A Gift for Someone Special – Create a Chipboard Pendant with StazOn

by Lori Warren

This mixed media project is a great example of how you can use different inks and mediums to create a piece full of texture and color. It’s a step by step layering technique to add depth and interest to mixed media artwork.

Skill: Intermediate
Time: 30 minutes

Directions

Written Instructions:

Cut chipboard into a pendant shape and punch a hole at the top. Place a piece of paper under the book cover to protect the pages below.
Cover the front and back of the chipboard piece with white gesso.
Cover the front and back of chipboard piece with white gesso.
Stamp chipboard pendant with VersaFine CLAIR.
Cover pendant with a stencil and apply Creative Artist Medium – Clear.
Stamp brush onto watercolor paper with StazOn Pigment Ink – Piano Black.
Add color to the tip of a brush with StazOn Pigment –Peacock Feathers.
Sponge StazOn Pigment onto Pendant to highlight stencil pattern. Adhere stamp brush image.
Highlight elements of the pendant with ALL PURPOSE INK – Frost White (using a Doodlestix)
Apply splatters in ALL PURPOSE INK – Tropical Lagoon.
Cover element with GlazOn – Slight Gloss Finish.
Add MBOSS Powder to pendant while GlazOn is still wet. Heat set. Round corners of the pendant.
Edge pendant with StazOn Pigment Ink – Piano Black.
Adhere sticker saying.
Use the Waffle Flower – Clear Dies and Combo Swatch Tag Die to record color scheme for this project.