I'm just over here doing what I do best as I am working to participate in the mini kit challenge: overthinking. 
I know there aren't really any rules, but I realized I am not really sure what most people would consider a solid paper. Obviously a single colored, single textured paper is a solid. However, I was making a monochromatic wood paper and trying to decide if it is a pattern or solid. It has a pattern, but it is monochromatic so I'm just not sure. Also, let's say I did some monochromatic painting or pattern, would anyone consider it a solid?
Thanks for the input and for helping to satisfy my curiosity!
Hi, Bethany! This is an interesting question, and I’m sure you’ll get a variety of answers to it.
Here is my “Two-Cents-Worth”:
I classify a solid paper as a single-coloured, textured paper.
I classify a wood paper as a textured paper. If it was in a kit of other wood papers, I would name the kit “Textured Papers - Wood”.
Other texture paper kits might be “Shimmer” “Brick” “”Grunge” — that sort of thing.
If a paper has a (usually) repeating pattern, then that is a patterned paper to me.
These are just my definitions, so may not be the same as anybody else’s.
I’m looking forward to seeing what other people think!
I think I agree with Robyn. I do like to add a bit of grunge/texture to my solid papers so they have more excitement. But I wouldn’t add a pattern, even if it was monochromatic.
Yep texture/distressed/grungy can be added to solid colors to make "solid papers". But if you have a detectable pattern I personally would classify that as a patterned paper. I think the main point of solids is to not have a pattern so they may be used on word strips, photo mats, journaling scraps or even "white space" background. At least that is how I have always seen solids so I try and keep that in mind with solids. But you are right there are no rules really lol!
Hope that helps!
Excellent. Thank you all for your input! I have always viewed only straight up solids as solids because I'm literal like that. I guess just since I haven't really designed a lot, it made me question that.
I have always thought there were really two categories: solid and patterned. Now that I think about it, I guess maybe textured and artsy deserve their own categories or maybe sub-categories too. I only thought of it because I was following the recipe.
I agree with everyone else, with the addition that not as a designer, but as a LO creator, I would view that single colored wood paper to artistically able to be used as either. So I don't think you need to overthink it too much. HTH!
Ah, another great point. I think I would do the same from that perspective. Thank you!
Hi Bethany,
as a scrapper, the designer would not need to produce solid papers that are just pure color. Any scrapper can make these backgrounds herself as needed if she has the color palette. But a texture/emboss/filter underneath is more attractive. Pattern is different than texture. This has already been well described above
Just getting back to this thread. Doska, what you said about solid papers of "pure colour"; when I first started designing, in my ignorance I would include what I call "Flat Solid Papers". I wouldn't release them as part of a kit or bundle now, but I do still make them for my own use, because I clip them to element templates to colour them; also, a layered PSD file with a colour on each layer makes it very easy to add textures and overlays to create Textured Solid Papers. So they still come in handy for me!
Hi Robyn,
yes, every designer has their own way of designing. It also has something to do with the way they were first trained. I didn't understand what you meant by "element templates", but you can simply fill the white canvas of a scrape with the desired color or the color specified by a palette using a paint bucket, can't you? If that's too boring, you can add a gradient, filter or a texture fill from your own program so that it looks like a relief or has a subtle coloring/patterning. As almost always, there are several possibilities. Usually you look for the easier option
to me digital solid paper is "a paper" in some color without texture or pattern