I Love Backgrounds-Even if They Are Just Backgrounds

 Monday again-already! I had a nice relaxing weekend-and my house got cleaned which it really needed! Even got my clothes changed over( I pulled out all the winter things)-and I finally cleaned up all the piles in my bedroom that that process entails!
Today I am taking the day off from work because my husband needs to go back to the specialist about his kidney issues, and I am going as the second set of ears and also because he says I am much better at speaking doctor talk than he is. Keep your fingers crossed we get some good news!

So recently I broke down and bought the BIG Gelli plate, the one I have been looking at and thinking I would like for quite a while. My local craft store is going out of business  (oh no, that leaves only the big box stores...) and I figured I might as well pick it up while I could get it without paying shipping costs. 

So the other day I finally tried it, and I will say, I wish I had just broken down and paid for this first off. I love the big size. 

I tired printing on some brown work paper. I though I could use this as pieces in a background since this paper is so light weight it would never work for a background itself.

 I think it will work.

And I played with this Dyan Reavely leaf stencil on a piece of map paper. I used a striped textured paint  roller to run over the wet paint and it came out looking kind of like a wood block print.

 And I like  those leaves in black onto top of a printed background.

 Birds!

I tried something different. I left the edge of the stencil as a box on the page and I like the way it looks.

 And over printing with gold paint and a mask.

And I even printed onto some tissue paper that some shoes had come in.
I like the wrinkles in it.

 Pages for Halloween.

 Pages that look like a nice warm blanket for this cold day.

Pages I can use for Christmas.

Pages and pages and pages!

So much fun!

Hope it wasn't too boring of a post.

And hope your week starts off in a good way!