Adorable by Laura Gilhuly

 Hi everyone!
Laura here to share another layout I created using baby photos of our youngest son!

Adorable

2Crafty Products used;

Circle Dot Frame

Adorable

Photo Adornment - Decorative Rod Set 2

Mini Flourish Bits

I love the colors of the papers so I used the same colors on the chipboard. 
 I inked the Decorative Rod set with brown distress ink.

I ticked one of the circle dot frames under the photo to highlight the photo.

I painted the flourishes yellow and I cut one of the smaller circle dot frames in half and
 placed them on the side and on the top of the layout in clusters.

I LOVE the script tile and wanted it to stand out a bit so I used cardboard to add dimension
 the hot air balloon then adhered the title to it.

Thanks for stopping by

"Best Holiday Ever" Layout and tutorial by Marie Sabatier

Hello everyone,

Here is my second inspiration of this month of June. 

A summer layout with bright and sunny colors. 

"Best Holiday Ever"

I made a video tutorial that you can watch HERE

The chipboards used:

- Best Holiday Ever

- Circle Dot Frames

- Flamingos

- Seaweed Set 1

- Palm Leaves Set

       

As you can see in the video, I started by applying a layer of with gesso on each chipboard.

I chose the 'Circle Dot' frame because it seems to be a good choice for my picture 

on the theme of the sea. To give more relief, I used two circles, 

one of which was used to frame my photo. 

I again used distress oxide inks to embellish the chipboards, but applying them to the brushes 

with a little water. 

A blue "salty ocean" and for this adorable Flamingo a pink "picked raspberry".

I make a cluster of embellishment on the right by adding these pretty leaves "Palm Leaves".

The title is also painted blue, but to make it clearer, 

I use a white chalk pencil and I go around the letters.

For more details, be sure to watch the video!

Thank you for your visit.

Marie

       

My First Project as 2Crafty Design Team Member! "A Merry Bunch Of Elves"!By Laura Gilhully

 Hi everyone!

I am so excited to be joining this team of talented crafters! I am Laura Gilhuly!
  I am from a small town in Southwestern Ontario, Canada where I live with my awesome
 husband Jon (this year we will have been married for 25 years) and together we have
2 wonderful sons - Cody & Tyler and two fur babies Lydia and Axle.  

I have been scrapbooking for a while and I love to try new things,
 learn and be inspired.  I hope to inspire you to create some wonderful projects
with the awesome 2Crafty Chipboard!

My First Project: "A Bunch of Merry Elves"

Engraved Baubles

A Bunch of Merry Elves

Circle Dot Frames

Christmas Coin Set

To begin I used gesso on all the 2Crafty chipboard pieces.

I tucked one of the" engraved baubles" on the right hand side.

I used the "Circle Dot Frame" under the photo and one
of the "Christmas Coins" in the corner.

I wanted the chipboard to match the antique rustic feel of the papers so I used
two different mists - Dylusions postbox red and Lindy's greased lightnin' green. 
 I then rubbed all three pieces with a touch of vintage gold paint with my finger
 to highlight all the beautiful engraving.  I wanted to add a bit more gold so I
 randomly added some spots using an embossing pad then added some gold
embossing powder and heat set.

I painted the title with gold paint - Lumiere True Gold - then heat embossed

 with the same gold embossing powder I used on the other chipboard pieces.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Be sure to head on over to the 2Crafty website and check out their extensive range.

"My Beautiful Baby Girl" by Amy Voorthuis

   Goodmorning lovely 2Crafty friends, 

Today is my turn to show you some inspiration on this amazing blog. For this occasion I made a layout this time I have used some beautiful pastel tones. When I saw the newest collection "Little One" by Graphic 45 I was in love right away. I have so many baby pictures of Abbey & Kevin that I bought that collection as soon as it was available.
 I have used a picture of Abbey when she was a couple of day's old {isn't she cute?}

My Beautiful Baby Girl:  

2Crafty Chipboard used: 
Angie's Vines
Circle Dot Frames
Frame Flourish 5
My Wish for You
Beautiful Little Girl 

First I gessod all the chipboard pieces with two layers of white gesso then I cut up two phrases "Beautiful Little Girl" & "My Wish for You" for the words beautiful and girl I just added two layers of white embossing powders and the word my was treated the same way only with pink embossing powder.

The circle dot frame was also treated with white embossing powder later on I added some cute light pink buttons and some crystal nuvo drops. The vines are treated with some green impasto paint and and green/gold acrylic opal magic and then some white matte wax. I figured something out what made me very happy I could stitch with my sewing machine on my chipboard Frame Flourish 5... so you will see this technique more often from me for sure 

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...

"Happy" by Marie Sabatier

My second inspiration for this month of March is a very colorful page, want clarity and good mood, I love this picture of my little daughter that time flies!

Here are the chipboards that I used for this page:

- happy fine script

- Lacy border Set

- Circle dot frames

For each Chipboard I applied a layer of white gesso and then a métallique vintage rose acrylic paint

Some close-ups 

The tittle "happy"

The fine and elegant lace border

And the chipboard "Circle dot frames" that highlights my photo

A simple and effective page with the wonderful 2crafty Chipboard

See you soon!

July Inspiration - A Layout & a Canvas PLUS TWO VIDEO TUTORIALS By Mary Catt

''Escape''

Hello 2Crafty fans!

It's Mary here with you today and I have two projects and two video tutorials to share with you.

I have also made a VIDEO TUTORIAL with the procedure.

TO VIEW VIDEO CLICK HERE

2Crafty Chipboards used...

Circle Dot Frames 

Leafy Shrub Set 2
Mini Word Set 1

Some close ups...

  I created texture on my background by applying modeling paste through a stencil.
When dried, I used ''Cattail Copper Brown'' and ''Bayou Boogie Gold''
 Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays to color my page.

I heat embossed the ''Circle Dot Frame'', the ''Leafy Shrub Set 2'' chipboards and the

 title from the ''Mini Word Set 1''  with ''Byzantine Bronze'' Lindy's powder.

To finish, I added some Bronze micro beads and Plum Glass Glitter

and made some splatters with white acrylic artist ink.

''Live Laugh Love''

My second project is a canvas made with several chippies and lots of shells.

You can see the procedure on my VIDEO...

TO VIEW VIDEO CLICK HERE

2Crafty Chipboards used...

Flourish 1

Mesh Bits
Pointed Doily Frames
Live Love Laugh title

 

And a closer look at the details...

To start, I primed my canvas with white gesso. Then, I created texture with modeling 

paste and a stencil and I heat embossed the pattern with some embossing powder.

I added some color with the ''Bayou Boogie Gold'' and the
 ''Cattail Copper Brown'' Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays.

I heat embossed the ''Mesh Bits'' and the ''Flourish 1'' chipboards with the ''Queen Sheba's Silver'' Lindy's powder and the ''Pointed Doily Frames'' with the ''Midnight Copper''. The title and some leftover chippies were also embossed with the ''Gilded Burgundy Brass'' powder.

Lastly I made some splatters with white artists acrylic ink.

Well, that's all for today... 

See you again next month!