Backgrounds for A Place to Start

Hello Peeps!

Hope you are all keeping well!
If you are stir crazy from being isolated - I feel for you
I can go out for a walk and I still feel it!

We are currently knee deep in autumn and the weather is being autumnal, of course

While our native trees are mostly not ones that loose their leaves, some of the first white settlers

did bring trees from the northern hemisphere and they do shed.

This is at a winery in the North East of the state. 

I have sat at that bench and consumed a tasting plate of local goodies with

some tasting of champagne style wines, admittedly about two years ago now......

Some bottles were purchased for home as a result!

photo taken by Murray's Day Out

http://www.murraysdayout.com.au/

Anyway - today's card was made for the Design Team at

A Place to Start

where the challenge in May is to 

create your own background (no Designer Papers)

I created my background by pressing onto the card with the small Tim Holtz ink pads

in a random pattern.

The colour palette was an influence from the weather around me I think.

I then stamped and w/c painted up this Mo's Pencil girl

before fussy cutting her out

The background is very loud but I think she just gets away with it

The sentiment is a stamp that I have in my stash but no idea where it comes from

although I found it in the box with the Darkroom Door stamps.

I am pretty sure it is not one of their's though....

This is my first attempt where I was adding some marks to it

Hated the outcome and just pulled the girl off and

did new background.  

You have a month to enter at the site of

A Place to Start

Let us see how artistic and original you can be!