Double D - Make Your Own Background

Hello friends.  Playing along with the gals over at the Double D Challenge where they would like us to make our own backgrounds.

I had just received Kristina Werner's & Concord & 9th Holiday Icons stencil set which creates a stenciled background that is so much FUN and figured it would fit this challenge perfectly!  It's a large stencil that you use a half sheet of card stock (8 1/2 x 5 1/2) and then you can cut it in half to make two A2 size cards when you're finished.  I had so much fun with different colors that I ended up making 6 cards!  Here's the first set with some pretty bright and non-traditional colors...

You start with the background stencil (I used gray) and then follow through with the other 4 stencils, so you use 5 colors total.  My inks and cs are all C&9 on this one.  My sentiments were stamped and die cut using Gina K's Let Your Light Shine set and then I finished with a few Disco Ball sequins.

 For this set I started by stenciling my background black and IRL it makes a pretty dramatic back drop!  I used the traditional red & green for the rest of the stenciling, and then added frames using Kristina Werner's A2 Thin Frame Dies and sentiments from older PTI dies, both with gold mirror cs.

 My last set of cards was done ombre style using a 6th stencil that is included in the set, starting light and adding more color as I went up.  I matted these in gold mirror cs and then added sentiments from WPlus9's Joyful Poinsettia stamp set.  

This is such a neat set if you need to turn out a lot of cards at once and also just plain fun to play with!  There is a lot of beautiful inspiration from the DT that shows a lot of different ways to make your own backgrounds and you can find them all right HERE.  This challenge is open till Sunday, Sept. 28th @ 8:00PM.

 

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