Everything Papercraft - Chipboard

Chipboard is a wonderfully versatile product that is very popular in paper-crafting. It's basically compressed, unbleached paper pulp that is coated, coloured or shaped to make embellishments and alphabet pieces for scrapbooking, card-making and other paper based crafts. It can be cut with scissors or blades, coloured with paints, inks and dyes, stamped, embossed, stitched or textured.

Some uses for chipboard:

• Cover chipboard pieces in glue and place tissue paper on top. Allow the tissue paper to wrinkle and let dry. Apply another coat of glue and tissue paper and when dry, trim edges and paint with chosen colour. After the paint has dried you can rub over with gold or any metallic finish to bring up the texture.
• Another method is to paint with an opaque colour and when dry, stamp part images on top.
• Bring out your crackle paints, memory mist or dye inks and let the colours soak into the chipboard.
• Press the chipboard into a clear Versamark stamp pad and apply embossing powder. Heat for a beautiful shiny finish.