Love Songs

Hi everyone and Happy Monday :) I hope your week is off to a great start. I got to spend some time in the craft room this weekend which is always great fun. Hubby and I also watched the end of the Olympics and man oh man, did you see that hockey game yesterday?!?! What an amazing game. I was rooting for Team USA, but I'm so happy for Canada that they were able to win on home soil. What a fun game to watch. I'm so sad the Olympics are over. They are always so fun to watch.

Well, onto my card for today. I titled my post "Love Songs" because when I saw these two images from the Winter Kit from Magnolia, I pictured Tilda sitting on the piano singing love songs to Edwin. I know, I'm a hopeless romantic, what can I say! :) I first stamped the piano (this image doesn't appear to be available at Diana's store yet, but I'm sure she'll get a new shipment in soon) and colored it with copics (W8 and W6). It's hard to see in the pictures, but in the second picture, you can kind of see that I added Glossy Accents to the keys on the piano to give them some shine. I then cut the piano out with my Labels 4 Nesties. While the paper was still in the nestability die, I sponged around the image with SU's Bashful Blue ink. When I popped the paper out of the die, it left a really nice white border around the image. I love this technique and will definitely be using it again. Next, I stamped Tilda (again, this image doesn't appear to be available at Diana's store at the moment, but I'm sure she'll get it back in stock soon), colored her with copics (dress: R85, R83, R81; bow: B34, B37; hair: E33, E35, E37; shoes: R89, R85), and cut her out. I added some small pink pearls for earrings and some Stardust Stickles to the rose pinned to her dress. I next created my card base using SU cardstock (Regal Rose and Bordering Blue). The design paper is from DCWV's Rustic stack. I used my ticket corner punch from SU on the corners and added pearls. I also used my Martha Stewart Lace Hearts edge punch for the top panel of design paper. I added the piano image to the card base with dimensionals and then added Tilda to the top of the piano with dimensionals. Finally, I added a bow, tied with my Bow Easy, and roses from Prima and Wild Orchid Crafts. What do you think?

That's it from me today. Thank you all so much for stopping by. I hope you have a wonderful day and a wonderful week. I'll see you back here tomorrow :)

Hugs, Christine