Thinking about "Thickers"

Recently while working on a mini album, American Crafts Thickers chipboard letter stickers were the perfect size for the project. Unfortunately the black ones we had didn't match the chosen pink and green color scheme! We decided to try an idea noted in a Creating Keepsakes magazine article by Jennifer McGuire. She suggested peeling off the top layer of manufactured chipboard accents, then changing their color. We started with these chipboard Thickers:

Once added to the mini album, the top layers were carefully peeled off:

Next, a paint dauber was used to paint the exposed chipboard white (Dauber= No mess!) : Once the paint dried, we covered each letter with pink Stickles glitter glue.
Then spread the glitter evenly across each letter and any other matching accents such as the white photo corner:

Take a look at the finished product and imagine it with the original color vs. the altered one:
So much fun we also used it for our album cover!
For some other pages of the mini-album, we had these foam Thickers in white. For this title, chalks were used to tint them light green to match the background paper.

This time, we tinted the white foam Thickers with pink ink, then added pink Stickles glitter. Fun! Hope you'll give some of these techniques a try next time you use your Thickers! Stop back soon to see more techniques from this fun key mini album as well as the completed project.