Robin's Birdhouse: chipboard

Friday, November 23, 2018

Want to go for a ride?

I love the style of this old-fashioned bicycle. It's one of the chipboard die cuts available at DIY Design Studio and it is a lot of fun to use.

My first idea was to try and distress the image with ink. The StazOn is good for distressing chip board because it's permanent and dries quickly. It just wasn't the look I wanted today. So I decided to paint them instead. Perfect for my project.

I liked the gold bike so well that I decided to paint the other one, too.

I added some rhinestones just to blint them up a little bit.

For the gold bike, I chose the Life Time pad of Prima paper. You've seen me use this one before. It's one of my favorites because of the range of shades and splatters. They are beautiful papers.

I needed a piece of paper 6 x 4 1/4. I opted to make the darkest section the body of my card and then use the part with the sentiment as a layer.

I added some light brown ink to the edges of each piece so that they stand out once they were pieced back together.

This paper pad has a sheet of tags and embellishments. I wanted to use a mini brad on the mini tag. I could have used the cream color but it matches the paper a little too much. I painted it the same gold as the bike to pull it into the card more.

Because the bike is chipboard it really stands off the page. Foam adhesive squares hold the little embellishments up off the page to balance that out.

Card one - great for a note card or special occasion. But it's almost Christmas and the other bike is red, sooooo...

I painted some chipboard snowflakes white to go with the second bike.

I found this piece of snowy scrapbook paper in my stash and added a washi tape sidewalk, then glued on the chipboard pieces.

Products Used:

Die Cut Chipboard Bicycles

Die Cut Chipboard Snowflakes

Inks and/or Acrylic Paints

Adhesive Gemstones

Prima Life Time paper pad

Dimensional Foam Squares

Double-Sided Adhesive Tape

Glue

Scans of each card

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Gearing up for Steampunk

I love all these great gear shapes from Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts. Large, small, thin, chunky, smooth, teeth...a little bit of everything. Our Design Team has shown you several ways to decorate your chipboard. My favorite way is to paint them. I have several bottles of metallic color acrylic paint and I painted several gears in each of the colors.

So bright and shiny! Well, that won't do. Some brown StazOn ink and a cotton swab makes these chipboard gears look aged.

For the background of my card, I chose a gray pattern from the 6x6 Authentique paper pad Durable. I chose two pictures from the Fly With Steam collage sheet for my Steampunk theme. Two stencils and more of the same brown ink from the gears help blend the image into the background.