Lasting memories Black and White

This weeks challenge over at lasting memories is to use Black and White with a splash of color. Whether you use a black and white photo or paper, we want to see mostly black and white with just a splash of color.

I knowyou've already seen this post, but keep reading as I have another LO to share.

This one isn't quit black and white, but it's close.  I used a monochromatic Navy blue scheme. 

The photo is of my dad from the mid 40's.  Not quit B+W, not sepia either.

I choose to use the denim background because of the overalls he is wearing.  Can't imagine that they would be any other color then the dark navy.  We're talking 1940's no one did fancy color overalls back then.  The rest of the pp was picked based on the denim.  The gingham and stars is all from my stash of creative memories papers that I got way back when I first started scrapping. 

I got my inspiration from the sketch below:

And I used the Bingo

straight across the middle

Ribbon, Banner,Buttons

Here's a close up of the photo of my dad.

I matted the banner strips on white so they would pop of the background.

The red ribbon is the backside of a Christmas ribbon. I like that it was only printed on one side so I can get more use out of it.    

 The buttons are super old stash.  Can't even remember where they came from and I had to spray paint the white ones, they were cream to start with. A little red embroidery floss and there you have it.

I hope you can join us this week at lasting memories