How to Make a Fabulous Faux Chalkboard Birthday Card

Hi Chris here and today I am excited to share this birthday card I created.  Every January our family is slammed with birthdays!  We have 4 within 8 days!!! So I am always wanting to increase my stash of Birthday cards! 

For this card I was inspired by the ever popular chalkboard writing trend! 

With some stamps and white embossing powder you too can easier re-create this fun technique!

Supplies needed:

1. Sin City Stamps -Dandelion Wishes
2.  Sin City Stamps - Art Journaling #2 
3.  Embossing Powder - White, Black
4. Heat gun
5.  Inks -Versamark, Black Ink
6.  Black & White Cardstock - Smooth
7.  Blank card and patterned paper to fit the front.
8. Sheer ribbon, paper flower and floral sprig.
9. Adhesive and foam tape
10. Scissors

Step 1 - Faux Chalkboard writing - Using the Dandelion and Make a Wish greeting from the Sin City Stamps -Dandelion Wishes set, use the Versamark ink to stamp yhem onto the smooth black cardstock.
Heat Emboss with white embossing powder.

Trim 'make a wish' into a banner. Set both pieces aside. 

Step 2 -  Background - The lacy background stamp from Sin City Stamps - Art Journaling #2   is not large enough to stamp the entire background so you will need to stamp it top-to-bottom to cover the cardstock. Don't worry if you don't get the stamping perfectly aligned, we will take care of that in the next step. 

Lacey Background SinCity Stamp

Step 3 - Background part 2 -Stamp the brick background twice with a juicy black ink (as shown) and cover quickly with black bossing powder. Remove excess powder and heat emboss.  Ink edges of the background card with black ink. 

Brick pattern SinCity Stamp

Step 4  - Trim your patterned paper slightly smaller than your blank card and adhere in place.

Next add your stamped background.

Step 5 - Adhere your Faux Chalkboard Dandelion piece onto the card and attach the 'Make a Wish" banner with foam tape.

Embellish the rest of your card with a sheer ribbon bow, pearl floral sprigs and the paper flower.

 Hope this inspires you to start stamping!