You can, Luv! Don't try the bordered background yet! Just replace the urls in one of those from last week - a shiny gradient for a gradient, a pattern for a pattern, and a solid texture for the very last one, which is the one on top!
I have been "shopping" on Google for some new patterns and will experiment with one or two when I decide what flag picture I want to use. I did play with one new background pattern last week, but didn't post it because it wasn't exactly what I was looking for. I just wanted to see if I could do it. Thank goodness I am off work tomorrow so I can take my time to do it right!