The a previous challenge was to play with chalks and pounce them as a background, then stamp in versamark and colour the versamarked image by pouncing with chalks again.
I immediately thought of using the grid technique to make it look like tiles and my boyfriend's sister has told me that she would like me to pleas make her backsplach look like this card!
It was too funny that this was the challenge today because I'm moving and can't find half of my stamping and scrapbooking stuff at any given time but yesterday while I was arranging some of my crafting stuff I found my chalks and thought, "I should really play with these again soon." I don't think I've used them much since just after the Stampers 10 I was in did Poppin' Pastels. I used them alot then and then I kinda forgot about them. So thanks for helping me use something I have that I'd forgotten how fun it was to play with.
What I did was score a 5x5 inch piece of Whisper White CS with my Scorit every inch into a grid. I flipped it over and worked on the indented side so that there was a resist effect. I pounced yellow chalk into the center of the grid and then worked 3 shades of blue around it. I softened the background by blending in white chalk. I used my Penny Black mid-summer stamp and Versamark stamped the main image. I chalked the berries with yellow, green, blue, two shades of red and finished with a very bright pink which seemed to help them pop. The leaves were done in yellow and two shades of green. The strawberry blossoms were done in pink and white with a yellow center. I used my white Signo Gel Pen to brighten up the white on the blossoms to make them pop a bit as well as a few seeds on the berries. Then I did 4 more partial images around the main one but chalked them more faintly to keep the emphasis on the central image. I cut down the panel by 1/2 an inch on each side to bring the focus down and allow me to matt the main panel. I matted onto a Prism textured red, then Whisper White and used Soft Sky as my card base because it went with the blue in the main panel. I hand painted the sentiment with tombow marked ink (815, 847) and then hilighted that with a bit of white gel pen. I layered the red and green stitched ribbon from Micheals dollar bin between and onto the main panel layers and then chalked the butterfly from Essence of Love with pink and orange, cut it out and layered it onto the ribbon. (That was becasue I couldn't get the Bella Baubles to stick to the ribbon with glue and I was making a mess of the ribbon. The butterfly hides the glue mess and I think it looks preety too. I ended up adhering the stuff to the ribbon with tape runner.) Then below the butterfly I adhered 3 Bella Baubles. I finished with faux stitching on two lof the layers and then I stopped.
It was a fun technique to do but I wasn't sure about how it looked and whether I liked it or not. I was in kind of flat indirect lighting and it just didn't pop for me. But then I held the card in sunlight and WOW!!!! She changed! Now I think it is soft and lovely and I quite like this technique. If I get time I'm going to try it with another Penny Black stamp that has an iris on it.
Hope you like my card and thanks for looking.
Date: Monday, June 30, 2008 GMT Views: 264
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