November is the last month that the very talented
Joyce Lawrence will be on the design team. She just completed her 4-month rotation, and it has been such a joy to work with her. But she has promised not to leave us and we're so excited to see her in the Forums, because she has become such a part of C'est Magnifique.
Joyce really knows how to alter chipboard in some amazing ways. Here is a tutorial that she created. Prepare to be amazed at how she transforms a simple piece of chipboard into something awesome!
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This tutorial is a little wordy so don’t let that put you off, the
process itself goes really quickly. I just wanted to break down each
step for those that have never tried an ink resist on a chippie.
I. Paint the Chippie
Step One: Use white paint to cover your chippie and let the paint dry.
II. Ink Resist Technique on Chippie:
Step One: Stamp your image with one of two stamps on your chippie (use an ink pad that is archival or doesn’t run if moist).
Step Two: Using your cornstarch pouch (if you don’t have one, you can add
some cornstarch in a baby’s sock and sew or tie it off), pounce it on
your chippie and blow off any excess powder. This process allows for a
clean stamped image, otherwise your image will look blurry if you use
this process on a larger piece of paper or chippie and the powder will
travel to places you don’t want it to.
Step Three: Apply your second stamp into your embossing pad and apply stamp image on top of chippie.
Step Four: Quickly sprinkle clean embossing powder over the stamped image and shake the chippie to remove the excess powder.
Step Five: Warm your heat gun, and then apply the heat to the stamped image
until all areas of the stamp are raised. It will be hard to see the
raised areas because of the clear embossing powder but if your heat gun
is hot, you will see some shiny images.
III. Applying Distress Ink (three colors) to the embossed stamped image:
Step Step One: Use your lightest color ink and gently rub in with an
applicator over various parts of the chippie; then use the next lightest
color repeating the same process in areas that you did not apply the
first color; and finally use the darker color very sparingly on other
areas of the chippie as well. Sometimes I press in the color really
firmly.
Note: The ink resist (the heat set clear embossing
powder image) provides a barrier so that the original color of the
chippie shows through. A large chippie with more chip space will lend a
more dramatic look using the technique above.
IV. Adding Color Embossing Powder to the edges of the Chippie:
Step
One: Using an embossing pen or a bottle of embossing fluid with a
sponge applicator, add the embossing pen or fluid to the edges of the
delicate chippie cut outs; sprinkle a color of embossing powder and set
with your heat gun. In this example, I used two different colors to go
with the green and brown theme paper I made. We’re not using the
cornstarch pouch in this instance because we don’t want the lines to
look clean or perfect.
V. Add embellishments such as pearls, rhinestones, Liquid Pearls, or Stickles on the chippie to your liking.
VI. After you have placed your chippie on your page, you can add further
drama by filling up some of the negative space around the chippie by
adding a mixture of glitter and micro beads. In this case, I have made a
concoction in a small container consisting of brown/green glitter and
brown, gold and green micro beads. Martha Stewart has delicious colors
of large glitter.
I hope you give this a try and start dressing up your chippies for your journals, layouts and other applications.
Here
is the final product. You know me, I just couldn’t photograph the
dressed up chippie on a piece of plain paper for you. I created the
background paper to give the chippie a home. I have to admit, I really
love how that background came out. Maybe there’s a future tutorial if
you like it too.
