WHAT IS A FAVORITE TECHNIQUE OF YOURS FOR MAKING BACKGROUND PAPERS?

I just love dye reinkers and glossy paper.

You can dribble a couple of different colors of dye reinkers on glossy paper, spritz them with a fine mister of water and either smoosh them around with a piece of saran wrap, or lay another piece of glossy CS on top and rub your hand over it, or blow the colors around wuith your heat gun. No two papers ever look alike. Great fun! Reinkers are your friend!
Michele

Backgrounds...let's see...I like brayers, and I also like "rubbing" - dunno what the technique is really called, I just call it rubbing. You take a little piece of tissue and lacquer thinner (be careful - VERY poisonous!!!!) and a nice big picture from a magazine (has to be printed with a certain type of ink though...). Place the image face down on cs and rub over the back of the paper with the lacquer thinner. It transfers the ink to the cs. I once made a Greek collage and did an Acropolis background with this technique.
It looked great, even if I have to say so myself...LOL
~Marlene~ Safaristamper

I like to use coffee filters for backgrounds. The kids can fingerpaint on them and make their own creations and I also had a friends use crayons on them (color on them and then melt slivers of crayons). Endless possibilites!
Tykie

I have just tried something new to me to make background paper. Put bleach in a spray bottle and spritz it on colored paper. You get some very interesting patterns. This is not my favorite background, but then I am too new to have a favorite - there are so many more to be discovered.
Lynn B.

One of my favorite backgrounds is to take regular cardstock and 2 or 3 FloraLife Aerosol sprays (in colors that you feel will blend), and spray the sheets. You can achieve wonderful results, quickly and easily, and the background adapts well to direct to paper stamping.

Another simple and stunning background may be attained from using up some of your acrylic craft paints. Select two colors of your choice and using a sea sponge, sponge randomly over your cs. Then, take a metallic or pearlized acrylic craft paint and highlight. I think you will like the finished effect. - Hugs, Gayle [aka RubberBum]
Gayle Page-Robak [Manitoba, Canada]

I use the acrylic paints directly from the bottle (no water)...I just squeeze some out on a plastic lid and then using a damp piece of sea sponge I daub it into the paint, then onto the plastic, then onto the cardstock. I actually dampen my sea sponge, then I put it in a piece of paper towel to squeeze it out again. This way there is no excess moisture going on your cs to make it rippled...stays to form. I don't use heavy amounts of acrylics...less is more.. - Hugs, Gayle [aka RubberBum]

One of my favorites is webbing spray! Comes in a bunch of colors and you just spray it on the cardstock you want to use for a background. Great stuff.
Debbie Littlejohn, The Pampered Stamper, PO Box 199, Sugar Loaf, NY 10981

I also like mixing the web sprays, i.e., white, gold, and silver mixed on dark cs, looks so excellent. It is nice to make an entire sheet of cs like this and then cut them out into frames using Evo's templates if you have them, then you can use them as if you would a frame stamp. -
Hugs, Gayle [aka RubberBum]

I love making backgrounds...Of course my favorite is the easiest...you know the time factor always gets in the way.....

Anyway, I use my smallest stamps A, AA etc and stamp the image randomly all over the paper in various directions..I do the same thing with other sizes too, just depends on the look & what "mood" I'm in ...

I just think by using the small stamps for backgrounds, I get alot of use from them.... - Jackie