Made my pattern background paper as follows - really scrunched a plain sheet of CS (the kind that comes in pkg. with page protectors) - hand smoothed paper and applied walnut distress ink pad directly to paper, rubbing here and there - sprayed quite heavily with water and let sit for several minutes so ink could bleed - ironed dry and flat - the paper does shrink a tiny bit but gives a nice effect rather than just the plain paper I started with. Scanned his documents and his 1882 Egypt Medal. (I never use precious originals when scrapbooking.) TFL
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