THOUGHTS TURN TO LOVE!

Now that Christmas is over, my thoughts turn to love as the next event to plan for in the gallery is Valentine's Day!  This year I thought I would make an early start, so I have just completed 12 heart cards.  My collaged Christmas cards sold really well so I decided to apply the same techniques to these.

I tried to get away from the traditional Valentine pinks and reds that I often use and tried some different colour schemes.  The starting point for the blue/green background was torn up pieces of maps and vintage New Musical Express papers.  I also used vintage papers for the orange/brown and inspiration for the colour scheme came from some animal print napkins.

Once the backgrounds had dried out I designed a heart template to cut out the shapes.  I then added words cut from old magazines, and stamped out hearts to each one - sometimes incorporating other colours including hot pink - I can't get away from it!  They were finished with details added with a fine black pen and mounted onto square cream card stock.