Monochromatic Birthday

Have you ever tried a monochromatic coloring of your image?  Me either...until today's card.
I decided to give it a try after seeing the Sunday Showcase at Designed to Color.  It looked interesting and I wanted to challenge myself.

Our theme this week at Digi Makeover is Water, and I have had this sweet Jill image in my folder for quite awhile just waiting to be colored up.  So I figured she would be perfect for this card.

I went with purple because...well I just picked up these 2 papers from Michael's and really wanted to use them :)  So what do you think?  Be honest :)  Since I only have a small collection of colored pencils, my color range wasn't all that great..but I tried to shade darker with some colors to help add definition.

I printed off the sentiment and cut it out with the edge of a spellbinders die.  All the edges are distressed to help break up the layers, since they are all purple.  The large gems in the corner were also a sweet find at Michael's since they were on liquidation!!

Anyhow, let me know what you think of the monochromatic coloring.  And if you try it out, let me know!  I'd love to see what you come up with.

Join in the fun this week at Digi Makeover for our water challenge!  We are all getting ready for those hot summer days where beaches and waves sound so good!  And stop by the rest of the makeup artists blogs to see their fabulous creations!  They always blow me away and are such great inspiration!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    Color Me Creative-All About Hair
    Craft Your Passion #157-Water, Water Everywhere
    Deconstructing Jen Sketch #96
    Ruby's Rainbow-Happy Birthday
    Sassy Studio #171-Use Something Wet (glitter glue on wings and lure)
    Simon Says-Happy Birthday
    Songbird #17-Five Colors in Her Hair

Thanks for stopping by!