Floral background

 I was wanting to play at The Flower Challenge this month.... the theme being "Focus on the Background stamping"   I had Altenew's Cherry Blossom Bunch on my desk (had used it working on a DT card for later in the month) so made this card. 

I started by stamping the focal image in Altenew's Cloudy Night grey ink randomly across the panel.   I then die cut, stamped and stenciled the image.  I used the grey ink to stamp then used Altenew inks - Pastel Sunrise, Canyon Clay and Eucalyptus.    I used a Pinkfresh Studio stamp and die from the Just a Hello set stamped in Burnt Red ink.  I die cut the stamped background with a Lil'Inker die and matted onto  dark grey card.

Hope this is enough of a focus on the background - 

It's been an expensive weekend with our laundry issues.   The new washing machine come tomorrow and once we realised it was too wide for the space, we decided to change the super tub to a smaller size.   So bought that today... cost half as much as the machine!   Got it home and turns out the hoses are not the right size.   So now have to get a plumber to come and do some work...more money!   Hopefully by Wednesday or Thursday I'll have it all sorted and can do the washing.  

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