June Inspiration "Beauty" by Marie S.

This is my second inspiration for this month of June.

I created this project as a gift for the birth of a pretty little girl.

I chose these beautiful chipboards for an altered project full of sweetness.

"beauty"

I prepared my background by painting the outline and applied white gesso on the fabric.

With a stencil and a light structure mortar I applied a pattern on the background.

The colors were chosen according to the colors of the room "White, pink and gold"

The Beaded Chipboard Hanging Hearts and Madelines Flourish were 

heat embossed and have a gorgeous shiny finish.

On this one I just added a little gilding

For the title "beauty"

and Lattice Leaves, I applied the gold gilding with my fingers.

Then I had fun adding these beautiful flowers and finishing touches.

2Crafty Chipboard used ....

Looking forward to seeing you again next month

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

June layouts by Jaya Raghuvanshi

Hello everyone!
Jaya here today and I have a few projects to share with you all using the gorgeous 2Crafty chippies. I hope you all had a look at the new chippie designs in the store now.   If you haven't still then be sure to check out soon. 
"Cherish"

   

The title and squiggly hearts cluster is covered in white heavy gesso .

I applied white gesso to the tiny feather chippies and then stamped on them using black archival ink.
 I applied some Prima oil pastel on it and then outlined the chippie pieces.

Chippies used-
Cherish Loopy font Tiny feathers Squiggly heart cluster

Here is my second page
"Beautiful"

I covered the Madeline flourish frame in white heavy gesso. I just love that its so delicate and gorgeous!   The Beautiful loopy font is covered in black texture spray and then splatteredwith white gesso.

 I covered the brick wall panel in white heavy gesso and when it was dry I highlighted it with  Prima oil pastels.

2Crafty chippies used-
Beautiful loopy font Frame Madeline flourish Brick wall panel

And one more project  This is an art journal page I made recently these using 2Crafty chippies :) "Dare to Dream"

2Crafty Chippies used-
Dream catchers Square collage panel

I hope you like my projects of the day. See you again next month :)

Two Layouts & an Off-The-Page Project From Helen Tilbury

Hello 2Crafty friends & followers! I hope you are all well & ready to be inspired!!  It is HELEN back with you today to share a few projects,  starting with a layout inspired by the monthly mood-board  challenge over at Prima.  

As you can see I managed to use FIVE pieces of gorgeous

2Crafty Chipboard on this page & absolutely love the tactile

addition of it!  Let's take a closer look shall we...

I used a couple of TINY LEAFY STEMS that are not that tiny,

as you can see!  And they come in a multi-pack so are great value!!

I painted them roughly with some texture paste, using a spatula,

then rubbed some gelato onto some parts & blended with a baby-wipe.

I love the messy look it creates & still seeing parts

 of the raw chipboard peeping through!

I used another TINY LEAF STEM coming out from underneath my

stack of papers beneath my photo, using exactly the same technique.

Also notice above that I used the PRECIOUS title & simply pressed

it loosely into my black archival ink pad then rubbed some texture

paste onto it in random places for texture & to brighten it up!

For my "Love"title {Photo Adornment - Love Flourish} I first dabbed it

 with texture paste then went over it with a black photo-marker pen 

{writes over just about anything!} using some messy/doodly lines

 & some cross-hatch shading, to define it, then rubbed in some gold

 gelato to soften it up a bit & add some shine.

I also added some gold gelato to my "Precious" sub-title

 & adore the lovely glimmer it gives.  Not too garish at all

 & GOLD is just so IN right now.  

To the right of my photo I tucked in an "Edgar Swirl" photo adornment.

I treated it in the same way as my "Precious Love"title & love the 

subtle touch it adds.  It comes in a double-pack so I have one

left for another project - yay!

A closie of my texture paste/gelato technique...

Both techniques used on this layout shown above.

Have you ever thought about "scratchy-doodling"on your chipboard?!
I want to do it more now - it was fun & looks COOL I think!!

--------------------------     My next project is an OTP {Off-The-Page} project made as a gift for a friend. I was going to make her a canvas but mysteriously "mislaid"ALL my canvases LOL in my studio so used a Ferrero Rocher box instead :)  {I have since found the canvases by the way...!!} but the acrylic box worked really well!!

I made use of quite a few pieces of 2Crafty Chipboard on this piece too.

Along the left I have the Elegant flourish - cut into 3 separate pieces,

above & below the photo & also coming down from the edge of the frame.

Then along the right hand side I have used the Madeline Flourish Frame.

For all the chipboard here I have used the same technique, I have first

sponged it with good quality gesso for a smoothish finish, then stamped

freehand {no acrylic block} using my favourite Finnabair stamp from Prima.

 My inspiration for this project came from the Prima BAP {sketch} for this month. 

 It was full of hexagons which is what inspired me to use the hexagon stamp.

Stamping on chippie is a really fun technique & always looks so intricate & 

effective yet is super easy :)

Above you can see the elegant flourish on the left & the Madeline Flourish Frame 

on the right {well a tiny portion of it!}

I love how the end of the Elegant flourish looks like the butterfly's trail :)

The fencing I've used is also from 2Crafty - Ornate Fence & comes as

a 12"border but of course can be cut up & customised to suit your page.

For continuity I repeated the hexagonal stamping on the background as well 

as on the chipboard so that, in parts, it blends in, which I think looks awesome!

In keeping with the movement of the flourish I added some whispy cheesecloth underneath my main quote photo too.  This was really SUCH a fun project to create & I cannot WAIT to hand it over!!
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Lastly I am sharing a project that is from a recent Guest Designer gig at Colour, Stories, Inspiration {CSI} a few months ago.

For all the details you can check it out on my blog HERE if you are interested.

The 2Crafty Chipboard I used here is the Twiggy Branches. 

I love how versatile it is as it is quite big so can be cut into

 many smaller pieces.  The rounded leaves reminded me of the plants 

we get here by the sea so I thought they tied in well with my beach photo.

For this very pale page I just sponged the chippie lightly with some white

 acylic paint & stapled the pieces on in parts to go with the masculine look 

as well as to bring in more silver to tie in with my title.

I used to be scared of chipboard years ago because it wasn't "ready"!

In other words I had to DO something with it before I could use it...

NOW I LOVE it for that very reason!  A touch of paint, glitter, gelatos,

stamping, texturing, embossing...there really is no embellishment as versatile.

I hope you have enjoyed my shares today & I will be back with more 2Crafty inspiration in July.  Keep crafting with 2Crafty :)  

HELEN