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What is the best way to color/paint chip board letters? Has anyone had luck with regular stamp pads or brush tip pens? What about covering them with fabric or paper? Thanks a bunch for your help :p
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I use Folk Art Acrylic paint all the time to color chipboard...I basecoat each piece with a thin even coat of the paint, let this dry, then lightly rub with a piece of brown paper sack...this acts as a sander, with out removing the paint...then apply another thin coat of the paint...usually two coats is enough...but can depend on the coloring and the absorbency of the chipboard...Also, undercoating is sometimes needed, depending on the surface color you want...if you are just going to cover it with other things, you can also use Gesso...applied the same way...You can also adhere paper napkins, tissue papers and even pattern papers to the chipboard using different glues or mediums...I use spray glue when working with some things...can depend on the item and how important exact placement may be...I also use stick glue and apply thin coats of the glue to the paper surface as well as the chipboard, I also use Royal Coat Decoupage Medium to adhere napkins and tissue papers to the chipboard...Once the adhere surface has dried completely, then you can trim the excess off using a sharp craft knife...I have a knife for just this purpose...I keep a sharp blade in it at all times...it does not take much using for a trimming knife blade to become dull...after all...that piece of paper used to be a tree...and paper will dull a blade, just as fast as a tree will dull a chain saw blade...
I cover chipboard all the time and then also run thru my die cut machines...
hope this helps some, hugs, Debbie
I've used different acrylic paints. Never tried the brown paper as the pp mentioned - will need to try that.
I have inked it with the ink pad direct - which gives a rough/blotchy look. It worked for my page. I have a brayer but haven't tried inking chipboard with that....maybe next time.
I only know this because I just asked this question at a Stampin Up event that I was at last night. I was told that to use the Craft ink pad to color the chipboard then apply and heat-set the glassy glaze embossing powder to give it a nice shine/pop. (An added hint they gave me was to be sure to heat the chipboard from the bottom... and to leave one section undone to 'hold onto' with tweezers...then after the rest cools you can finish the last section to match). I just rec'd my first set of chipboard and I'm excited to try it out...
I mostly use acrylic paints. The chipboards that come already with a glossy white finish, I've used both pigment and chalk ink succesfully on those. I've tried paper a few times, but I think I need a finer file than the one I have to get the edges looking really neat after.
I've read several times, but never tried it, that if you use baby-wipes to apply the acrylic paint, it speeds up the time it takes for each coat to dry.
I love to do just about everything to my chipboard. I think it was just last summer that a scrop mag did a whole article on all the different things you can do to alter -- it was the beginning of my obsession!
Paint it, stamp it, use glue and cover it with paper, sprinkle glitter on it . . . your options are endless.
My current favor is to use a Stampin Up re-inker to color it and then glue a clear glitter to it.
I made the most beautiful chipboard flower. Apply craft ink (pigment), heat & stick powder from Stampin Up, heat, add dazzling diamonds from SU, then heat to set. I used a white chipboard flower and pink ink and it's so beautiful. It came out dazzling.
Yes, it actually does make a difference. The classic ink soaks into the chipboard, so the color doesn't look right. The craft ink is thicker and sits on the top of the chipboard.
Dye inks like the SU classic ink are transparent so the resulting colours would be a bit strange I guess, as the original colour of the chipboard will interfere with the ink colour. Pigment inks such as chalk inks are very opaque and so will cover up the base colour of the chipboard.
Coloring Chipboard
