Make your own Background challenge over at Anything Goes.....x

Morning everyone !!

Welcome to my post for the Anything Goes Challenge Blog

This week we were challenged by Kezzy to make a project with a hand made back ground ....

....The challenge runs for two weeks and the DT have some fabulous inspiration up for grabs so please pop over and give them some love ...

My background is made with core'dinations card stock and a beautiful spellbinders embossing plate.

The black is embossed and the pink de-bossed and sanded with a sanding block to let the core colour come through

I used Tim Holtz Jewel card stock for the purple and jade layers and used a distressing tool to ruff all the edges up 

My stamp is by Creative Individuals and was given to me by Lynn at the Craft Den on my recent visit to her shop

I used Staz on ink and some Tim Holtz distress markers to colour little elements of the back ground and then decoupaged the beautiful elephants using scraps of my back ground card showing the core colour

I really enjoyed making this card and hope you like it too !!

Happy Birthday Shane x

It seems only 2 minutes since I made my daughter JoJo's birthday cards for her wonderful fiance Shane for last year and yet here we are again with more to share !!

Oh how time is flying ....

He is really into playing cards and darts and so we designed our cards to suit his current interests !!

I used the Artiste Cricut cartridge to make the playing cards.

The background card is cut at 19cm and stuck on to a Kanban silver embossed A5 card blank.

I used Antique Linen distress ink to take the whiteness out of the playing cards and embossed to the top one and the bottom one (Stuck down sideways with his name on) with clear embossing powder

I made a banner also from Artiste and used foam pads on all the elements for plenty of depth.

Hope no one notices one of the spades is the wrong way round lol !!

Back later to share the other one which has a dart made with some Martha Stewart air dry clay on it ...