Anyone color their images with chalks?

[hoptownracer1]

A friend of mine told me how she loved coloring her images with chalks, so I tried it. She uses a blender pen and dips the tips into the chalk color. I tried it too, and love it!!! You just have to use a light touch. I stamped the image with a chalk ink pad before coloring it, and it didn't smear at all. Just wondered if anyone else colored their images with chalks.

[Rox71]

I have but it's been a while, I do often use it for the shadow around the image and I also use it with the blender pen.

[fairsinger]

I love using chalk! It works great for coloring in images with blender pens, as you mentioned, and I love using it for coloring on stamped tiles. For something different, I like using the chalkboard technique on black cardstock or using chalk with Versamark. Chalks are very versatile!

[Cook22]

I've tried it a few times with an aqua-blender, just for fun. I usually find watercolours easier and they give a similar result, but maybe using a blender pen would give me a different look...hmm. Thanks for that idea.

[ellesart]

I have chalks but haven't used them for years. I do agree using the blender pen makes it easy and I think I'll have to get them out again now that you mention it. Thanks for posting.

[NancyJ]

I love using chalks to color. I use both a blender pen and just plain chalk on an applicator. Chalk gives a smooth look that can be blended and erased if necessary - and in my case, I need that erasability!

[PedalPower]

I so...but I have to admit, once I got my Copics, I've sort of neglected this technique.

[LorraineBK]

If you color with chalk does it have to be sprayed with a fixitive to set it? Never did it although I have them.

[kathi17]

I bought some about a year ago, but I think I have a gremlin in my house who makes things disappear sometimes, because the disappeared before I had a chance to use them. I was looking at them again on Sunday, but didn't buy them because I was also wondering if they need a fixative.

I do have a small set of cream chalks called Pebbles. I use them for shading on my Nestabilities cut outs. The cream ones are okay, but I would rather try buying the chalks again to see if they blend better.

[NancyJ]

I've never sprayed my cards that were colored with chalks, and to my knowledge, they're all still fine. They don't rub off that easily.

[Njoilif]

I love to color with chalks too, especially using the Pearlescent chalks. However, I do spray a little hairspray mist (any brand will do) as it definitively seals the colors yet it doesn't change them at all. Chalk coloring is definitively a fun techinique. I also love my Stampin Up chalks as well as the non-smears chalks from the Stencil Collection company. All these are amazing products!

[inkyimages]

Love this thread -- it has reminded me that I haven't used my chalks for awhile and that I need to get them out.

[annie*]

I use my chalks from the Stencil Collection company. I use a q-tip and color away. I think it is an easy way to color and the great thing about this particular chalk is that they are non-smear and so there is no need to spray them with a fixative. I also like the fact that you can erase a small goof and no one will be the wiser. I have other brands of chalk and pastels but always seem to go to my box of Stencil Collection chalks. Love them!!

[lutheran]

I put away my old chalks for a while but when I got a new full set to get all the new SU! colors, I fell in love again. Quick, easy to blend, erasable. What more could you ask for?
Mary Beth