Well, more cards for the church...In the second pictutre are the cards I made from the "large" group of foil tape background...The third picture is from the "small" group...Can you see the originals in the prior posts about backgrounds?...

FOIL TAPE Backgrounds - Large Cards

These are the large background cards I did using the foil tape/alcohol ink procedure...again some I layed on flat and others I crumpled....

FOIL TAPE Backgrounds - Small Cards

I was trying to figure out what to do with some brown "ready to use" cards. Saw this technique in a magazine and decided to give it a try....Instead of attaching the tape to seperate cardstock I just stuck it to the cardstock I was usng....I laid the tape down...on some of the cards I kept it flat and on other gave it a "crumples" look....Next I took 3 different colors of alcohol inks and dropped some all over....took felt applicator and "pounced" it all over...set aside to dry which didn't take long at all...These basically are the background "before" pictures....

WAX PAPER BACKGROUNDS

These were fun to make and really quite simple. Sunshine Girl was done on regular white cardstock then DTP with distress ink. Friends was made with glossy and then image was stamped directly onto the cardstock. The wax paper for Voices was first crumpled, ironed onto cardstock then I took distress ink and applied to the wax paper. Then I wiped it off leaving some of the ink behind.

MORE BACKGROUNDS

The above backgrounds were made using distilled or regular water and liquid starch. This technique is loosely (and I do mean loosely!) based on the ancient art of EBRU or Turkish marbling. I was watching a gentleman at Dollywood's Harvest Festival and I was talking with him. He was using the distilled water and starch and inks. I didn't have the "combs" or other instruments for "pulling" the inks through the water so I "swirled". In doing a little reading on Ebru they would use ox-gall obtained from slaughterhouses (yuck! starch works for me!) as their sizing. It's a matter of experimenting as to getting the right amounts of water and starch. I plan to do a little more experimenting using different types of ink and a little more starch. Water amount is about 1/4 inch in a metal or foil pan. Here's a link to view the actual art of Ebru:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgg0GIfbszg

BACKGROUNDS

I had the chance to try some techniques that I'd seen. What fun it was to create these backgrounds using them. Can't wait to use them in cards, ATCs or whatever strikes my fance at the time. WHO KNEW what you could create with "stuff" you just might have laying around the house!

SHAVING CREAM - For this technique I used shaving cream and re-inkers. I swirled it around and laid plain white card stock over the top. Let it sit a few seconds, lifted it off, scraped off the shaving cream and found some beautiful patterns.

BLACK PEARL - Black Pearl was done using foil as the bottom layer. Next was a plain white napkin which was painted over with black or dark acrylic paint being careful not to tear it. Mix Pearl Ex with Mod Podge then dab and swirl it over the paint with a baby wipe. Let dry over night.

GLOSSY WAX PAPER -
I used glossy cardstock and crumpled up wax paper laid on top. Placed a piece of cardstock over the wax paper then heated it with an iron. Used ink pads and brayer to put the color on. Quite by accident I got ink on the wax paper itself and thought is looked pretty neat. SOOOO....thought what would happen if I took the ink pad and rubbed it over the wax paper. The results are below.

WAX PAPER - Used direct to paper. Let it sit a minute then wiped off any excess with a paper towel.