Quietfire's Queen of Hearts Blog Hop

Welcome! We are sharing our love/Valentine project ideas as we arrive at the Queen Of Hearts event today, February 14, 2013!

It's my turn! I'm glad you are here!

Each day designers have been posting new artwork they have created using Quietfire rubber stamps. This should get your creative juices flowing for your own entry in the Queen of Hearts Challenge.

You can go back and visit all our Designers blogs (see the links below), post a comment on each Blog Hop Post and you will be eligible to win a grab bag of Quietfire Design rubber stamps valued at $50! (Yes, I doubled the value from the original announcement!)

Each Designer will randomly choose a winner from the comments on their own Blog Hop Post, so make sure to leave your comment on all the blogs by

Midnight Thursday, February 14th, 2013.

Tell your friends!

All winners will be posted on the Quietfire creations Blog on Sunday Februrary 17th.
If you are one of our lucky winners, please contact Suzanne privately with your snail mail address.  My email address is in the sidebar >>>>>>

Here are the other blogs you need to go leave comments on:

Terre

Holly

Wanda

Sherry

Yogi

Robyn

and here!  Don't forget to leave a comment here!!

 

First of all....

Happy Valentine's Day!

 

I've been seeing lots of projects on the web using the chalkboard look.  I thought I'd see if I could get that look. 

So I took my pastels and rubbed them over the stamp surface and stamped on black paper and oh wow!  It worked.  But.  It really only worked that one time.  So I tried different pastels and putzed around for a while playing with Perfect Pearls, Pearlex and still wasn't happy with the results.  This is what I finally came up with - and was happy with:  A reverse chalkboard look.

 

 

This was so easy, it's embarrassing.... 

 

 

I rubbed the side of the chalk stick on over the black cardstock and used my finger to blend the chalk to a more "solid" surface.  If I didn't do that, all the fine features in the stamps were lost.  I inked up the stamps with VersaMark ink and stamped into the chalked area. The sticky VersaMark ink pulled the chalk off the cardstock surface perfectly.

 

That's it. So fast, you guys!

I would probably recommend spraying the image with Workable Fixative if you were going to give it away or mail it. I have to add a thank you to my Dad, who left behind a pristine piece of chalk in one of his tool chests. Yay Dad, still saving my bacon!         

I hope this gives you something to add to your creative tool chest!

Now just add a bow and a button and you're done. The chipboard is there to make it look a bit like the wooden frame on an old chalkboard. How about that? No fancy ingredients in this project!

 

 

Here are a couple of pastel test using the same technique.  It works!  Stick pastels give you a more chalkboard look than the Conte pencils, but maybe if I'd had enough of the pastel exposed it might have been better.

 

Please leave a comment below so you are eligible to win a $50 grab bag of Quietfire Design Rubber stamps.

Thanks for dropping by!  Good luck!  Suzanne

 

Valentine - Love Stamp set Pastels Versamark Ink Pad Chipboard Glue Dots Double-sided Tape Black Cardstock

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