticed it.  Ugh.

 

Finally, here's a look at the embellishments and doodling on the other page.

 

I believe Creative University is happening right now, and I wish I was there.  If you haven't been to Tresa Black's blog, check it out: Fabulously Artsy

 

A Doodle Valentine

I'm still drawn to my CTMH slate cs.  For this busy Valentine, I used a couple punches, a tiny bit of ribbon, and a couple CTMH stamps (the large image in the bottom right is CTMH's "Classy Doily"), but mostly I used my white pen and just doodled everywhere I could with the white ink.   A couple of the hearts pop up with dimensional adhesive, and so does the sentiment.