In the world of junk journalling and ephemera making we tend to generate a lot of spare book pages, be it from gutting an old book to use its cover or using the pages to glue upon. the long standing problem is theres normally more pages than we can keep up with so this is the solution I use. By creating neutral background sheets I can cut them into any ephemera shape I need and then decorate them to suit the theme I'm working on at present. I normally create them onto cream or tan card stock but they can be created on any craft card or those 12"x12" card stock designs you're never going to use because the printed design doesn't inspire you.
I've even been known to dry brush white gesso over the top of them to mute the text down even further.
I hope this gives you some ideas as this method works with all pages from text pages to magazines, from music pages to maps.
Happy crafting
Ceri
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