"Pretty in Pink" By Chrissy Tingey

Hi everyone, I'm back with my second post for January featuring

some wonderful flourishes & border chipboards.

2Crafty Chipboard used…

Maggie’s Swirls

Flourish Adornment set 4

Fanciful Butterflies

Lacy Border set 1

 I love the beautiful Lacy Border Set and wanted to show them all off, so I hope
 my layout “design” has achieved this, the lacy border chipboards make such
 pretty edges to the different paper sections.
 With a quick coat of black acrylic paint they then coordinate beautifully.

I have used both sets of Flourishes and tucked them in and around my fussy
cut elements, I cut some of the bits off that would have been hidden and
dotted these around my layout to make good use of them.

I can never resist a butterfly, painted with black acrylic paint again to coordinate,
the beautiful "Fanciful butterflies" finish off my layout, there are two sizes in the pack,
so I have layered them up to give some height and dimension
 to my layout, I have then added a tiny pearl to each. They look so pretty.

I hope you have enjoyed my post and layout and I hope I have inspired you
 to use those pretty border chipboards

Thank you for stopping by - happy crafting!!
I’ll be back next month with two more projects

Chrissy xXx 

August Inspiration + a VIDEO By Lilibleu

"Enjoy this Moment, This moment is your Life"

Hello fans 2 Crafty !!

It is my turn to present you my two layouts for August.

For this first project, I wanted a  very soft, flowery page with this very pretty picture

 of a little girl and her cat, found on Pinterest.

2Crafty Products Used :

- Title Enjoy this Moment this moment is your Life

- Fanciful Butterfly

- Flourish adornment set 5

- Trudi's Vine

- Arrow word set 2

I have based my page from Lindy's Gang's August challenge :

I cut the title in half to set one part above the picture and the other underneath. 

I painted it in blue and I sprinkled some purple flakes.

The "Trudi's Vine" flower is painted purple, the "Fanciful Butterfly" 

is painted white and then sprayed with blue ink.

Here's the other part of the title.

The "Flourish adornment set 5" are painted blue and the word "friends" is painted purple.

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"Magical"

When I was realizing this page and its video, we were going through a period of very strong

 heat here in the South of France: the temperatures easily exceeded 40 °C in the shade. 

I was just melting down! I think these temperatures made me want to choose the marine 

environment as a theme for my project, to imagine a bit of coolness.

TO VIEW VIDEO CLICK HERE

2Crafty Products :

- Sea Creatures

- Sabine's Frame Set

- Bubble-clumps

- Fine word set 2

I realized my project based on the July thematic challenge of Mixed Media & Art:

The large "Sabine's Frame Set" round is embossed with a golden powder. The 

little turtle is also embossed in gold and I gave some texture to its carapace by

 mixing gesso, 3D powder, plastic micro-spheres and paint.

The starfish was worked the same way than the shell of the turtle. I love the "Bubble-clumps" 

in the set, there are several different sizes in it which is perfect for any projects. I embossed

 them in blue and I added some small touches of golden powder.

The "Magical" title is painted gold.

And that's all for today!

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

To visit my blog, that's HERE 

June Inspiration - By Lilibleu

"Follow Your Heart"

Hello 2 Crafty fans !!

Let me present you my two June projects.

For the first one, I wanted to work without any photo, so I decided to create a 

canvas on which I let the spotlight be on my background and the chipboards.

My main pieces - the three circles "Sabine's Frame Set" - inspired my background on which,

 using modeling paste, I made a lot of small circles like bubbles with a stencil, to give an

 aerial side to my canvas.

2 Crafty Chipboard used:

- Freda's Butterflies

- Fanciful Butterfly

- Sabine's Frame set

-Oriental flower stems 

- Mini word set 1

-  Follow your heart title

My title is embossed in black to create a contrast with the rest of my work. 

The "Sabine's Frame Set" circles are embossed with gold colored powder.

 Blue, gold, black and white is a color combo I like a lot.

The "Oriental Flower Stems" foliage is embossed in white and I only added a clamp of 

gold powder to give more texture. The "Freda's Butterflies" is embossed in gold.

The "Fanciful Butterfly" is painted in white with gesso then with acrylic paint.

To keep on playing with round elements, I added around my flowers a lot of 

small beads of different sizes.

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"Living the Dream"

For my second project, I made a page with a very lovely picture I found on Pinterest.

 I wanted a shabby atmosphere by creating a case of greenery around the picture.

2 Crafty Chipboard used:

- Frankie's Frames

- Tree with sparrows

- word living the dream

- Ivy Clusters

- Friendship Mini Word Pack 

The "Living the dream" title and the "Remember" word are embossed in black.

The pretty branch "Tree with sparrows" is painted white, then I painted the leaves

 with green liquid ink.

The "Ivy Clusters" foliage is painted with metallic green paint.

To highlight my picture, I used this beautiful "Frankie's Frames"

 frame I find beautiful by its design and its finesse.

And that's all for today!

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

To visit my blog, that's HERE 

April Layouts Created by Rachael Funnell

'HELLO Beautiful'

Hello 2 Crafty fans!

Rach with you today sharing 2 layouts created for April....

Inspired by the colour combo from the photo of my daughter to create 'HELLO Beautiful' layout..

2 Crafty Chipboard used..

2016,

Indian Feathers,

Fanciful Butterflies,

Circle heart frames,

HELLO Beautiful title,

Flower Petals.

With the Flower Petals I decided to emboss a few with a purple & blue, then a couple with gesso.

HELLO Beautiful title has a couple of coats of gesso......

 With the 2016 & Fanciful Butterflies I have inked only the edges with a
Brown Distress ink, just to make the raw chipboard POP a little more..... 

 While the Circle Heart frame I have rubbed over ever so lightly with a brown distress ink...

I have two of the Indian Feathers peeking out, one either side...

 I added a coat of gesso to them and while still wet added a little bit of glitter... 

Once gesso dried added another very light coat of gesso, just to tone down the 

glitter colour & finished off inking the feathers with purple ink!!

For my 2nd layout.... 

Once again colour combo inspired by the photo...

This time of my son! Absolutely LOVE this photo of him!

'Summertime Love'

2 Crafty Chipboard used:

2016,

Fine Word Set 1 (Love),

6x6 Summertime words,

Small Film Strips,

Chevron Bits,

Medium Film Strips,

Handdrawn Heart.

With the Chevron bits I've added a couple of coats of gesso to some... and inked black the others....

The small & medium Film Strips I've inked with a sliver.....

The 2016 inked with..... teal

The Handdrawn Heart has a couple of coats of gesso...

While the Fine Word love is inked with black!!!

That's it from ME for this month...

THANKS for popping by!