Technique Tuesday - Chalkin' it up!

For today's Technique Tuesday I will be going over the Chalkboard technique. It's a simple technique and not very time consuming.
To start you are going to need your chalks, q-tip, stamp image, cardstock and your white craft pad. The image turns out better when you use a dark cardstock color.

Stamp out your image onto the cardstock where you want your image. In this case I wanted several images to run along the bottom of my card.



Using your q-tip add color to the image based on your color design.


I wanted several colors on my images so I added an additional color after applying the first. Once you have your image(s) colored to your specifications you are all set.

Here is my finished card. I wanted to make a Halloween card and I love candy corn corn, so I thought this would be cute. It came out close to what I had in mind. I know candy corn isn't traditionally in green colors but there are so many new flavors of candy corn now so it very well could be. I almost made it in red tones since I just picked up a package of red candy corn, caramel apple flavored and they are good too! BUT since I had green scrap on my desk that was the color I went with.

Hope you found the tutorial useful! Leave me a comment if there is a technique you would like to learn.

Recipe: Stamp Set - Tasty Sweet; Cardstock - Basic Gray, Garden Green, Kiwi Kiss, Whisper White; Ink - Craft White; Accessories - Garden Green Marker, Old Olive Marker,Old Olive Grosgrain Ribbon 5/8", Dimensionals, Chalk