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| Bargain Bin Journal featuring the Organic Vine Corner chipboard. |
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| Close up of Marcasite Technique |
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 |
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| Organic Vine Corner |
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| Ironwork Accents |
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| Widgets
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