Time for Another New Challenge

   Hi everyone.  It's Tuesday and time once again for a new challenge at Try It on Tuesday. Boy the last 2 weeks flew by.

   Thank you Jenn for hosting, and thank you to everyone who joined in. It was fun to see so many cute pieces of art. ❤

     This time for our latest challenge we ask that you  MAKE YOUR OWN BACKGROUND. There's so many ways you can go with this one. 

   To make my background I started with  a page in my journal where I had used up some left over paints and cleaned off my brush. You can see some light pink. and some light green. Then I used a stencil and some stencil pastes that more or less matched   the light pink and the light green paints, and I also used some stencil paste that was a deeper more puplish-pink color to cover my page.

   I varied the stencil pastes at different places on the stencil. You can see the light pink at the top, the darker purplish-pink at the bottom and some light green in between. Once dried, I took some light green Versafine Claire in and gave parts of the page a quick rub with it just to make background a bit more grungy, which is just the way I like it.

    I then took some pink printed paper and stuck a black framed sticker down on it. This is one of those peel and stick stickers that only gives you the outline of your image. I then took scissors  fussy cut around the sticker.

    I used markers and paint pens to color the inside of the sticker. I also took some old very tiny stamps (remember Wordsworth Rubber Stamps?) and added some words to my image. 

     I glued my image down, then I die cut the bumble bee image. I used matte medium to attach her, and once dried, I used paint pens to color her in.  And that's my page. I thought I would share this one because there is so much homemade background to it.

   Don't forget to check out the other designer's art for some ideas too. As I already mentioned, there are so many ways you can approach a make your own background.

   I love making backgrounds, so I'm excited to hopefully get some new ideas. I hope you're excited about this challenge too, and I'm looking forwards to seeing your art over at Try It on Tuesday in the next 2 weeks.