If you just started getting involved in technologyscrapbooking or have not yet studied the names of all materials and tools, then, most likely, do not understand the meaning of the word "chipboard." What it is, how it is used, you can learn further. Postcards, albums and other souvenirs will be much more effective if you decorate them with such elements. You can buy or make them yourself. Despite the fact that the assortment of store options is large, you will make an exclusive thing yourself.
Chipboard: what is it
This name is understood as a special cardboard,Used for performing decorative relief workpieces for scrapbooking, and these details themselves. They can be executed in the form of text, pattern, hearts, colors, complex compositions. The thickness of such a blank is also different. In fact, it is a carved out silhouette of an object of simple or complex shape. The following illustration shows the purchased chipboard. What is it, you already understood, but most likely you asked yourself how to make such a piece yourself, because you can not always buy such a detail as you need. Especially because the exclusive decor looks much more impressive than the factory one, stamped according to one template.
In fact, it is possible to make a stencil in the form of letters or any other object at home. Nothing complicated. The main thing is to understand the technology and be patient.
Tools and materials for work
To make a chipboard with your own hands, you will need the following:
- a sheet of paper for printing a drawing;
- tracing paper, in order to translate the template onto cardboard;
- a sheet of cardboard of the thickness you need;
- a simple pencil;
- Scotch tape (paint or plain);
- sharp knife;
- a solid substrate on which you will cut (special tablet, board);
- Sandpaper (skins) for processing irregularities along the edges of the workpiece.
As you can see, nothing special or expensive is needed. All, most likely, is already at hand.
Chipboard for scrapbooking with your own hands
To make an element in the form of text, ornament, or other object, work like this:
- Find a suitable version of the outline image or create it in the image editor.
- Print the picture on the sheet.
- Now the image needs to be transferred to the cardboard.Depending on the complexity of the object, choose the method of further work. If the contour is simple and you make one object, cut out the pattern and circle on the cardboard.
- If you have printed the words that you needkeep the distance between the letters, a complex ornament, then use the tracing-paper. Place the sheet on the template and circle it with a simple pencil. To avoid accidental tracing, it is better to fix it on the basis of tape.
- When the repainting is complete, remove the tracing paper from the stencil and circle the drawing on the back of the tracing paper.
- Put the tracing paper on the cardboard. Reinstall it again.
- Circle the drawing again. Graphite on the back side is printed on cardboard.
- If the contours are visible very poorly, circle the pattern on the cardboard once more sharply, so that later you do not have to strain your eyesight very much.
- Begin to cut the parts along the contour with a sharp knife. The usual mock office clerical version will do.
- When all the elements are cut, treat the edges of the workpieces and the side pieces with sandpaper if necessary.
How to decorate a chipboard
In some jewelry, performed by technologyscrapbooking, chipboards are used unprocessed, but are most often used as a base. Cut out a pattern or letters can be painted in one color with several smooth transitions, create the effect of peeling paint particles by applying paraffin on these areas and then re-painting, craquelure, create a relief surface, apply glitter, micro-beads.
So, you met a new concept for yourself- chipboard. What is it and how to use it - you know. Now it's time to start practicing: to buy suitable blanks or to make them yourself and actively use them to decorate works in the scrapbooking technique.
