'Magical' By Elisa Ablett

Hi 2Crafty friends,

Elisa here with my last layout for 2Crafty Chipboard, but this doesn't mean you won't
see me around Facebook, Instagram and in groups so please make sure you still say
hi and keep following me with my new endeavours.

I cannot thank Vanessa and Di enough for such a fabulous opportunity to be a part of a
 super talented team and lovely bunch of designers and I will miss them and hopefully
one day I can apply to the team again.

For my last layout I decided to break open my Oxide Inkpads for the background
and also see if I could incorporate them to cover chipboard as well.

The 2Crafty products used in this layout - 

Circle Stack

ATC Mini Hearts and Stars

Wildflower Set

Filmstrip 

Fine Words 2

Let's take a closer look at the chipboard used in this layout -

For the title 'Magical' I heat embossed with a white glitter embossing powder 

and the film strip was inked with black ink to make the title pop out !

I love how the 'Wildflower set' turned out, it was completely a happy accident, I inked the chipboard with an embossing liquid but for some reason it wasn't that tacky and only some of the black embossing powder stuck to the pieces. So I had a thought of adding some of the Oxide Colours from the background to cover the parts of the chipboard that had a small amount or no embossing powder on it. The colours of the Oxides remained so vibrant and bright on raw chipboard and I really liked the colourful distressed look.

I also inked the circle chipboard and heat embossed with black glossy embossing powder
and lastly the Mini ATC Stars, I coloured with a gold glitter watercolour pen just to add
that sparkle. I also added some gold splatters to the background. 

For stockists of 2Crafty Chipboard see below.

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'#naughtyornice' by Elisa Ablett December Inspiration

Hi Everyone, 

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all. 

Christmas day is over for another year and now you have a chance to pop your feet up

 with a drink and catch up on the inspiration on the 2Crafty Blog!

The 2Crafty Design team were lucky enough to 'guest design' for CSI Challenge Blog 

for this month and I decided to base my layout around Challenge No. 268.

What a fantastic challenge! check out the challenge below and I have also 

provided the link to the details and blog for you. 

' I drew inspiration from the challenge graphic and colour scheme for my layout, incorporating wood, circles, music, chalkboard and greenery as well as many Christmas elements like Baubles, poinsettias and presents. 

The challenge criteria was perfect for creating that special Christmas layout. '

Link to the CSI Challenge Blog and #268 challenge details.

http://csichallenge.blogspot.com/2018/12/case-file-no-268-deadline-december-31.html

2Crafty Chipboard products used in the layout:-

Product Links:

http://2crafty.com.au/craft_chipboard/circle-stack-units-p-1346.html

http://2crafty.com.au/craft_chipboard/christmas-word-unit-p-1817.html

http://2crafty.com.au/craft_chipboard/present-unit-p-619.html

http://2crafty.com.au/craft_chipboard/bauble-ornament-unit-p-1720.html

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Here are some close ups of the finer details:

For my title chipboard piece, I heat embossed with a brilliant white embossing powder 

to make it pop off the page! I added splatters of white gesso over my page as well
to soften the background colours and tie in with the white embellishments.

I hand coloured the present chipboard in a lovely red and white colour scheme from
the challenge graphic from CSI Challenge Blog. I used fine tip tombow markers.

The ornamental Christmas baubles I heat embossed with a white glitter embossing powde

r just to add that extra bling and shine to the them. I staggered them around the other 

circles on my layout to add another layer to my background.

 The felt poinsettias were fussy cut from a very old piece of Christmas scrapbooking paper that didn't have a brand name on it so I can't list it on here, Sorry! but it was lush and adds texture to my page!

The background circles are chipboard nesting circles which I heat embossed with
 shiny black embossing powder. Once they were dry, I added scraps of Christmas paper
 and wood grain paper to add a few elements from the CSI challenge.

I loved participating as a Guest Designer for CSI as part of the 2Crafty Design Team contingent, what a fabulous Christmas themed challenge, just the right inspiration for all those new Christmas photos.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today, 

Hugs 

Elisa xx

http://2crazycrafters.blogspot.com.au/

'2Crafty Christmas Tags' By Elisa Ablett

Merry Christmas 2Crafty fans,

Elisa here from the design team with the first of my December inspiration for you, three very different and unique Christmas mixed media tags.

