I *Heart* You
The latest Caardvarks challenge is all about hearts and although I love all the girly lovey dovey red and pink hearts designs during the Valentine season, I decided to do something a bit unconventional for my handmade card today.
As you can see, I used Milton Glaser’s classic “I *heart* NY” design and created a card for Valentine’s stating “I *heart* You” – of course, it is literally a heart…my blood pumps for you, I suppose! (Now I am thinking Twilight and vampires…) Anyhow, I thought it was a cute idea while I was sketching out plans for cards, so decided to actually make it by hand. I tried to cut out an anatomically correct heart, but fudged it up a bit as I wanted more cut out spots and then just kept going at it. For the text I just used a black marker and did it freehand, so it’s all about handmade love!
After completing the handmade card I really like the design enough to go ahead and create it in Adobe Illustrator as well. I created a similiar version that can be printed out as stationery – download the I *Heart* You Stationery PDF (65 kb)
After messing around with the X-acto knife and freehand inking, I also created a version on a dark background to use as my desktop wallpaper, since I didn’t want the glaring white for the monitor. I think it turned out pretty nice, although I suppose it might also be a bit creepy being dark and all! You can check out the wallpaper and download it on http://www.JustGraphic.com.
I hope you enjoy the designs and can use it to inspire yourself to get Back To Paper! 
Posted on February 11, 2009 at 9:12 pm | Free-Template-Tutorial-Links, Showcase, stationery
Love your clever graphic design.
This is so clever and I love how clean and graphic it is!
oh i am just so taken with this! what a cool, clever idea!!!
hey this post was quite informative to me. looking forward to your next post Thankyou!