Monochromatic card

The challenge this week at the Tiddly Inks challenge blog (Challenge number 38) is to make a totally monochromatic card (including the image).  I was a little bit put off at first, but I decided to try out some sepia tones.  Then I had a bit of a panic moment as I didn't think I had any brown pattern paper to match it with, but don't you just love how most of the paper companies print different coordinating papers on the reverse of the page?  I managed to find about 6 different browns, so I ended up with plenty to choose from.

After I coloured up the image (a digital freebie from Tiddly Inks) my husband was very sceptical.   He was thinking the card would look really bland, meanwhile I was thinking it would be a great boy card, so I was a bit disappointed by his initial reaction to the image.  But when I finished the card he was quite surprised to find it actually looks quite nice.

I coloured the image with copics and added Glossy Accents to the balloons (of course).  I stitched around the papers and dyed my white lace with Distress inks (Walnut).  I also coloured the bling with my copics (E37) to make it tone in.  I think the papers are a mixture of My Mind's Eye, October Afternoon and Cosmo Cricket.

Here are the copics I used (I would have used E50 rather than E0000, but I need to get a re-inker for it):

Happy Thursday!

Arabella Chickie in Lavrio, Greece