Todays moments, tomorrows memories album & video by Marie Sabatier

I took advantage of the confinement period to create an album and for
 that I used a lot of chipboard especially titles and words.

This is an album I made for my son and his girlfriend.

"Todays moments, tomorrows memories"

I also made a small video to see HERE

2Crafty Chipboards used :

- 6X4 phrase sticks 5

-Tattered hearts

- Arrow word Set 2

- Mini Butterfly Swirl

- Friendship mini word pack

- Fine word Set 1

- Heart-Clumps

- Flower Doilleys

- French Lace Border

- ATC title sticks Set 4

As always I applied a layer of white gesso on each chipboard.

On the "Tattered hearts" chipboard I only added a little "Green Brocade" wax to give shine.

For the title I applied "India Pink" color metallic wax, I colored the letters in black.

For some titles I left the natural color.

Here for the "Mini Butterfly Swirl" chipboard I applied "Razzleberry Plum" embossing powder.

Here embossing powder "Of Quartz it is" with relief.

As for the title "happy" and "remenber" I also applied embossing powder of color "Chalk it up".

I find these new titles and sentences really great. 

In an album I find that they catch the eye.

Here you are but don't hesitate to watch the video you will have a lot more details and maybe it will give you ideas.

Thank you for your visit, see you soon.

April Inspiration From Marianne Johansson, Norway

"Dream"

Hi all 2Crafty fans!

Today I have two rather different layouts to show you.

The first one is with an old photo of our youngest daughter. I just 

love this "dreamy" look she has here.

My background is filled with different mediums such as gesso, 

crackle paint, molding past,  mist, paint, stencils and stamps

I have used Gesso on all the chippies and also white watercolor. 

(love when it's really really white)

Some "Mini branches"  colored with an ink pad together with the flowers.

Here you see how white the title "Dream" is with the watercolor on top of the Gesso

The "Fencing wire panel" and "French lace Border" under the photo are both

 colored with Gesso, ink pad and mist.

2Crafty products used..

 

 

"The Queen and I!"

Well, I'm visisting royalties in London LOL

Here is a layout with a photo of me and Queen Victoria I, from Madame Tussauds in London.

I wanted to get the velvet feeling (from the curtain in the photo) and only had some black ink on the natural chippies this time. And some Inka Gold, also to get the luxury feeling.

Loved the title on this one, guess I could have used it many times on several layouts.

I cut out the "Dottet baubles" and used the circles as embellishments below, as a "flower". The "strings" I used on top of the photo, as "hanging-strings".

I cut the "Avery vines" in several pieces and used them in combination with the flowers, as leaves.

Aren't we cute together? The Queen and I? LOL

My background is rather simple, with only some stamps, stencils, tape and a few drops of paint.

  2Crafty Chipboard used:

Dottet Baubles

Avery vines

Mini Branches

What you see is what you get - title

   

  

March Shares from Helen A Layout, Pair of Cards & a Layered Canvas!

Hello everyone!  Today I have quite a variety of projects to show you!! Firstly I have a layout created with the negative circle hoops  of chipboard from the 12"sheet of Circle Revolution Frames. 

This was created for my own challenge blog, Scrap Around The World, 

but as part of the 2Crafty Chipboard team, who are our Guest Designers

 at SATW this month :)  I never throw away the negative areas of

chipboard & often use them to create texture on my backgrounds.

As the pieces are quite large it meant that I could paint them, stencil 

AND stamp on them! All of which was thoroughly enjoyable!!

Chipboard is very useful for adding dimension to your work & the best part

 about it is that it comes RAW so can be totally customised to suit 

your creation & the trends of the season.  

Next up are a couple of cards I created for a change!  I decided that this

 year I really need to make at least 2 a month as I actually NEED them!!

Cards are always a great way to use up smaller chipboard pieces as well as offcuts.  

 Here I used the 12" Doily Border & 12" French Lace Border, cut into smaller lengths.  

On both cards I used the large "Damask" Piece, which I embossed

 with a holographic type embossing powder.  AWESOME shimmer in real life!

I also added some chunky clear glass glitter which doesn't show so well

 here in the photographs but you can see it as a shine/reflection.  

These little cards are really pretty in person :)

I always use an embossing dabber from Ranger as opposed to an embossing

 pad, to apply my embossing powder as it is thicker, holds more powder

 & gives a more luscious look.

Lastly I created a layered canvas for a special friend, using the View Finder

pieces {all 3 different sizes from the set}, one of the Valentine's Hearts,

all 3 birds from the "Tree with Sparrows" as well as the 11"Floral Frame

which I cut apart, and lastly a "Heidi's Vine" so plenty of pieces here!

I painted most of my chipboard pieces with Aladine ink, which is a very high-

quality, metallic ink from France, that comes in a dropper bottle.  LOVE them.  

 This is best done by dropping a few drops into a small glass petri dish 

& adding a tiny bit of water {as the inks are thick} then applying using a paint brush.  

For my View Finder pieces I inked them with black archival ink {always best for

 Off-The-Page pieces, as opposed to Chalk ink, that is not waterproof} & rubbed

 in some Perfect Pearls Pearl Pigment powder for a lovely, high gloss sheen.

  I also placed a Prima brad in the centre of each to finish them off nicely.

I lightly sponge-dabbed my flourish pieces to tie the piece together with the

 white sentiment board. Before I began I attached 2 canvases to one another 

using hot glue, as well as attaching a plywood sentiment that I purchased

at an art store.  I love the dimension & interest acheived from layering

canvases - an idea I just came up with recently! I hope I have

inspired you to get busy in some way with your chippies!!

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