Thank you for this interesting and fun challenge. Strangely enough I have noticed I seem to be going for darker backgrounds lately, most of the time not intentional just happens. I was always one for being very pastel but as I said that seems to have changed of a late, if I think it works at the time my backgrounds are darker. For this one everything is from Positive Ties – Simplette, blending a couple of papers till I got what I liked. Photo – mine – Font – Gisselle