Rubber Dance - A love of Music!

Hello and welcome to Magpieheaven. Over at Unruly Paper Arts, I have recently been introduced to a stamp company by the name of Rubber Dance.

I was delighted to discover their blog and to find that they run a challenge! I just had to have a go so I am linking this project to Rubber Dance Stamps blog here. This project is a card for my Great Uncle's birthday on Saturday February 7th. My Great Uncle Derek is 90 years old today, and music has been a real joy to him all his life - especially the songs of his favourite 'crooner' Bing Crosby! One of his earliest memories is of his beautiful Mum, Matilda (also the name of my daughter), singing. She had a sweet soprano voice and sang at concerts.  Rubber Dance had set a colour scheme and a theme for their challenge - Red, Blue and Brown and - as this is February - Love. This, however, could be the love of anything you like. For Derek, I chose the love of music.

I began by stamping the music script onto a craft card, using Wendy Vecchi's Red Geranium Archival Ink, blending some of the ink over the edges of my card. Above you can also see the elements I gathered together for this card: a masterboard painted with PaperArtsy Fresco blues and reds, stamped and stenciled and then with some Wendy Vecchi gold embossing paste pressed through a Prima stencil of flourishes and a strip of red paper cut with the Tim Holtz lace die.

White highlights on the figure playing the violin brought the image to life, I thought. I could imagine her playing in flickering candle-light, so I touched the image with yellow Inktense and a little water too. I also stenciled the paper that I used for this beautiful, Rubber Dance image with some Wendy Vecchi Potting Soil Archival ink. The heart is die-cut from waxed paper, coloured with Florentine Treasure Gold by PaperArtsy and stamped with the music script from Rubber Dance in Stazon black ink. The little bird embellishment has been painted with Space Cadet Fresco Finish by PaperArtsy.

I recently bought a punch board for making envelopes, so I created one especially for this card using Chatsworth scrap-booking paper by PaperArtsy, edged with Wendy Vecchi Red Carnation and that music script again. Washi tape, brown clocks finished off the vintage effect...

Here are the card and envelope together. I love the sentiment too, 'Where words fail, music speaks.'

Here is the front of the envelope. I was rather pleased with the position of the flower...

So here is the card all sealed and ready to give to my dear Great Uncle Derek with a little bottle of our own home-made Sloe Gin. We are throwing a lunch party for him so I hope he will like this card made and sent with love. Happy Birthday to Great Uncle Derek!

Thank You for stopping by Magpieheaven today and for looking at all these pictures! I hope that you too have a wonderful weekend full of the love of whatever makes you happy!