Day 19 is a drawing with coloured markers using pink and blue. This one of my classic ways of doodling that I love doing in gel pen on black paper, but it works so well in bright colours too.

I decided to tackle another paper weaving for Day 18, and work with the entire surface area this time. I also did a looser weave instead of having the intersecting pieces of paper tightly packed together. I left the ends hanging around the edges of the heart for now.

For Day 17 I wanted to try another paper cut + patterned paper mixed piece, but this one does not work as well as the one I created for Day 13. The two elements do not flow as well as the ones in the earlier version. I don’t like this heart as all, but I decided to leave it as it is rather than redoing it. Not everything can be a success.

But then, a few hours later, I changed my mind. I made a second paper cut + patterned paper combination for the 17th. I like this one so much better.

Day 16 started out as a collage but once I applied this art deco paper, I decided to leave it as is. I was going to combine three different papers but I love the flowing elements of this pattern and didn’t not want to cover any of it up with something else. 

Is a collage still a collage if there is only one paper element?!?

I used an incising and lifting technique for Day 15. The whole design is off-centre because I wasn’t quite sure of what I was going to do as I started laying this out on the back. My measurements were off but overall it works. 

I felt a lot of pressure to make the heart for Day 14 something spectacular because it’s Valentine’s Day. I thought about making a 3D heart, or maybe using paper folding. In the end I went with making the piece from spectacular metallic copper foil paper. The design is drawn with a mechanical pencil and I like that this creates an embossed surface on the other side.

I love this piece for Day 13. I left the heart partially uncut and then carried the cut pattern over into that side as a gel pen drawing. The drawing looked so meh and uninteresting, and I decided to try something else. I sorted through my collage scraps, and went with covering it up with 70s  patterned paper.

I love how this came together out of a mistake.

Day 12 is a hand-cut paper piece that Boris says looks like a waffle fry.

I decided to revisit paper weaving again for Day 11, and boy was it annoying to do. It’s challenging in a fussy way because I am working so small. I do like the results though.

Day 10 is a metallic blue gel pen drawing on red card stock. It reads much better in person than it does in this photo. 

It’s very satisfying to flip through the first ten of 28 Days of Hearts series. It’s amazing how quickly work can accumulate in a project when you work on it every day.