Focus on Backgrounds

This class is a focus on different ways of creating a card background, and features 3 or 4 cards (depending on how you count)! LOL!  All cards were made using older Stampin' Up! papers that are no longer available, but you can use the techniques to create something from your stash, or find something new that will work well.  Any supplies that ARE still available have links to them.  Here's a video showing how I made these cards - along with a couple of tricks.

Or you can find a video that shows how to make these cards at https://www.youtube.com/@CheringLOP.

Card #1A & 1B:  

Students had a choice to make one or the other of these - depending on the paper they chose.  Both were from the Otterly Adorable paper pack, and the cards were made in similar ways. 

This card demonstrated using a patterned paper for a background.  In this case, it was BOTH background and focal!  We simply narrowly matted it with brown cardstock (either Pecan Pie or Early Espresso) and glued to a Pool Party card base.  Then added a sentiment with Mini Stampin' Dimensionals - with or without a cardstock strip border (sentiment die stamped with Pecan Pie or Early Espresso ink and cut using a die from Mixed Labels die set).  The final step was adding a few Riverside Irregular Pearls.

Card #2:

This card was made with embossed cardstock for the background.  This one started with Crumb Cake cardstock & the Turtle Textures embossing folder - which I thought was reminiscent of pineapple texture.  It was inked with Pecan Pie ink before adding it to a Very Vanilla card base.  

The focal was fussy cut from a piece of designer series paper from the Fruit Salad set.  A Very Vanilla baker's twine bow was added to that before being double matted - first on Very Vanilla, and then on Pecan Pie cardstocks. The Very Vanilla mat was die cut using a die from Countryside Corners, and an embossing folder called Cane Weave 3D (this is the BACK side of that embossing).  The pineapple was added with Mini Stampin' Dimensionals.  The sentiment was simply stamped on a scrap of Very Vanilla, and then matted on a scrap of Pecan Pie cardstocks.

Card #3: 

Most of our cards in class have been made with one or the other of the above techniques - or a combination of them.  I thought it was high time to learn another technique for create backgrounds!  This third card was made using Decorative Masks (Stampin' Up!s name for layered stencils) - the one called Joined Together to be exact.  I used Lemon Lolly, Peach Pie, and Old Olive inks - on a piece of Basic White cardstock with the masks.  It was matted on Old Olive cardstock before being added to a Basic White card base.

The focal was again fussy cut from designer series paper - this one the Mediterranean Blooms set.  It was matted on Basic White and then Old Olive mats - both cut with dies from the Spotlight on Nature set of beautifully bordered circle dies.   

A tag sentiment, and a ribbon bow complete this card. 

I hope you enjoyed these projects today.  I am an independent Stampin’ Up! demonstrator, and I would love to have you choose me (Cheryl Manley) as YOUR demonstrator when purchasing from Stampin' Up!. I will receive a small commission on such a purchase, but it will not affect the price you pay.  As a thank you for your purchase, your first purchase each month will qualify you to receive a pdf of that month’s class – e-mailed to the e-mail address you list when ordering from Stampin’ Up! (unless you’ve marked that you don’t want to be contacted).

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