'#naughtyornice' by Elisa Ablett December Inspiration

Hi Everyone, 

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all. 

Christmas day is over for another year and now you have a chance to pop your feet up

 with a drink and catch up on the inspiration on the 2Crafty Blog!

The 2Crafty Design team were lucky enough to 'guest design' for CSI Challenge Blog 

for this month and I decided to base my layout around Challenge No. 268.

What a fantastic challenge! check out the challenge below and I have also 

provided the link to the details and blog for you. 

' I drew inspiration from the challenge graphic and colour scheme for my layout, incorporating wood, circles, music, chalkboard and greenery as well as many Christmas elements like Baubles, poinsettias and presents. 

The challenge criteria was perfect for creating that special Christmas layout. '

Link to the CSI Challenge Blog and #268 challenge details.

http://csichallenge.blogspot.com/2018/12/case-file-no-268-deadline-december-31.html

2Crafty Chipboard products used in the layout:-

Product Links:

http://2crafty.com.au/craft_chipboard/circle-stack-units-p-1346.html

http://2crafty.com.au/craft_chipboard/christmas-word-unit-p-1817.html

http://2crafty.com.au/craft_chipboard/present-unit-p-619.html

http://2crafty.com.au/craft_chipboard/bauble-ornament-unit-p-1720.html

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Here are some close ups of the finer details:

For my title chipboard piece, I heat embossed with a brilliant white embossing powder 

to make it pop off the page! I added splatters of white gesso over my page as well
to soften the background colours and tie in with the white embellishments.

I hand coloured the present chipboard in a lovely red and white colour scheme from
the challenge graphic from CSI Challenge Blog. I used fine tip tombow markers.

The ornamental Christmas baubles I heat embossed with a white glitter embossing powde

r just to add that extra bling and shine to the them. I staggered them around the other 

circles on my layout to add another layer to my background.

 The felt poinsettias were fussy cut from a very old piece of Christmas scrapbooking paper that didn't have a brand name on it so I can't list it on here, Sorry! but it was lush and adds texture to my page!

The background circles are chipboard nesting circles which I heat embossed with
 shiny black embossing powder. Once they were dry, I added scraps of Christmas paper
 and wood grain paper to add a few elements from the CSI challenge.

I loved participating as a Guest Designer for CSI as part of the 2Crafty Design Team contingent, what a fabulous Christmas themed challenge, just the right inspiration for all those new Christmas photos.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today, 

Hugs 

Elisa xx

http://2crazycrafters.blogspot.com.au/

'Dream' by Elisa Ablett - November Inspiration

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.

I have another mixed media girl layout to share with you today.

The photo is of my great niece, a gorgeous gal with loads of personality and big dreams.

I wanted to create a mixed media layout brimming with pastel colours and soft flowers.

I also love a bit of bohemian style to my layouts and the stencil work combined with the flowers, butterflies and gorgeous turkish lanterns worked together beautifully!

I must say the colour combo of berry, blues and turquoise has got to be a new favourite of mine.

I love a good design swatch and this one comes from Design-Seeds. 

https://www.design-seeds.com/tag/violet/page/2/)

The Chipboard featured in the layout from 2Crafty include the following (links provided): - 

 angies-vines-unit-p-1154

dream-loopy-font-unit-p-1135

lacey-border-unit-p-1644

turkish-lanterns-units-p-1941

rose-unit-p-1901

Lets take a closer look at what techniques I used to alter my chipboard for the layout:

For my title and in keeping with the boho style, 

I painted my title bright white and added an offcut of lace and machine stitching 

using berry coloured thread underneath. 

I also added the stitching to my coloured die cut butterfly embellishment.

The Turkish Lanterns are gorgeous! 

I heat embossed them with Berry coloured embossing powder, 

then I painted the chain and selected bits with a black Posca paint pen. 

The backing paper is an off cut of water colour paper sprayed with the turquoise spray

 and then fussy cut and glued to fit the back of the lanterns.

I selected a lovely Lacey Border piece and inked it with black ink, it serves as a great backing piece and border to separate my stencilled background from the white space below.

The gorgeous Rose Set of chipboard was calling my name for this layout!

To achieve this dreamy pastel look on my chipboard, I lightly gesso'd my pieces of chipboard - 

Rose Set and Angie's Vines and then once dry I used a paint brush 

to paint the 13 Arts Chalk Pastel Sprays in Berry and Turquoise

 onto my pieces of chippie. If you wanted an even lighter shade, 

water the sprays down or add a small amount of gesso.

Well that's it from me today!

I hope you have enjoyed stopping by the blog today, 

please make sure you leave some love in the comments, 

we do like hearing from you.

Hugs 

Elisa Ablett

 

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'Choose Happy' by Elisa Ablett - Mandala inspiration for November

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Elisa here with the first of my November inspirations for you.

Have  you seen the gorgeous new Mandala Chipboard Designs as yet??

