Guest Artist: Lisa Pavelka

Lisa Pavelka is an artist specializing in polymer clay and mixed media art. I found her website while doing some research on the name “Heart in Hand Studio” which, as it turns out, is the name of her business. Although she doesn’t work exclusively with a heart theme, I did find this beautiful heart art [...]

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heArt #131 Butterfly Tattoo ACEO

Yesterday I enjoyed playing with my colored pencils so much I decided to do a simple heart ACEO. (ACEO stands for “Artist Card Editions & Originals”.) I’ve been doing a lot of research in anticipation of creating a full website and I keep running into “tattoo designs”. It wasn’t my intent when I started, but [...]

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heArt #130 Rain Forest Hearts

I’m been holed up in my house because of the winter weather the last few days. Watching hour after hour of the Travel Channel has been my way of coping. Today I wrapped my electric blanket around me, tuned into Samantha Brown who was somewhere in the rain forests of South America, and started drawing [...]

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heArt #129 Celtic Heart Design

Today’s heart art is greatly helped by some pre-drawn celtic designs I found on the drawing celtic knotwork tutorial at Clanbadge’s website. From there I bought some patterns that I can copy and paste into Photoshop, as well as a knotwork font with which I’m supposed to be able to create my own knotwork designs. [...]

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Guest Artist: Lucy SweetRepeats

My wanderings across Flickr led me to Lucy “SweetRepeats”, a collage artist who also enjoys working with a heart theme. Visit her blog, Sweetrepeats, and her Etsy shop to see all of her collage magic.

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heArt #128 Vintage Children Valentine Collage

Happy Valentine’s Day, everybody. I found a great resource for vintage images and clip art on Flickr. It’s a group called, appropriately enough, “Collage Images“. There are many great images available to download there (or upload your own to share). Image below was done entirely in Photoshop. It’s my last Valentine’s “gift” to you all, [...]

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heArts #124-127 Freebie Digital Heart Elements

More free heart art Four digitally created “chipboard” hearts free for you to use in your scrapbooking, valentine making, etc. Please use these for personal use. If you want to print them out for swaps or even try and sell some handmade collage cards, go ahead. If you post them on the web somewhere I’d [...]

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heArts #120-123 Free Heart Art Background Papers

Yes, there’s more! I’m in a creative Valentine’s heart art frenzy! Once again, these were made in Photoshop using slightly altered brushes from Graphics-Illustrations and Obsidian Dawn. And again, if you use these and post them anywhere on the web, I’d like credit and a link back, please, as well as credit to the brush [...]

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heArts # 116-119 Free Heart Pattern Backgrounds for Valentines

As I promised yesterday, here are four different backgrounds I made for you to download and use in your Valentine’s Day cards, scrapbooking, etc.. You could even use them for wrapping paper. I used Photoshop (as usual), this time using the shape tool and the standard shapes that come with PS. If you think they [...]

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heArts #114-115 Free Valentine Tags for Collage and Scrapbooking

I decided to make some free heart art for all of you making Valentine’s Day cards or putting together Valentine’s scrapbooks. In case you don’t already know, using shipping tags for collage, rubber stamping, etc. has been popular for years. I’m pleased with how my first digital attempts with them have turned out. These were [...]

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