some background experiments

while I've been at my tag for the TIO challenge yesterday I experimented a little with backgrounds.
Originally I wanted to do this absolutely fabulous looking background by Roni: the black to white fade technique.

I started with three different bases

on the left I covered the TAG with distress stains fired brick, in the middle I used the 'wrinkle free distress technique' (festive berries, fired brick, aged mahogany, barn door) with some water flicked onto and on the right I covered the tag with aged mahogany distress stains, but decided it was much too dark and uneven so I dipped it into the rest of the ink on my craftmat and flicked some water onto it, too.
Nothing new so far ...

Then I embossed the tags.

again from the left to the right:
clear embossing powder, black utee (wanted to go for an imperfect look for my TIO tag), ordinary black powder.

At last I had a try on the abovementioned technique on the clear embossed one and the one in the middle (which is now the final entry for TIO and which I didn't take a pic of at this step ...).

 I didn't cover the last one, wanted to keep that look, just inked the edges a little bit with black soot.

And another very different one for good measure while I had my heat tool out, silver on black :-D now I don't know how to finish this one :-) looks much too 'noble' for me

all background stamps are cover a card stamps by impression obsession.

Perhaps some of you will give it a try.
Hugs, Suzanne xxx