Yankee, you can get lightweight black paper at
Paper Garden.caThis is a great topics.
What I have noticed about my cards is that I like to try a wide variety of card shapes and sponge work.
I used SCS tutorial a lot for my 3-D cards.
SPONGINGYou can use small sponges or blending brushes to do this technique.
1. Sponge before adding stamps so that your images are stamped out crisp
2. Using a light colour, sponge on ink, in a circular motion, starting off your paper and blending inwards until there is a hint of your white background. This adds depth to your work.
3. Repeat if you want to darken your image.
4. Using a darker colour of ink, repeat by moving your sponge/blending brush in a circular motion, starting off your cardstock, moving inwards.
5. Often, I like to sponge the corners inwards. Sponge dark ink from tip of corner inwards on all four sides. This takes away the "square look" of a card.