Faux Handmade Paper

I've been experimenting with making "faux" handmade paper lately.  I'm suing a lot of different substrates from copy paper, card stock, tea dyed and cool-aid dyed paper but the one I like best so far is parchment paper.
I like the translucent look of the paper after it dries and it seems strong enough to use as a book cover.  But what I really love is the texture!  I'm using lots of different things to put on the surface:  cheese cloth, tea bag papers, thread, cut up yarns, dried flowers, fake flowers, and tea leaves, to name a few.  But with all experiments, differing materials get different results. 
I was using a very thin layer of napkin at first but it kept ripping so I tried some white tissue paper which is stronger but more opaque.  
Tomorrow, I will review the tissue piece to see if I like it.   If I don't, it will be recycled into something else and I will have learned something.