Quick Tip for the Perfect Paper

I keep quite a store of paper and cardstock on hand, but this weekend as I was trying to make a card, I actually found I didn't have the right paper!  This is the card and here's my tip:

 

I was looking for a background paper for this card with baby blue and a very muted pattern.  All I found in my stash was a very beige and medium blue damask print.  It was close, but really took away from the ribbon flower, and the flower is the star of this card.  So, Prima Chalk Ink to the rescue!  I daubed white chalk ink over the whole background paper and voila! the perfect piece. 

Playing with Prima Chalk Inks

Recently, I was lucky enough to win a huge set of Prima Chalk Ink Edgers. 

They are wonderful.  I have a couple of others from another company and they are terrible in comparison.  I've been working with the inkers and looking online for ideas and here's a few things I've created:
 I simply edged the sentiment card to make it stand out.

This one has the inking on the edges of the tissue paper flower.

  For a little interest, I dragged the inker across the sentiment card while blocking the sentiment itself.

Here I cut some flower shapes on my Pazzles Inspiration and colored the whole shape with the inkers, then shaded and edged the flowers with red.

 

 

This card originally had rainboots and a puddle, but while looking for cards to ink, I thought up a new design.  I had seen clouds done like this online and had to try it.

 

And finally, my favorite!  Using a Pazzles Library file for the rose, I cut out the background as well as all the pieces of the rose.  Then I went to town with the inkers.  There are 3 colors for each rose petal and well as the leaves.  And I didn't have a matching ribbon, so I inked one!  It turned out wonderful and I'm very happy with the result.  I'll be looking for more cards to ink!