Journey-Take the Scenic Route - with Karan Gerber

Hi Friends and welcome to the  2 Crafty Chipboard Blog today.

Its Karan Gerber here to host the blog for you one last time. 
 It has been a wonderful year and I cannot believe how quickly it has passed us by.  

I want to take the opportunity and thank Vanessa and Di for allowing me to join the team this past year, I hope i have served you well, and wish you continued success! 

So onto my Last Project!

I have altered a box. In my scrap room clean up, i came upon some mists collections from Canvas Corp, this one is called Naturally Aged Kit - Aged Mahogany. It is a four part step mist/paint process, some requiring drying time in between, some while the previous layer is still wet. 

I started by prepping my box with gesso and heat setting; and following directions on the package adding layers of color. 

I chose some chipboard pieces to accent this box, I love the light bulbs and chains, and thought the brick detail will be a nice touch

I cut up the brick chipboard and placed some on the top edge of the box and brought some down onto the bottom part of the box

I love gears, they represent moving pieces of my favorite item to alter ( clocks) 

I put a piece of flat chipboard behind the light bulb word for added strength. And below are some further images. 

I love how this turned out, its not normally my go to color combo, but trying to get out of my comfort zone with that and when i came upon this color kit, i thought it would be a great way to do that. 

Here are the pieces of chipboard i used.

Brick Panel; Chain Link; Light Bulb Word Set

Happy Scrapping !!

Stay Curious - Altered CanvasBy Karan Gerber

HI Friends welcome to the 2 Crafty Chipboard Blog today.
 It is Karan Gerber here hosting the blog and I have na altered canvas to share with you.

I was rummaging through some old kits this week and came across some older
 Graphic 45 Curiosity Shoppe papers and stickers (remember that collection) I
 thought it would be perfect for a project, so here is what i have for you today.

"Stay Curious"

I just love using clocks, and cannot get enough of them. Our lives are run by a clock,
 our work day, our appointments; when we sleep and when we rise, when we eat; all
 determined by the those little hands on the clocks! that is why I love using clocks!

I wanted to use the geometric arrows as a clock hand but the glass bottles were

 already glued on so I turned them on their end and love that. 

Some detail images......

 Until Next Time: Happy Scrapping!

2 Crafty Chipboard :

Geometric Arrows; Clock Face; Foilage Leaf Set 5; 6 Inch Mandala

Christmas Tag By Karan Gerber

Hi Friends and welcome to the 2 Crafty Blog today.

Its Karan  Gerber here to share some Christmas Decor with you using some
of the Christmas selections of chipboard that 2 Crafty has to offer. 

With Christmas on my mind I thought it would be nice to create some Home Decor as
 this beauty would be perfect sitting on a plate stand with fairy lights around the bottom. 

The base is designed from the Tim Holtz etc tags and these are a very

 thick chipboard designed for mixed media. 

I heat embossed the Reindeer in white; the ornaments were cut apart from the
 border and used individually and heat embossed with Crimson embossing powder.

The Chicken Wire was embossed with Ancient Amber embossing powder and I
 cut it in half and it sits on either side of the paper layers. 

I love how this tag turned out and I hope I have inspired you to 

think about your Christmas Home Decor!

2 Crafty Chipboard Used:

Chicken wire

 Ornament Border

Blitzen 

Until Next Time:
 Happy Scrapping

A Christmas Tradition Tag With Karan Gerber

Hi friends and welcome to the 2 Crafty Blog today.

 Its Karan Gerber here with you once again to host the blog and I have another Christmas Tag
to share with you using some of the Christmas Chipboard pieces that 2 Crafty has to offer.

With Christmas on my mind I thought it would be nice to create some Home Decor as this beautiful tag would be perfect sitting on a plate stand with fairy lights around the bottom. 

The base is designed on a Tim Holtz etc tags and these are a very

 thick chipboard designed for mixed media. 

2 Crafty Chipboard Used:

Chicken wire

 Ornament Border

 A Christmas Tradition Title

I heat embossed the title in white, the ornaments were cut apart from the border and
used individually and heat embossed with Crimson embossing powder.

