Make Your Own Background

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 Our Creative Corner.

Hello everyone Susan here......and do I have a Challenge for you!!!!!!!! 

I will warn you in advance, it could be messy and you will not require a manicurist this week to paint your nails, with my technique it will be free of charge, albeit I cannot guarantee that every nail will be the same colour!!!!  

A big thank you to all who participated in Marcy's 'Silhouette' challenge last week.  

Do not forget to check next Wednesday to see if you are the winner, if you are the lucky one, then you will be spotlighted as our Top Talent and I can tell you that our previous recipients of this award have loved every minute of being in the spotlight.

Okay....

 Here is the next challenge: 

'Make your own Background'

(Absolutely no patterned paper allowed!)

For those of you who may be unaware of techniques or haven't attempted such a task, pop over to my Blog (scrumplescrunch). where I have provided a written tutorial for you. It is not difficult and the results are just amazingly beautiful.

First thing you have to do is decide whether you are a Pablo Picasso- and delve into mixed-media which involves paint, inks, glue, newspaper-clippings, photographs; in fact anything that you can lay your hands on to make it work visually.

Or do you lean toward Paul Cezanne- water-colours-(you are allowed to use Distress Inks as your watercolour medium) to set your scene, mood and connection to your project. 

Try not to cover up your background too much with your focal image, allow everyone to view it in all it's splendour.

Susan - scrumplescrunch

No 1-Mixed media background.

Susan - scrumplescrunch
 No 2- Watercolour-background.

Kim Price- Inkognito 

Lisa - You Made Me Ink!

Acrylic Paint Stamping and Powder Embossing on Crinoline

Meihsai Liu - Simply Paper Crafts

Christina Barnes - Dot Dot Stamping Designs

Liliana Inguanti-Garcia -Stampin from Home

Marcy Kaminski - En Papillote Arts
Tissue Paper - Paper Mache

Irena Kowalczyk/Rudlis - love, life and craft

Paula McClane - Scrap Addict's Attic

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Sharon Wheet - Designs by Sharon

Everyone is welcome to play along. If you upload your card/project to SCS, please use the keyword OCCC.

We ask that you read the challenge requirements carefully and not submit work that does not fit our challenge.  Any submissions that do not follow the challenge requirements will be removed.  

We do require that your project be a new project and not back-linked to a project made before this challenge started. Please be sure you link back to the OCC blog post in order to be eligible for our Top Talent award.  This challenge closes at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on November 16th.

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