July Hostess Club

New hostess club starts tomorrow. This time we're going to focus a bit more on techniques and how to use our tools.

This month in addition to becoming close friends with our paper cutters (bwahahahahaha) we're going to work on Black Magic and Chalkboard.

This first sample utilizes the chalkboard technique. Basically you stamp your image in white craft ink on black or other dark cardstock and then you pounce chalk over the image. In this example, I also added a bit of white gel pen to make it pop.

The black magic technique is very similar in that instead of chalk, you use watercolour pencils. We will make the same card twice - once using black magic and once using chalkboard so the participants can compare the two and see what they think.

To get inspiration for the card, I went to the colour challenge on SCS and then the Sketch Challenge. Whenever I don't know where to start, those are the best places to go looking.

I'm also going to mail this to my daughter who is away at camp this week. This will be her last card I send her. I've had the best time making and mailing cards each day. My craft room really has gotten a workout lately!

Enjoy!