Dream - Layout with Emma.

Hi 2Crafty friends.

Emma here with you all sharing my first creation for this month.

This month a few of us 2Crafty girls were invited to participate in with the CSI challenges.

I Chose the first challenge #267.

My first challenge was I don't celebrate Christmas and so I wondered what I would pull from this case?

I drew inspo from the colours, these are not traditional colours and I loved the playfulness of them.

Then I saw little animals and critters, AHA! another piece of the puzzle solved.

So here is what this became.....

My image I found on Pinterest, and it was just the cutest little guy, I couldn't not use him.

I was also inspired by the circles in the case, e.g the baubles, so this then became the bubbles and circular shapes.

These are the chippy pieces I chose for my layout...…

And now I'll tell you how I used them.

For the Bubble clumps I simply embossed them with a Lindy's emboss powder. The perfect blue/aqua for this colour scheme.

For the Folk Hearts I again embossed but with a Novo glitter emboss. Love the sparkle so much on these.

The tricky but fun part on the layout were the swirls. Now I just love that 2Crafty has a tree called Emma's Tree, but I decided that instead of keeping it whole I would carefully cut the swirls off the tree.

 And I'm so happy I did, because I love the effect it has layered under flowers and in the paper layers.

These I have embossed and or Painted to match the Title word.

This gorgeous Green is a Dylusions acrylic paint, which paints onto the chipboard beautifully, and it only needed 2 coats on the Dream title and the finish was smooth and bright.

I love the versatility of the chipboard but I also love a challenge site.

I urge you all to have a bit of fun by joining in over at CSI this month.

I'll see you all at the end of the month with more creativity and be sure to check out the other girls amazing projects this month. There is so much to be inspired by.

Have an amazing few weeks and i'll see you all soon.

Em xx

 

January Inspiration By Sabrina Turpin

"Life Documented"

Hello everyone!

I hope that 2018 is treating you well so far. It has been fantastic for me as I am 

absolutely thrilled to be joining the amazing 2Crafty team!

Let me introduce myself. I’m Sabrina Turpin, from Quebec, Canada, mom of two

 fantastic kids. I work in a daycare by day and I am a chipboard ninja by night!

For my first post, I’ll be sharing two new layouts. The first one, “Life Documented”, 

features my daughter having fun in a playground.

I inked and then used a transparent embossing powder on the

"Frame Madelines Flourish".

For the title I simply painted and inked it & the 

"Pointed Doiley Frames" I did the same.

Again on the "Tiny Leaf Stems" I did the same, just painting & inking as it looks so good.

These I used an embossing ink on the "Sharon's Butterflies".

For this page, I used the following 2Crafty Chipboards:

"Life Documented - title

Sharon's Butterflies

Frame Madeline's Flourish

Pointed Doiley Frames

"Tiny Leaf Stems"

"Friends"

My second page, "Friends", puts into the spotlight one of my closest friend.

For the "Funky Hearts" I embossed them with embossing powder.

The larger hearts were painted and inked & the smaller ones were

 embossed with embossing powder.

The "Twiggy Branch" was painted painted with acrylic metallic paints.

The border is from the "Lacey Border Set #1"& both that & the "Damask"

 were painted in acrylic paints.

The "Friends" title was embossed with embossing powders.

2Crafty Chipboard Products Used....

Funky Hearts

Damask

Lacey Border Set #1

Twiggy Branch

Friends - title-loopy font

April Layouts by Debbi Tehrani

"Froggy Friends"

  We were so delighted to have 2Crafty sponsor CSI: Color, Stories, Inspiration last month!     Before we start.... Please remember while you are here  to become a blog follower & leave a blog comment to

be eligible to go in our monthly draw for a great chippie prize pack.

   I made this page featuring my nephew for Case File No. 195. I had 2Crafty pieces to meet  several of the Evidence clues--hearts, polaroid frames, speech bubbles, clouds.  

Here are some details...

The "Thought Bubble" was a perfect little canvas to hold my title, which came
 from the "Friendship Mini Words Pack." I covered the speech bubble with a pale green
 patterned paper and outlined it with a Pigma micron pen. I also covered the "Polaroid 
Assortment Frames" with a patterned paper. The title was coated with gesso and then
green stamp ink.

The sweet clouds came from the "Mini Weather Icons" set, and that fun sun is from the  

"Dancing Suns" pack. I covered the clouds with patterned paper. I coated the sun with 

gesso and then colored it with orange stamp ink. I punched a circle out of patterned paper 

and topped the sun with that. I love the "Polaroid Assortment Frames." They are such 

a great starting piece for building an interesting cluster on a layout.

I used the "Chevron Bits" to point to the little frogs Christian is holding in the photo. 

I coated these pieces with gesso and then green stamp ink. I added a little "Folk Heart" 

 with teal paper, again outlining it with pen.

2Crafty Products used on this layout: Thought Bubbles Polaroid Assortment Frames Dancing suns Mini Weather Icons Folk Hearts Chevron Bits  

    "Be Brave"

  That's my little sister on her first day of kindergarten. I'm working on an album of some of our childhood photos to give to my mom for Mother's Day, and this is one of the pages.  

I had this black "be brave" card, and I wanted it to look like a chalkboard, so I covered it with

 a frame from the "Polaroid Assortment Frames" set, which I painted white. These frames

 are so great, not only for framing photos, but for framing other page elements and for layering.

I also painted the "View Finder" white, outlining it and then backing it with a floral print.

I coated the word remember from the "Line Words - Goodtimes Borders" with gesso 

and then used walnut ink to give it a vintage look.

  The "Funky Bird" was a perfect adornment for this childhood memory page. The Remember line word served as a sort of branch on which my little bird could perch. The line extenison of the word was the perfect opportunity to dangle one of the many charms I have in my stash. For a wing, I topped the bird with a heart that came from the inside of one of the "Heart Silhouettes." I painted the little bird's twiggy legs and then topped her and the heart-wing with patterned paper. I added a googly eye and drew on eyelashes.   2Crafty Products used on this layout: Polaroid Assortment Frames View Finder Line Words - Goodtimes Border Funky Bird Heart Silhouettes

Before I go, I'd like to share an additional layout on which I used some 2Crafty pieces.

"Monstrosity"

I made this for a Case File at CSI: Color, Stories, Inspiration, which is open for the 

entire month of April. 

Cogs and gears were one of the clues, and 2Crafty has some awesome "Gears."

By the way, 2Crafty has an awesome assortment of monsters and robots. I didn't use them on my page because they were too large for where I wanted to put them (I scrap 8 x 8), but you should grab some of these 2Crafty monsters and come play with us at CSI!

2Crafty Products used on this layout:

Gears

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!