Hi everyone, I made some chalkboard Christmas tags recently and love the technique so much I thought I’d make a chalkboard tutorial using one of Lori’s vinyl phrases and a Christmas card.

I used Lori’s Merry Christmas with Tree card and the Believe in the Magic of Christmas Vinyl.  These phrases for vinyl are just perfect for this chalkboard technique, it’s a quick and simple project.

First add your card and phrase to your mat.

I ungrouped the card and assembled how the card would look.

I disregarded the banners and made the tree a little bigger, you could keep the banners but I wanted the chalkboard text to really be the focal point.

Line up the gray, red and black layers so they are aligned together at the top.

Resize the vinyl text and place it over the black layer.

It’s short so I selected the gray, red and black layers and resized them so the text would have the same black border going around.

You can see in this photo how the vinyl is pretty even against the black layer now.

This next part I had seen someone from Silhouette do in a video.

I really like how it adds a shadow to the text.

Make a copy of the vinyl, select the background one and go to the advanced under the Fill Color Window.

Slide the transparency, I used around  42%.

Center both vinyl pieces and the black layer all together.

Select only the top vinyl layer and move it with your arrow key down three and over to the left three.

Or you can go up and over to the right, whatever your preference is.

There’s your shadow, now group your two vinyl layers and black pieces together.

Move the rest of the card off the mat.

Select the grouped text, go to the Cut Style Window and select Cut Edge.

It should look like the picture above, you only want it to cut around the black.

Now your ready to print n cut.

Under the Registration Mark window check Show Reg Marks.

Under Paper Tools Window select your paper size, I customized mine to save paper.

Take a piece of chalk and go over the whole piece.

Or you can leave more black if you’d like and not as much chalk.

Take a paper towel and removed the excess chalk.

You can keep adding and removing until you get it how you like.

Last I inked the edges with some black ink.

Well I hope you get a chance to use this tutorial to create some chalkboard projects, it really is a lot of fun!

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