Here are the 2Crafty Chipboard Products used in the tags;

 Products List:

Presents

Sparrows and Branch

Polaroid frames

Tags

Brushstroke Tree

ATC Mini Hearts

Mini Houses

Linear Snowflakes

Circle Stack

Mini Christmas Word Set 1

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Let's take a closer look at each tag!

'Christmas Wonderland'

Create a Christmas snow globe on a tag, by cutting circle chipboard, heat embossing with silver embossing powder and adding small Christmas themed chipboard to your globe 

and Snowtex by DecoArt for a textured snow like look!

I heat embossed the delicate Linear Snowflakes with white glitter 

embossing powder to co-ordinate with the snow and winter scene. 

'Rejoice' 

Use small chipboard Polaroid frames to frame and draw attention to 

cut out elements like felt Poinsettia's and foam berries. 

I converted the 'sparrow on a branch' to a Christmas theme by sticking with the 

co-coordinating colours plus cutting Christmas paper to use as a wing on the bird. 

Heat emboss your small title with brilliant white embossing powder 

and add some lace and wood fibres for texture.

'Santa' 

Cover your tag with Christmas themed paper and sand the edges. 

Then ink around the edges to create a black grungy look.

Heat emboss your Chipboard Tree with metallic green embossing powder, 

then wrap the tree in black wire, making sure it lays fairly flat. 

Colour small ATC chipboard hearts or stars with gold glitter pen or 

paint pen and attach to the wire as though they are baubles. 

Add finishing touches like a hand painted present and title and red thread!

Well that's it from me today, 

thank you so much for stopping by the blog.

I hope all your Christmas and holiday preparations are going well!

Hugs.

Elisa xx

'Dream' by Elisa Ablett - November Inspiration

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.

I have another mixed media girl layout to share with you today.

The photo is of my great niece, a gorgeous gal with loads of personality and big dreams.

I wanted to create a mixed media layout brimming with pastel colours and soft flowers.

I also love a bit of bohemian style to my layouts and the stencil work combined with the flowers, butterflies and gorgeous turkish lanterns worked together beautifully!

I must say the colour combo of berry, blues and turquoise has got to be a new favourite of mine.

I love a good design swatch and this one comes from Design-Seeds. 

https://www.design-seeds.com/tag/violet/page/2/)

The Chipboard featured in the layout from 2Crafty include the following (links provided): - 

 angies-vines-unit-p-1154

dream-loopy-font-unit-p-1135

lacey-border-unit-p-1644

turkish-lanterns-units-p-1941

rose-unit-p-1901

Lets take a closer look at what techniques I used to alter my chipboard for the layout:

For my title and in keeping with the boho style, 

I painted my title bright white and added an offcut of lace and machine stitching 

using berry coloured thread underneath. 

I also added the stitching to my coloured die cut butterfly embellishment.

The Turkish Lanterns are gorgeous! 

I heat embossed them with Berry coloured embossing powder, 

then I painted the chain and selected bits with a black Posca paint pen. 

The backing paper is an off cut of water colour paper sprayed with the turquoise spray

 and then fussy cut and glued to fit the back of the lanterns.

I selected a lovely Lacey Border piece and inked it with black ink, it serves as a great backing piece and border to separate my stencilled background from the white space below.

The gorgeous Rose Set of chipboard was calling my name for this layout!

To achieve this dreamy pastel look on my chipboard, I lightly gesso'd my pieces of chipboard - 

Rose Set and Angie's Vines and then once dry I used a paint brush 

to paint the 13 Arts Chalk Pastel Sprays in Berry and Turquoise

 onto my pieces of chippie. If you wanted an even lighter shade, 

water the sprays down or add a small amount of gesso.

Well that's it from me today!

I hope you have enjoyed stopping by the blog today, 

please make sure you leave some love in the comments, 

we do like hearing from you.

Hugs 

Elisa Ablett

 

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