All Jazzed Up

Don't you just love it when your favorite challenges cooperate with one another?  This week's Simon Says challenge is called "anything goes."  Which means, of course, whatever I do for the Grungy Monday challenge will work for Simon Says as well.  You know me, I'm always up for a twofer.  Add to that a birthday card I needed to make, and yep, another threefer is born.

Linda, mastermind of Grungy Monday and recent Ranger U graduate, went back to 2007 for the technique we're to use this week.  Click HERE and you'll be taken to Tim's blog for all the details and how-tos.  Now, Tim originally demoed this for a Christmas tag, and came up with a weathered wood look.  My take is totally different, but as Linda pointed out, there are just so many ways this background can be used.  Enough talk....here is my card:

I used pool paint dabber and chipped sapphire distress ink for the background.  It's on white cardstock, which I cut to size (the finished card is a 5" square).  The jazz band stamp is from Graphic45, as is the strip of musical notes on the top.  The celebrate stamp is a very old one from Stampin' Up that I use a lot.  Love that script.

I had some leftover background paper and used it (along with another Graphic45 scrap) for the inside of the card where I'll write my message.