Yea!! It’s the 27th day of the month! And, you know why I like that day of the
month so much? It’s because it’s my
assigned day to share with our inspiring
and supportive Followers what I have been working on for BFS. I am Joyce, and I hope I can inspire you to
try out this Marcasite technique to use on some of your BFS chipboard pieces. It is really quite effective on chipboard and
renders a jewel like quality. The
technique is easy to apply, and I’ve created two different pieces to share with
you using the same technique.
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Bargain Bin Journal featuring the Organic Vine Corner chipboard.
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| Close up of Marcasite Technique |
Here’s how I obtained the look of Marcasite on the chipboard
above.
1)
Apply an acrylic gold metallic paint, or an
metallic ink from a stamp pad, to your chipboard and let it dry.
2)
Visualize where you want to apply your Marcasite
application to rest and apply either (a) a liquid pearl product, or (b) an
application of glitter in small dots, or (c) add self-adhesive pearls or
rhinestones on your pattern, and allow any wet product to dry thoroughly before
continuing on to the next step. I
alternated an application of a liquid pearl product and a glitter dot on my
first example.
3)
Use a small paint brush and dip it in a dark
grey, black or vertigris colored mist and apply the mist with your paint brush
all around your pearls/rhinestones/glitter dot design and set to dry. Wipe up any excess mist that may get on to
other areas of the chipboard that are not in alignment with your Marcasite
design. You may need to apply another
coat for more drama because the acrylic metallic paint may produce a
resistance. If this happens, then try a
watered down black acrylic paint on your paint brush instead of the colored
mist.
4)
Once the mist or paint has dried, use a
moistened Q-tip to clean off the mist or
paint on the pearls/rhinestones so that the radiance of the pearl/rhinestones
show through.
5)
Then using your fingers, apply an ivory/gold
metallic paste or paint around the edges of the Marcasite technique to bring
back the radiance of the original gold metallic paint application. This last application really shows up well in
the door knocker chipboard tag featured below because there was more surface
space available on that particular chipboard design.
The rest of the Organic Vine Corner chipboard was spritz with other colors and
metallic paint was applied as well.
An image transfer technique was used on the bargain bin
journal cover and it produced a lovely worn and vintage fabric appeal. It actually feels like fabric to. The technique works well when using brightly
colored pattern paper. I’ve use the same
technique on some of BFS gears and widget chipboard and it rendered really nice
results. You’ll see an additional
example of the technique used on the chipboard on one of the tags below. The Image Transfer technique will be posted
on my personal blog this week.
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| Marcasite Technique |
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| Embossing Technique |
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| Image Transfer applied on first Widget |
Here are pictures of the products I have used in this months project:
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| Organic Vine Corner |
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| Ironwork Accents |
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Widgets
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I hope you give the marcasite technique a try too!
