"A Wonderful Summer Day" by Amy Voorthuis

Goodmorning creative 2Crafty friends, 

Hope you all had a lovely Christmas I sure did. I am going through my summer pictures and I saw this picture of Abbey that I had to scrap. For this layout I have used several of my most favorite 2Crafty chipboard pieces and the "Sapphire Days" paper collection.

A Wonderful Summer Day: 

2Crafty Chipboards used: 
What a Wonderful Day
6" Circle Revolution Frames
Line Words - Summer Borders 
Hinges pack 

All the chipboard pieces are treated with two layers of embossing powders (some with different colors) after they where first treated with two layers of white gesso. On the hinges I added pearle drops in the end. 

Thank you so much for your visit today and if you would like to see more of my work please visit here:

Amy's Pretty Papers

Much love and happy crafting...

October Shares with Beck Beattie

"Best Birthday"

Hi, it's Beck Beattie here with my October inspiration shares.  I decided this month I would focus on some different products you could use to easily colour  up your chipboard pieces.  Both of these products (one used on each layout) are often my go  to when I want to add a little colour mostly because I have the most amount of different colours.  

For this first layout I decided on using Gloss Enamel paint.  I love how easily it coats the
 chipboard, adds a little gloss and also dries rather quickly for paint.  I used these three
colours on the different chipboard pieces.

Sometimes when I want to achieve a brighter colour on the chipboard I will apply a coat

 of gesso first to give it a white base.  I decided upon doing this with the title and also the red arrows.

I also used Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft Gelatos and Tinby Designs Metallic Melts 

in my background to contrast the strong colour of the chipboard pieces.

   2Crafty Chipboards Used:

Mini Fast Forward Arrows   Square Collage Pane Birthday Sentiments  

   

  

"Live Laugh Love"

For my second layout, I focused on the use of Copic Markers to colour up my pieces. 

I didn't use any priming such as gesso as a base on any of them and I was quite pleased 

with how the colours came up.  Sometimes in the past I have used Gesso for a brighter

 look with some of the lighter colour markers.

These are the Copic Colours I used:

The "Live Laugh Love" word comes up so nice with the orange marker against the other colours.  

  It was SO easy to colour up the Interlocking Grid panel with the marker. 

 I used the wedge tip end when colouring up each of the pieces. 

I used the black for the circle as I wanted to create some added depth but not take

 away from the title.  Just love how it came!

Layering up the pieces really takes focus to the photo.  

I co-ordinated the coloured chipboard with watercolours and stencilling in my background

 as well as some background stamping.

2Crafty Chipboards Used:

 6 inch Circle Revolution frames Interlocking Grid Frame Live Laugh Love words

  

 

I hope you enjoyed my share this month on the 2Crafty blog!
Happy Crafting xxx Beck BT