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Custom make your own card background.

June 25, 2015 Penny Black, Uncategorized

Hello dear friends,

I have a very colourful and vibrant card to share with you today. One of my favourite technique to do is to custom make my own background for my cards. This makes my happy because I use techniques or stamp or both and the result is very unique every time. The process itself gives me great pleasure and results are amazing. Of course, there are times when things don’t turn out the way you wanted but this card turned out better than expected. Here it is.

Happy Birthday card
This is how I did my background. I sponged Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick, Picked Raspberry, Spice Marmalade and Ripe Persimmon  distress ink in that order on to my card panel. Distress inks take a little time to dry. I wanted the panel to be dry dry because I wanted to stamp on it. And you get a really clean crisp image when the distress inks are really dry. Of course you can zap it with heat gun. Anyway, I used the image from Sprigs stamp set by Penny Black to stamp with Versafine Black Ink. This is a pigment ink, so this ink also takes sometime to dry as well. Make sure you don’t smudge the ink. I loved the contrast of black against the coloured background.

I then used the stitched rectangle die from Stitched Duo 2 die from Pretty Pink Posh to die cut the centre rectangle from the panel. I also die cut three more rectangles out of black cardstock and one using vellum cardstock. Now, I  stacked and glued the three black rectangle then the stamped rectangle on the top. The stamped frame negative is adhered to the card base. I then inlaid and glued the stacked rectangle panel back in place. This panel has a bit of dimension  although it is inlaid back in its place.

On the vellum rectangle die cut, I stamped and white heat embossed the flower bouquet image and sentiment also from the same Sprigs stamp set. I added tiny drops of glossy accent behind the heat embossed area and also on the four corners of the vellum panel and adhered it on top of the inlaid panel on the card front.You can hardly see the glossy accent behind the vellum.  I then used Strawberry Burst and Sunshine Glow iridescent sequins and Metallic Silver  4mm sequins from Pretty Pink Posh to accent and bring all the colours on the card together. Then used black twine to tie around into a bow. Here is a closeup of the card.

Happy Birthday closeup
I absolutely love the background. To customize the background for another card, I do the same process but just change the colours. Or heat emboss the stamped images to get texture. So have fun customizing your card background and make it unique.
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  1. ursula Uphof says

    June 25, 2015 at 11:04 am

    I love how you did the background Gayatri and the stamped velum overlay. Thank you for sharing this technique. Hugs, Ursula

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  2. Mary-Anne V says

    June 25, 2015 at 12:07 pm

    wow what a background…love the use of vellum over it so it still shines through.

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  3. conil says

    June 25, 2015 at 3:42 pm

    The background is stunning…inlaying and layering your center piece is brilliant. Adds dimension without too much bulk and makes your vellum panel retain the spotlight.

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  4. Nicole Parmentier says

    June 25, 2015 at 3:56 pm

    Love the ombre in the background. Just gorgeous!

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  5. Craft drama says

    June 25, 2015 at 4:50 pm

    Very nice card gayatri love those colours ….vellum overlay awesome…..

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  6. Berina RGA says

    June 25, 2015 at 6:24 pm

    beautiful card!! love love love the vibrant background!! it's very beautiful!! love the stamping as well…

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  7. Bev Chapman says

    June 25, 2015 at 9:55 pm

    I love the card it is so cheery…awesome colours!

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  8. Leigh Penner says

    June 26, 2015 at 1:08 pm

    Gorgeous!

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  9. Deepti says

    June 26, 2015 at 3:59 pm

    I am speechless!

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  10. Jo Herbert says

    June 27, 2015 at 4:35 am

    What a gorgeous card, love the colours and the embossing. Hugs Jo

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  11. Anita in France says

    June 28, 2015 at 7:48 pm

    What a gorgeous background, Gayatri … those branch silhouettes are fabulous with the wonderful sponged colours … and the slip of vellum is just lovely! Anita 🙂

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  12. jamie vanskiver says

    June 29, 2015 at 1:30 am

    Wow! Love this! I wish I could come up with something this awesome all on my own:) You are so talented and inspiring!

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  13. Debbie Lindholm says

    June 30, 2015 at 4:22 pm

    Beautiful! Simply beautiful.

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Hi! I am Gayatri. My love for creativity initiated this blog. In this blog I share all my handmade papercraft projects. I work for Simon Says Stamp and Taylored Expressions. I also design for Mudra Stamps. Apart from papercrafting, I also love gardening both indoors and outdoors, cooking vegetarian food and interior designing.
This blog is my mode of sharing my creativity with you. Hope you enjoy and get inspired.

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