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Post by dewryce on Mar 21, 2024 22:48:27 GMT
I’m slowly going through my craft supplies, for the millionth time, and trying to declutter what I don’t love. I have quite a bit of these, but am not sure about using them in scrapbooking. How do you color them? I have a ton of acrylic paint, but I’m not sure that’s safe. It’ll be fine for those I’d use on cards. And it takes way too much ink and the colors are muddy when I try and use my ink pads.
Should they stay or should they go?
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Post by christinec68 on Mar 21, 2024 23:47:05 GMT
I say the chipboard can go. I regret every singe piece of unpainted chipboard I purchased. I tried painting, stamping, covering with patterned paper...it all looked awful. I never worked with grungeboard to say with any certainty but my instinct says that should go too.
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Post by Linda on Mar 22, 2024 0:41:41 GMT
I say the chipboard can go. I regret every singe piece of unpainted chipboard I purchased. I tried painting, stamping, covering with patterned paper...it all looked awful. I never worked with grungeboard to say with any certainty but my instinct says that should go too. sitting on this bench also |
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Post by kmage on Mar 22, 2024 2:13:54 GMT
I donated over 50 dollars worth of TH grungeboard to my local thrift store about 5 years ago and never looked back. I never liked anything I did with it, and it just never worked for anything I wanted to do.
Edited to add that may have been one of my bigger purchases I ever got rid of. When TH came out with stuff I jumped on the bandwagon right away...I have now learned my lesson. I still like stuff but I wait a while.
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Post by artisticscrapper on Mar 22, 2024 3:56:10 GMT
I liked the idea of grunge board but it stank. Literally. I ended up tossing it because of the kind of chemical smell.
I painted chipboard with acrylic paint. No problems but it didn’t look that nice. And I tried covering it with patterned paper and that was a mess. That didn’t survive a long ago purge.
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Post by dewryce on Mar 22, 2024 6:38:40 GMT
Thanks for you perspective ladies! While I was hoping there was a brilliant, easy way to make it look great I was afraid this is where I’d end up. Ah well. Out it goes!
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Post by hop2 on Mar 22, 2024 12:20:31 GMT
The only way is if you’re really good at decoupaging it.
Although, for smaller pieces I’ve seen people put them on embossing ink & them embossing powder and that comes out pretty solid if you use enough embossing powder. I haven’t don’t it yet because I just done know if I want to use that much embossing powder.
Anyway, if you don’t enjoy using them then out they go. This is one place where does it bring you joy is highly applicable.
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Post by mikklynn on Mar 22, 2024 13:04:36 GMT
I donated all my chipboard. I never could make it look good.
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Post by babylou on Mar 22, 2024 13:12:14 GMT
Personally, I like using it in it's natural state. Of course that won't work on every layout, but for some it does. I do a lot of man/masculine pages and it fits there. I mostly use letters and words. It might not work as well with shapes either.
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Post by infochick on Mar 22, 2024 14:42:07 GMT
I've used it with the embossing powder and I have been happy with the results but it is quite time consuming. I have successfully covered it with patterned paper, but only when I am cutting a shape out with a Big Shot where I can cut the pattern paper to the same size where it matches exactly. I've then inked the edges and covered it with glossy accents. I was really pleased with the results. I have some TH Sizzix alphabet dies, and this is pretty much the only way I have used them.
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Post by mcjunkin on Mar 22, 2024 14:44:11 GMT
You might can sell your grunge board on a Tim Holtz product buy/sell page. It is no longer available and sells pretty quickly, IIRC.
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Post by susancinpa on Mar 22, 2024 21:53:09 GMT
It has been a little while since I pulled out any of my bare chipboard. I used to paint it and then stamp on it and I even had some that I added rub-ons to. I did like the look of it with acrylic paint. My most recent uses was using glimmer mist and other mists on it. That doesn't always give full coverage, but depending on the layout, I like the look it gives.
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Post by scrapnnana on Mar 23, 2024 0:13:26 GMT
Chipboard can be painted. My DD made a cute Mother’s Day mini album for me with chipboard, paint, and paper.
Or you can cover the chipboard with patterned paper. That is what I prefer to do.
Or pitch it. It was a fad. I don’t use chipboard on my layouts.
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Post by cbscrapper on Mar 23, 2024 22:58:05 GMT
Nuvo mousse works well on raw chipboard.
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Post by wordfish on Mar 24, 2024 20:20:14 GMT
I am a huge fan of grungeboard--just the sheets of it, not the stuff that is cut into shapes. I used it to make handmade scrapbook minibooks. It's the best thing for the binding for a certain kind of book. I was super happy to come across a little of it when I was cleaning out my scrap stuff.
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Post by dewryce on Mar 26, 2024 18:33:17 GMT
The only way is if you’re really good at decoupaging it. Although, for smaller pieces I’ve seen people put them on embossing ink & them embossing powder and that comes out pretty solid if you use enough embossing powder. I haven’t don’t it yet because I just done know if I want to use that much embossing powder. Anyway, if you don’t enjoy using them then out they go. This is one place where does it bring you joy is highly applicable. Yeah, it used a ton of ink when I tried it, and still didn’t give full coverage. I imagine it would use a lot of versamark ink and powder and I don’t have that much to begin with. I’ll probably try it on a small one to see if there might be some favorites that I want to save and do that with. Thank you mcjunkin I will look into that. |
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Post by papersilly on Mar 27, 2024 22:02:59 GMT
i never got the hang of using them. recently i bought a bunch of TH stuff on FB marketplace and the seller threw in 150+ new sheets of grungeboard from different collections. i tried to tell her i wouldn't be able to use them but she made me take them in anyway. i will have to rehome them.
i got rid of my bare chipboard shapes from Maya Road years ago. they came in those cute lunch pail tins. well, i got rid of the chipboard but kept all the tins. those were far more useful.
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Post by karinec on Mar 29, 2024 3:58:29 GMT
I threw my grungeboard away over 5 years ago and forgot all about it until now.
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Post by steakgoddess on Mar 29, 2024 4:08:59 GMT
I liked the idea of grunge board but it stank. Literally. I ended up tossing it because of the kind of chemical smell. I painted chipboard with acrylic paint. No problems but it didn’t look that nice. And I tried covering it with patterned paper and that was a mess. That didn’t survive a long ago purge. I love the smell of grungeboard. I still have some and sniff it when I use it. know it’s weird. Copics. Paint. Embossing. Glazes. All those things I use on chipboard and grunge board. |
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Post by marg on Mar 29, 2024 12:39:24 GMT
I got rid of so much raw chipboard a few years ago. Buying it was such a mistake, I could never make it look good, either. I just came across some TH grungeboard alphabets that i still have deep in a drawer in my scrap room and I'm not sure what to do with them. On the one hand, alphas are always handy, on the other hand, it's grungeboard. I've never used FB marketplace before but maybe that's my best bet.
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