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What do you use for PL backgrounds?

gwany1999

gwany1999

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This year I am really going to stick with PL...but I always struggle with the backgrounds...
what do you use? White, Kraft paper?
 
I use a different paper every week... and most of the time I use a kit, and then simply choose one of the papers as background. I often take woodgrain, that's my favorite. But I like kraft, too. I don't use plain white, because I'm not a friend of white backgrounds. So if I use solids, I always choose a color.
 
i am primarily a kit scrapper, so i pick a quiet paper from whatever kit I am using for that week. although i do like the idea of having a lightly textured white or a kraft paper for consistency. but my PLs are designed to go in with the rest of the regular LOs for the year, so there's no consistency within my own books anyway.
 
I use white as a background and with an larger edge, so when it's printed in an album, nothing falls off :D


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Always the same kraft paper. I am using one from One Little Bird's PageKraft set. I love kraft paper, it's my favorite, so this works perfectly for me!
 
I'm another one that picks a paper from whatever kit/s I'm using that week. Usually solid but not always.
 
I use the same white lightly grid paper. I like it with the white background.
 
I use whatever paper is in my mood that week. Sometimes it's a cream/pale to make my photos pop off the paper. Sometimes it's complementary, sometimes it's a new kit and I really, really want to use the paper because it's cute!

I think it really just depends on your style, and the simplicity you want. If it'll be easier to use the same paper all year, and keep you going, then I'd go with a kraft or white.
 
I usually use something grey. Usually Valorie Wibbens- or Splendid Fiins-ish.
 
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those that use kraft paper...can I just search the store with that word?
 
I've tried staying with one type/color background, and I just can't do it. I get bored beyond belief and lose enthusiasm for the project. I like to use backgrounds generally that are "calm", not too busy, but I do make exceptions when I really love a particular paper, and it doesn't clash with the photos or distract.
 
OK, so after the 1st month (almost), I've been using whatever solid-ish, neutral paper is in the kit I'm working with. And if I'm not using a kit (like this week), I use neutral kraft paper as well. I have this set in my PL folder but I like the more solid ones you posted above as well.



Oh, and I like this one, too. Apparently, I prefer the "almost" solid variety, hehe.

 
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