SweetStamps: Monthly Technique Challenge

Hello again-

Hope your Tuesday morning is off to a great start.

Today at SweetStamps, it's time for our monthly challenge.

This months challenge is:

Create your own background paper

I thought this would be a cake walk of a challenge for me, but when I sat down, my mind went completely blank.  I have no idea of what happened and why, but I just didn't like what I was coming up with.

So I started looking for color challenges and figured that would get me going in the right direction.

So I found a color combo that I agreed to stick with and here is what I created. 

Now I LOVE this...as different as it for me.  I am really pleased with the way it came out. 

I used Braided Flower Border stamp for my background and stamped with three different colors of Memento ink.  I used the Cheery Lynn Design French Flair for the base of my center.  I then cut two set of Sentiment Frames, in white cardstock and placed them on top of one another and in a cross position. 

The flower is created with Sweet Williams. The tips of the flowers were rubbed with distress ink, spritzed, dried then layered.  

This is a side of view of the card.

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Remember, you can only enter the challenge one time, use a SweeStamps image to get an extra entry in the challenge. Please limit the amount of challenges to 10 (including SweetStamps). You must link back to SweetStamps on your blog post.

Next week's challenge #113 is:

A Rainbow of Colors

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