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Stamping => Stamping Challenges => Topic started by: stampwilly on June 01, 2020, 09:19:20 AM
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Hi Everyone! Here is the challenge for this week - June 1st - June 7. I hope you will enjoy it.
Chalk backgrounds --
Choose a background stamp and stamp it on white card stock using Versa Mark ink. (I found that using a larger more solid patterned background worked best) like the circles on my card below. Use a cottonball and apply chalks in a circular motion over the inked background. Next stamp a more open background over your chalked background, using a darker color of ink. I played with a few backgrounds. You can see some of my backgrounds and the card I made below.
Please label your post in the gallery -- Creative Challenge - Chalk Background. Please post your cards here so that we won't miss them.
Sorry about 2 posts. I went in to modify the first one and two showed up and I cannot delete the one below. Please a post your cards here on this post. Thanks much!
I can't wait to see what you make!
April :smile:
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Please post your cards here on this post! Thanks!
April :smile:
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April, are you able to edit the title of the post that you want us to ignore? so we know which one to follow?
Also, I have some of the same questions as Sheila. Are we blending chalks or inks over the Versamark background?
I got rid of my chalks, but I will try to find an alternative and participate in some way.
Thank you! Your samples are very pretty.
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This works best with real chalks. I did try it with Distress inks and the background showed up real subtle. You need to make sure that the versa mark ink is dry before adding the ink. I dried mine with a heat tool. I also tried chalk ink and oxides and they did not work. I hope this helps. If you can't make it work then just try inking the first bg in a light color and stamping and then ink another more open bg with a darker color and stamp on top.
April :smile:
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So do we repeat the Versa Mark for the 2nd background stamp? Thanks, Jan
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I think I understand what you want, I just can't see the first stamping you did on the first example. Do love your finish card :)
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On the second stamping you use dark ink. So, I stamped the circle background on my card with versa mark ink and sponged over that with chalks (blues and greens)using cottonballs in a circular motion. I stamped the leaf background over that using purple ink. I a sorry that this has been confusing.
April
I enlarged the backgrounds below. I hope you can see them a little better. Using a bolder background to begin with helps, like my circle background.
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I agree it seems to stand out more what you did with the circles background, maybe using lighter inks and not too dense of a second background stamp.
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http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/albums/userpics/11227/1847FFBE-B5CE-4CE4-A98F-ACFC13E37748.jpeg
I have very few background stamps, and none with large defunded lines. So I used a circle stencil and
Versermark ink. One I ran in the big shot with an embossing rubber mat. That is the one you see the dots best.
Then I used chalk, stamped over it with a large flower stamp, sprayed to hold the chalk.
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http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/albums/userpics/11227/7EB29FCF-01A5-47CF-AD0E-E4791D73D736.jpeg
Made two cards with backgrounds.
http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=4983#top_display_media
First card I mated ( so not my thing) added ribbon and words.
Second card I ink blended the white card base. Added backgrounds that I raised up with foam, then a die cut words. More my style.
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Sheila, your background and cards are lovely! I am glad you tried different ways to do your backgrounds. Thanks for doing my challenge!
April :smile:
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Sheila, that was a good idea to use a stencil ... and emboss it!
I don't own chalks anymore, mine got old and icky. So I did the same technique using Perfect Pearls. The difference is, the pearls ONLY stick where there is Versamark. I might have got a more similar result if I stamped on colored cardstock? I couldn't capture the shimmer in my photo. I think it's prettier in person. Thanks for the challenge!
Happy Birthday (http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=4985#top_display_media)
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I still have chalks so I hope to make a background at least soon. I still have my teabag out from last week too.
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Cindi, thanks for trying the challenge even without chalks. Your card is lovely!
April :smile:
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I did this early before the kids got up and haven’t though of how to finish it into a card yet.
http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=4986#top_display_media
I think this is a fun layered background idea. I thought the Versamark might resist the second stamping a little, but it didn’t.
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I love the cards you guys are posting. I remember saving a used coffee filter once. It was so beautiful. Then I rinsed it. Mistake.
Are you sealing the chalk?
Daria
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Haha! Daria, I rinsed a coffee filter last week! I hope you can join some challenges :smile:
I updated my gallery post. The background stamp I used is called "checkerboard pattern background" not chalkboard. It was late and I guess I had chalk on the brain. I think it is discontinued. I bet some of you have checkerboard stencils though ...
Heidi, your background turned out really nice. I had planned on stamping with navy, but didn't test out my stamp pad first and it is "nautical". Navy looks great!
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I have been using Craft-T chalks and they do not need to be sealed. Also when I used Stampin' Up chalks they did not need to be sealed either. Heidi, your background looks so pretty! Jan, I added your cards here below. All of them are so pretty!
April :smile:
http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=4987#top_display_media
http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=4988#top_display_media
http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=4989#top_display_media
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Here are my backgrounds
http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=4990#top_display_media
I only have made one card so far, I was going for a quilted look so I could make it into a Christmas card for that challenge too :)
http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=4991#top_display_media
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Without chalk, I used April's follow-up instructions. Next I went through all of my background stamps (over 3 dozen....but many were from " back-in the beginning" of stamping" when many designs were full scenes. Now we have more graphic designs. So I selected only 6 stamps that I felt could compliment this challenge. I experimented alot with the images and inks. I threw out 4 completed samples that did not work for me. I made the focal images very simple with the intense backgrounds.
Thanks April for linking my cards to the gallery and and creating a fun challenge!
...Jan
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Thanks, Connie and Jan for doing the challenge! I love your backgrounds and cards!
April :smile:
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This was my favorite of the two backgrounds
http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=4993#top_display_media
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I finished off my card here:
http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=4994#top_display_media
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Connie, your second card is so pretty! Heidi, I love your pretty card. Thanks for doing the challenge.
April :smile: