the technique is a faux wood technique - you use very vanilla craft ink direct to paper dragging in one direction along caramel cardstock. using few drops of cocoa re-inker on a plastic plate, dip an old toothbrush into the ink and brush in one direction on the caramel paper. you would do this again but with chocolate chip re-inker. You then cut the cardstock into equal strips, keeping them in order to keep the grain of the faux wood.