"One Love One Dream One Heart" by Marie Sabatier

I'm back with a second inspiration for February. A page in color.

I chose this photo of my beautiful daughter and grand-daughter Mia, taken 

during a photo shoot taken a few days after the birth of my little grand-daughter.

 Immortalized these wonderful moments

2Crafty Chipboard used :

- Word title - one love title

-  Ava's frame

- Corner Gemma

Some close-ups...

For this page I worked the chipoboards in the same way.

I applied a coat of white gesso, then I inked color "Queen of hearts red" 

and then I added gold-colored wax.

I chose this colour to suit the layout and because the chipboard shines on the page.

The 2-tone effect really is so beautiful and the gold gives it a special grand touch.

So lovely to include the fine and flowing pieces, that 

celebrate the delicate nature of the layout.

I hope you have liked my layout today. 

See you soon with more inspiration with

 these wonderful chipboards.

Until then.....

February Projects & Video Tutorial By Kripa Koushik

'Gratitude Art Journal Page'

I returned to my craft room after almost two months away last week and this was
 the first project I made - a page to document my gratitude for the timely help that the
 universe sent us during times of crisis these last few months.

There are many layers of paint and texture paste on both pages. To create the impressions on

 the left side page, I pressed three Fluer De Lice ATC pieces into wet texture paste , scratched

 circles around them with a palette knife and a few minutes later, carefully lifted out the first 

two fluer pieces.

On the other page, Ive written my gratitude with a fine tip applicator and made a cluster of chipboard on top of it. There are still a few swirls of brown visible under the chipboard pieces. The base of this cluster is the negative from the Fluer de Lice ATC chipboard sheet. All of the chipboard pieces were covered with white gesso on top of which acrylic paint was applied using a palette knife. The only exception is the gear chipboard under the ochre yellow fluer. It was painted on without gesso and looks darker than the other brown pieces which adds subtle colour variation.

2crafty chipboard used:

* Clock face frames 

* Fluer De Lice ATC

* Vintage Clock Hands

* Steampunk Gears Small

* Steampunk Gears Medium

 

 

'Together'

My second layout was inspired by Case File No: 248 at CSI:
Colours, Stories & Inspiration which 2Crafty Chipboard is sponsoring.

 To frame the photograph, Ive used Ava's frames chipboard. To balance the swirls on the frame,

 Ive added one piece from the Leafy Shrub Set 1 on the other side of the frame and another

 piece from the same set in the bottom left corner of the page.  

 

 Finally, a Mini Flourish bit was tucked under the fuzzy cut flower cluster on the right .

 Here is the video of how this page came together. I hope you enjoy.

TO VIEW VIDEO CLICK HERE

 

2crafty chipboard used:

Ava's frames

Leafy Shrub Set 1

Mini Flourish Bits

Together Loopy Font

Thanks for visiting us today.

Happy creating,

Kripa Koushik

July Inspiration - By Lilibleu

"Making Memories"

Hello everybody !!

Today, it is my turn to present my two inspirations for July.
I made two pages.

  For the first one, I wanted a vintage spirit using this old black and white photo
 of a little girl I found on Pinterest. To accentuate this vintage style, I used a
 background looking like wood and aged and ripped wallpaper.

2Crafty Chipboard Products used:

- Word Circles Set 1

- 12x12 clockfaces

- Ava's Frames

- word "Making Memories"

Close-ups:

As usual, I created a fairly loaded mixed media background. 

To highlight my chipboards, I embossed them in different colors. 

I love the "Ava's Frames" chipboard, I find it beautiful and I embossed it in white. The round part surrounds my photo to enhance it. The foliage is decorated with flowers.

The "Happy" word from "Word Circles Set 1" is embossed with white powder.

The title "Making Memories" is embossed in sky blue to make it stand out

 from my yellow background.

You can also see in the close-up the foliage part of "Ava's Frames".

I made this page using the following moodboard from Mixed Media & Art:

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"Happiness"

For my second project I chose to make a page with a combination of colors

 I don't often use: green, red and brown.

I painted all my chipboards in different colors to make them stand out

 and create some depth.

2Crafty Chipboard Products used:

- Line Words - Happiness Borders

- Birds Set

- Harlequin Clumps 

- flourish adornment set 5

- Flowers with leaves

The "Flourish adornment set 5" foliage is painted white and I added drops 

of green ink on it. I love the finesse of its drawing.

The title "Happiness" is painted black and the "Harlequin Clumps" chipboard 

 is painted white. I added green drops of ink on it

Another chipboard I find very lovely is the "Flowers with leaves" chipboard.

 I like its big size which dresses up a page very well. I painted it in white and 

added drops of green ink on it.

I also added two birds that give the impression they're taking off from 

the "Flowers with leaves" and I simply painted them in green.

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Here is a small bonus page on which I use several 2 Crafty chipboards

and with which I had the joy to be among the winners of the 

 Lindy's Gang Page June challenge.

2Crafty Chipboard Products used:

- Harlequin Clumps 

- Leafy Shrub Set 1

- Hello Love title 

- Mini Flourish Bits

The foliage "Leafy Shrub Set 1" is painted purple.

The title is embossed in black. The "Harlequin Clumps" are painted purple.

The foliage "Mini Flourish Bits" is painted purple.

And that's all for today!

See you back here soon with some more 2Crafty inspirations.

To visit my blog, that's HERE 

July Inspiration by Kareen Dion

Hello everyone!!

Kareen with you today to share two layouts for this month!

My first layout is in the shade of blue. I used Circle Lace Panel chipboard in a part of my 

background. I really love the look. It looks like a frame and it gives a deeper look on the layout.

"Treasure"

For the Circle Lace Panel, I traced a square beforehand, the size of the chipboard,
and painted the background black. Then, on the chipboard, I simply apply a thin
layer of white paint.

For the word Treasure-word from the Fine Word Set 1, I used
white embossing powder which I also used on the Lattice Leaves too.

I  embossed the Ada's Flourishes with a blue embossing powder.

I really enjoy playing with different colors of embossing powder 

on the chipboards and sometimes, I like to leave it all natural. 

2Crafty Products used : 

- Ada's Flourishes

- Circle Lace Panel

- Fine Word Set 1

- Lattice Leaves

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For my second project, I decided to go all floral!

 I like the mix of the purple and turquoise.

"Be Your Own Kind of Beautiful"

For my title Be Your Own Kind of Beautiful, I began by putting turquoise
embossing powder and then, I put white embossing powder, but not everywhere.
 That way, it gives two tones on the chipboard.

I add some Mini Branches also with white embossing powder.

To add an accent to my layout, I added Chloe's Vines with turquoise embossing powder.

It contrasts with the rest of my layout. I also white embossed the Ava's Frames.

More of the Mini Branches.

2Crafty Products used : 

- Ava's Frames

- Be Your Own Kind of Beautiful

- Mini Branches

- Chloe's Vines

So, I hope I have inspired you today!

See you next time,

Kareen xx