'Imagination' with Emma Zappone

Hello 2Crafty friends.
Em with you today, sharing a 5x7 canvas panel.

Here are the pieces used on this project.

Round Ornate Frames
Ginny's Flourish Set
Magnolia Stems

Beautiful elements used within the background on this project, to add more depth to the layers.

The delicate flourish has a simple shimmer finish on it, but adds a level of softness to the canvas and paper elements.

I just adore these ornate frames, and that they add a unique shape that the eye just loves to explore.
Again a simple finish with a colour powder finish.

The magnolia flowers have been cut up into individual flowers and the stems removed to create a beautiful cluster under the butterfly wing. I coated these with Distress Oxides, so that the design lines were still visible.

I really love the finished look and feel of this canvas.

I hope it inspires you to get creative.

Till next time, stay Crafty.
Em xx

 

'Little Things' by Emma Zappone

Hello everyone.
Emma with you today, and I have created on a 8x10 canvas for my share today.

It's a muted and feminine project today.
 I have been playing with more bright colours of late but it was lovely going back to this
 soft vintage palette.

Here are the awesome chipboard pieces used.....

ATC Georgian Frames
Foliage Corner
Doily Border

Some of them may be small but they add so much to my project.

These Foliage Corners are just amazing! I cut one of the foliage pieces into a couple of segments and this allowed them to drape softly behind my image. These were painted in a beautiful avocado green and then I added highlights with a gold marker.

The Doily border is one of my latest faves as its soft and versatile. I cut this border into a couple of pieces and layered them around my photo cluster. I painted them in a dusty pink to compliment the colours in the image.

The small and dainty Georgian frame was painted and finished in the same way as the foliage pieces. I love the details on these little frames.

I loved building this canvas, I also finished it by framing it. The soft tones feel really lovely.

I hope my project has been of some inspiration to you today.

Until next time, Stay Crafty.
Em xx

 

"Angelic Beauty" 12 by 4 Canvas by Amy Voorthuis

  Goodmorning 2Crafty friends, 
I am so happy that you are visiting this amazing blog, I love creating with beautiful chipboard
 pieces. For today I have a little something else to show you this time I created a little canvas with all selected pieces that I thought would fit it very well. And off course I have used a picture of our Abbey I hope you enjoy this post. 

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

Angelic Beauty: 

2Crafty Chipboard used: 

Window Shutter Set 2

Charlotte Page Flourish

BeeYoutiful Set

Roxy's Flourish Vine

Fine Word Set 2

Mini Word Set 3

ATC Word Banner Set 1

Foliage Set 9

As you might know I love adding as many chipboard pieces as possible on my work. For this canvas I added eight. All of the pieces are treated with some white gesso the "Charlotte Page Flourish" was then altered matte acrylic paint after that with some spray paint and in the end with some wax. For the "Window Shutter Set 2" I did randomly paint it with three different kinds of acrylic paint all of them in a mate finish to give it a weathered look. 

The cute little bees from the "BeeYoutiful Set" are also painted with some acrylic paint and then I used some clear embossing powder on them and then to finish them I used some matte wax. On the "Foliage Set 9" I added some paint and on the top of the leaves I added some glitter {sadly you can't see that on the picture} The words are painted with some black paint and then I brushed some matte white wax on them. For the ATC banner that one was altered with embossing powder {clear} and I used a posca pen in black to write the word "Love You"

 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

"Sweet Love Thank you for being Mine" canvas by Amy Voorthuis

Goodmorning creative 2Crafty friends, 

Happy 2023 to you all, I hope you had a lovely New Years eve here it was rainy with lots of pretty fire works but I was in bed by 12:15 lol since my husband & kids all have the flue they were not in a festive mood. Since we now have Valentines day approaching I created a canvas with my husband as the center pieces well him kissing me that is. This year in April we will be celebrating our being together for 25 years. So you will see some more works of me in honour of that. 

