December Layouts by Debbi Tehrani -- A Fond Farewell

Greetings, 2Crafty Fans! Today I share with you my final post as a member of the 2Crafty design team. I've been a part of this team of amazing crafters for two years, and life has gotten very busy for me this year, so I thought I'd pass my spot on to someone new. It's been a wonderful ride, and I thank Vanessa for the opportunity to create layouts with her beautiful chipboard. 

"2Crafty"

I've got an album I call "Pursuit of Scrappiness," and this is a page I created to document my time on the 2Crafty design team. 

I've been waiting for the perfect opportunity to use this piece from the  "Vintage Hot Air Balloons" pack, which comes with three different sizes. I painted the balloon with green and purple Twinkling H2O's to match the 2Crafty blog colors. I decorated this lovely piece some rhinestones and pearls and added some flowers. I used leaves from the "11" Viney Page Frame." I added a swirly bit from "Leafy Shrub Set 1" that I had left over from another page. I coated these leaves with a black brush marker

The arrow show above is from the "Crazy Arrows" set, which is also painted with the purple Twinkling H2O's. I was able to get this lovely shimmery color by painting directly onto the raw chipboard. The word "journey" is from the "Mini Travel Word Set 1."

This cloud came in the "Weather Bits" pack, which has an assortment of elements. I coated it with texture paste mixed with white acrylic paint to give it a puffy look. The chipboard butterflies on my page are from "Sharon's Butterflies." This sheet comes with 8 butterflies in assorted sizes. The letters spelling out 2Crafty are from the "Alpha Set 1," and I used the black brush marker to color these.

I used a frame from "Polaroid Assortment Frames" to add another layer beneath my photo and covered it with patterned paper.

2Crafty Products used on this page:

Vintage Hot Air Balloons

Viney Page Frame

Leafy Shrub Set 1

Crazy Arrows

Mini Travel Word Set 1

Weather Bits

Sharon's Butterflies

Alpha Set 1

Polaroid Assortment Frames

"Believe"

This is my best friend's granddaughter with Santa last year. 2Crafty has so many lovely Christmas pieces, and I found a few that were perfect for the vintage feel I wanted for my page.

I coated this "Mini Reindeer" with gold embossing powder to give a sparkly bit of magic. I tucked a lovely border form the "Lacy Border Set 1" behind a layer at the top and coated it with a shimmery white/gold embossing powder.

This circle, which I coated with the same white/gold embossing powder, is actually a piece separating the clocks in the "6" Clock Face Frames." Always save those leftover bits and negative pieces because you never know when they might just come in handy. The word "Believe," also coated in gold Zing embossing powder" is from the "Christmas Mini Word Set 2."

How gorgeous is this "Holly Flourish" as the star of the page? I painted it with Twinkling H2O's for a shimmer and then colored the berries with a red brush pen.

2Crafty Products used on this page:

Mini Reindeers

Lacy Border Set 1

6" Clock Face Frames

Christmas Mini Word Set 2

Holly Flourish

Thank you for sharing this journey with me. I will surely miss being a part of this awesome team, but I look forward to visiting this blog and seeing what the new and returning designers will create with the beautiful 2Crafty Chipboard.

Farewell and a very Merry Christmas to everyone!

November layouts by Debbi Tehrani

"Selfie Monsters"

Two summers ago, my friend Tracee visited me from across the ocean, and I had bought a selfie stick so we could capture our memories together. We were trying to work out how to use it and got a few wacky accidental pictures, like the ones pictured above. I thought these pictures would be perfect for one of our October Case Files at CSI: Color, Stories, Inspiration, which featured monsters. 2Crafty sponsored CSI in October.

When I looked at the clues in the Case File, I realized I had lots of different 2Crafty pieces I could use, specifically the speech bubbles, monsters, stars, and punctuation marks.

I adore the 2Crafty "Monsters!" I treated this little guy with gesso first and then used watercolor to paint him so that he'd have a sort of ombre look. The paint wasn't drying, so I added clear embossing powder, which gave him a cool bubbly texture. I created the sign out of the rectangle insides from "Polaroid Assortment Frames." Never throw those negatives away--you never know when they'll come in handy! I sprinkled some little stars coated with silver embossing powder about the layout. These stars are from the "ATC Tiny Hearts & Stars" sheet.

