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Supplies Needed:
- card stock (Neenah white used here)
- ink (Ranger chalk ink in cobalt used here -very similar to Fluid Chalk French Blue)
- Scor-It, Score Pal or bone folder and ruler
- cosmetic or similar sponge
- lt gray marker (Tombow used here)
- stamp (ODBD Brocade Background used here)
- scrap copy paper for a mask
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Step 1:
You may make your tile background any size by adjusting the dimensions of the score lines. For mine, I used a 5 x 3.75 inch piece and scored all the horizontal lines at 1.25 inch intervals. The vertical scores are 1 5/8, 1 3/4 and 1 5/8 as shown above. Score all lines all the way across and down so your card stock should look like the picture below.
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Step 2:
Turn your scored card stock over so that all scored lines are now indented. Ink your image and stamp onto the card stock.
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Your stamped card stock should be well on its way to looking like tile. Note the indented score lines mimic grout lines by preventing the image from stamping into them.
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Step 3:
Cut a square inside corner in a piece of copy paper to use as a mask. Place the mask as shown and ink your cosmetic sponge with the same ink you used to stamp the image.
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Move the mask around the corners as you go until all “tile” edges are lightly sponged.
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Step 4:
Use the light gray marker just at the very edges of each tile corner. This completes the “tile” appearance and adds depth to your tiles.
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You can stop now or continue to add shading all the way around your “tiles”. The one sided shading is more of a light direction appearance while shading all around would be more of a head on light source.
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