Chalk is an old school papercrafting supply that seems to be left behind with the popularity of Copics, colored pencils and ink sponging. Melissa brings new life to it in this video featuring a gorgeous technique. You mght want to dig your chalk pallette out and give it a whirl this week.
If you are joining along this week, here are the details concerning the Make It Monday Challenge.
–A new Make It Monday Challenge will go up every Monday morning at 9am EST.
–Create a project utilizing your take on the challenge. Your project must use at least one Papertrey product and Melissa's chalk, stamp, and impression plate technique.
–Post your project on your blog, in your gallery or on any other photo-hosting site (such as photobucket or flickr).
–-Add your project to our InLinkz list below.
–You will have until 7am, Monday, June 23rd, to add your link to the list to be eligible to win. And you can enter as many times as you like.
–We will be tweeting and posting on our Facebook page every night (between 5-9pm EST) highlighting a Featured Project. These tweets/Facebook postings will just be a shout-out regarding projects that caught our eye.
–One randomly selected winner will be chosen from ALL the entries on Monday, June 23rd, after 7am. The winner will be posted here on this blog post, on Twitter and Facebook. The randomly selected winner will get a $25 PTI gift certificate to spend however they like!
Good luck to everyone and we look forward to seeing your projects!
Really beautiful cards and an inspiring tutorial. One question- Did you set your chalk with any sort of fixative like hair spray?
Oh my goodness – just gorgeous! What a clever technique!
This is gorgeous Melissa!!! Love it!!
Thank you for reminding me about my chalk set! I am looking forward to giving this a go~
Wow, who knew I had these sitting in a drawer long neglected, thanks for the inspiration.
Wow, this is just so pretty, love the texture showing through!! It’s so strange – just yesterday I was doing a bit of cleaning and happened upon my chalks and thought I should just throw them out. Glad I didn’t!!!!!!
What a fun technique!!! TFS how you made your lovely cards.
Jan
Oh so pretty!!
WOW MELISSA! THIS IS GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!! I will HAVE TO try this one FOR SURE! WOW!!!!!!!!!!:D (I am ALWAYS IMPRESSED with your work!) 😀
So gorgeous..love it great technique!
Beautiful as all your cards are. I must try out this new technique asap (as it now).
I love your cards. I noticed you didn’t use any kind of fixative to set the chalk so it doesn’t come off. Did I miss something? Thanks for sharing this beautiful technique.
Never would have thought of doing this & it’s one of my favorite MIMs ever! Stunning cards! Have been wanting to get out Rosie Posie so may just case you, Melissa!
So soft and pretty, Melissa! Thanks for sharing this wonderful technique. Can’t wait to pull out my chalk palette and try it! ♡
Such a pretty card! I love the softness the chalk creates on the impression; the texture it brings out, the color of the stamped impressions, the vellum tag – all of comes together into a beautiful gift for anyone who receives this card. Love it when you do Make-it-Monday.
Beautiful Melissa. Thank you for a beautiful card using a new technique. Your ability to make such beautiful cards inspires me.
Truly delightful creations! And a brilliant idea – these are gorgeous, esp with the vellum and embossing ♥
I love your Make It Monday Tutorial Videos…they are always so inspiring. Melissa, this is a wonderful idea and such a pretty card…as already said, your work is inspiring.
I love the effect of using chalk AND ink! Very pretty.
I love learning these new techniques to stretch my creativity. Thank you, your cards are beautiful.
Really gorgeous!
BEAUTIFUL cards, Melissa! Like your stamping, colors, sketch. Thanks for the great video, too. 🙂
OMG OMG OMG!! Melissa this is an AWESOME technique!! I LOVE the look and feel of this!! I wish I could see and touch it in real life!! LOL!! =) I LOVE your Make It Monday Tutorials and your AWESOME Style!! Makes my heart go Pitter Patter!! =) THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)
What I like the most about this card is the look you achieved by stamping after you dry embossed. The texture just really grabs me!
Beautiful cards Melissa! Will definitely play around with this.
Gorgeous card! Love it!
Oh wow–what a happy surprise to see Mr Random picked me! I love the MIM challenges & plan to try this one again. I love the look of the chalked impression plate in the background & need to try again to get it to show more in my stamped images. Thank you so much, PTI! My never-ending wishlist will get some things taken off of it!