Followed some instructions I found online for making "photograms," This wasn't the result I was expecting .. and I had thought of something a bit more translucent. Perhaps the light source needs to be a bit stronger. Perhaps some rainy day I'll try again.
@kali66 the instructions said to have white appearing on a screen (I used laptop), then put paper on top, then put stuff on paper, then photograph and adjust in post processing, including inverting at some point.