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Wednesday 10 April 2013

Backgrounds

The challenge this week on Make My Monday is to make a background from scratch (no designer backing papers allowed) and there is a mid week motivation post with ideas and of course the usual lovely work from the design team.  My background was made on watercolour paper with distress stains, water and salt - once dry it has been overstamped.  The image is a Creative Expressions stamp designed by Sam Poole, coloured with matching Distress colours, cut out and popped onto a piece of embossed Core-d-nations card (sanded, inked and overstamped).  Apart from the little bee which is a Chocolate Baroque stamp all the other stamps used were from Creative Expressions by Same Poole.


12 comments:

  1. Love all your stamping and a great background. Great flower love the ruler stem and the bee. Hugs x ChrisB

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  2. Love your gorgeous colours Val that you have created on your background....your little bee looks great against your honeycomb background on your image....

    Anne

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  3. I've now got myself some rock salt to play with & shall have another go with my stains. Love the way that chicken wire image is repeated in both background & image panel but in different sizes.
    Love the bee.
    Paula (PEP)

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  4. Beautiful ! I love your background, the colours & inking with stencils is fabulous. Have a great day, Shirley

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  5. Great blended colours and some fantastic stamping here Val. Hugs, Jenny x

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  6. Fabulous background you have created and lovely stamped image.
    Thanks for playing along at Make My Monday this week
    Rosie x

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  7. Loving this Val. What fabulous colours too. Hugs Rita xx

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  8. This is gorgoeus Val, I love the background, and the overstamping that you've done. A lovely flower stamp too.

    Sue x

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  9. What a lot of work - fab colours on this card.
    Jill

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  10. Wow it's a wonderful card, love the busy background. Thanks again for your valued support of MMM. Caz DT

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  11. Hi Val... wow! what a fabulous crad , great stamping and colours. Thank you for joining us at MMM
    Suzi B xx

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  12. Absolutely gorgeous creation! Thanks for joining in with my DIY background challenge at MMM.
    Fliss x

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