Saturday's Paper ala Mode Challenge at The Outlawz 1-3-15

This week's Paper ala Mode Challenge over at The Outlawz involved making your own background paper.  Our sponsor this week was Bugaboo Stamps, and I used the image, "Jack and Diane" ...

For this challenge, I started with embossing a piece of Certainly Celery (SU) cardstock with the Cuttlebug "Stylized Flowers".

I then sponged the raised portions with SU inks

After this, I smoothed it with a bone folder to flatten the image and then ran it through the Cuttlebug "Argyle" folder

And then added some navy ink with a sponge before flattening it once again with the bone folder.

The next step was to stamp all over with a script background stamp in rose red (SU).

 

Here's the card, once again ...

 

and a close up of how it looked after the card was assembled ...

I haven't decided if I want to use this for an anniversary card, engagement card, or what, so I'm leaving it without a sentiment for now ...

 

Hope you have time to play along ...

would love to see what you come up with as a background.

Have a wonderful day!