A Month of Love

Our theme this month is love, pink, Valentines. It's February, so why not celebrate love love love.
This week's challenge was from Laura McHugh East: create a Valentine's Day decoration that you would love to share with our guests...

I started to make a Valentine's Day card for someone - I wasn't even sure who. By the time I finished, I had a decoration that is about 15 inches tall, with another little decoration that goes with.

Here's what I did:

I had some wrapping paper from a friend's birthday last week that I cut to make a heart. Then I embellished that heart with my new Dr. Ph Martin's watercolors. I wasn't at all happy with how that turned out. I was trying to make the heart less lumpy looking and instead, the purple outline just drew attention to it's lumpiness.

While I was on the phone with my sister, I picked up a scrapbooking pen that draws white lines and I just started "doodling" on the heart. I put it on a yellow cutout circle, and used a strip of the watercolor paper for a "stem." 

I doodled more white on that. For the base of the flower I cut another half-circle out of the yellow cardstock and painted the flower on it by adding pink watercolor to white acrylic paint.
 

I did this all while talking to my sister about a bunch of heavy family stuff. But there was love in that conversation, so I guess it came through.

The smaller piece I did by using the left over yellow cut out over the top of a small drawing my daughter did to test that same white pen. After she left the kitchen, I took the little drawing she did, which is so different than anything I would do, and painted in with different shades of pink.



I have no idea how to use these items, but they do have love written all over them.

Happy February!