20 hearts - #7 & #8

Hello my friends.  DH and I had our taxes done today.  It's so nice to have that finished.  Then we had a nice lunch together.  I had a Cubana sandwich, which was very good.  Of course, since I only ate half of it, I get to have it again. 

I think if I'm going to get all 20 hearts finished for the February monthly challenge at Motley Soul Mixed-Media Art, I need to get busy.  I need to complete one every day. 

So very late tonight, I was putting things away and getting ready for tomorrow's class, when I came across a piece of cereal box with some fabric glued on.  I knew right away it was perfect for a heart for one of these cards.  Of course, I needed to pull a few things back out and work on it.  And then... what really happened... I cut out a heart, set it down and started working on a background.  I painted the card with buttermilk acrylic paint and then added several colors of paint through a brick stencil.  I loved it, but not for the fabric heart. 

I stamped another heart on tissue paper, ran a wet paint brush around it, and tore away the extra tissue.  Then I used a matte gel medium to glue it on my card.  This was a tip I learned on Creative Jump Start.  It gives a good stamped image even when your background has a rough texture, and the edges of the tissue blend right into the background so you can't see them.  I added a little color with colored pencils. 

Then I wrote the sentiment with a black Pitt pen. 

The fabric heart was still waiting.

I started by painting the background celery green.  Then I stenciled some butterflies (Red Lead stencil) with ivory paint.  And then I randomly added a few more colors with either a brush or sponge.

There was a small strip of canvas on my table left over from another project, so I cut a piece to fit my card, frayed the edges and wrote the sentiment on it.  I used Fabri-tac to adhere the canvas to the card.

Then I glued the heart down and another card was finished.  

Thanks so much for stopping by.