"Two Tall Christmas Cards" by Amy Voorthuis

  Goodmorning 2Crafty friends, 
I am so happy that you are visiting this amazing blog, I love creating with beautiful chipboard
 pieces. Today I have two Christmas cards made with the new Maja Design collection called "Woodland Christmas" and some amazing 2Crafty Chipboard pieces as shown below. I am not such a card maker but I do love making Christmas cards every once in a while. 

You know what's amazing, you can order directly from the
2Crafty website here so you can also play with their amazing chipboard pieces. 

Two Tall Christmas Cards:

2Crafty Chipboard used: 
Wicker Wreaths
Card - Word  Circle Set - Christmas
Swirly Star Border
11" Holly Frame Set
Lattice Leaves
Spring Flower Bunches 

The cards are 8,25 by 4,25 inch I really love to make them that tall {because then you can put a lot of chippies on them} all the chipboard pieces are first treated with some white gesso then I altered them in different ways. Both little circulair frames are treated with some green acrylic paint and then some matte rusty brown wax and in the end I added some snow. The flowers are handmade love to do that but it's very time consuming. On the "spring flower bunches" I just added several layers of lindy sprays in a green color.  

The lattice leaves are firstly treated with acrylic paint and on the tips of the leaves I added some golden embossing powder! On the card disk sentiments I also used that same embossing powder. the swirly star border I cut in half and used one piece on every card I treated that one with some red acrylic paint and some brown spray paint and inthe end some wax. 

 Thank you so much for your visit today and if you would like
 to see more of my work please visit here & untill next time!

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"You Make Me Happy Handsome Lad" 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 used a older picture of Kevin and myself.
 Since my printer was acting up I couldn't use the picture I wanted to use.
 You got to love technology right???

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2Crafty website here so you can also play with their amazing chipboard pieces. 

You Make Me Happy Handsome Lad:

2Crafty Chipboard used: 
Mini Title Stick Set 1
Corner Steampunk 4 
12 x 12 Weatherred Clock Face Frames
11" Holly Frame Set
Holly Twig Branches
Hinges Pack 
You Make Me Happy Title 
Fine Word Set 3

I just love to wrinkle my papers so that's what I did for this layout. I also machine stitched the outside of my base sheet. Most chipboard pieces are treated with some rust paste and waxes as for the title "you make me happy" the top was embossed {with white powder} and the happy part was also treated with rust paste. 

The 11" holly frame set was firstly treated with some white gesso and later on I added three kinds of green acrylic paints and a lavender acrylic paint. Then on the berry circles I added some wishing bubbles to make them pop a little. 

 Thank you so much for your visit today and if you would like
 to see more of my work please visit here:

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"Precious and Happy Memories" By Amy Voorthuis

 Goodmorning lovely 2Crafty friends, 

Today is my turn to show you some inspiration on this wonderful blog. For this occasion I made a layout with some beautiful 2crafty chippies and this time I made something inside my comfort zone. For this layout I have used another pretty paper collection with pink, green and a little blue and a picture of our Abbey in Greece last August. 

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2Crafty website here so you can also play with their amazing chipboard pieces. 

Precious and Happy Memories

2Crafty Chipboard used: 
Line Words - Good Times
Word Circle Set 1 
Lacey Border Set 1
Reeds
Fine Word Set 2
2023's
Loopy Heart Swirl
Fine Word Set - Months 
Foliage Set 6
Mini Title Stick Set 5

I treated most of my chipboard pieces with black gesso but for the leaves I used white gesso. After that I added some rust paste & some waxes. For the leaves I added some acrylic matte finish and I used some spray paint. 

The word strips I painted black and for the letters I added a white pen which sadly was not working as I had hoped. On the 2023 I added a layer of pink acrylic paint. In the end I sprayed with some white paint to make it blend a little more. 

Thank you so much for your visit today and if you would like
 to see more of my work please visit here:

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"Amazing Day" by Amy Voorthuis

 Good morning amazing 2Crafty friends, 

Today I would like to show you all a very colorful layout and this time I used the amazing NEW "Postcards from Paradise" collection by Prima {swoon} and some beautiful NEW & older 2Crafty Chipboard pieces. The picture I have used here is from Jeroen & Abbey in Greece last year. We have had rough couple of months and we have some ahead that's why you haven't seen much of my work lately. Hopefully I will make that okay with you all.

Amazing Day

 2Crafty Chipboard used: 
Sabina's Frame Set 
Fern Leaf Set 
Foliage Corners 
Amazing Day
Squiggle Arrow Set 
Mini Branches 

On the beautiful "Sabine's Frame Set" I added some matt golden eyelets in the already prepared circles after that I added some sheer lace but before all that I used some pretty matte pink acrylic paint to color it. For the phrase I used the same color pink and after I attached it to the upper right corner of my layout and used my sewing machine to stitch over it. 

 On the rest of the chipboard pieces I used some white gesso and some different green matte, metallique acrylic paints on some I have added some waxes. On the Foilage Corners I used two different shades of green and some cute green pearls. Inthe end I added some leaves, pearls and word strips. 

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...