Ella and Viv Paper Company - 100 Percent Natural Collection - 12 x 12 Paper - Aspen Trees

Mesmerizing

Tall slashes of white with black tree trunks. So cool. This is a heavily Photoshopped image, though. If you zoom in, you'll see that distant trees are tiny tree trunks packed together like hand fulls of pencils and toothpicks. Only at the top do you get a kind of relief but that's a neutral gray.

If you're going to use this for a scrapbooking page background, I am wowed by your fortitude! This pattern is so busy. Smaller uses would be easier to handle which is my intention. I plan on going for natural vertical or horizontal lines for accents and interest in collages. Another idea would be misty layers of white or pastel gesso. Distress inks won't work but maybe the stains which would make a more grunge look.

Anyway, Ella and Viv make great paper. Super heavy card stock but the surface is a bit glossy which means your favorite supplies might or might not work -- always test first.