How to Alter Chipboard for Scrapbooking
Altering chipboard for scrapbooking offers you an inexpensive way to add dimension and style to your pages. Chipboard is uncorrugated cardboard that you can use for a multitude of craft purposes including scrapbooking, journaling and other paper crafts. Chipboard is available in various size sheets and in precut letters and shapes ready for altering. You can find chipboard at most craft stores.
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Things You'll Need
- Chipboard
- Glue
- Scrapbooking paper
- Glitter
- Rubber stamps
- Ink pad
- Rub-on embellishments
Instructions
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Cover your chipboard with decorative paper or card stock. Cut your desired shape from the chipboard if you have bought uncut chipboard. Turn your decorative paper right side down and position your chipboard shape on top of the backside of the paper. If your shape needs to face in a certain direction, such as a letter, turn the shape facing in the opposite direction. This will ensure that you'll be able to place your paper on the shape and align it properly.
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Use rubber stamps to alter your chipboard. Choose a stamp that will fit your design. Ink your stamp and press the design onto the chipboard. If you wish for your chipboard to have a background beyond the stamp, add the background before stamping.
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Paint the chipboard. Paint your chipboard using acrylic paints. You can choose to paint your chipboard one solid color or add faux or dimensional paints.
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Use rub-on embellishments to place intricate designs on your chipboard. Rub-ons are much like stickers in that they adhere to the paper surface to which you apply them. However, because you apply the rub-ons by burnishing the design with a ice cream pop stick, the background looks transparent unlike most stickers. Use rub-ons to add intricate wording or designs to your chipboard shapes.
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Glue three-dimensional embellishments onto your chipboard shapes. Flat-backed buttons, usually manufactured for paper crafting and scrapbooking, make excellent additions to your chipboard shapes. As well as flat-backed buttons, you can add three-dimensional additives such as paper flowers, tinsel and other dimensional embellishments to the chipboard to give it more pizazz.
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Cover the chipboard with glitter. Using fine glitter, apply a light coat of glue to your chipboard shape. Place the chipboard on a craft tray or surface that you can later lift in order to return excess glitter to its container. Once you have applied the glue to the chipboard, dust the chipboard with your glitter. After the glitter has dried, you can add another coat of glue to seal the glitter or use a three-dimensional glue to give it a glass-like coating.
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