When you participate in any creative activity where there are daily prompts, you just never know what you will come up with! That is no exception here today! I have been participating in a daily scrapbooking challenge, while still wanting to give you some fun ideas to use heart punches and die cuts! Today, I worked in some heart flowers!
Heart punches or die cuts make quick work of creating enough hearts for a project like this. Buttons create the centers of these hearts, and stitching created the stems. There is ink sprayed at the bottom of the stems giving it more of a “dirt” look.
This is actually a digital page, and my computer was so slow this afternoon that I really was frustrated. Normally, it would just not have taken long to make this page either in paper or digital, but it did today. I just realized I never put leaves on my flowers, as was my original plan. Did YOU notice? I’m fine with it as is. Tell me about a project you were just happy with at some point, even though it wasn’t your plan!
Keeping an open mind to what you can use a punch for, made quick work in creating my February Art Journal calendar in a bit of both scrapbook and art journal style. Making things more artful isn’t hard!
Here is how this went together:
I found a piece of red with white dot paper for the background.
Used coordinating paper and cut letter out.
Found the letters not only coordinated, they just blended in and faded away.
Outlined the die cut letters with marker to make them stand out! Much better! Adhered the February title.
Hand cut 3 hearts in different shapes from paper that looked like book text. I didn’t want to use book text, because I wanted to make sure the paper was archival safe for this project.
Added definition to the text hearts by using pastels on the edges with both a gray and red color. (Use what you have on hand for this step, inking will be just fine – just rub it on.) Note that this was purposefully not done neatly.
More definition was added by just loosely outlining around and partially on the hearts, with a thin black marker
Punched smaller hearts out of a white vellum card stock, and arranged them on page.
Attached the vellum hearts in the corners with a glue dot. Normally you want to be careful what you use to adhere vellum, because it can show through. I used that to my advantage, and used it as the tiny spot to write my numbers for the days of the month. Also, I decided that I would attach the hearts only in a single spot, in case I want to write under the heart. That way, I have several options for journalling and can actually double my writing space if I need to!
I outlined a couple of special days during the month, which are a holiday and a family birthday!
I went in a put a dot of Crystal Effects on the upper left edge of each punched heart to give it a little more stability. Those dots weren’t dry when I took the photos, so they really don’t show up. It will be a nice little shiny accent for each day!
Done! Although I realized I forgot to put the year. However, don’t you think if it is sandwiched in with a bunch of other months from the same year it will be okay? I may add the year, I may not. Oh, maybe I’ll just use a date stamp!
Keeping an open mind to what you can use a punch for, made quick work in creating my February Art Journal calendar in a bit of both scrapbook and art journal style. Making things more artful isn’t hard!
