Thanks Bensarmom for a great challenge. I couldn't believe it when I got home from a crafty stash shop and looked at the challenge to find it was to use chalks! These are my first chalks and therefore a completely new technique for me. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and have made a really quick card.
I used a linen finish card blank as I thought it would give some texture behind the chalk and I really like the effect. I pounced the background first with a light coffee colour chalk and then stamped the manuscript background with versamark and highlighted with a darker coffee colour chalk. I stamped over this with an Inkadinkadoo vine flower stamp and highlighted this with sage green chalk. I did the same with the sentiment stamp on a piece of card cut with a nestabilities rectangle. There are four little spots of copper stickles in the corners and I finished off with gold polka dot ribbon. I love the chalks which give a nice soft lustre to the card. TFL.
Date: Monday, June 30, 2008 GMT Views: 510
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Mon, Jun 30, 2008 @ 2:10 PM
This is so soft and pretty.
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Mon, Jun 30, 2008 @ 3:17 PM
Love the vine over the script...the coffee color is great!!
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