These Aren't the Gifts You're Looking For Layout

I used gel medium and some watercolors to create the background! My gel medium is 'soft' which I translate to: doesn't hold the stencil shape as clean once dry, and all of the texture almost sinks into the cardstock (nothing is raised)! Ha! I would have preferred a harsher and more texture-ed look from my gel medium, but when I added watercolor, the stars and dots still showed up and resisted the color! So...win! I kept all of the color and background behind and around the photo!