Heart on her sleeve

Bleubeard and I are back with another Hearts inspired Art Journal Journey entry.

I was so lucky to be able to get all these new fluid acrylics on sale a few months ago. For this spread I chose Pyrrole red.  These acrylics are well worth the cost, because they have so much pigment, they can be watered down and still not lose their intense color.  I also used my black dye ink and a wood mounted red rubber stamp I purchased on clearance a few years ago.

Once I added the sentiment and moved it to the dining room table to be photographed,

I lost most of the color, which is more like what you saw in the first photo above.

I tried to make it appear I pinned the heart to the sleeve.

Unfortunately, I tore the sentiment as I was gluing it to the background.  I obviously didn't allow it to dry before adding glue to the reverse side of the sentiment.

Although I painted the heart before I added it to the page, only one side was covered.  I didn't notice until later that part of it didn't get glued properly.

For this spread, I began with a sheet of 110 lb card stock to which I added red fluid acrylic paint, some of which I watered down.  I then stamped the focal image, colored and cut a red heart and placed it on the sleeve of the dress.  Finally, I added the sentiment. 

Thanks beyond belief for joining me today.  I appreciate you stopping by and following along on this adventure with me.  Please also join Bleubeard and me at Art Journal Journey with your own art inspired by my theme which is Hearts.