So I had a very lovely few hours making lots of backgrounds whilst watching Tim Holtz on YouTube – I just played with distress inks and distress oxides and made lots of backgrounds as works in progress for me to grab as and when I fancy to make cards from.
Well I grabbed this one and started transforming it just by playing and grabbing stuff … no plan to start with and certainly wouldn’t have guessed where it ended up!
So I can see blues and greens and stencilling in there and I’m guessing a mix of oxide and ink but who knows? I think I used most of the colours in my collections during the play just grabbing them randomly!
So I started by grabbing a stampin write marker and adding definition to the leaf stencilling.
But then I was less keen on it … so needed a way to cover it up! out came the zero waste leaf die from Altenew and white cardstock.
Hmmm … still not happy .., but then I spotted a pouch of cut apart dsp that I refound whilst tidying the other day and put it on the desk to get it used… and hey presto a card came together!
Most of the background is covered but it is still visible in some spots and the colours went well with the greens of the leaves and the contrast of the red.
And I used up lots of the dsp left including all the cut apart pieces so I was very happy to put it to good use in a way that surprised me!
Added two gems from the stash and also a sentiment I had die cut and stacked (Waffleflower).
Creative fun!
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Inkyfingeredcat 
Love the way this evolved!