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