Painting With Chalking Inks

Quick Quotes Chalking Inks are one of my favorite mediums for stamping, distressing and chalking techniques, but I do so love figuring out new and creative ways to use the Chalking Inks!  Today I am sharing my newest way of using the Chalking Inks...painting with them.  This is such a simple technique and it has such a wonderful effect.

I created this cute Halloween card using the Dusty Road 6x6 Paper Pad.

The purples in this line are perfect for a Halloween card, but I needed to pull in some green and orange to compliment the Halloween sentiment I used from the Sentiments Bundles.  I painted Limeade Chalking Ink on the purple/cream striped paper.  The painted background paper and the sentiment are edged in Mango Mai Tai Chalking Ink.

Check out how easy it is to paint with Chalking Inks in my video!



Quick Quotes Supplies:
Mango Mai Tai and Limeade Chalking Ink
Dusty Road 6x6 Paper Pad
Quick Quotes Bundles - Sentiments

Other Supplies:
Core'dinations Black Magic
May Arts Ribbon
Die-namics and Sizzix Dies
Xyron Adhesives

The Blues Brothers

If you follow the Core'dinations Blog, you will have noticed that they are sharing some Halloween projects this week.  Halloween is one of my favorite times of year!  The Halloween layout I am sharing today shows a fun way to use Core’dinations Kraft-Core Seasonal Impressions as a fantastic background.

To make the words POP on the background, I not-so-gently sanded all the words on the Halloween Seasonal Impressions Cardstock and then added some chalk.  I really wanted the Kraft-Core to absorb the color in the orange and blue Chalking Inks so giving it a good sanding is the key.

The title work was super easy!  I cut the title out of a 4.25″ x 5.5″ piece of Black Magic with my Cricut and then sanded it like crazy so the blue background would play on the title.

Next time you are creating a seasonal layout grab some of the Kraft-Core Seasonal Impressions!

Core’dinations Supplies:
12 x12 Kraft-Core Seasonal Impressions
4.25 x 5.5 Black Magic
Sand It Gadget
Dust Buddy
Other Supplies:
Quick Quotes Chalking Ink
Dymo
American Crafts Thickers
Making Memories & October Afternoon Brads