OLW 42 I’ve got the music
Posted: February 27, 2011 Filed under: CAS, Rollers 51 Comments
Jennifer gave us a musical challenge this week for One Layer Wednesday while Mandi and Chrissie at Less is More sent out a three square challenge. I don’t often combine challenges as that makes them all the more challenging but I had a picture in my mind as to how these two themes might work together.
For the music theme I wanted to create the feel of an aged piece of sheet music and combine it with the warm colours of the wood of a violin. Both my girls have lovely violins; one is over 100 years old and the wood is a warm muted colour, the other is under 10 years old and is a darker, shinier finish. I knew when creating this card I would have to get the musical elements right or they would tell me so.
I cut three 1½” squares out of a post-it note mask and used the SU roller “Music Notes” to fill all three squares. I didn’t re-ink it as I wanted the faded look. I then sponged in close to cocoa and ruby red before stamping my little violin stamp in the same colours. I coloured the violins with watercolour pencils and blended them with water, flicking a little around at the same time to add to the aged look. The treble and bass clefs and the sharp and flat were drawn with black watercolour pencil.
Supplies
Stamps: Music Notes roller(SU), Fiddle(Parlour Victorian Atlantic Canada), Thank You Kindly(SU)
Inks: Ruby Red, Close to Cocoa
Paper: Flourishes Classic Ivory
Also: FaberCastell Watercolour pencils
Heather Telford 
Absolutely stunning!
My Partner in crime will LOVE this!
Thank you Heather super card
mandi
“Less is More!
Heather this is a work of art! The detail in each square is superb and the colours are simply lovely!
Thanks for another fabulous submission!
See you next week!
Chrissie
“Less is More”
Love this card. It has so such a soft classical tone to it. Thanks for all the inspiration you give us!
A Stunning card love the colours you’ve used and the stamps. Hugs x ChrisB
Absolutely stunning
beautiful xxx
Everything works in harmony to make this a stunning card!
Heather this is just beautiful. I love the music and violin image together and such gorgeous colours.
Gina x
What a fab card-never thought to make squares and use a roller, took me a couple of reads to get it! But now I can see how you did it I want to do it!
Linbyx
Love this card Heather, wish I’d seen it before I made mine and then I would have placed my squares at the bottom of my card. Mandi commented on this and guess what, when I turned it upside down it looked so much nicer :))
Val x
I think this is absolutely stunning.
Kath x
WOW I love your card it is stunning, And very cleaver.
Just spectacular!
Beautiful card! The colours and details in the squares are just stunning.
Laura x
This is absolutely stunning Heather, absolutely love it!
Margaret x
Wow, so many elements to making this card! And all were worth it, and beautifully done. I love the music theme, the colors, the shading, and those lovely violins! Great card.
Love this, it’s a work of art.
Jenny x
Hello
Gorgeous… card…Stunning…..Love it….
hugs
sylvie
xx
This is beautiful! The colors are beautiful. I love your cards – they’re similar to the cards I like to make. Lots of sponging….
Dianna
http://www.thesedaysofmine.com
I think this is my favourite entry so far. I love it and I think you really made both challenges work
Hi – this is just so elegant and beautiful, as a lover of card making and music it’s a perfect combination..and you got the music elements spot on!! Esther xx
REALLY elegant yet grungy images which brings out the beauty of your clever stamping. Great card:-)
Wow! These squares are small works of art! Your cards and your blog are gorgeous. I am inspired to use masking more and to try sponging backgrounds, something I’ve never done. It will be fun to play. Thank you!
Beautiful card!! I really need to try masking more often!
Stunning!
This is just super creative crafting. You certainly got this one spot on! ikki
Well done this looks fabulous, I love it :O) Viv xx
Hi Heather, what a beautiful card. You did create the perfect sphere you wanted to create! Love this musical card! And how lovely to have 2 daughters who play the violin! Greetz from Holland, MIranda
You and I were singing from the same hymn sheet this week Heather with the use of the Music Notes Wheel and Thank You Kindly! Your card is utterly stunning.
Magnificent!!! Encore!! You nailed this for both challenges – great colours, fab images – just brilliant!
wow an absolutly great and lovely card! Nice colors and the composition is great work!
Hugs, Beate
What a stunning and elegant card….
Anne
This is a fabulous card. I love the colour and the stamping is a work of art, ( yeah I know it`s been said before…)
Lynne xxx
Absolutely beautiful in everyway. I love your blog too, I’ll definately keep coming back to see what you’ve been creating x
Wow! This is stunning! I love it!
Simply fabulous, delicate and totally musical:0) xxx
Very pretty. I love the colour combinations.
Absolutely stunning, really eyecatching.
Gorgeous colours and beautiful images.
wow wow wow just love this card.
Very beautiful design, i like the colours, great compisition.
Thank you for your comment and for visit my blog.
A hug from Spain
Wonderful Card, great colors.
Bianca
OMG one word…stunning
hugs sandra
I have a soft spot for all things musical… this is beautiful!
Beautiful card. Lovely colours. Enjoyed reading how you built up the images. x
Absolute perfection. LOVE this!
Another lovely card and I’m happy to pass on a blog award for all the inspiration you give. Collect it at http://kbpapercraft.blogspot.com/2011/03/award-from-carla.html Cheers!
This isn’t just a card…this is art! It’s stunning!
Lizy x
Gorgeous!
Such beauty and elegance – simply stunning. Hugs Cherry XXx
Your card is so stunning I was stunned and couldn’t leave a comment 😉
I’m all better now.
Wonderful job on the challenge and thanks for playing along with OLW42!