Make your own background (No DP)

Hello and welcome to Make My Monday.

Our new challenge starting today is

Challenge #119 Make Your Own Background (No DP)

There are more details and of course the inspiration 

by the design team over on the challenge blog, so please 

be sure to visit.

On white stamping card I blended Distress Inks,

Cracked Pistachio, Picked Raspberry and Fossilized Amber.

Using Black Versafine I stamped, an old but an old time

favourite stamp from Chocolate Baroque.

I used Cdrafty Companions Texture stamps to distress

the background.

The greeting stamp is by Hobby Art stamps. 

Thanks for your visit, please stay safe and well. 

Make your own Background Paper

I can't resist a technique challenge. Over at Quirky Crafts Challenges this week the challenge is to create your own background papers, no designer papers are allowed. Yippee, another opportunity to get in a mess. I started with a plain piece of white card. Blended in several TH Distress Inks, Dusty Concord, Peeled Paint, Broken China, I then sprayed some water over the card, left a few seconds then dabbed off to create the splattered bleached effect. I sprayed a fine mist of Glitz Spray which sadly doesn't show on the picture. using Memento I stamped twice with a Penny Black stamp - Garden Poems. Coloured it in using the same Distress Inks as a watercolour paint. Added a Sheena Douglass greeting stamp, completed with a nice white ribbon with a silver edge.