Red roses for a blue lady

send them to the sweetest gal...Oh, I can hear this clearly in my head, can't you?  That's the song title I chose to illustrate in this week's Simon Says Stamp & Show blog challenge.  I had several ideas brewing but this one seemed to come together better/easier than the others.

First of all I crazed my bottle using instructions that Wendy posted on her blog back in November.  I still had problems with both layers flaking off but I'm guessing I didn't clean the bottle very well before I started.  (Maybe an alcohol bath would have been an ideal first step.)

Sid Tepper and Roy Bennet wrote this song back in 1948, hence the silver charm.  I used a marker for the date.  Old twine was wound around the neck of the bottle.

I applied Claudine Hellmuth's Sticky Back Canvas to grungeboard, cut it out using the Sewing Room die and inked it up with various blue and brown distress inks.  The florist label (TH Adverts) was inked using Jet Black Archival Ink on white cardstock; aged with brown distress ink; curled the corners.

Vermillion Archival Ink met up with the Studio 490 heart (Art from the Heart) and was stamped on chipboard; I distressed the edges with more brown distress ink.

The roses were cut from Fired Brick Distress core'dinations cardstock using Tim's Tattered Pinecone die.  Two of the 4 were cut in half so I could make smaller roses.  Fired Brick Distress Stickles was smeared on the roses.  The leafy/branch bits were cut from Retro Grunge scraps and edged with brown distress ink.  A layer of torn tulle is between the heart and the bottle.

Glossy Accents was used exclusively in holding this project together.  Long live Glossy Accents!!!