"Love Forever Happiness" layout by Amy Voorthuis

Well hello fellow crafters, 

I am very glad you are visiting the blog today, here you can find a lot of inspiration from my fellow DT members who are a huge inspiration to me as well. I just love creating with 2Crafty Chipboard pieces & I love creating with as much of them as possible. So for this layout I went all feminine with a couple of my favorite colors & eight different chippies, enjoy my post! Oh and I used a picture of my husband & daughter last summer in Greece....

Love Forever Happiness: 

2Crafty Chipboard used: 
Window Shutter Set 4
Line Words - Happiness
Leafy Shrub Set 1
6x6 Clock Face Frames
Amelia's Frames 
Mini Word Set 2
Squiggly Circle Arrow Journal Spots
Fine Word Set 1

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

I prepaired all my chipboard pieces with white gesso as I normally do but for all of the chippies I used a different technique let me explain. For the pretty window shutters I used some rustic paint {white sand} which has a sand like structure and applying it is very easy. After that I added some colors with a matte finish and some white wax. 

The clock face frame & amelia frame atre both firstly sprayed with spray paint and then I added some acrylic paint & three different color waxes. 

The words I embossed with different colors and the word "Happiness" I two toned it so it give it more demension. I also embossed the "squiggly circle arrow journal spots" with some pink embossing powder. 

And for the leafy shrub set I used some spray paint and two different acrylic paints and later on I added some wax. I also did a lot of fussy cutting forthis layout now I know why I love doing that it relaxes the mind haha..

  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

January Shares With Beck BTPlus a VIDEO

Hi, it's Beck Beattie here.   Welcome to the New year!! I'm here with my January inspiration shares.  I had lots of fun with paint and sprays this month while creating my pages.  I have  two different style projects for you showing some different uses for your chipboard.      Please remember while you are here  to become a blog follower & leave a blog comment to

be eligible to go in our monthly draw for a great chippie prize pack.

    "Happy"

 For my first page I wanted to share a sweet feminine page full of paintery fun and glimmer.
  I used lots of Shimmerz paint on this page and oh how much fun it was to create.

I created a video to show the fun I had creating this page.

To view VIDEO CLICK HERE...

Along with the Shimmerz paints I used lots of new Indigoblu stamps that
 are soon to be released, so hope you enjoy the early sneak peek of those.  

   2Crafty Chipboards Used:

11" Hibiscus Frame  Leafy Twig branches Cassie's Flourishes Happy loopy font  

  "Happy Birthday Card" Today I have a fun masculine style card to share.  I really had so much fun creating this one!   I started out with some stencilling in the background using Fun Stamper's Journey  chevron stencil and Color splash in Shimmer Gold.  

I sprayed the cog border piece with Fun Stampers Journey Shimmer Silver spray.   
I just love the metallic effect it instantly gave the chipboard!

I simply coloured up the chevron bits with a red marker -
 such a quick and easy way to color up the chipboard!

The 'Happy Birthday' words were easily painted up with Indigoblu black Gesso

Add some lovely interest to your chipboard by mopping up various colours of sprays

 from your craft mat one at a time and you get this neat effect!

Finish off with some splatter of watered down black gesso for a cool grungy effect!

2Crafty Chipboards Used:

Mini Sampler set 1 Cog Border Turkish Lattive Panel Happy Birthday Card pack

    

  Hope you got to welcome in the new year in a fine way and wish you all
the prosperity of the New year!   

 

I hope you enjoyed my share this month on the 2Crafty blog!
Happy Crafting xxx Beck BT