It's getting down to the wire for finishing my Christmas cards. I have been scrounging around for ideas in my backgrounds bin. I made this background this past summer. I used VersaMark to stamp a word background and brayered gray dye ink over. I spritzed that with shimmer spray. Once dry I stenciled stars all over the background using silver embossing paste. I looked at the finished product and thought...how dreary. I saved it anyway. It turned out to be an interesting background for the silver reindeer die. I also have a little bag of tiny die cut birds because I just never know when I'm going to "put a bird on it". TYFL