"Love to Pose" by Amy Voorthuis

 Goodmorning 2Crafty friends, 
So glad you are visiting this amazing blog, I really love creating with beautiful chipboard
 pieces like these. For today I have another 12 by 12 layout as those are my favorites to make.
This time I made one with a lovely picture of our Abbey posing and being silly in the grocery store with her own cart. For this layout I have used some 49 and Market papers and lots of pink. 

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Love to Pose: 

2Crafty Chipboard used: 
Foliage Set 11
Aged Film Strip Set
Maggie's Swirls
Love to Pose

On this layout I again stitched around the edges. The maggie swirl & the phrase are treated with some white gesso, some embossing powder and waxes. I just loved making this layout as it was totally inside my comfort zone. 

The film strip & foliage set are also treated with some white gesso, but then I used some matte acrylic paint and waxes to make it look like it was aged. 

 Thank you so much for your visit today and if you would like
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Amy's Pretty Papers

"My Gorgeous Sunflower" by Amy Voorthuis

  Goodmorning sweet 2Crafty friends, 

Today is my turn to show you some inspiration on this amazing blog. For this post I made another layout this time with my first paper love "Graphic 45" papers. I used the pretty French Country & Olde Curiosity Shoppe collections with all amazing 2Crafty chipboard pieces. I used a picture of our beautiful Abbey amoung some pretty flowers made last year. 

My Gorgeous Sunflower: 

2Crafty Chipboard used: 
Fine Word Set 3
6" Clock Faces
Moroccan Bits
Line Words - Summer
ATC Word Banner Set 1
Lattice Leaves

Firstly I added two layers of gesso on al my chipboard pieces then on the clockfaces & the line word "sun" I used some rustic white sand paint which has a gruncy texture. Then I used several acrylic paints and randomly added that on the same pieces. 

The leaves are first painted with green acrylic paint and when that was all dry I added the same rustic cream/white sand paint and dabbed it on different spots on the leaves. The ATC banner was only treated with some white matte wax. The Moroccan bits are dabbed with some black acrylic paint & gesso. 

 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...

"Daydream Cards" by Amy Voorthuis

Hi there lovely 2Crafty fans,

Welcome to the blog today for this post I made two cards with some of the most beautiful 2Crafty Chipboard pieces. I made them in two different shades one in teal/aqua and the other one in darkpink/licht pink. For these cards I have used two collections of Maja Design papers. 

My/Your Daydream:

 2Crafty Chipboards used: 

Foliage Set 3

Doily Disc Set 1

Fine Word Set 3

Circle Word Tag Set 1

Decorative Rod Set 1

All the chipboard pieces a treated with a layer of white gesso. The Decorative Rod Set 1 I embossed with two layers of embossing powder by Lindy's Stamp Gang. The doily and the words are embossed with purely white embossing powder.

The Foliage Set 3 I treated with flat fabio's {danny zuko's denim} twice and then I used three different waxes on them and cut them in two parts to place them in my flower cluster after they where all dried up. In the end I used some nuvo crystal drops on the circles. The Cards are made out of three layers that I distressed around the edges. 

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Much love and happy crafting...

"Cherish That Wonderful Day Canvas" by Amy Voorthuis

 Hi lovely 2Crafty friends, 

For today I show you some mixed media inspiration, this is a reversed eight by eight canvas with a picture of our Abbey and lot's of 2Crafty chipboard pieces. This time I used a different colour combination which is more my style.

Cherish That Wonderful Day: 

 2Crafty Chipboards used: 
 Fine Word Set 1
Lace Doily Frame
Frames Tiny Vivian's 
Square Leafy Frame Set
Corner Steampunk 6 Set

All the chipboard pieces are first treated with white gesso, then I added rust paste on them with the exception of the fine word "Cherish" that one was treated with liquid acrylic {nude}. After the rust paste was dry I added several different mediums on the beautiful 2Crafty chipboard pieces such as matte & metallique waxes, impasto paint & metallique acrylic paints.

The canvas was treated with tissue paper, then I added some paper texture paste on the outer side {the wood part} of the canvas when that was all dry. I placed another layer of tissue paper on the outer edge. It took a bunch of hours to let it all air dry before I could embellish it. 

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Much love and happy crafting...