ATC Background

An intriguing title so here I go, or went.

I used an orange net to form my base, thinking that this would be my finished background.

I am happy with this base but how would I use it?

It needed a bit of added interest ......... so I added some fine paper: a piece of plastic film with pasted pink roses printed on it, some fine cotton finish swirled paper, some very extra fine paper with dashes of gold and a piece of green 'net' which was quite stiff.  I adhered each layer with my PVA mix and left it to dry.
After visiting a certain Swedish Furniture store over the weekend I came home with a paper measuring tape - and a couple of other small items!!!
I added this to the paper, two pieces showing the inches side and one piece showing centimetres.  Using my inkpad, I stamped along one of the pieces and the covered the whole page with PVA mix.  When this had dried I added a further 'dribble' along the tapes and ran my finger in a zigzag pattern to form an almost 3D line.  I also added some glitter glue in the top left hand corner and some green 3D glue spots in the top right hand corner.
When this layer was dry, I used an ink pad to gently wipe the zigzags adding a bit of colour to the white tape.  When this was dry, I spritzed the whole paper again.  Eventually the sheet of paper was dry enough to cut into ATC sized pieces which left me with nine cards - I will use the one in the bottom left hand corner myself as the green inkpad was rather wet!!!!

I will send three of these away for my swap.
UPDATED: - 27.10.2013

This background is created using Alcohol Inks.

Thank you Gabriele

Bubble Wrap on linen paper was used to create this background.

Thank you Sue S

 A single layer of Napkin covered this card and left a beautiful finish to it.
Thank you Kathy S