Furniture Challenge

 Hey Everybody,

Today's card of for an Alphabet Challenge at Splitcoaststampers. Each week you make a card with a pre-determined item.  This week, the letter is F and the item is furniture. I knew when I saw furniture, which stamp I was going to use.

My furniture card is a quilt, covered rocking chair.
I stamped in Memento tuxedo black ink then colored with Copic Markers. I die cut the chair and added dimensionals to the back.

While I was working on this I thought it would be cool, to make a quilt behind the rocking chair. So, I punched out 1" squares and covered the background with them. I used my eyelet 3D embossing folder to make it look like a quilt. I added the image and sentiment with dimensionals so they would stand out.

This card will be donated to a local hospital and go on a patient dinner tray.

When making cards, do you think about what you can do with the background behind your images?  Sometimes I do and sometimes I don't.  On this card it didn't occur to me until after I had the image cut out.

Sometimes depending on the challenge, I have a background in mind. It could be designer series paper or a technique. I did a challenge where you had to include stones on your card.  Immediately I thought of the technique called, polished stone. I did that for the background then made my card.

Most times I used designer series paper for behind my images. What do you use?

Thank you for dropping by today. I hope to see you again soon.

Blessings,

Sue