How cool are these "Interlocking Grid Panels" that I used in the background? I had coated them with gesso thinking I might pain them but decided to leave them white. I started to sand off the excess  gesso that had dried when it stuck to to the plastic on which I painted the panels, and then decided it sort of looked cool--like monster goo, so I left it. I colored the title from the "Selfies Word Pack" with red stamp ink. The cool gears, which I embossed with platinum metallic powder" are from the "Gears" set.

That cute little camera is from the "Asst Mini Camera Set." I covered it with teal paper to match the papers I used in my layering and then found this fun skull clipart online to add on top of the camera lens (skull was one of the Case File clues). That cool speech bubble is from the "Word Bubbles" set, which six different pieces. I backed it with black paper, painted the middle red and topped it with some patterned paper. The googly eye was a fun, monstery addition inside the letter O.

The question mark, which I covered with patterned paper, is from the "Punctuation" set. 

2Crafty Products used on this layout:

Selfies Word Pack

Word Bubbles

Gears

Monsters

Asst Mini Camera Set

ATC Tiny Hearts & Stars

Punctuation

Interlocking Grid Panel

Polaroid Assortment Frames

"Beautiful You"

I wanted to create a lovely, girly layout for my friend using these darling photos of her daughter, and 2Crafty has so many beautiful pieces.

I just love the "Pointy Doily Frames," and I used them as a starting point for my layout design. There are two in the set, and I managed to use just one by cutting a piece of it for the bottom and using the rest of it layered behind the photos. I coated it with gesso for a soft, shabby look and added some rhinestones for a bit of sparkle. How beautiful is the "Climbing Rose Bush" piece? Since I scrap 8 x 8, there's no way I could fit the entire border on my page, so I cut one rose from it and tucked it behind some flowers. I painted the leaves green with watercolor and embossed the rose with gold embossing powder. I also used the gold embossing powder on the "Butterflies."

I just love the loopy font 2Crafty uses for many of their titles. I used the "You, Loopy Font" and painted it with green watercolors, which I mixed to match the leaves from the patterned paper I fussy cut. As a finishing touch, I used the remaining piece of the "Pointed Doily Frame" to highlight the year, from the sheet of "2016's."

2Crafty Products used on this layout:

Pointed Doily Frames

2016's

You, Loopy Font

Climbing Rose Bush

Butterflies

"Cute"

I'd like to share an extra layout I created for Stuck?! Sketches, which features 2Crafty's "6" Circle Revolution Frames." They were just perfect for the circles in the sketch:

2Crafty Products used on this layout:

6" Circle Revolution Frames

Thank you so much for stopping by today! I hope I've given you some ideas for using the awesome 2Crafty chipboard pieces.

October CSI/2Crafty Collaboration Layouts by Debbi Tehrani (and a process video)

Hi, 2Crafty Fans! I'm very excited that 2Crafty is sponsoring CSI: Color, Stories, Inspiration this month. October being the month of Halloween in the United States, I decided monsters would be our theme tying together our Case Files. I hope you'll come play with us for a chance to win some awesome 2Crafty chipboard! I used this Case File for my first layout. This challenge is open for the entire month of October. 

Monster Munch

That's my friends little girl in these photos. She is quite a character, and I thought the pictures would go perfect with the colors of the Case File, and I was so lucky there were four of them to go with the sketch in the challenge.

For those of you who have never played with us at CSI, the Case File might look complicated, but trust me, it's not! I made a short process video explaining how to play with our challenges and talked about the decisions I made when I created my page.

In my video, I shared how I treated each piece of chipboard, but I will identify which pieces I used in each photo below the pictures.

My title was created with "Alpha Set 1." The antenna on the "o" is cut from "Heidi's Vines." The cloud is from "Mini Weather Icons."

The monster is from the "Blobbles" set. I also used pieces from "Triangles Set" in the picture above.

The bird is from the "Cutesy Birds" pack. Its wing is from "ATC Tiny Hearts and Stars" and it's standing on a bone from the "Barnyard Animals" pack.

Pictured above is the word "enjoy" from "Card Word Set 2" sitting atop an arrow from "Asst Arrows." Beneath the photo cluster, I used an "Apron Lace" border.

