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Saturday, 29 September 2018

'Together' by Elisa Ablett - September Inspiration

Hi Crafters,

Elisa here from the design team for 2Crafty Chipboard 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

Thursday, 13 September 2018

'#AWESOME" - By Elisa Ablett - September Inspiration

Hi 2Crafty fans 🙋

My turn up on the blog today with my latest 2Crafty creation for September.

I wanted to create a graffiti inspired mixed media layout to match this gorgeous

photo of my son and my great nephew and a graffiti wall at the local skate park.

The background was created with Distress Oxide inkpads and circles punched

from old book paper on a black background and features awesome chippy

pieces coloured to match the background.

For this layout I used the following Chipboard Pieces-

#Awesome

Mini Sampler Set 1

Brick Panel

Here are some close ups of the finer details -

For the title #AWESOME, I painted it with a white Posca Paint pen and then let it dry,

once dry I swiped my blue inkpad across the bottom of the title.

I inked the chevron pieces and small circles from the Mini Sampler Set

of chipboard with different Oxide inkpads to match the background, once dry

I stamped over the top of the small inked circles.

I cut off two panels off the brick 6 x6 panel of chippie and coloured it with the

distress oxide inkpads, layer the colour one by one to achieve a distress graffitti look!

Colour your chevrons and diecuts with splattered oxide ink by swiping your inkpad

onto a craft mat and spritzing with water. Then using a paint brush gather some of
the liquid and splatter it layer by layer onto your diecuts and desired chipboard pieces.

Finishing touch is to add splashes of gold ink onto your page!

That's it from me today, thank you for stopping by the blog.

Make sure you leave me some love in the comments below and you can see

more of my work here - http://2crazycrafters.blogspot.com/

Elisa xx

Wednesday, 13 June 2018

'This Boy' by Elisa Ablett - June Inspiration 2Crafty Chipboard

Hi 2Crafty lovers,

Elisa here from the design team with my the first of my June projects for you,
a grungy mixed media boy layout featuring loads of 2Crafty Chipboard along
with stencils from A.B.Studio, distress ink, Aall and Create stamps and old book paper.

Here are some close ups of the finer details !!

I wanted to distress and 'grunge up' my square frame, so using a distress tool and

black distress ink pad, I lightly inked the frame.

I also added yellow details using a yellow pico embellisher.

I love using compasses on boy pages and I wanted to add little pops of yellow and

teal to the page, so I inked both the compass chipboard to match the background.

Loads of stamping and stencilling in the background.

For the title to my page I inked the chipboard title 'this boy' with a metallic silver ink.

Then once dry I inked the bottom of my title in a blue distress ink.

More grungy stencilling and stamping, and some scribbly writing with a black pico embellisher.

Check out the products used from the 2Crafty Website

Thank you very much for stopping by the blog today, make

sure you leave me some love xx

Hugs

Elisa

Wednesday, 29 November 2017

'Dare to Swim' by Elisa Ablett - Visible Image

Hi everyone,

Elisa here from the design team for Visible Image with my next share for the month.

I wanted to showcase just how versatile the awesome stamps at Visible Image are by creating a multi dimensional mixed media layout featuring 'Dare to Swim' and 'The Ripple Effect' stamp sets.

To start with I stamped on Acetate with black Staz On Ink and fussy cut the images out and set them aside while I created my background.

The background colours and texture is created with Distress Ink Oxides, Distress stains and ART -C water brush pen.

I stamped 'The Ripple Effect' stamp on the background using the distress ink oxide ink pads masking half of the stamp off to create a half circle pattern. When you stamp them together they look like a wave!

Add some more stamping in black using the smaller bubble stamps from the Ripple Effect set across your page along with the fish from Dare to Swim.

Here are some close ups of the finer details!

Products featured from Visible Image

Dare to swim - Visible Image

The Ripple Effect - Visible Image

That's it from me today, don't forget to use your stamps on all sorts of different projects AND materials to get the most out of the stamps!

Don't forget to leave me some love in comments 💜

Monday, 30 October 2017

New Life by Elisa Ablett

Hi Everyone,

My turn up on the Scrap Matrix blog today with a very vibrant mixed media layout featuring a load of 13 Arts products including the 'Aria's Story' collection.

I started the background using the 13 Arts 'his time' stencil along with black modelling paste and some stamping using a small Paper Artsy Stamp

I hand coloured the chipboard feather and a white Satin flower with yellow Ayeeda Ink and a black ink pad.

I also fussy cut the 13 Arts feather stickers to fit in the right hand side cluster of embellishments.

I also added a cute round embellishment from Charms Creations.

Here are some of the products used from the Scrap Matrix Store !

http://scrapmatrix.com/arias-story-sweet-music/

http://scrapmatrix.com/ayeeda-water-ink/ - yellow

http://scrapmatrix.com/13-arts-strength-in-numbers-element-stickers/

http://scrapmatrix.com/brands/13-Arts.html

http://scrapmatrix.com/6x6-stencil-13-arts-his-time-1/

http://scrapmatrix.com/organza-satin-pearls-rose-set-of-3/

http://scrapmatrix.com/bird-in-a-circle/

http://scrapmatrix.com/leaves-black/

That's it from me today, make sure you head on over to the Scrap Matrix Store to have a look at all the gorgeous products in store.

Make sure you leave some love xx

Elisa xx

Saturday, 21 October 2017

Dream Big - By Elisa Ablett

Hi Everyone,

My turn up on the Shop and Crop blog today with something a little different for me - BACK TO BLACK!

I don't normally do a black cardstock background but with the Distress Oxide Inks, an awesome stamp set and a cool technique or two and the I just wanted to try one.

Here is a step by step tutorial on how I made the gorgeous flowers with the distress oxide ink pads.

Step 1 - using a nice smooth black cardstock, ink the middle of your stamp with the 'wilted violet' oxide ink pad and the the outsides of the stamp with the 'picked raspberry'. Then using the smaller of the stamps use 'cracked pistachio' ink pad.

Step 2 - Stamp all over your black cardstock, as you can see the Oxide Ink pads stamp beautifully over the black and come out in almost chalky neon colours.

Step 3 - Smudge your ink pads onto your craft mat and spritz with water liberally. Then using a paint brush splat and drip the liquid onto your cardstock over the top of your stamped images.

Step 4 - Add a bit more colour to the page by turning the cardstock upside down and dipping the flowers into the liquid on your mat and smoothing the back of the page with your hand. A close up below.

Step 5 - I also used the paint brush to add shading and colour to the inside of the flowers.

Then lastly once they have dried, I fussy cut the flowers out and then using a white gel pen added white dots to the middle of the flowers as you can see from the close ups!