With Valentines day around the corner I’m kind of on a heart kick with one more idea sketched. Like the first one, this is inspired by a Song of Solomon verse. Knowing a little about the Bible’s “love chapter” I’m interpreting this verse as being about “getting in the mood.”   

My illustration goes along with the literal meaning of the verse with a heart sunset symbolising the passionate mood.

We just drove through the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas and I took several pictures of windmills, one of which I used for this sketch. My landscape is colored to look like the desert foothills as you enter New Mexico. But, it could just as easily be colored in greens with grassy terrain. I thought the red dirt look would lend itself well to a masculine card.

I distressed the torn edges of my artwork with “old paper” Distress Ink by Tim Holtz and the rest was distressed with “walnut stain.” Then I liberally spread his antique linen Distress Stickles around the edges. I think the distress stickles were a great choice for the masculine look I was after.

The flowers are cream Primas which I colored with Copics to match the illustration. I used Glossy Accents to adhere buttons to the center and set them off with a felt leaf.

Keep your eye out for the next installment of my valentines digital stamps, hopefully by the end of the weekend.