Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Christmas Card Challenge - July - Background

The challenge for July is a technique challenge to create a background.  A few options to create a background are: brayer, sponged, stamped, watercolor, stenciled, spritzed, marbled, spattered, word, ink spot and many more.  Which will you choose?
You will see that I used the decorative paper I made a while ago. This paper is non traditional shades of Christmas colors.  Pink and green was a bit of a challenge to work with.  When searching the web I kept find these old cards from the 40-50's in this color combo with usually silver or sparkles added so I added silver.  I had saved these reflectors from mini lights a while back and it was just the silver foil look I needed.  I layered my decorative paper onto black to tone it down a bit.  I wrapped a piece of silver cording around this layer then adhered it to the card front. I adhered the foil scallop circle then a bright pink snowflake then a pearl white snowflake punched with the MS punch. All held in place with a repeat of the color black and silver in the form of a tiny silver sequin and tiny black brad. I designed the greeting for the Stampin Up Decorative punch and printed it on some of the same pearl white card stock.  It was then punched out and mounted over the silver cord with 3D foam tape.

Here's some inspiration:
Inky Spots Backgrounds
Music Background
Embossed Background

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for the challenge! I like making backgrounds so I have a few to share

    Digital background:
    http://www.tmalakart.blogspot.ca/2014/05/christmas-cards-with-sequins.html

    Paper napkin background:
    http://www.tmalakart.blogspot.ca/2014/03/snowman-christmas-cards.html
    http://www.tmalakart.blogspot.ca/2014/02/snowflake-christmas-cards.html

    Quilted backgrounds:
    http://www.tmalakart.blogspot.ca/2014/02/quilted-look-christmas-cards.html
    http://www.tmalakart.blogspot.ca/2014/01/quilted-nature-christmas-cards.html

    That last one is a "whack and stack" one!!

    Therese
    www.tmalakart.blogspot.ca

    ReplyDelete

Thanks for visiting. I love to read your comments.