The Colorful World Created
by Scrapbooking Chalks

Funny how scrapbooking chalks resemble the eye-shadow palette. But these acid-free scrapbook chalks are designed specially to color up your layouts in a wonderful and inexpensive way.

I once met a scrapbooker who's a fan of scrapbook chalks and she went on saying how versatile chalks can be and they last for a long time.

With delightful chalk colors, sometimes called pastels, you can shade, tint or age a page layout. You can play around to achieve the kind of soft and innocent or heavy and rugged looks you're trying to create for your pages.

What else? Use chalks to add depth to photo mats, shade on die-cuts, add color to ribbons and even produce your own background papers!

It's one of those evergreen scrapbooking techniques.

Worried about getting messy? Make sure you clear one small area to work on using your scrapbook chalks.

If you're just starting out, apply chalk to pieces of scrap paper and see how you like the different effects chalk can create. Experiment and play around a bit.

Different Applicators
Produce Different Looks

Decorating Chalks - 24 Color

With a variety of applicators such as eyeshadow applicator, cotton balls, brushes, cotton swabs (Q-tips) and even your fingertips, you can have fun applying chalks to highlight the edges, shade in a portion or add a tint to an entire area.

Use an eye-shadow applicator if you desired a richer color, compared to a cotton swab. You can still use the cotton swab, just that you have to apply more layers to get the same rich color.

If you're using a cotton swab, remember to give it a roll with your fingertips so that the wisps won't carry the color to areas you don't want them appearing on. Cotton swabs are great for detailed shading.

If you want a soft, fluffy look, use a cotton ball.

How to Apply
Scrapbooking Chalks?

Step 2
Tap off the excess color lightly before application.

Step 3
Lightly apply the scrapbook chalk in a circular motion. Slowly build up layers of color instead of being too heavy-handed at the first go.

With lightly-applied layer, you can choose to easily remove some color by using a chalk eraser or artist's white plastic eraser available at craft stores. But if the layer is too heavily-applied, it's harder for the color to go off. After erasing, you can still add chalk color to that area.

Do be quick with fixing your mistakes as chalk becomes permanent faster than you imagine.

Step 4
To "set" the chalk color, turn the chalked area face down onto a piece of scrap paper and rub firmly with your fingertips. This will help burnish it and blot off the excess chalk.

As your pages are stored in page protectors, you don't have to worry about the chalk smearing onto other pages.

If you want to, you can also use an acid-free fixature to prevent the chalk from migrating or smearing and to seal the chalk.

Now instead of flat-looking page accents or layout, your scrapbooking chalks have added dimension, textures or soft look to your scrapbook layouts.

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Now that you know how chalk for scrapbooking works, have fun applying scrapbooking chalks to your pages!

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