I made a handful of backgrounds for cards at Mary Jo's class at the Judikins warehouse. We used Microglaze as a resist (create a small flat dab to use to "ink" up your stamp) with chalk inks. Chalk inks are very versatile inks. They are great for basic stamping and embossing. But, did you know that they are the only inks that really do resist themselves? The color variation that you see in some of the above panels are the result of layering various chalk inks on top of each other.
For the above card, I cut one of my prepared panels to create the central image. I stamped the image in light chalk ink and in Microglaze. I then brayer a darker ink over the top and allowed it to dry. Using chalk inks in this way, really shows the depth of field that can be created fairly quickly. Do you have chalk ink? If so, start playing around stamping it onto matte coat paper, and layer other chalk inks over it. You may be surprised!
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I love Chalk inks and really use them more than any other! Love that soft quality, but never ever knew they resisted each other! Will have to do some experimenting! Thanks for the tips! And the cards and backgrounds are gorgeous!
They are the only inks that do that - just spend some time playing!
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