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When a "background" is referred to it usually is referring to a piece of card/paper stock that is used between the base card and the piece of card that the stamped image is on. Making your own "backgrounds" is a fun thing to do and most dedicated stampers have their favourite techniques for doing this, and are usually on the "look out" for new techniques which they can use.