I know it’s Wednesday, but we had a bit of an emergency in the house last night so I couldn’t do this until today.
Start with a plain piece of chipboard, as before.

Using sandpaper or a sanding block, sand the edges down so all the nubbies are removed. Pick your colour of Craft (pigment) ink. I used Chocolate Chip for my star.
You need to use Pigment ink rather than dye ink as the colour will be more rich and permanent. It’s really important to get good, even coverage and you can’t do that without using a pigment ink.
Pick up your chipboard and swipe your piece against the ink pad. I’m right handed, so I used my left hand to hold the star, and my right hand to swipe the ink pad against the star.

When you’ve got most of the chipboard covered, use your heat gun to dry it. You can tell when it’s dry when the chipboard almost resembles suede.

Holding the now-dried portions of your chipboard, apply ink to the remaining sections, and dry as before.
The edges of your chipboard will still be a regular chipboard (grayish) colour. I used my chocolate chip stampin’ write marker to colour in the edges. Because it isn’t the face of the star I’m not too concerned about the even-ness of my coverage- I just wanted to hide the original chipboard colour.

I’m in the process of making gifts for a special day to celebrate special people. After the event itself I’ll post a picture of my finished project. To add some visual interest to my star I used a white Rub-On star from Stampin’ Up! It really adds to my star, don’t you think?

Other uses for Chipboard include ornaments for a Christmas tree, special keepsake gift tags for a pretty paper gift bag, wrapped present, or other gift, keepsakes for wedding guests, decorative garland, hanging mobiles, picture frames, scrapbook page embellishments, etc. If you’ve done something with chipboard please email me a sample picture, so I can post it here and give you some credit!
Have a great week!
Stacy