WT340 - Back to School Week 3 -Chalkboard (9/15/11)
 

It's back to school month for our Ways to Use It challenges. I decided to go with the Chalkboard technique! I still have nightmares about cleaning erasers and cringe at the sounds that can be made with such an innocent looking board! So lets make some beautiful chalkboard cards! You don't have to use a school theme, just use the technique.

Chalkboard Technique is stamping on dark card stock in white ink and then using colored pencils to color either on the white ink or just to color in the image. It looks so much like a chalkboard drawing when you are done!

Here is a tutorial in Splitcoast Resources for Chalkboard Technique

Remember to use the keyword WT340 when uploading your card so we can all see it! You can view the entire gallery for this challenge HERE

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1. Open 2 windows: One window for your card and one for this thread.
2. In this thread, click on reply and type anything you want to show before the link.
3. Got to your card window. Highlight the address for your card. (It says www. splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/showphoto..... and so on)
4. Click EDIT. Click COPY
5. Go back to this thread. Click PASTE.
You�re done!

Here is my sample along with Collette's!

Fun challenge, Teresa............and a new technique for me. I don't think I'll go back to my Prismacolors, giving up my Copics, but it is an interesting technique.....totally different look.

CHALKBOARD FLOWER

Thanks Teresa!
Here is my card:
Chalked Florets by sleepyinseattle - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

Thanks! Here�s mine;

Chalked Christmas

TFL!
Birgit

I wasn't feeling like a card today, so I made a tag for my daughter's back pack. I laminated it so it wouldn't get ruined (right away). I did have the forethought to photograph it before I laminated it so I wouldn't get so the glare. I had to put the eyelet in after I laminated it, so my attached photo looks a little incomplete.

Raven's Backpack Tag

Here is my COVERED BRIDGES WITH CHAULKBOARD.

Thanks Teresa for this challenge. It put a new meaning into the word challenge. This is my card.
WT340 Chalked friend card by Holstein - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

Thanks for the fun challenge, Theresa :)

Here's mine:

~ Discover Your Passion ~

TFL!~

Great challenge idea, Teresa ... Here's my

Super fun to revisit this old technique! Thanks for a great challenge. Here is my card! :)

Garden Silhouette Sympathy-WT340 by stampingout - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

Great challenge, Teresa! Here's my chalkboard bouquet.

I combined this challenge with the sketch challenge for this week.

SC350 WT340 Just Believe

A wonderful challenge for this week!

I had a lot of fun with this today..here's my card, The Coffee Break Thanks for looking!
Polly

Had lots of fun with this but it took LOTS of time!!! Here's my Simple Wishes Thanks for another fun challenge!

WT340 Let's Go Camping by Crafty Julia
 

For the Ways to Use It Challenge (white ink on a blackboard), I set up our campsite. There's a 3/4 moon, fireflies, a campfire with marshmallows, and a huge sleeping bag. Don't forget to turn off the lantern when you go to sleep!

Here's my card:
WT340 Let's Go Camping by Crafty Julia - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

Love this technique! Raining so I could play!

Trick N Treating by Amaranthine - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

WT340 Vintage Sunflower by Crafty Julia
 

I used some black cardboard and found it was easier to use my white pigment ink on this surface. I thought a sunflower yellow background made a nice contrast- and I added Inkadinkado's maple leaf stamp to accent the sunflower. The DC buttons were stamped with the same sunflower stamp from Inkadinkado, and I finished with some lace. Enjoy!
Here's my card:
WT340 Vintage sunflower by Crafty Julia - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

Here is mine...

WT340 simple chalkboard effect by newchinamom - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

Thanks!

I forgot how much I love this technique. Thanks for the great challenge.
WT340 Chalkboard Coneflower by Mrs Noofy - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

Sue

Thanks for a fun challenge. I needed a card for my daughter who just started teacher's college so this was perfect. Here's mine: Chalkboard Inspiration by daisynook - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

Here's my "attempt".

SC350, WT340 Ghouls just want to have fun by Crafty Julia
 

I found these adorable clear stamps from Studio G a few weeks ago and finally got a chance to use them. I thought the blackboard/white ink motif (WT340) worked well for the ghosts and witch. The diagonal layout (SC350) gave me the chance to use some of my Halloween paper. I made 2 tags- a small one for the ghosts, and a large one for Ghouls (that) just want to have FUN :) Here's my card:

SC350, WT340 Ghouls just want to have fun by Crafty Julia - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

Thanks for the new and easy technique Teresa!! Here's my card, WT340, Chalkboard Vegetables... by Luv Flowers - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

WT340 There's mischief brewing on Hallowe'en by Crafty Julia
 

I love this witch and owl image from Dragonfly Laser, but I had a hard time getting a good stamped impression. I finally decided to combine different versions of this duo to form one image- here's what it reads at the bottom:
When the Owl & Witch
Together are seen
There's mischief brewing
on Hallowe'en
I added some flying bats-and for the WT340 challenge - a black background and white ghosts) Here's my card:
WT340 There's mischief brewing on Hallowe'en by Crafty Julia - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

I did a chalkboard card for the FS challenge on Sunday. Who knew I was ahead of the game for the WT Challenge?

Chalkboard Birthday

I haven't worked with chalk in a very long time, but I enjoyed it. HERE is my card.

Karen Knegten- Mark's Finest Papers Sr. DT

I'd be thrilled if you visit my blog:

Studio at the Lake

I've been meaning to try this but unfortunately my family expects that I will give them some of my time... here is my Guy's Christmas card.