Tuesday 26 March 2013

Chalky Thanks

As I had a chalk board card made but not blogged - I thought I'd link it up to this week's Daring Cardmakers Chalkboard challenge http://daringcardmakers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/chalkboard-creations.html.  This was actually one of the cards I recently submitted to Paper Crafts Magazine but it was rejected so I am now free to feature it on my blog.


I used what is fast becoming one of my favourite new stamp sets (even if you haven't seen it on my blog before - I've used it for a few card submissions) the beautiful Many Thanks set from Clearly Besotted who are fast becoming one of my favourite stamp brands too - have you seen the sneaky peeks of what's coming?  Be still my beating heart :-)

I decided to go for a dark maroon chalk board instead of the normal black and stamped the sentiment twice - firstly in versamark which I then heat embossed in white and then secondly I stamped over the embossed sentiment and just down and to the right with a pearl white ink to create a subtle shadow.  I die cut and embossed the sentiment using labels 25 (I think but don't quote me on the number) and used a white pencil to trace the edge and the embossed centre line.  I added a few more soft scribbles of pencil and blended them out with a stump to get the chalky effect.  I used the same card to create my card base (it's actually a line embossed card so I used the rear for stamping on) and added a layer of DP from MME.  I added a layer of blue to match the flowers and cut the end like a banner and stamped half of one of the other sentiments from the same set to the top.  I framed this sentiment with a line of twine and a couple of tiny bows and  stuck over hearts stamped from the same stamp set  which were fussy cut.

Hope you like it more than the editors of the magazine did!


6 comments:

  1. This is really pretty and just perfect for The Daring Cardmakers thus week. Thank for joining in

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  2. You are too kind, I am so happy you like the stamps :) p.s. magazine's loss is our gain!

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  3. Lovely card! I like the brown "blackboard" you've used, it makes the look a little softer than black would have.

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  4. That is fabulous, Tara! Brilliant blackboard!

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  5. Really lovely card, it's nice to see the chalkboard look tried on different coloured backgrounds other than black. :) Thanks for linking up to the DCM chalkboard dare this week. :)

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  6. Well I'm loving the maroon blackboard, what a great colour to go with and the perfect choice of texty sentiment to stamp on it :0)
    Jenny x

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