OMG; I am sooooooo sorry!!! I forgot that I am hosting this week!!! Thanks for the nudge, Trudi! I've been gone all day and just came to our site. Sorry sorry sorry!
My challenge is the Bokeh Technique. You use the technique to make your background paper. I will show my paper and then the finished card. I used watercolors on mine but you can also use inks rubbed on with sponges/daubers. It's an easy, fun technique. The only potential Problem is having a white ink that it really opaque. Mine wasn't opaque enough but I let it dry and went over it again and that worked fine.
Here is a link to a tutorial by Dawn:
http://dawnsstampingthoughts.typepad.co ... 02/bo.html
I hope you will try this because it does make a really different background for your cards.