Project Life - Making your own cards & textured backgrounds

For these project life pages, 2 holidays in 2008 and 2009 I used my own made background cards in combination with some purchased cards. I like making my own cards to combine them and give my album my own signature. The products I used for the background cards are all from Art Anthology.

This gave me a nice textured background wich I personally like very much.

 

 

Project Life more mixed media backgrounds.

This layout I again made with some hand made backgrounds. This time I used a gelliplate creating them. I combined the gelliplate prints with some watercolour prints and purchased cards.

Here you see the finished results with my pictures added. I made a few changes in the layout so it is just the way I like it most. :)
Thanks for watching again ! :) 

Textured Background SDC 137

For Kay Wallace's challenge "Textured Backgrounds" I have been using quite some different products to get the effect I was looking for. I started with a blue water color pencil, after that I applied Gelato cotton candy and then I used a stencil and a baby wipe to get the basic background. I added a layer of glimmer mist (Pearl) to give it a shiny look but of course this didn't give me a textured background so I might as well have skipped this LOL.

Next I used distress inks Broken China and Chipped Saffire and to get my texture, Clear Rock Candy distress paint. Let it dry and then applied Chipped Saffire again to get the cracks more visible.

I used the Stampotique LOVE stamp and at last I added some embellishments and a lot of white dots around the LOVE stamp.