Lady Sings The Blues. . . . . . . . . .

I'm hoping to get this challenge posted on time . . . . . . . . too much watching the Olympics I fear!!

The challenge at Make My Monday continues with the colour wheel and this week we are asked to use analogous colours: Light blue, Turquoise and Dark Blue.

I decided that I had to use my usual inky background technique and some new Indigo Blu stamps I had. The card is also being used for a friends birthday so I've kept it rather more traditional than perhaps I would usually. . . . .

I'd also like to show this card at Sunday Stampers where the challenge is 'Words' and Simon Says Stamp and Show where the challenge is 'Hey Girl' - really wanted to do something frilly and pink but never got round to it and perhaps that's not my style. . . . . . . . !

Here's the card I made:

The completed card. The main image and sentiment are layered onto coloured, textured card and then finally onto some sheet music - charity shop buy! - with the edges inked.

The blue background contains all the required blue tones but you need to look carefully to see them! The card was stamped with the main image and then inked and stamped using distress inks and the following stamps: crackle, script, flourish and music.

In this image you can see the distress inks in various shades but also visible is some light blue chalky ink which was used to stamp script. I love the effect these chalky inks give on top of distress. The sentiment looks smudged but if you have this stamp you will know that this is how it is! The sentiment layer has two eyelets and some lovely jute thread tied in a small bow. In the following image you can see the crackle stamp which was done in a distress ink turquoise equivalent:

Thanks for looking at this post and thank you to all those people who regularly visit my blog and to my new followers who are saying some lovely things about my work - I really do appreciate it.