SOS135: the blues... times two

for this week's challenge at shopping our stash we've got the winter blues! lemme essplain: we want to see cards (or layouts, minibooks, atc's, etc) that prominently and predominantly feature the color BLUE, in all it's glorious hues and shades! so celebrate cerulean, relish royal, or go mad for midnight... then c'mon over and link up with us. i made two cards. they're the same, but different!

(vintage map and map index; fish cut out of an old angler's handbook; patterned paper: my mind's eye, basic grey, crafter's secret; labels: dymo; ink: colorbox; adhesives: staples brand gluetape runner, 3m foam tape, sewing machine)

i made the bottom card first. and i really like it, but we're shooting for projects which are predominently blue, and i wasn't sure it was really blue enough? particularly since my star, the handsome mister fish, who irl is silvery blue... in the photo just looks plain old grey; plus i've covered up most of the blue clouds in that awesome amy tangerine paper. as it happens, i have two important "guy birthdays" at the end of january, so i decided i'd try a second time with a bluer fish and bluer clouds paper. mission accomplished. or accompfished? ok, no. sorry. nevermind. movin' on...

(vintage map; fish cut out of an old angler's handbook; patterned paper: amy tangerine, october afternoon, my mind's eye; round frame sticker: memories complete; labels: dymo; ink: colorbox; adhesives: staples brand gluetape runner, 3m foam tape)

i used last week's i (heart) card sketch for my layout, admittedly somewhat loosely. the bottom card is a more faithful version, but i accidentally drew my circles a little too small on the upper card, and would've had to trim an awful lot of lovely fish away... so i adjusted!

and now i know you are longing to see what the rest of the SOS dt has made for your delight, so off you go, darlings! ♥