Fleur de Lys At Make My Monday. . . . .

The challenge at Make My Monday this week is to use Fleur de Lys as part of their French celebration. I'm very honoured to be their guest designer again and I would urge you to pop across and see the gorgeous makes from the ladies there as they really are so very talented.

 Luckily, I had a background stamp which fitted this theme perfectly and the tag stamp was a freebie from the wonderful people at Crafty Individuals. I felt that the beautiful tag image needed to be given a slightly retro/vintage look and I've used a green colour scheme with a hint of gold to help achieve this.

I'm going to link my work up at Eclectic Ellapu who have an 'Anything Goes' challenge. This is a new challenge blog and it looks like lots of fun so why not go over and have a look?

Here's the card I made and I hope you like it:

The finished card.

Two layers of plain inked card were used for matting. The pale green layer was achieved by repeat stamping a single fleur de lys image and inking the background. The die cut fleur de lys was inked then embossed with some green enamel. 

The tag was stamped with coffee archival and inked lightly. The face was bleached out with a water brush and a little pencil blusher was applied. The tag is matted onto a piece of inked sheet music (a charity shop buy so I don't feel too bad about cutting it up!).

The die cut letters were inked and applied.

Thanks for stopping by to see my work, I really appreciate it. A big welcome to my new followers too.