Found Things to Play With

This past season during the yard sale mall shopping, I bought this roll of paper.  It caught my eye because the paper is soft and embossed, quite nice almost like a napkin, and I think it was probably lacy looking table coving.  I picked up the 39 inch long roll, felt the paper, looked at it's texture and thought "I could do something cool with this."  I made an offer that I do not remember and they accepted so I brought it home.

 Over in mmartfriends group, we are doing a book study on the book Stitch Alchemy by Kelli Perkins and I tried using some of this paper on some paper cloth.  I tried using it once before on a collage a while back.  What happened is the embossing disappears once you "wet" the paper with glue or acrylics.  :>((  I was disappointed in my find.  But, a couple of days ago I thought, there must be a way to enhance the embossing so it would show up!  So, I played... I rubbed some pieces with pencils and  crayon, I tried dry brushing with acrylic paint, I tried chalks and oil paintsticks, and finally charcoal which I like the best!  The color was added mostly with liquid watercolors.  Now, I have lots more pieces of paper to add to my collages.

What kinds of "art supplies" do you like to play with?