Dans ma maison il y a …du bleu

**OK….just ready to post the link on Dans ma maison when I realized … I got excited about BLUE and made a 5×7 collage and forgot it needed to be a house … dohhh!!!! … back to the drawing board**

***back again … if you scroll all the way down to the bottom you will find my blue house now… it went together so much faster than my postcard ***

I have been waiting to use this lovely water lady from Suzee Que’s Flickr images … it was on the cover of The New York Tribune Sunday Magazine in the early 1900’s … she seemed to fit the “blue” challenge over at Dans ma maison very well … I gave her a fan to hold …

the swans are from Elizabeth at Last Door Down the Hall

the flowered backdrop is a photo of my Mutti’s 1941 fabric covered autograph book … what treasures that holds

I blended inks and paints with hand sanitizer for the background since I just happened to have some handy … be sure and visit Jean at Bluebirds Living in the Meadow, if you haven’t already, for a nice tutorial on using hand sanitizer on inkjet images

“Oh! darkly, deeply, beautifully blue, as someone somewhere sings about the sky” ~Lord Byron, 1788-1824

*both pics can be clicked for a closeup*

so I got busy and made a HOUSE for the challenge using some scrap paper for the background, inks, paints and another size of the lovely water lady and fan for this 6×4″ card