PTI Blog Hop - Building Backgrounds

This month's Papertrey Ink Blog Hop is all about building backgrounds. So I pulled out some of newest Papertrey Ink stamps sets Journaling Lines and Friends 'Til the End sets to create some simple backgrounds.

First a created a dotted grid background using the dotted journaling lines from the "Journaling Lines" stamp set.

Then I grabbed the leaves and the unopened flower bud from my "Friends 'Til the End" set, some white embossing powder and my Versamark ink to create a simple floral back ground piece of paper.

I then stamped an individual bloom from the "Friends 'Til the End" set on some pinky red cardstock, coloured it a bit with some Copics to give it some dimension.

I stitching my dotted grid paper on my pink cardstock, layered the floral accent piece with an added ribbon and stamped greeting tag over top, adhered my flower and embellished it finally with a few adhesive pearls for that final touch. then I ahered it all to my cardstock base.

Voila... two simple backgrounds to build a simple card!

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supplies: stamps: Papertrey Ink (Friends 'Til the End, Journaling Lines); cardstock: Bazzill, Prismatics; ink: Ranger, Versamark, Copic Sketch markers; ribbon: Micheal's; tag: Spellbinder's tag die cut; pearls: Hero Arts.

If you'd like to join in the hopping good time tonight, check out the Papertrey Ink forum here for details.

Thanks for visiting my blog! Have fun hopping tonight!