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Offline djc

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Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
« Reply #15 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

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Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
« Reply #16 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!
Cindi

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Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
« Reply #17 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


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Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
« Reply #18 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


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Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
« Reply #19 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

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Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
« Reply #20 on: June 06, 2020, 09:16:42 AM »
Thanks, Connie and Jan for doing the challenge! I love your backgrounds and cards!

April :smile:

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Re: Creative Challenge -- Chalk Backgrouds (post only to this post)
« Reply #23 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: