Mixing things up this year... background papers

[tkradtke]

Last year I used the same neutral background on every page. This year I'm thinking about mixing things up a bit. If you used different background papers, what were some of your favorite? And what are some "must have" packs to get started? I already have the Page Kraft set by One Little Bird, but I won't be using it in my PL album (I've used it for two years on every page in another pocket style book I do, so I want the PL book to be different). Thanks!

 

[kaphelps]

I loved using the Splendid Fiins monthly kits. The papers are bright and colorful, yet clean and simple. She doesn't always have solid papers, but she has a ton of patterns and most are very subtle patterns - small dots, diagonal lines, small stripes - I felt they gave just a hint of texture/interest to my backgrounds & quite often she does a graph type paper(s).

 

[RebeccaH]

i LOOOVE light, neutral backgrounds with a bit of texture...

here's one of my all-time fave white paper packs:


love this for a neutral background with a bit of pattern:


love the white wood grain in this pack:


and of course i love kraft papers for bg's... but you said you wanted to stay away from kraft.

 

[tkradtke]

Thanks so much for the suggestions Rebecca... I ended up buying the When Skies Are Grey bundle!

Thanks for the suggestions Kerri Anne! I'll check those out as well!

 

[kaphelps]

Looking forward to seeing what you decide on Tracie - your pages are always so inspiring!
Rebecca - love those Plain Jane papers - sigh.... on my list

 

[Nixenkind]

I love these, I've got to force myself not to use them all the time at the moment, they are SO beautiful:



And I used the light one for summery beach pictures and the violet stuff for spring and all of it for party pictures, so I find them pretty versatile.

For a more neutral background I like



And I take all kinds of woodsy or cardboard papers from the kits I'm using. I vary the background every week, and personally, I never use white backgrounds... my week-in-review cards are plain white, so I'd need a contrast anyway ...

 

[tkradtke]

Oh my! I love the very krafty set! Looks like this is going to be a Splendid Fiins year with my PL pages!!

 

[alb52]

you know what's wild, is sometimes i have used some of Allison's Big and Bold type papers and they actually can work really well, too!

 

[tkradtke]

you know what's wild, is sometimes i have used some of Allison's Big and Bold type papers and they actually can work really well, too!

Baby steps Amy! Remember you're talking to the girl who used the same pale tan background on every single page last year... lol! I did check them out... they look cool! I'll work my way up to those

 

[Sokee]

here ya go

https://the-lilypad.com/store/Kraft-Addict.html

https://the-lilypad.com/store/Counting-The-Days-Cardboard.html

these come in black also
https://the-lilypad.com/store/Passion-For-Paper-Quirky-Stitched-White.html

https://the-lilypad.com/store/New-Perspective-Papers.html

https://the-lilypad.com/store/Cream-and-Sugar.html

https://the-lilypad.com/store/prd-One-Of-a-Kind-Papers.html

 

[RebeccaH]

you know what's wild, is sometimes i have used some of Allison's Big and Bold type papers and they actually can work really well, too!

i totally agree amy!! i've used her big & bold papers for my pl bakgrounds a few times, and love the way it has turned out!!

 

[RebeccaH]

oh my gosh!! i use Counting the Days paper all the time!! and i love that set of white papers by PRD too!!

 

[tkradtke]

Loving all of the suggestions! I may have to pick up the New Perspective set next!

 

[talivstouwe]

Thinking about using a background other than kraft gives me the heebies jeebies. I'm going to use one from P's PageKraft set. I was looking for one that was right in the middle - not too dark and with a bit of a gray tone. I found the one I want and I made sure to write it down so I wouldn't have to search!

Someday scrapping anything with colored/patterned background won't send me into an anxiety spiral.

 

[NicoleLeBlanc]

you guys are even bolder than me...i use solid white...maybe I should use a textured white this year! decisions, decisions!

 

[RebeccaH]

turns out, it looks like my layouts might not end up requiring a background, if i stick to this format i did for week 1... that would make my decision pretty simple i guess!