Edwin is feeling a little blue - or rather grey!

I have a couple of things to say about this card! First of all thank you Angie Hunt for the inspiration and layout! She doesn't even know that she inspired me, but she recently did the sweetest card for our Blog Hop and I stole her idea...only instead of using Maggie Mini's I used #103 COOL EDWIN, from the Sweet Rainbow collection. He is available from Diana at the Magnolia-licious store.

The other thing I wanted to say is that I've so admired all the monochromatic colored images that have been done. To tell you the truth, I've been scared spit-less to try one, but last night I decided to give it a whirl. I finished my card and showed it to my BFF and she critiqued it for me. She suggested that I darken the pants a little. Well, the card was finished but I decided to take her advise. I still may not have gotten them dark enough, but this was my first shot - and the card WAS finished...

I so enjoyed our Blog Hop challenge which was to use black and white and one other color for pop, so I pulled out some Magnolia dp from the Vintage Christmas collection and paired it with some retired SU dp. I love the effect this gave my card.

Here is how the front turned out. The beautiful wide striped ribbon was part of a package I received from a fore mentioned BFF. I thought it would be masculine enough for my card. No flowers or pearls for this one. Now that I look at it I should have included some Screw Head brads to the corners, but it was too late by the time I was finished the card.


Here is a close up of Edwin and how I colored him. The colors I used are as follows:
W00,1,3,6; R14,46,59; and I touched him up with T1,3,5 6. The cheeks were done with chalk and then rubbed off a little.



Here is my artsy view of the card...


This is how I finished up the inside. I didn't have enough of the SU black and white paper left, so I just used it on the top. One of the pieces of ribbon was left over from the front, so I simply cut another piece to match and secured it to the panel with Screw Head brads. The bottom of the card uses another piece of ribbon and I attached three Screw Head brads to the notation panel.

Will I ever do another Monochromatic card? Yup! This is quite doable and I like the effect.

Thanks for taking time out of your very busy day to come and visit my blog.

Hugs,
Barb