Drunken Chalks

Drunken Chalks

Hi Everyone!

We've reached the end of the month

already!  To celebrate I thought a bit

of alcohol might come in handy......

......no, not that sort of alcohol.......

Jane Castle will explain.....

"Morning to you all, today I'd like to share

 my attempts/experiences at trying

 this wonderfully named procedure 

"Drunken Chalks", what a fab name! 

I had a play with various cardstock

 before making this greetinge card.

To begin with I used white glossy cardstock

 as my base and the coloured inks are all

 Versa-Magic.

The 3 chalk inks are Sea-Breeze, Pink Petunia 

and Pumpkin Spice. 

These were then sprayed with Isopropyl Alcohol,

 which I'm assured is vertually the same as 

Rubbing Alcohol. 

These began to merge into each other 

forming some lovely blends. 

Then once completely dry I stamped my

 Encore Metallic Gold ink pad over the whole

 card and sprayed on more alcohol. 

This initially looked quite dark but when it 

had dried was much lighter.

For my second piece I used Sage, Mango Madness

 and Ocean Depth with the gold ink to finish.

Feeling a bit more confident now---- 

decided to try some black glossy cardstock 

as my base!

I used the same 3 inks as the first card 

and then used silver metallic ink to finish. 

The metallic shine didn't come through

 as strongly on this ---- maybe

 the colours underneath were a bit too bold.

Now for my last experiment, I had a small 

piece of homemade fabric paper left from 

a previous project. 

( This is extremely easy to make and there 

are various videos available to watch) 

As this has a non-porous coating of 

watered down PVA glue on the surface thought

 it would be worth a try.

The colours used were Sea-Breeze, Mango Madness 

and Perfect Plumeria with silver metallic to finish. 

This dried the quickest and had the best sheen.

Now onto the greetings card,

 I decided to use the 1st, 2nd and 4th pieces 

for my flowers. The smallest flower is the fabric paper. 

I drew around the stencil on the back of my 

coloured card and then cut the flowers out. 

This hasn't got to be very precise!

Then using the smaller flower stencil

 inked the centre design in Walnut Stain DI.

These were then brushed with Cosmic Shimmers

 Red Bronze Mica Powder.

 You can see in this photo the difference 

in the shine of the glossy card and the fabric paper.

Then onto the card blank--

 the flower stems were stamped in 

Peeled Paint DI using a stamp from Jofy 38,

 the small squares stamped in the Sea-Breeze

 and Sage.

 Finally the sentiment was stamped in Perfect Plumeria.

Finally screw head brads were added to the

 flower centres before attaching with Pinflair Glue.

I hope you will give this technique a try 

as it's fascinating to see how the different 

colours react. 

Thanks for stopping by today

 and have a good crafting week."

Items Used

Versa-Magic Chalk Inks

Distress Inks

Encore Metallic Inks

Jofy PS057 Stencil

PaperArtsy stamps sets Jofy 38 & EKD02

Woodware brads

Pinflair Glue

Isopropyl Alcohol/ Rubbing Alcohol

You really had fun with this

one Jane - Many thanks

Apropos the Isopropyl Alcohol -

this is available from the Chemist.

You could of course substitute the

Gin.................!!

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx