“Together” A Happy Life Layout by Jenny J.

Hello everyone!

I'm here to show you my last creation with 2Crafty.

Now you'll see which 2Crafty Chippies I've used ...

*Mini title stick set 3

*Foliage set 6

*6" clock face frames

*Together

Below, there is a close-up of my focal point...

I've painted the "Clock face frames" pieces with 

textured paints from Finnabair to give them a patina effect.

The 3 pieces are treated the same way.

The title, "Together", is simply painted in black.

On my picture, I love to add a "Mini title stick set 3" chippies 

to enhance the idea behind my creative process.

Here, that chippie is also painted in black but with a touch of bronze wax.

As I love to end my process with flowers and embellishments clusterings, 

I love to insert some delicate foliage chipboards.

Here, they are "Foliage set 6", treated with a spray from Lindy's.

Do you like it!

It's another layout with a darker background LOL

See you next month with more inspiration,

Stay safe!

'Together' by Elisa Ablett - September Inspiration

Hi Crafters,

Elisa here from the design team with my latest inspiration for September, 

a bright and colourful mixed media layout.

"Together"

For this layout I used a gorgeous photo of my niece and great niece which I love.

I wanted to create a lovely watercolour background and try something new with my chippie.

I used the following 2Crafty chipboard - 

Sharon's Butterflies set

Corner Arches

Chipboard Tags

Together title - Loopy Font

http://2crafty.com.au/craft_chipboard/corner-arches-unit-p-807.html

http://2crafty.com.au/craft_chipboard/tags-units-p-162.html

http://2crafty.com.au/craft_chipboard/together-loopy-font-unit-p-1211.html

http://2crafty.com.au/craft_chipboard/sharons-butterflies-unit-p-1249.html

Let's take a closer look at the chipboard pieces -

I love the set of Sharon's butterflies; they are so versatile and I have used them on many projects.

On this layout I heat embossed a heavy white embossing powder onto my chipboard butterfly 

and also onto the title - Together (in the below photo). 

It came out perfectly, they almost look like a raised enamel.

For the Corner Arch, I decided to give it a light coat with gesso first and then let dry.

Once it was dry, I lightly tapped and swiped my Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide Inkpad 

over the top and spritzed it with water and let dry. The end result was a lovely mottled 

distressed look showing patches of white here and there.

The chipboard tag I absolutely love! I wanted to try a new technique on the tag

so I lightly glued some patterned tissue paper over the top of the tag,

then I watered down some gesso and added a white wash over the top, once

dry I sanded the edges and lightly over the top of the tag. It came out

perfect as a background feature which matches the tissue paper I glued to the background.

That's it from me today, I hope you have been inspired to try some of my techniques

on your Chipboard pieces. Make sure you leave me some love in the comments and if you 

want to follow my work - head to my blog or instagram to follow along ...

http://2crazycrafters.blogspot.com/

https://www.instagram.com/elisa_ablett/

Hugs

Elisa xx

February Projects & Video Tutorial By Kripa Koushik

'Gratitude Art Journal Page'

I returned to my craft room after almost two months away last week and this was
 the first project I made - a page to document my gratitude for the timely help that the
 universe sent us during times of crisis these last few months.

There are many layers of paint and texture paste on both pages. To create the impressions on

 the left side page, I pressed three Fluer De Lice ATC pieces into wet texture paste , scratched

 circles around them with a palette knife and a few minutes later, carefully lifted out the first 

two fluer pieces.

On the other page, Ive written my gratitude with a fine tip applicator and made a cluster of chipboard on top of it. There are still a few swirls of brown visible under the chipboard pieces. The base of this cluster is the negative from the Fluer de Lice ATC chipboard sheet. All of the chipboard pieces were covered with white gesso on top of which acrylic paint was applied using a palette knife. The only exception is the gear chipboard under the ochre yellow fluer. It was painted on without gesso and looks darker than the other brown pieces which adds subtle colour variation.

2crafty chipboard used:

* Clock face frames 

* Fluer De Lice ATC

* Vintage Clock Hands

* Steampunk Gears Small

* Steampunk Gears Medium

 

 

'Together'

My second layout was inspired by Case File No: 248 at CSI:
Colours, Stories & Inspiration which 2Crafty Chipboard is sponsoring.

 To frame the photograph, Ive used Ava's frames chipboard. To balance the swirls on the frame,

 Ive added one piece from the Leafy Shrub Set 1 on the other side of the frame and another

 piece from the same set in the bottom left corner of the page.  

 

 Finally, a Mini Flourish bit was tucked under the fuzzy cut flower cluster on the right .

 Here is the video of how this page came together. I hope you enjoy.

TO VIEW VIDEO CLICK HERE

 

2crafty chipboard used:

Ava's frames

Leafy Shrub Set 1

Mini Flourish Bits

Together Loopy Font

Thanks for visiting us today.

Happy creating,

Kripa Koushik