Put a Little Love in Your Heart

For this card, I think I used a little bit of inspiration from everyone on ICAD.  I like Charlie_Brown's idea of using rubber cement for masking watercolors so I painted the whole card a turquoise color and then painted rubber cement in heart shapes. After the rubber cement dried I watercolored the background a reddish, magenta color.  I removed the rubber cement and added details with the Pitt artist pen.  Then I outlined in white gel pen and black watercolor pens, which was then moistened with a wet brush to soften.  Thank your Tracy Scott for that technique. Then, like Pam, I started layering on colors of paint until I had a soft textured background. 

I was very happy with that but wanted to finish with some words.  I had a song in my head I wanted to used but had the darnedest time finding the exact words because it was a song I though Diana Ross did.  And I couldn't quite get the turn right to sing the song to myself.  And I had the words wrong. I thought it was Shine a Little Love in your Life, which turned out to be a song by Electric Light Orchestra. But I finally found the right song and it wasn't Diana Ross, it was "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" by Jackie DeShannon.

So there's my card for today and it put a little love in my heart to create it.  Only 2 more days of ICAD and I have 4 cards to make to get to my full 61 cards.  I've got a couple of ideas for 2 cards.  We'll see what I come up with!