July Layouts By Debbi Tehrani

"Sweet Smile"   I made this page for the More Than Words challenge, which asked us to use the  word "smile" as inspiration as well as a sketch. This adorable photo features my best  friend's daughter and her little girl, and they sure do have some sweet smiles!

The word "smile" came from the "Summertime" set, which has lots of different words. I colored it with two different teal stamp inks to get the right color to match the leaves in my floral paper and then coated it with clear embossing power to give it a glossy look. I couldn't resist using this cute little guy from the "Hedgehogs" pack on my page. I couldn't decide on a color for the hedgehog, 

so I decided to leave him raw, but I added clear embossing powder to give him extra interest. The arrow, gessoed white, came from the "Assorted Arrows" sheet. I topped it with a wee heart from "ATC Tiny Hearts & Stars" and inked it pink.

I coated the "Bubble Clumps" with gesso and then painted it with Twinkling H2O's in the 

Icicle color, which has flecks of glitter in it. I added patterned paper onto my frame form the "Polaroid Assortment Frames" to give it a woodgrain look. I popped a couple of raw, clear embossed hearts from the "ATC Tiny Hearts and Stars" to match my hedgehog onto the frame.

I just love 2Crafty's Circle Words, and I used the word "sweet" from "Word Circles Set 1" as part

 of my title. I used the Icicle Twinkling H2O's on the circle part and the same ink and clear embossing powder I used for the "Smile." I added a heart from "ATC Tiny Hearts and Stars."

  2Crafty Products used on this page: Bubble Clumps Hedgehogs ATC Tiny Hearts & Stars Word Circles Set 1 Asst Arrows Polaroid Assortment Frames Summertime  

"You Are Simply the Best"

  A girl at my school won a safety patrol award and her teacher asked me to make  a scrapbook page for her.  

The trophy came from the "Motocross" 6 x 6 set and was perfect for holding part of my title

 (the word "you" came from "Card Word Set 2") and also conveying what the layout was about.

 I used gold Zing embossing powder to give it sparkle and shine. I embossed the

 "Simply the Best" title with two different colors.

The "Chevron Bits" were embossed with the same Sapphire PEARLustre embossing powder
I used on the title. I used the same gold Zing embossing powder on the "ATC Tiny Hearts & Stars" as I did on the title. I found a larger star from the "Stars" set to tuck into the "Medium Filmstrip." The "Inspire" word came from the "ATC Words 1" set. I painted a "Circle Revolution" white to frame the photo the main photo.

  Once you take the frames out of the sheet of "Polaroid Assortment Frames," you will have leftover chipboard that, when cut, form more frames. I used that to frame the above photo, I painted that white. There's a bag behind this cluster that holds more photos from the event. Finally, I used a date from the "2016's."   2Crafty Products Used on this Layout: Simply the Best Motocross ATC Tiny Hearts & Stars Film Strips Medium 2016's ATC Words 1 Chevron Bits Stars 6" Circle Revolution Frames Card Word Set 2 Polaroid Assortment Frames  

Thank you so much for stopping by and looking at my pages. I hope I've given you
 some ideas for using the awesome 2Crafty chipboard!

'This is My Story' by Lisa Griffith

Hello 2 Crafty friends! I have a couple of layouts and an art journal page to share with you this month.   But before we start.... Please remember to become a blog follower & leave a comment to
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'This is My Story'

I took this selfie after a girlfriend of mine gave me these sparkly earrings for my birthday

 one year, and even though I've scrapped this photo before, I came across it in my photo

 box and right away I thought about how the diamond shaped earrings looked just like

 some pieces of 2 Crafty Chipboard I had, and my idea was born.

2 Crafty Chipboard pieces used:

'This is My Story'

'Element Set 1'

'Element Set 2'

'Film Strip Medium'

As I wanted the chipboards to mimic my earrings, I first covered them

 with a coat of white gesso, and then embossed them in silver.

I painted the 'Film Strip' I used in the background with black acrylic paint.

I also created a page in my new art journal using some pretty inks and 

of course some beautiful 2 Crafty pieces.

'Today'

Chipboard is so perfect to use in art journaling! You can add so much

 structure and interest to a page, and best of all, not a lot of bulk. 

2 Crafty Chipboard pieces used:

'Film Strip'

'Marianne's Butterflies'

'ATC  Tiny Stars'

'Word Circles Set 1'

I wanted the chipboard pieces to really stand out so I painted them (messily)

with black ink, and touched the butterfly and the ATC star

with a little bit of pink Prima paint.

Lastly, I'd like to share with you a layout I designed for a 

Guest Design spot over on the blog 'Scrap Africa' blog.

'Dream'

For this layout I altered the chipboards by painting them with white gesso 

and then brushing them with gold paint for a textured, worn look.

2 Crafty Chipboard used:

'Ornate Screen'

'Leafy Shrub Set 1'

See you next month!

 

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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