Quite often I am asked where I get my backgrounds. Many of my surfaces are painted or stained wood. You don't have to be a woodworker to do this. I'll show you how easy it is. In this post I will show you how to distress wood with paint. After I had my materials, this took me about an hour to do both the wood plank surface, and the wood "wall". That's not water in the background - that's … [Read more...]