If you haven't check with your local stockist to order your sets today, they are absolutely beautiful.

For my latest layout, I wanted to create a free spirited boho inspired layout to go with the Title piece - Choose Happy and the funny and cheeky photo of my great niece who is quite the free spirited character.

I had some lovely new inks from Avery Elle I wanted to try and some lovely metal flowers as well.

A tip for you all - grab out all your old hand punches I love using my circle punches, punch out some lovely watercolour paper and stamp with a mandala stamp or flower stamp to match the chippie. Then add your inks over the top, handy little hand crafted embellies for your page.

Here are the 2Crafty Chipboard products and links that I used on my layout:- 

 

Flower Medallions

Choose Happy Title

4" Mandala No. 3

ATC Tiny Hearts & Stars

Here are my close ups, lets have a look at how I altered my chipboard to match:-

 The title 'Choose Happy' I decided I wanted a two toned embossing to match the inks 

featured in the background. I started with the lightest powder at the top, embossed and then added the darker blue powder to the bottom half of the title and then embossed. 

I also embossed the 4" Mandala and Flower Medallion piece, firstly with a white glitter powder and then while still hot I sprinkled the middle of each piece with the lighter turquoise and blue colour and heat embossed so they melted together.

 I hand coloured each of the hearts with a blue posca paint pen while they were still in the negative chipboard frame to make it easier, then when they had dried, I carefully popped them out and glued them to my page.

To add extra interest to my chippie pieces, I added hand stamped punched circles that I had coloured with the inks and mounted them to the page over the top of the Chipboard with 3D mounting foam, this ties the page and boho theme in quite nicely.

That's it from me today, make sure you leave me some love in the comments!

Hugs xx

Elisa 

"Face Your Fears" By Elisa Ablett -Mixed Media Boy Layout PLUS A Step by Step Tutorial

"Scooter Kid"

Hi Crafters 😃

STEP BY STEP TUTORIAL INCLUDED!!!

My turn up on the blog today with my latest inspiration for the month of October.

I was going through some photos and found a great sequence of photos of my

 youngest son on his scooter from a recent trip to the skate park. 

I used the colour scheme from his clothes and the stripes from his shirt as the 

basis of my layout and then added my chipboard to match, great pieces for a boy layout.

 Here are the awesome chipboard pieces from 2Crafty that I used in my layout: - 

2Crafty Chipboard Used

Numbers Panel

Polaroid Assorted 

Scooter Kid Title

Skulls (1) 

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STEP BY STEP

STEP ONE - Using your gel plate 12 x 12 or 12 x 14 size plate, add your blue colour first in the middle of your plate, then add a few drops of white paint then brayer over the top, it will create a lovely distressed striped pattern. I matched my blue paint to the colour of the shirt in the photo. Tip your white cardstock upside down onto the paint and rub gently on the back and then pull your print! It should look like the photo below in the middle of your page.

STEP TWO - Using a liquid paper correction pen and a ruler, add some white lines to
 your gel plate print background and put the background aside to dry.

STEP THREE - Use a bright post box red paint to paint your number panels, I used 

fine tip scissors and snipped my panels as in the photo above.

STEP FOUR - Cut your photos to size and mount on white cardstock and then ink around the edges

STEP FIVE - Add some stamping to your page, I used distressed marks from Darkroom Door,
 Face your fears set by Andy Skinner for Stampendous, Aall and Create stamps to name a few.
 Grab your favourites!

STEP SIX - Paint your Polaroid frames black, then let dry. 

Then using white embossing powder and a grid stamp, 

emboss white grid patterns onto your painted chipboard as shown in the next few photos.

Emboss your Scooter Kid title with the white embossing powder as well.

STEP SEVEN - Use a post box red paint (or candied apple) to add lines to your layout. 

Squirt some of the paint onto your craft mat and using the side of your ruler, 

rub it through the paint and then stamp it onto your page, 

you can also drag it along your page as well for a different effect.

Stamp using a red ink pad and number stamps along the left hand side
of your page as well to match the red on the right.

STEP EIGHT - Glue your Polaroid frames to the page and place your numbers over
the top but don't glue them until you have your photos correctly 

positioned onto the page. Glue both down onto your page and then 

add your title and Charms Creations Silver Glitter star as an extra embellishment.

Last few steps are - stamp a few road signs, fussy cut them out and add to your page.

Glue your inked skull down to your star embellishment.

Using a yellow Irresistible Pico Embellisher add yellow highlights to your page,

 scribbly writing, some grungy marks and a few lines. 

SOME CLOSE UPS OF THE FINER DETAILS !! 

That's it from me today, 

I hope I have inspired you to try a little gelli plate printing with your layouts 

and to add a sequence of photos !

Make sure you leave me some love in the comments 

and if you want to follow along on my crafty adventures here are my links :-

http://2crazycrafters.blogspot.com.au/

https://instagram.com/elisaablettdesigns/

Hugs xx

Elisa Ablett