Technique Challenge: Chalking Titles and Embellishments

Quick Chalking Can Add Rich Softness to Your Layouts by Your Guide to Scrapbooking Rebecca Ludens

Once again for this month's technique challenge, I want us all to pull some things out of scrapbooking storage that we already own but haven't used in a while. This time we are focusing on chalks and templates. By combining these two, you are able to create very quick and simply beautiful page embellishments. You can make titles, border designs, all over page backgrounds, and more with just a few strokes of a cotton ball.

Materials:

Scrapbooking Chalks - available at your local scrapbook store or from your favorite online retailer

Templates - pull out some of the ones you already have, including lettering templates, paper doll templates, or whatever you have available

Cotton balls, make-up sponges, cotton swabs, or puff balls

 

Instructions:

1. Select a template that has a design or letters which you want to chalk onto your page or embellishment.
2. Mask off any surrounding designs on the template that you do not want to chalk using sticky-notes, or cardstock with repositionable adhesive applied to it.
3. Rub your cotton ball in the first color of chalk and rub the color filled ball on to the template.
4. Repeat with any additional colors, using a new cotton ball each time.
5. When your design is completely chalked, lift the template to see the results.
6. You can now further embellish the design with opaque markers or detailing pens.

In the sample above, I used a Fiskars template. This lovely rose would be perfect on a Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Wedding, or Anniversary page.

In the samples below, I used EK Success templates. The "Beach" title is made with the "Wacky Upper and Lower" ABC Tracers. The bath tub scene was created using the "Tub Time" Tracerkins template.

More Scrapbooking Chalking Projects and Instructions:

Charming Chalking - Article from Hot Off the Press teaches techniques that will add chalk pizzazz to your pages.

Scrapbook Magic - Manufacturer and Online Retailer of Templates for Chalking - page ideas and chalking instructions.

Shading with Chalks - An article by Rebecca Ludens focusing on chalking die-cuts and titles.
 

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