New Challenge - help please!

[Lynnie]

I'm so excited - I love the colours - I have a thousand pictures to use with this scheme Love the green background, grungy and chalked/inked up around the edges suggestion...

[Elisabeth]

Well that seemed quite reasonable! I'm going to bed now; give me good suggestions for tomorrow!

[stitchmich]

Love it! Do we still need another background? If so, how about the tan color as a kraft paper sort of background with flecks of the bright color?

[Jenni]

Oh my! This is going to be gorgeous!!! I can't wait to see how it turns out.....and use it! :-)

[idtwinmom]

A neutral solid in the charcoal or tan, a little grungy, and the texture needs to be fabricy like canvas as the other ones feel that way too!

Then for the first elements, this definitely needs string, how about the colors of the striped paper twisted together so that it looks kind of variegated. And then a small tag to hang from it for dates, etc.

[just-pjz]

Definitely a tan background, and I agree it needs to be texture-y.
How about a slight burlap or canvas texture, maybe a bit frayed and ripped in some spots along the edge?

[romey]

Love how this is turning out. Like the idea of the textured tan bg and Jill's idea of the variegated string. If you decide to use a flower I would love to see a sunflower!

[just-pjz]

If you don't do string, how about rafia?

[pinky7]

OH, GOODIE! This is lots of fun!

OK, I think if you took the two colors under the red and did one as the background and did the other colors as a graph it would be good!

[pinky7]

And, just to be sure I got it in here because I am thinking of it right now, how about a pom pom looking thing, but not quite as full as a pom pom. Hawaiian dancers use more of the thing I am thinking of. Let me see if I can get a picture!

[Elisabeth]

Here is the fourth background - flecked, textured, frayed, brown. I put the red as the peekaboo color because if I made it a png instead of a jpg, it makes the kit HUGE. Is this okay? I saved my layered file and can change that if you want it to be open.

[debilou]

How about a travel journal... really grunged... this looks like we are going on a trip some where.. The raffia or string listed above, could like tie it together, if we wanted....

Or a postcard.. but grunged edges... for journaling??

[debilou]

For the frame, how about a Weathered lifted (like in one corner frame)... but kind of beat up a little bit...

[just-pjz]

Oh, Z, I love that textured bg!! Just what I had in mind.
I'm on slow dial-up, so I always prefer smaller files so of course, I say leave the peek-a-boo color.

[Elisabeth]

I added the string and the tag to hang from it.

Tell me more about the frame - weathered sounds good; what shape do you want, etc?

I like the ideas for journaling; let me chew on them a while. Keep making suggestions; this is fun!