Whether we’re designing completely digital pages or just printing elements for pages, vellum can sometimes be a bit non-receptive to printer ink. Its coating can be so waxy or plastic feeling that the ink can’t penetrate the coating. With some vellum, and with some printers, the inks just sit on the surface and could smear or rub off.
The most impressive way to use vellum with a printer, in my opinion, is to fake it. Make it look like you’re printing on vellum but print instead on your favorite archival scrapbook photo paper. This way you can get the look for just text or for an entire photo to be a page background.
You can do this in a program as basic as Word, or with more sophisticated design programs like Photoshop.
Start with a background page that was downloaded from printlabseries.com.

	Basically, you want to change the transparency, (also called the opacity), of one area that you will designate to be your “vellum” section.
	Create a text box right over the current background.
	To make the text box look like vellum, simply keep the color white, and change the transparency to 48% or so. Choose “No Line” in the line color box.
	You can also add a vellum text box behind a photograph to use it as a mat. For a soft, Another cool effect is to soften the area around all but one part of each photo, to emphasize the focal point