Grungy Monday No 1 - Singing in the Rain

Linda at Studio L3 who organised the fabulous 35 challenges from Tim's Compendium of Curiosities has come to our rescue when we ran out of Compendium techniques, and has started up Grungy Monday. Thank you so much, Linda. Our first GM challenge is to use as our inspiration tag number ten of the 2008 Twelve Tags of Christmas series. Now this is just right up my street. I had such fun completing all of the 2010 Tags, but have only done a selection from previous years. Tim has created links to all of the instructions for his tags on the left hand sidebar of his blog.

In the last week of March we began to enjoy some beautiful sunny Spring weather, but as the month drew to a close and April began, all was dull and rainy. I'm glad to say that the sunshine came back yesterday. Anyway Spring colours are on my mind, so I used Faded Jeans, Stormy Sky, Broken China and Antique Linen DIs on the background; Heirloom Gold, Perfect Gold, Plum and Blue Patina Perfect Pearls on the character; and toning acrylic paints on the letters. I love these stamps by Dyan Reaveley and usually choose vibrant colours with them, so here it was nice to use gentler colours. I've covered the letters, umbrella handle and welly boots with Glossy Accents just to let you all know that it has been raining !