BSS MONDAY IDEA - Chalkboard Technique

Welcome to the Buffalo Stamps and Stuff Monday Idea.

 

Today's idea is called the Chalkboard Technique.

 

While I was surfing the net recently, I saw a card done with this technique and had to give it a try.  I love how it turned out.

You start with a piece of black smooth cardstock.  Stamp with a versafine watermark ink pad the image(s) of your choice and emboss with white embossing powder.
When you have completed stamping, go around the edges of your black cardstock with a white ink, I used a cateye white frost ink pad, and lightly inked to look like chalk dust.
This gives the effect of drawing on a chalkboard!

 

 

Sentiment by Serendipity Stamps (145E)
Textured snow dots is an old stamp, but you could get the same effect by
dotting with a Versafine water mark Pen and embossing the dots with white embossing powder.



Here's a view of the card from a distance.  Doesn't it look like a chalkboard drawing!

 

Closeup and card Recipe

 

Stamps - Deer, Penny Black Forest Friends (40-077)

Sentiment - Serendipity Stamps (145E)

Black and Medium Blue card stock

Spellbinders M-Bossibilities (EL-014)

5x7 white card stock base

Impression Obsession Pine Bough Die (021-N)

Black and white Baker's Twine

White Embossing Powder and Versafine clear ink pad

 

Lots of winter ahead, and I see by the post below this one that new winter papers have arrived in the store, so why not try a wintery scene with this great technique.  Enjoy!

 

Thanks for stopping by today.

Have a great week.

Sue Drees