Sweet Love Thank you for being Mine: 

2Crafty Chipboard used:

Berry Branch 

Festive Vine

Frame Handrawn Hearts 

All the pretty 2Crafty chipboard pieces are firstly treated with a layer white gesso. After that I added two layers of aqua embossing powders and one layer of pure white embossing powder on the berry branch & festive vine. 

On the berry branch I added less white embossing powder then I did on the festive vine since I wanted them to look slightly diffenrent from each other. In the end I added some crystal drops on the circles to give them more demension en also some white matte wax. The heart frame was painted with two different types of acrylic paint the first with a shiny finish and the second one with a matte finish. 

 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...

"Autumn Delight" Mixed Media Canvas by Amy Voorthuis

 Hello creative friends, 

Today it's my second time this month to bring you some inspiration. For this occasion I created a 12 by 9 inch canvas autumn inspired. I really love making a project inspired by a moodboard and such, I used the same picture as the first layout I created being on this amazing design team. It's one of our Abbey playing in the leaves 

Autumn Delight 

2Crafty Chipboards used: 
Leafy Xmas Frame
Autumn Leaves 
ATC Word Banner Set 1
Mini Title Stick Set 1
Mini Word Set 3
Fine Word Set - Months

I have used several techniques on my mixed media canvas & chipboard pieces. The words "Delight" & "November" I inked with a brown/cream ink pad and after that I aded one layer of just white embossing powder. The word stick & ATC banner I just left I only added some rusty brown wax around the edges. 

On the Leafy Xmas Frame I used three different kind of sprays and when those were still wet I added two different embossing powders randomly not covering the whole piece then I used my heat tool. On the leaves I added some white gesso and also three sprays but just left them to dry naturally. 

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...

“Vintage Heart”By Elena Martynova

Hello and welcome to the 2Crafty blog today.

For this project, I took a very old photo of my grandmother and my dad.

 This photo was taken in 1954. It was cropped unevenly and slightly dented.

 I think someone has been carrying it in their wallet for a very long time. 

It was probably my grandfather :)))

I really liked the shape of the Solid Folk Heart panel. 

It was convenient to work with and put the composition together.

I pasted it with paper to start and 

added some texture paste with cracks through the stencil.

  

I covered the background chipboard Bubble Grid Panel with Lindy's

 That's Marble-ous embossing powder and glued parts to the base.

Behind the photo, I placed my favorite chip - Pretty Birdcage. 

It is covered with dark green powder.

Family is the main value that we have so I added this title to my work.

It is from the Arrow Word Set 2.

Hope I have inspired you, see you next month for another inspiration!

Thanks for looking xx

2Crafty Products Used:

10" Decorative Panel - Solid Folk Heart

Bubble Grid Panel

Arrow Word Set 2

Pretty Birdcage

 

Have a nice day!

Сheers, Elena.

"Just You" Canvas by Marie Sabatier

Despite the difficult situation in which we currently live, it is important to continue to live by helping ourselves morally with our families, our friends, our occupations.

I hope that my first creation of this month of April will bring you a little inspiration to make you want to create.

I chose to create a canvas with this magnificent "Corner Heart Spray" chipboard

"Just you"

2Crafty Chipboards used :

- Just You

- Corner Heart Spray

- Lattice-Heart Set

- Tiny Leaf Stems

I applied a layer of white gesso on each chipboard.

For the "Corner Heart Spray" chipboard I applied a layer of white crackle paste.

This gives an aged effect.

To stick I used double sided with foam it gives relief.

For the little hearts I applied very light blue embossing powder.

For the "Lattice Heart" and "Tiny Leaf Stems" chipboards I applied "Café au lait" embossing powder.

I chose very pastel shades.

To finish with the title I also worked with embossing powder. 

I like the soft effect of these pastel shades.

Here it is finished, I hope that you will have liked it and that during a few minutes you will have forgotten this sad world.

Take advantage of the time to create and above all take care of yourself!