2 Crafty Chipboard Project Shares for January

I am up on the 2Crafty Blog today with some shares for January

You can find the post HERE

"Dogs Have A Special Way"

I have lots of projects to share with you this month including my Christmas table 

centerpiece and my layout for the final challenge at Scrap Around The World .

My first layout features my precious fur babies Rodney & Peggy, amazing how still

 and cute they sit when the photographer is holding a treat! This page was created using one of the gorgeous new Bo Bunny Collections Soiree.

The title chipboard piece is just the perfect saying,  

"Dogs Have A Special Way Of Adding Love To Everyday",

 and I love how it is made up of different fonts yet remains a single piece.

 I decided to treat each part separately by adding various paints, inks and embossing

 powders to them. I created the different textures by using paint and then drying it fast

 with a heat gun, this forms a bubbly texture that is quite fun.

I think the "Heart Clumps" are one my favourite pieces in the 2Crafty range of

 products, they are versatile and delicate and I love how they look on the page. I gave

 them a coat of gesso and then roughly dabbed over them with some Prima Watercolour 

Pencils, for some of the solid hearts I traced around them on patterned paper cut them 

out and glued them on. My butterflies didn't turn out how I had envisioned them, which 

was a pastel pink with some green flecks, however the colour was a match for my 

papers and that was good enough. 

2Crafty Produts Used:

Dogs Have A Special Way - title

Heart Clumps

ATC Hearts & Stars

"So Rad"

 My husband & I play darts at the weekend and I had never hit a maximum score.... 

until this point, I was so excited that I had to snap a picture and of course

 create a page to document it.

I took the word RAD from the "6 x 6 Motocross" themed sheet of chipboard, I inked it 

 bold red as I really wanted to make the statement reflect how excited I was. I layered it

 over this wiggly arrow that comes in the "Funky Arrows" set, I painted the arrow 

with some pearlescent paint in a silvery grey colour.

I wanted my background pieces to appear slightly old and a little grungy I dug out my 

mica powders and added blues and reds to the "Gears & 6" Clock Face Frames" to

 achieve the look I was after. I embossed lots of little stars in silver to add a little 

more shine to the page.

I felt the layout needed something to the right to balance it out, I used some "Clouds" and

 the other half of the "6" Clock Face Frame along with some of the elements in the main 

cluster. I had a bottle of super heavy Gesso for Christmas (yes Santa is very kind and can

 cater to my odd crafting wishlist) I tried to use and stencil to add the texture but this didn't

 go so well and I ended up just spreading it over the chipboard and then dabbing it with

 my palette knife, but I do think it gives them a sort of fluffy texture just like clouds, another

 "Happy Accident" I added the word Enjoy to the cluster and it finishes it off just nicely.

2Crafty Products Used:

Clouds

Funky Arrows

Assorted Arrows

6 x 6 Motocross

Gears

ATC Tiny Hearts & Stars Pack

Mini Word Set 1

6" Clock Face Frames

"Christmas Table Centerpiece"

I have for the past few years made a special effort to decorate my dining table for 

Christmas lunch, this year I used some 2crafty Chipboard along with some fresh

 foliage to create this gorgeous altered sleigh/birdhouse.

2Crafty Products Used;

Mini Bauble Trees

Young Reindeer

Mini Corners 1

"Our Dream"

Last month some of us were lucky enough to guest design over at Scrap Around The World,

 I created this page based on this moodboard. 

2Crafty Products Used;

Dream title

Mixed Borders

Dainty Alphabet

Assorted Polaroid Frames

Mini Branches

Butterfly Frames

2 Crafty Chipboard December shares

I am up on the 2Crafty blog with my December layout shares 

  "Christmas Tradition"

Its always fun to scrap our festive pictures and preserve our own family traditions. In our  family it is traditional for me to put my Grandaughter to bed on Christmas Eve, we put  out some snacks for Santa and then I read her a story before she goes to sleep. She is  getting older now and I know this tradition will soon end, mores the pity.  2Crafty always have the perfect chipboard to record the occasion.  

I inked the "Christmas Tradition" title with gold ink and then embossed with  gold powder for a very sparkly look.  

Isn't the "Mini Bauble Tree" just too cute? I used white acrylic paint then sprinkled  some green embossing powder over, I gave some sharp taps so that the powder was  uneven on the surface, this then allows for the white to seep through in some parts.  

