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I use them more than any other ink I own! They are awesome on dominoes, dice, game pieces, paper, and more!
When coloring slider mailers (the cardboard ones) the chalk inks cover in one coat!! Paints took several coats - and due to their water based nature broke down the cardboard -- but the chalk inks didn't damage it at all!!
Okay, now I gotta show ya a cool new techinique using your chalk inks and BEADS!! Stay Tuned!
New Techinique Using Chalk Inks, Foil And Micro Beads!
Here is a fun new technique that was dreamed up by my dear friend, Marjie Brandeen.
Her techinque has been copywrited and is reprinted here by permission!!
If you desire to copy this for you own use, PLEASE do give credit where credit is due!!
1. Tear off some heavy duty aluminum foil, about 4 or 5 inches worth
for starters. You will trim this in a bit so don't worry about 'straight'
tears. Now tear, or cut, in half so you have a piece appx. 4" x 6".
2. GENTLY manipulate the foil to create texture. You don't want tears
so do this with care. It doesn't take much to get some nice texture.
3. Smooth it out on the table. Use a brayer or anything round and roll
over the foil to make it nice and flat. This will not diminish the textured
design, trust me.
4. Lay some scrap paper on the table and place the smoothed foil on the
scrap with the shiny side facing you. (I like working the shiny side with
the ink and beads because this creates more sparkle when completed.)
5. Open an inkpad (Ancient Page/Fluid Chalk/ any kind of dye but NOT
pigment. This step is D2P (direct-to-paper) . . . blot the inkpad all over
the smoothed out foil. Blot until you see very little silver showing. If you
want a multi-color foil, use another color of ink but be prepared for some
ink contamination to the pad that you will need to clean off right away.
6. Heat set the ink and this doesn't take long because the foil heats up.
(Note that is NOT SMOKE! It is the water from the ink vaporizing!) Ü
7. Place the colored foil on your paper trimmer and cut to desired size.
If using the Fiskars Paper Trimmer, be very gentle when slicing with
the orange blade and don't press down on it while you slice, just let it
gently slice the foil like butter.
8. Peel back the PAPER SIDE of the O'So Sticky.
Lay the foil with the COLOR side showing through the RED LINER.
9. Use the heat tool to warm the red liner until it just begins to curl
away from a corner. Now peel off the red liner just far enough to dip
into your Clear Micro Bead container . . . smooth liner back to press
the applied beads . . . peel off remaining red liner to cover the
entire area.
10. Use a brayer to seat the beads well; redip into beads if you like.
11. That's it! Now play with it! I've been playing with my first piece
over and over, smooshing it, bending it, creasing it, just to see how
much abuse it can take. I am impressed with how durable it is!
Isn't it fun to play with?? Save this one for kicks and giggles and
make another one to begin an adventure with Foiled Micro Bead Art!
In the photo below, I, Queen PennyWise used my chalk ink and the foiled beads technique to cover my slide mailer! It's O'So Simple to do -- and fun to manipulate!!
These are really awesome - thank you for sharing a new technique. I'm soooo close to you that I may need to make an appointment to stop by and see (and get) some of your amazing microbead works.
Another little tidbit a lot of people don't realize is that if you DTP on glossy cardstock and then overstamp with a dark dye ink - you can then take a tissue and remove the chalky finish and you will have the most amazing piece of art. When my fried motherboard on my "real computer" gets repaired (hopefully later this week, but possibly next week) I'll scan in some examples of this neat technique.
WOW! How cool is that??? I'd love to have you come out Ellen! I don't get to deal with many people face to face -- having an internet based business -- so you'd be most welcome!!
Also, when you use chalks on glossy paper -- the ink will tend to fade some -- to avoid having this happen -- take a Lemon Pledge Wipe and gently "buff" (NO SCRUBBING) just a light buffing -- and your colors will stay as rich and vibrant as they were when you stamped them!!
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