You see the look all over Pinterest and in stores – the chalkboard look is totally IN!

Did you know that you can also achieve that look on your card (and fairly simply I might add).

What you will need:

Stamp

White Pigment Ink

Tissue

Black cardstock

Take your piece of black cardstock (should be cut to preferred size already) and rub the tissue (dipped in your white pigment ink) in the corners and around the cardstock- you want to give the paper the look of the chalkboards at school when they had seen a lot of use.

Next stamp your images onto the cardstock with the same white pigment ink.  Now give the ink time to dry- pigment is wet and will need a few minutes but it is worth it!

I LOVE how this turned out!

Now you may be able to tell (or may not) but I added some colour to the chalk stamping (I mean really, who didn’t play with the coloured chalk in school every chance they got!?).  I added some purple to the star burst and some blue to outline the ‘Great Job’ sentiment.  I coloured over the white pigment ink with my ShinHan Touch Twin markers – and it worked AWESOME!! I then finished this guy up with some Chalk It Up Assortment stickers, some bitty sparkles and some new washi tape!

Until we craft again, The Brae-er