Chalking

Just posted this in a scrapbooking group, thought I'd share it here too :)

[This was a message posted by Kim Wilson on May 9, 2003]

Don't forget about using rubber stamps and chalking. Here are some more ideas from my files.

**Chalking - Pastels: Shading: May be used wet or dry. Blue, Grey or Black are good color choices for shadows. Layer colors. Start with the lighter color & apply a deeper color of the same tone on top of the lighter shades.

**Chalked Embossing: Chalk will stick to embossing powders, especially white. For best results start by stamping on dark colored card stock in white pigment ink & embossing in any of our white embossing powders. Apply the chalk to the white areas of your stamped image. After chalking rub with a eraser to get rid of the powdery look & make the image shine.

**Chalked Applique: Using the white Liquid Applique, embellish the details of your work. Allow it to dry before puffing it up with a heat tool & then apply chalk to it. It picks up the color & holds.

**Chalked Sponging: Using sponges & chalks with your stencils will give you beautiful soft clouds, muted dots & stripes & gently blended backgrounds.

**Chalked Pigment: Stamp a solid image in white pigment ink on a dark card stock. Let it dry & then color lightly with chalks.

**Chalked Silhouette: This method works best with bold images. Example: DD Grapes - Stamp the leaves in green & the grapes in purple. Apply the same shades to chalk over the images. This will give it a soft air brushed feel to them.

**Marbled Chalk Background: Put about an inch of water into a pan slightly bigger than your card,. With a knife, scrape chalk dust off a few colors onto the surface of the water. Lower the paper flat onto the surface of the water to pick up the color, immediately lifting the card stock back out of the water. Allow the card stock dry flat. If your paper develops puckers, it can be ironed to flatten it back out. You can even press the paper between heavy books to flatten it out.

**Chalk on Dark Paper: Create stunning designs. Stamp a design using white pigment ink & white embossing powder. Apply chalk with a cotton swab around & in images. Take a paper towel to wipe off excess chalk.

**Chalk/Blender Pen: Chalk colors can be beautifully blended with the blender pen.

**Gray Guiding:

  1. Take any bold/solid stamp image & stamp onto card stock using the Going Grey ink pad.
  2. Color in & around the image in a light chalk color (ex: light pink for flowers & lime green for leaves, etc.) with a Q-tip or cotton ball.
  3. Now go over gray lines again in a darker chalk color (ex: purple for flowers, evergreen for leaves, etc.).

***Poppin' Pastels - Chalk Resist - Faux Oil Pastel:

  1. Apply 2 - 3 different colors (that look good together) of light colored chalk with a cotton ball (or sponge daubers) across card stock.
  2. Ink up an image with tinted or clear embossing ink (some use white pigment ink for a different look). Stamp image onto the card stock.
  3. Make sure that the ink dries onto the card stock, when it's no longer shiny (Natural's card stock works best).
  4. Apply chalk colors onto the tinted image with Q-Tips or sponge daubers. The chalk will "darken" when it adheres to the ink.
  5. Continue to add color, starting with the lightest going to the darkest until you are satisfied.
  6. If you are using a 2-Step stamp, go over the image with the second step and repeat the process.

**Variation of Poppin' Pastels:

  1. Stamp several of the same images with clear embossing ink on white paper. Let dry.
  2. Dip a cotton ball into one color of chalk & then lightly rub over & around the images.
  3. This creates a great background.
  4. Use a dye-base ink pad that matches the color of chalk used. Stamp the same image used before randomly in dye-based ink. (ex: Dragon Fly stamped in Eggplant Envy with Eggplant Envy chalked background)

**Background - Pastel Chalks Take your tinted embossing pad, stamp your image using the tinted embossing pad onto white or cream colored card stock. Let dry for at least 30 minutes. Take a cotton ball and rub on the chalk color of your choice. Rub the cotton on a slant across the card, use at least 3 different colors. You'll get a great background.

**Reverse Pastels or Pastels on Dark CS: Supplies - black card sock, Versamark pad, daubers or cotton balls (daubers get you better sales), solid image stamp How - Take daubers and swish, swirl, streak, dot, brighter pastel colors on black card sock, next ink up your solid image stamp with Versamark and stamp right over top of your pastel color black card sock.

**Rainbow Pastels: Create a rainbow background by rubbing various colors of pastels across the paper (using a cotton ball or sponge daubers). Stamp your image in black on top of the rainbow of colors.

**Color Embossing With Chalks: This technique is a little-known one, but produces wonderful results.

  1. First, you start out as with regular embossing, using white or clear embossing powder (use white if on darker card stock, clear if on lighter or white).

  1. Heat it up as usual.
  2. Then, taking a Q-tip, apply the pastel colors onto the embossed image. Don't worry too much about mess, you'll take care of that at the end. (although I do find that on lighter card stocks you want to stick with lighter pastels).
  3. After you have colored the image as desired, heat up the image again until the embossing is shiny again.
  4. Take a makeup sponge and drag it across the image. This will remove the excess chalks and leave you with a beautiful embossed image in color!

**Embossing: Pastels will stick to embossing powders, especially white. For best results start by stamping on dark colored card stock in white pigment ink and emboss in our white embossing powders. Apply the pastels to the white areas of your stamped image. After finished, rub with an eraser to get rid of the powdery look & make the image shine.

**Dry Embossing: Emboss an image using one of our brass templates. Reverse the template over the top of the embossed image and use a sponge or cotton ball to rub pastels over the image. When you remove the template, you have color only on the raised image.

**Spackle Cards Colored With Chalks: You will need a brass template or a plastic stencil and the light weight spackle. (It feels as if the container is empty when you buy it. Regular spackle is too heavy for card stock.)

  1. Place your template on top of your card stock. Use some kind of spreader (I use a palette knife) and spread an even layer over the entire opening being sure to fill in any gaps.
  2. Once it if filled in, smooth off top to make sure the spackle is even. Then lift the template straight up and voila! you have a wonderful raised image on your card stock.
  3. It has to dry, either naturally or carefully with heat gun. Once dry, color gently with your chalks. NOTE: You can also mix a bit of spackle with ink from reinkers and get a colored spackle to apply to card stock.

**Colorbook: Use a cotton swab as your applicator. Color in your line art image with the pastels for a soft, muted effect.

Kim Wilson

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Jeannette Marsala
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Wow! Great stuff! I can't wait to try a few of these ideas! I just recently acquired my first set of chalks. Thanks for passing the email on to this group.

Barbara

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Barbara Hass

Oh, and on the chalking topic, here's a tutorial on chalking photo stamps...

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Jeannette Marsala

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