Following with the "black and white" theme, see my post on a "Gothic Invitation for Halloween" I decided to share this other "black and white" card with all of you today....
For quite some tome I wanted to showcase this trendy technique called "Chalkboard" and what a better way to do it with a stamp for Halloween and to continue with my color scheme: "black and white"!
I used here this nice red rubber stamp from "Lost Coast Designs", called the "Skull Flourish" and I featured this card at the "Lost Coaster's review Blog" as part of my contributions as a DTM.
"The Chalkboard Technique" is quite simple but very pretty..it is basically an "emboss resist" technique but only made with white embossing powder and white ink on black cardstock!
You follow the same steps as for an "emboss resist" (heat emboss an image in white Embossing powder) and when cool you will "rub"/sponge over the top and in certain areas white ink...
You can add extra "white" elements with "Prismacolor" white pencils (or markers, chalks, "Pan Pastels" etc...), like "doodling" or making small designs:
-stripes
- dots
-crisscross
-shading etc... around the image...
giving the illusion as if you where using a black board and chalks as it used to be in the school classrooms...
See my "not so good sample" :) with the extra elements...
next time I will be more careful in drawing and not adding to much "white ink" because in my sample it looks a little bit "messy", but I decided to show you anyways what I meant by adding extra elements...
The background was stamped with the "Crackle Background" stamp in black over white cardstock, I added a "flourish" from "Spellbinders" and die cut the main panel with a "Spellbinders" label...added some "doodling" with silver "Stickles" and that's it...
Ok my dear friends, I hope you give it a try this fun "chalkboard" technique, and remember if you are new to my blog browse around and if you like what you see subscribe to my blog to receive my notifications of when and what I will post here...
thanks for all your comments and of course to all the people out there visiting my blog and reading it!
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"Lost Coast Designs" stamps: "Skull Flourish"; "Crackle background"
Beautifully designed card Bibiana. Hugs Rita xxx
ReplyDeleteFabulous technique x
ReplyDeleteMagnifique ta carte et très a la mode, bises.
ReplyDeleteElle est magnifique ta carte!
ReplyDeleteL'effet est whaou!
Bisous
Quite a interesting technique for holloween with your skull.
ReplyDeleteHugs....Leannr
Bonjour Bibiana,
ReplyDeleteJe trouve que cette technique est vraiment appropriée pour Halloween.
Ta carte est splendide!!!!
Bonne et belle journée.
Bises.
Chantal
Coucou Bibiana ,
ReplyDeletesuperbe ta carte avec cette nouvelle technique très tendance ! J'ai hâte d'essayer ! Bisous.
Your card is absolutely stunning! I adore it!!! Bravo!! xxx
ReplyDeleteFabulous card Bibiana...love the chalkboard technique....
ReplyDeleteAnne
Fantastic card Bibiana xx
ReplyDeleteBravo !!!! ton essai tableau noir est très réussi
ReplyDeleteBises
I loooooove these cards,love the B&W, stunning work, and I don't even like Halloween, your changing my mind about that, thanks so much for sharing these fabulous cards..
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