Color Throwdown #474 - Guest Designer

Hello and welcome!  I'm so honored to be this week's guest designer for the Color Throwdown Challenge #474.  Here's the inspiration photo for the colors this week:  Ivory, Gray and Black.

I've used birds and a sentiment from Paper Smooches.   I inked up the Darice Birch Tree embossing folder with Gina K Designs London Fog ink and ran it through my Big shot and then die cut it with a Memory Box stitched rectangle die.  I matted it on a black panel.  I cut the birds from black card stock and vintage sheet music and pieced them together, then added them to the tree background.  I used Paper Smooches "Sentiment Sampler" to stamp the sentiment directly onto the background.  I added eyes with black enamel accents and added the tiny music notes from a punch in my stash.   Lastly I added the black panel to a Gina K Designs "London Fog" colored card base.  

Here's a closer view of my card:

I made a 2nd card very similar but without the vintage sheet music and with lots of sparkle pen on the black sections and gray Nuvo drops for the eyes.


Here's a close up of the sparkle:

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you will have a chance to enter The Color Throwdown challenge this week!  Details are HERE.

I will enter this in:
Rubbernecker  Challenge #24


Stamp Ink and Paper Challenge #131

Repeat Impressions DCC13 ~ Things With Wings
Scrapyland Challenge #81


Paper Smooches January Challenge