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Title: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
Post by: stampwilly on June 01, 2020, 09:19:20 AM

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:

Title: Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds
Post by: stampwilly on June 01, 2020, 09:31:27 AM

Please post your cards here on this post! Thanks!

April :smile:

Title: Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds
Post by: Iring on June 01, 2020, 10:45:02 AM

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.

Title: Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
Post by: stampwilly on June 01, 2020, 01:18:18 PM

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:

Title: Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
Post by: Far North on June 01, 2020, 05:33:04 PM

So do we repeat the Versa Mark for the 2nd background stamp? Thanks, Jan

Title: Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
Post by: Conniecrafter on June 01, 2020, 09:36:42 PM

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 :)

Title: Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
Post by: stampwilly on June 02, 2020, 08:45:38 AM

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.

Title: Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
Post by: Conniecrafter on June 02, 2020, 09:54:36 PM

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.

Title: Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
Post by: Yankee on June 03, 2020, 04:14:27 PM

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.

Title: Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
Post by: Yankee on June 03, 2020, 04:21:11 PM

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.

Title: Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
Post by: stampwilly on June 04, 2020, 10:59:29 AM

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:

Title: Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
Post by: Iring on June 05, 2020, 12:35:30 AM

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)

Title: Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
Post by: howdyheidi on June 05, 2020, 05:35:04 AM

I still have chalks so I hope to make a background at least soon. I still have my teabag out from last week too.

Title: Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
Post by: stampwilly on June 05, 2020, 09:14:47 AM

Cindi, thanks for trying the challenge even without chalks. Your card is lovely!

April :smile:

Title: Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
Post by: howdyheidi on June 05, 2020, 10:38:44 AM

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. 

Title: Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
Post by: djc on June 05, 2020, 11:08:31 AM

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

Title: Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
Post by: Iring on June 05, 2020, 01:45:56 PM

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!

Title: Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
Post by: stampwilly on June 05, 2020, 03:10:08 PM

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

Title: Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
Post by: Conniecrafter on June 05, 2020, 04:32:15 PM

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

Title: Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
Post by: Far North on June 05, 2020, 04:33:17 PM

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

Title: Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
Post by: stampwilly on June 06, 2020, 09:16:42 AM

Thanks, Connie and Jan for doing the challenge! I love your backgrounds and cards!

April :smile:

Title: Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
Post by: Conniecrafter on June 06, 2020, 11:01:43 AM

This was my favorite of the two backgrounds

http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=4993#top_display_media

Title: Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
Post by: howdyheidi on June 06, 2020, 02:49:26 PM

I finished off my card here:
http://www.duhnproductions.com/Pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=4994#top_display_media

Title: Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
Post by: stampwilly on June 06, 2020, 02:57:27 PM

Connie, your second card is so pretty! Heidi, I love your pretty card. Thanks for doing the challenge.

April :smile: