Weekly Challenge | Background with Jennifer

This week, our member Jennifer (username plasticlight), is challenging you to create a background for your projects with words. We're excited to turn our weekly challenges over to the SC community! Check in each week as we ask one of our members to inspire you with a challenge based on one of their projects from our member gallery. Be sure to follow Jennifer here at SC and visit her blog to see more of her work and keep up with her!

Hi! My name is Jen and I live in Alberta, one of the prairie provinces in Canada. I've always been a scrapbooker in some way or another, always hoarding pictures, letters, Valentine's, pamphlets, postcards, you name it, I have it in an album or a box somewhere!
This layout was inspired 100% by the photo. The sweet girl on the swing is my best friend's daughter, Avery, and while she lives 6 hours away, her mama keeps me in touch with frequent photos of her sweet face. When I saw this one on Facebook, I knew it had to find a home in my albums.
The background was intentionally meant to be tone-on-tone. I wanted those words "always believe, imagine, dream, laugh" to act as the sub message to the title, "Fly", while also acting as pattern, dimension, and texture all at the same time. The words are layered and sewn over the ribbon from the Camelot Scrapbook Kit, which adds just a tiny touch of color if you're looking really closely. I'm all about white backgrounds lately, and this page was no exception - by keeping my die cuts white, they blend into the background, allowing this beautiful picture to stand out.
My challenge to you all is this: work your journaling, or some inspirational words, into your background paper to create interest. Let your photo stand out, while allowing your background to do double duty! You could stamp words into your background, use paint to create a background full of thoughts, die cut words or phrases to layer like I did, the sky is the limit!
Thank you so much to Studio Calico for the opportunity to share my layout and challenge with you all! I cannot wait to see what beautiful pages you create!

Now it’s your turn to create a project based on Jennifer's challenge! Share your new project for the challenge in the SC gallery (add the hashtag #SCchallenge to make it easier to find!), then link up your project in the comments of this post by June 9th and to be entered to win a $5 gift card to the Studio Calico Shop!