Stampin Up Working with textures and colours.

Putting a card together can be great fun, but I bet quite a few of you have sat with a blank work table just wondering where to start and what to do. So where do you start? Some start with a colour, or a piece of designer series paper. Today I decided to start with some burlap.  I adore the natural texture of the burlap ribbon (it's retiring and is on the retirement list so grab it before it's gone )

So with the piece of burlap down the centre of the card, I toned in the background using Timeless Textures a must have series of background stamps and used crumb cake. However I wanted just a splash of colour, so teamed the balloon sentiment and background spots in rose red which tied it all together.  A few pearls and candy dots and voila a card with texture, colour and depth.

All Stampin Up products are available through the link above and when ordering please use me Jane Allmark as your demonstrator of choice. Retired products are going super fast, as there are some bargains to be had to do hurry.

Stampin Up Creating your own backgrounds.

Morning everyone. What a lovely weekend it is proving to be. Weather has been really spring like with sunshine and the lighter evenings are really fab.

Today I thought I'd talk about backgrounds. Creating a background is fun, easy and totally unique. It is a great way to colour coordinate or to just add a different dimension or texture to a card.

I have recently bought some burlap ribbon. It's a huge one and a quarter inches wide catalogue number 132140 is 4.6m long so if perfect as a border or wide trim on a card. As I'm not too much of a ribbon person as is a little twee for me this burlap is right up my street.

The background I used crumb cake probably the best neutral colour as goes with everything. Primrose petals added the colour accent to tone with the balloon. Pearls and candy dots added the final touch.

Simple, pretty with loads of texture a really fun card to do.

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