The Chicken wire was embossed with Ancient Amber embossing powder and I cut it in half.

I love how this tag turned out and I hope I have inspired you to think about your

 Christmas Home Decor!

Until Next Time: Happy Scrapping

Day at the Beach - With Karan Gerber

Hi Friends and welcome to the 2 Crafty Chipboard Blog today, I am sharing a altered
 canvas with you showcasing some fabulous chippies.
 I really love the titles and enjoy working with them. 

I gessoed the title and heat set, then applied a few coats of various mists to achieve the final color

The journey ATC banner I just kept plain.

 The grid panel I cut into pieces and used on either side of my project and cut off

 pieces to detail throughout. 

Materials Used:

2 Crafty Chipboard: Day at the Beach;  Journey - ATC Word Set; Grid Panel

 

Thanks for stopping by, see you next time.

Be Amazing - Karan Gerber

Hello 2 Crafty Fans and welcome to the blog today!
It is Karan Gerber hosting the blog today and I have an altered piece to share with you.

I freehand drew the palette on corrugated cardboard matted it on thick chipboard and had

 so much fun putting this together. I never throw out my old paint brushes, I keep them

 tucked away for projects such as this. 

I used some of my favorite 2 Crafty pieces clocks, gears, steampunk borders and the mini

 words are fantastic to use for titles. 

The large clock face that is cut in half was left over from one of my previous projects.

 I used that as well as the center of this which is under the paint brushes.

The steampunk borders are peeking out below the bottom clock face.

For the gears I attached brads to them and used them through this altered piece.

The title from the mini word set was heat embossed with white embossing powder. I dabbed

 a bit of wax on it. Prills and art stones were scattered throughout to add texture and

 dimension to this piece.

I hope I have inspired you to get Crafting with 2 Crafty Chipboard!

Materials Used:

Clock Face Frame

Medium Gears

Steampunk Strips

Mini Word Set 1

Treasure Canvas - With Karan Gerber

"Treasure" Canvas
with Karan Gerber

Hello Friends and good day!
 Its Karan here today to host the 2Crafty Blog for you and I have a mixed media
canvas to share with you.

 I started with a 6x8 flat board canvas, and went about having some fun with some
 favorite mediums, here is the end result.

I used the Flourish adornment pieces in the corner, set the Lucy flourish in the middle of the resin frame, added the Steampunk strip on top and set some metal wings to detail the flourish strip.

I added in some brads to detail the border. I then colored the treasure mini word and set on top for the title. 

I love how all these pieces work so beautifully together, hope you have fun playing with some of your favorite mediums too.

2Crafty Chipboard

Flourish Adornment Set 4;

Lucy's Flourish Frame;

Mini Word Set 1; 

Steampunk Cog Strips

Trinket Jewellery Box - by Karan Gerber

Treasure Jewellery Box
By Karan Gerber

Hi Friends and welcome to the 2 Crafty Blog.
 It is Karan here to host the blog and I have a different kind of project for you today.

I created this jewellery box using some fabulous 2 Crafty chipboard pieces to create this beauty.

 I started with a trinket box from the dollar store and primed it black then began to color my chipboard pieces and here is how it turned out. 

I gessoed all my chipboard pieces with black gesso then used some various mediums in the purples.

 I added in some 49 and Market Flowers and also colored them to match my colors I was using.

I used the Edgar Swirls in the front to detail the clasp on the opening, the top of the box is

 stunning and i'm sure you will agree these chipboard pieces really make this box special!

On the top of the box, I centered one of the smallest of the clock face frames, I placed the  

Adornment Set 3 in the corners and detailed with a brad. The Adornment Set pieces 

were colored with gold wax and set in behind the flowers to add detail. 

I hope you have enjoyed visiting today, 

thank you for dropping by!

2 Crafty Chipboard:

Clock Face Frames;

Edgar Swirl;

Adornment Set

Adornment Set 3