March Inspiration With TUTORIAL by Marianne Johansson

"Always Follow Your Dreams"

Hi everyone!

Today I have canvas with a small tutorial to show you.

First I want to show some steps how this canvas was made:

I started with a gessoed canvas (size 18x24cm) and used heavy gel medium to
glue chippies on the canvas.

Some are whole pieces of chipboard and some are leftovers from other projects.

Used a lot of gel medium.

When all was dry I painted the whole piece with black gesso

Here is the canvas almost dry.

Next, after the black gesso was completely dry I used a stencil and
 light molding paste to get even more structure on the canvas.

After another round with black gesso (to cover the light molding paste) I used some
 mica powder mixed with gel medium on the butterfly and the circle.

After drying I did some dry brushing with white gesso.

Embellishments as flowers, buttons and metal was glued on the canvas with gel medium too.

Next I covered it all with black gesso again

For the title I first used white gesso and next white crackle paint

To finish off the canvas I played some more with white gesso and drybrushing.
I also used some Inka Gold , more mica powder and Dylusions spray.

Look how cool the chippies are with the black gesso and dry brushed white gesso:

Here you can see the title with the crackle paint and some turquoise mist on top.

The tiny splashes are white watercolor and turquoise ink.

2Crafty Chipboards used:

Climbing Rose Bush

Delicate butterflies

Art Deco border

Circle revolution frames (inside)

  

"Hey you"

Next thing I want to show today is the layout made for CSI Case file no195.

So fun to play with the case!

The photo this time is again from London and from one of many shoppingd days.

This time I have used mostly ink pad to color my chippies, in the colors requested in the case file 195

I chose to cut the Film Strip in one part and layer on top of the photo

Part of the "testimony", "write as a dialogue"

And you see part of the beautiful Handdrawn Feathers on top

Lots of layers under the photo

The Word Bubbles were perfect for my page

Love how the Handdrawn Feathers look together with the flowers

2Crafty Chipboards used:

Handdrawn feathers

Film Strip

Word bubbles

  

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January Inspiration By Marianne Johansson

"Enjoy Today"

Hi and happy New Year to you all!

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My first post this year is with two layouts, still using photos from our trip to London.

Took a lot of photos so there is plenty to play with.

Here is our two girls with lots of bags after a long day with shopping. 

(don't know who were the most exhausted, they or us LOL)

Found the perfect title for this one.

In fact, 2Crafty Chipboards has titles for every occasion so it's not hard to find something suitable.

Loved this large chippie and placed it partly under the photo in layers.

These small words from the different sets are awesome as "embellishments".

My chippies this time are coloured with an ink pad and some splashes
 with gesso and white watercolor.

Stamps and stencils on the background (as usual from me) making a fun background.

2Crafty chipboards used:

Art Deco Border

Word circle set2

Cartia's swirl

Enjoy Today mini title

  

  

"Fun Times"

On this layout I have used a photo from one of the many underground escalators.

 Wow the were steep sometimes.

My chippies this time is colored with black ink pad, to match the background paper

The "bricks" are just awesome and so easy to use when you cut them in pieces

I really love the sheets with words and I use them a lot

Here I also used an arrow from the arrow set.

Brick panel in layers - really cool!

Background is filled with mist and stencils to give some extra dimension

2Crafty chipbaords used:

Fun times title

Brick panel

assorted arrows

word disc travel

  

  

Hope you liked my layouts and got some inspiration to play with the gorgeous 2Crafty Chipboard.

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