Dear Readers, I just LOVE the look of wood grain paper. I think it looks exactly like weathered wood and sometimes I feel like if I reach out and touch, it might just feel like real wood. But of course, it is just the illusion - faux wood- if you will. Here are 2 pieces of 12 x 12 paper I got from the recent Coastal Escape Collection by Kaisercraft Look at all the details in these papers. The knots, the wood grain, the NAILS!! I love it SOOO much. So I wondered if it was possible to find a technique that would allow you to take normal white card stock and turn it into a faux wood background. I looked on the YT and found a few tutorials and pooled all the techniques to come up with my own way of making faux wood backgrounds: Stamp TV's tutorial MayMay's tutorial Kimi Orton's tutorial Step 1: I scoured the paper with my Stampin' Scorer and created grooves vertically and horizontally Step 2: I then flipped it o...