I used one of the pieces from the "Circles Set". I covered it in white glitter and placed it  behind the title slightly. It also frames the little bird that I fussy cut from the patterned  paper. I glittered some stars and scattered them around my page.   2Crafty Products used:

A Christmas Tradition title

ATC Hearts & Stars

6" Clock Frames

Mini Bauble Trees

Circles

Assorted Polaroid Frames

"Be YoursELF"

Last year I played the "Elf on a Shelf" as a bit of fun, I used the "Be Yourself" title  for my page. I used a different colour on the Elf part of the word as a fun element.  

I used the "Twig Stem" as a tree and embossed it with gold, for the "Reindeer" I painted it  first with a coat of white and then some brown, whilst it was still wet I used a tiny dots stamp  for the dots you see on young deers backs. I gave him a red nose and gold glittery antlers too.  

 I framed my photo using the "Doodled Frame". The snowflakes are from the  "Mini Weather Icons" set I simply added glue and then lots of glitter.   

I am loving the mix of gold and silver on my pages so I decided to coat the "lightbulb"   chippie with a silver embossing powder, I layered it between an "Ornate Snowflake"   and my title piece, I inked the element of the bulb in black for a little contrast.   2 Crafty have so many beautiful seasonal chipboards to choose from  and they look fab on your pages.   2Crafty products used:

Twig Stems

Ornate Snowflakes

Mixed Border Strips

Young Reindeer

Be Yourself title

Doodled Frames

Lightbulbs

Mini Weather Icons

Christmas Advent with Bo Bunny Dear Santa

Christmas is coming......

I wanted to make an advent calendar for this year and its no good waiting til December to start so I thought I would be all prepared. I came up with the idea of altering the actual box that these chocolates came in, of course I turned to Bo Bunny for some festive inspiration and chose to use the Dear Santa line for my project.

 

I cut pieces from lots of different sheets to use to cover the chocolates, then I cut the small numbered sheet up that came in the Dear santa 6 x 6 paper pad. I layered these onto the small rectangles then attached then in place.

 

 

I fussy cut some images for the center of the calendar and finished it off with a Happy Christmas Gold Foil Transfer. I love how the colours in this collection make everything looks so super festive.
Can't wait to share this with hubby on the 1st.

Bo Bunny Supplies Used;
Patterned Paper; Advent, Candy Cane, Festive, Sweater, Wonderland/Dear Santa
6 x 6 Paper Pad: Dear Santa
Foil Transfers: Gold Foil Sentiments
Stickers; Double Dot Tuxedo Alaphabet

My November shares for 2Crafty Chipboard DT

 

 

"Beach Escape"

  Hey there 2 Crafty fans I am excited to be here to share with you two layouts that I  created using the fabulous 2Crafty Chipboards this month. I have a short video tutorial   to go with this first layout but please, bear with me as its my first attempt at a video.  

I used chipboard pieces from 12 different chippie sets on my page, can you spot them all?

I used gold glittery embossing powder on the sun, taken from the Summertime Words Set

 and I used the same treatment on the Polaroid Frame that surrounds my photograph.

The Tiny Film Strips are perfect for tucking in and can help to add balance to

your pages, I left them raw and I think they look great this way.

I used two different embossing powders on the Beach title chippie, I explain this in

 a little more detail on my video. The words in the Mini Travel Word Sets are small and

 delicate and I glued the escape word to the title piece to elongate my title.

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2Crafty products used:

Bubble Clumps

Beach Word

ATC Hearts & Stars

Assorted Polaroid Frames

Tiny Film Strips

Mini Travel Words set1

Multi Tab Assorted

Doodled Heart

ATC Words1

Mini Weather Icons

Word Circles set2

Mixed Border Strips

  "The Very Best"   For my next page I used the Word Circles set 1 and a Dancing Sun  to create a strip across the middle of the page.  

  I kept the circles quite muted but they are still a great focal point for the layout, in  contrast I gave the Dancing Sun a coat of gesso and then used embossing ink with a  white glitter embossing powder to give some sparkle.  

  The Assorted Arrows are an essential set to have,  as I find myself using them on lots  of pages, they just give that little extra something something to your work. I placed a  piece of patterned paper behind the Fast Forward Arrow to create a little embellishment.  Some string wound through the circles added the finishing touch.   2Crafty Products Used Fast Forward Arrows Assorted Arrows Dancing Sun Handrawn Stars  

Finally, I'd like to share an additional layout I recently created for

 CSI: Color, Stories, Inspiration using this Case File:

"Busy Doing Absolutely Nothing"

 2Crafty Products Used

Triangle Set

Busy Doing Absolutely Nothing Title

Assorted Arrows

Clock Face Frame

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Hope you have a Happy Scrappy day

Tracee x