Waterloo Sunset

If you are over 60 and you've read the title of this post, I can pretty much guarantee I know what you'll be singing now.

"Dirty old river, must you keep rollin' ... "

For this card I've used a set of Clearly Besotted cityscape stamps.  I stamped the image and sentiment then masked off the image using masking paper and a rectangle around it. Cutting that mask took ages because of all the "inny" bits, so I've saved the mask on the back of the stamps' holding sheet  to save time if I want to use it again.  Then I blended inks to give the "Waterloo Sunset" and the "Dirty old river" Thames. I coloured in the heart in the sentiment then cut the whole thing into a panel and matted it with a very narrow black border.

Confession time - I originally made this as a one layer card but had an ooopsy moment when removing the masking tape and damaged the card, so I cut away the damaged part and made the topper I used here. A happy accident I think as it looks better than the original - the black border really makes the image stand out. I think if I do recreate this or something similar as a one layer card I will draw in a black border in future.

I  am sharing this with CAS-ology - Skyline