Playing with Backgrounds

Hello, MLS fans! It's Robyn here with you today. Hope you've had a wonderful holiday season and found some crafty time here and there.

Whenever I find a few extra minutes, I switch on my Silhouette and start playing with the shapes I've downloaded over the past year (about 300!). One of my favorites is a trellis background. I decided to see how it would mix with the Secret Garden collection from My Little Shoebox.

I set the background to cut at about 10x10, then layered it onto the polka dot background paper. But it still needed something, so I used the pieces that were the "holes" to fill in spaces here and there. Some of them I flipped to the reverse side.

I found that I liked some order in the pattern, so I alternated the front and back of the paper in diagonal lines to create the background for the layout.

I love the finished product -- the cut paper gives it a textured look and the mixed patterns remind me of a quilt piecing.

Many wishes for a happy 2013!

Comments

[Max Macbeth]

Hi Robyn! I think what you did there is really creative. I like how you combined the polka dot background paper with the Secret Garden template. Filling in some of the holes also added color and design to the whole thing, but it still looked organized and easy on the eyes. I’d like to try something like this, but maybe with the dominant color theme of pale yellow and lavender. Now I just need to rummage through my scrapbooking kit. Thanks for the inspiration, Robyn!