If Music Be the Food of Love … 🎵 🌹

Hi everyone, the organiser of the monthly ATC swaps in Tracy Evans’ FB group has decided that this year the themes are going to be based around verses from poems, songs or even plays - an exciting development to help us get our thinking caps on! For February the theme is 

If music be the food of love, play on!

As usual I’m pretty last minute but I really wanted to get something done. I envisaged an overall vintage look with a red rose on an old paper music sheet - I struggled initially as I don’t have any music themed stamps by Tracy .. in fact I don’t know if there are any! However fortunately we are allowed to use other branded products in the background - here’s the result.

I smooshed Antique Linen and Old Paper Distress Oxide inks onto some cream stamping card, then stamped the music sheet 4 times - this is one of several old background stamps I have which as luck would have it are almost perfect ATC size - then overstamped the rose on each one.  I cut out each stamped panel and distressed the edges with my Tim Holtz distressing tool, then blended Scorched Timber DOX round the edges to add depth. I stamped the rose again 4 times onto a separate snippet of cream card, coloured the flower heads with Zig pens and white Posca highlights, then fussy cut out. I coloured the rose stems and leaves on the base layer, then attached the fussy cut flower heads. I stamped the sentiment onto separate cream card, fussy cut and attached, then added mini hearts and a branched heart to each piece. I matted the panels onto brown card stock and added some gold Posca faux spatters to finish.

Here’s a closeup of one of the ATC’s…

… and here’s an angled picture to show the gold spatters.This pic is a much truer colour than the above - for some reason I couldn’t get most of the pics to show the true warm tone of the background!

Stamps: AALL & Create #831 Sent With Love, #453 Heart Grunge; Tracy Evans Boutique Designs TE6 Branched Heart, TE10 Quirky Birds; music sheet stamp by LotV;

Media: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks (Antique Linen, Old Paper, Scorched Timber); Versafine Clair (Sand Dune, Portobello, Strawberry); Kuretake Zig Clean Color watercolour pens; Posca pens (white, gold).

Challenges I would like to enter:

613 Avenue Create (February) - Anything Goes with option Lots of Love (2nd entry)

Beautiful Blossoms #26 - Anything Floral Goes (2nd entry)

Colourful Options (February) - Mood Board

(I was inspired by the colour red and roses)

Crafty Calendar (February) - Hearts (3rd entry)

Creative Inspirations (February) - Love Is In the Air (2nd entry)

Double D - The Colour Red

Heart’s Quest #71 - Anything Goes with Pink and/or Red Hearts - TOP 3

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie #201 - Hearts Galore (3rd entry)

Little Red Wagon #796 - Tiny Dancer (something tiny)

Neglected Stuff (February) - Use Your Neglected Craft Stash (2nd entry)

(I haven’t used the background music stamp for years - if ever!)

Outlawz Anything Goes In a Card Free Zone (February) - Anything But a Card (3rd entry)

Outlawz Festive Fridays (February) - Valentine/Love (2nd entry) - TOP 3

Pearly Sparkles #104 - Love Is In the Air (3rd entry)

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Anything Goes

Sisterhood of Crafters - Red or Pink

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers #259 - L is for Love (2nd entry)

Sparkles #185 - Love - TOP 3

Word Art Wednesday #689/690 - Anything Goes

That’s all from me for today. Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,