2Crafty Products used on this layout:

Alpha Set 1

Triangle Set

Blobbles

Mini Weather Icons

Asst Arrows

ATC Tiny Hearts & Stars

Card Word Set 2

Barnyard Animals

Cutesy Birds

Apron Lace

Heidi's Vines

 

For my second layout, I used another CSI Case File:

Make Believe

I'm telling you, my girlfriend's daughter is an endless source of amusement and inspiration. She's sporting a princess outfit and a Star Wars Chewbaca mask. And, no, it wasn't Halloween.  I wanted to create a princess-y yet playful scene, and I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to use some of those 2Crafty flourishes in my stash. In addition to the flourish clues in the Case File, I also found feathers, geotags, and leaves in my 2Crafty stash. I did manage to use all of the clues on my layout.

The feathers were trimmed off of a "Dreamcatcher." I wanted to use the whole dreamcatcher, but I couldn't make it fit on my 8 x 8 page with all the other elements I wanted to use. I painted them with lavender and green Twinkling H2O's.

Thea chipboard leaves, from "Foliage Set 1" were painted with green Twinkling H2O's. I used two different colors to get the teal colors on the chipboard. I decided to turn the circular, flourishy "Yvette's Frame" and "Geotags" into monsters! I had a piece of the "Lacy Border" leftover from another layout, so I added that to the top.

The title came from the "Xmas Mini Word Pack."

I added a lavender painted heart from "ATC Tiny Hearts & Stars" for added initerest.

2Crafty Products used on this layout:

Dreamcatchers

Foliage Set 1

Yvette's Frame

Geotags

ATC Tiny Hearts and Stars

Xmas Mini Word Pack

Lacey Border Set 1

Thank you so much for stopping by today! I hope you'll give the CSI Case Files a try,
 and I hope I've given you some ideas for using the awesome 2Crafty chipboard pieces.

September Layouts by Debbi Tehrani

This Is the Good Life

This is a photo of my husband's nieces and nephew-in-law. I love the modern look of the snapshot, and I wanted to create a layout that would have a trendy, graphic feel. 2Crafty had the perfect chipboard pieces to achieve this.

I used black stamp ink to color the "This Is the Good Life" title. I just love the 2Crafty "Triangle Set." This sheet of triangles comes in a whole bunch of small, medium, and large triangles. I covered my triangles with patterned paper. I left the "Geotag" raw.

How fun are these circle borders from the "Dotty Bits" set? I originally painted them black, but I didn't like the way they looked, so I flipped them over and left them raw.

2Crafty Products used on this layout:

This Is the Good Life

Geotags

Triangle Set

Dotty Bits

Enjoy

This is my sweet little devil cat, Minnie Cupcake. She is always getting into trouble. She especially likes to chew flowers and leaves off of plants and trees--both real and artificial--in my house. She looks so adorable sitting beside my birthday flowers. In the first picture, it looks like she's smelling the flowers, but she's actually trying to eat them. I thought she looked almost like she was posing for a portrait, so I wanted my page to look like a painting. 

I always like my pages to tell a story, and the word "enjoy" from "Mini Word Set 1" fit the bill because eating flowers is one Minnie Cupcake's favorite things to enjoy. I wanted it to look like an extension of the flourish, so I glued it right next to the swirl. I treated these pieces with different shades of watercolor painted over gesso. The paint wasn't drying, and I was impatient to get on with my layout, so I applied embossing powder. I love the uneven, textured look that resulted.

I painted the lovely border form "Lacy Border Set 1" with gesso and tucked it behind the torn paper. The butterfly tucked behind the roses is from "Addy's Butterflies."

I tucked another flourish, from the "Mini Flourish Bits" set behind the photo mat. I also used the same technique on this flourish as with the other one. To color the "Marianne's Butterfly," I mixed a bunch of different shades of watercolor paint to get a color that would match my papers. The lacy flower at the top is from "Gigi's Flowers." I left this painted with just gesso.

2Crafty Products used on this layout:

Mini Word Set 1

Mini Flourish Bits

Lacy Border Set 1

Marianne's Butterflies

Addy's Butterflies

Gigi's Flowers.

Thank you so much for stopping by to look at my pages. 

I hope I've given you some ideas for using the awesome 2Crafty chipboard!