Timeless Tuesday ~ Fun with Backgrounds!

Hello fellow stamp lovers!  It's Tuesday... time for my favourite day of the week.... it's Timeless Tuesday Challenge time!!!  Hooray!

This week we actually have a guest hostess!  Welcome to Angel Rivera this week!

This week Angel is challenging us to... 

create your own back ground paper using stamps!

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Let me tell ya... this challenge has so many cool possibilities!!  It literally took me 20 minutes just to decide on what stamp set to use.  Finally I chose a stamp set I have used in a while, Bloomin' Aussie Florals.  I couldn't resist using the beautiful Stuart Desert Rose image from this collection to create my back ground!

To begin, I cut a piece of 5x6 piece of Flourishes Classic White Cardstock.  Then I took my rose image and some Memento "Black Tuxedo" ink and stamped the image all over the white cardstock.  I made sure to rotate my image as I stamped.

Then I cut the wavy lines using a die, separating the cardstock into 3 pieces.

Then I took the 2 outer panels and began to colour them using the following Copic Collections:

I started off by masking off 3 stamped images at a time and air brushing my back ground using the shade of purple Copic.  Then I coloured the roses and their leaves.  I added a subtle hint of grey Copic to the inner panel edges too.

Once it was coloured, I backed it with a piece of dark Bonquet purple cardstock from the "Crocus" Color Made Easy paper collection.  I added some fabulous Festive Fushia seam binding ribbon, Silver Metallic String and a Sunflower Light button.

Now... check out what my fellow designers creating using Angel's fun challenge this week...

• Allison Cope  ~ you are here!
• Broni Holcombe
• Cheryl Lea
• Deborah Anton
• Jenny Gropp
• Judy Rozema
• Katie Sims
• Angel Rivera, our guest host
• Marie Ross, our August guest designer

Thanks for stopping by!  Enjoy your journey checking out all the cool back grounds today!

~ Ally ~

Sponsored by:  Flourishes LLC

Supplies:
stamps: Flourishes (Bloomin' Aussie Florals)
cardstock: Flourishes
die cut shapes: Spellbinders
ink: Memento, Copic
ribbon, string, button:  Flourishes.