Make your own Background

Absolutely loved this week’s challenge at Our Creative Corner from the fabulous and very talented Susan Butler at Scrumplescrunch. If you haven’t already, definitely head on over to her blog for some serious inspiration!
Sue’s challenge is to make your own background:

“Decide whether you are a Pablo Picasso- and delve into mixed-media which involves paint, inks, glue, newspaper-clippings, photographs; in fact anything that you can lay your hands on to make it work visually.

Or do you lean toward Paul Cezanne- water-colours- (you are allowed to use Distress Inks as your watercolour medium) to set your scene, mood and connection to your project.

Try not to cover up your background too much with your focal image, allow everyone to view it in all it’s splendour.
And absolutely no patterned paper on your project!”

Since I just love to do water colouring, I decided to use this technique for my background. I have used a large sheet of water colour paper and wet it down completely under the tap. So when I say, wet it down, I mean literally put it under the tap and get it wet all over.
I then used my markers to add ink in different colours (you could use re-inkers for this but mine are packed!) and then an aqua brush to blend the colours nicely. I wanted to keep the colours soft and subtle. I then used the French Foliage stamp set to add the leaves, splodges and very faint words, while the paper was still very wet. I thought it needed a bit more colour then, so I have used some alcohol inks and dropped some blobs of ink in various colours. The flowers are from the Field Flowers stamp set, which have been stamped and then cut out and layered over the background. The centres of the flowers have some tiny spots of Copper coloured alcohol ink in the centre, which gives it a nice shine, along with some Champagne Glimmer paper and Crumb Cake Tulle Ribbon.

Lots of inspiration from the OCC Design Team this week (as always!) so make sure you check out their creations. And please join in the fun with us this week.

Happy stamping!
Chris

5 thoughts on “Make your own Background”

the water coloring technique you used to create this beautiful card was the perfect idea… I love how it turned out… so soft but still very eye-catching!

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Wow…Chris, the background you create is fabulous! Love it!

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Chris, I just love your background! and thanks for letting us know how you did it! Very pretty, very unique, and colorful! I love the little touches you added with the glimmer paper and the tulle. very feminine.
i hope that your weekend was wonderful. hugs, sharon w.

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I love the gentle, natural colours in your background, and the texture you’ve achieved in the stamping with your wet watercolour paper is amazing – great technique!
Alison x

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