One of a Kind by Elisa Ablett || Flutterby Designs

Hi everyone,

Elisa here from the design team for Flutterby Designs with my latest creation for you along with a step by step on how I created my background and tips on using the Art Foamies stamps.

Before we start the tutorial, lets take a quick look at some of the products I used to create with from the Flutterby Shop, a few bits and pieces from past kits as well.

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flutter-colour-paint

Magical AF Filler Cards and everyday-etc-cards

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https://www.flutterbydesigns.com.au/kits

Little Big Love stencils

So lets take a look at how I created the background - 

Using a palette knife, spread black gesso or thick black paint over the left and right hand sides of your background paper. Let it dry or heat dry.

Use a brayer and a craft mat to 'load' up your art foamies stamp, i find the paint goes on smoother and you get a better print. This is also a great way to add more than one colour at once!

Dry each layer and each colour before you add your next lot of stamping. Add a lighter contrasting colour over the top and then bring that out onto your background paper as well. 

I only wanted to add a small amount of yellow to the page so I only added colour to a small portion of the stamp and also used my 'clean' palette knife to spread it along the edges of my paper a bit as well.

Add some cool white stripes to your page using the edge of your ruler. Add white paint to your craft messy mat, spread it out using a palette knife and then dip your ruler into the white and 'stamp' onto your page, keep stamping until you have the lines and effect you want.

Add smears or splatters of white paint to your page using your finger, and splatters with a fan brush.

Using the palette knife again, spread pink paint through the Little Big Love Flutterby Stencil as shown in the photo above. The let dry before you add anything else. Once dry, tear strips of gold washi tape from a past kit and add to your background then stick your desired strips and stickers over the top.

Layer Filler Cards under your chosen photo, I chose bright and funky filler cards to match my background.

Stick down your photo cluster and then add your title ! I outlined my photo in black pen to make it stand out a bit more. 

Here are some close ups :-) 

I hope to see your creations using my background technique.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today, make sure you leave me some love!

Hugs

Elisa x

Magical || By Elisa Ablett for 2Crafty Chipboard

Hi friends,

Elisa here with my last layout for 2Crafty Chipboard, but this doesn't mean you won't see me around Facebook, Instagram and in groups so please make sure you still say hi and keep following me with my new endeavours.

I cannot thank Vanessa and Di enough for such a fabulous opportunity to be a part of a super talented team and lovely bunch of designers and I will miss them and hopefully one day I can apply to the team again.

For my last layout I decided to break open my Oxide Inkpads for the background and also see if I could incorporate them to cover chipboard as well.

The 2Crafty products used in this layout - 

Circle Stack

ATC Mini Hearts and Stars

Wildflower Set

Filmstrip 

Fine Words 2

Let's take a closer look at the chipboard used in this layout -

For the title 'Magical' I heat embossed with a white glitter embossing powder 

and the film strip was inked with black ink to make the title pop out !

I love how the 'Wildflower set' turned out, it was completely a happy accident, I inked the chipboard with an embossing liquid but for some reason it wasn't that tacky and only some of the black embossing powder stuck to the pieces. So I had a thought of adding some of the Oxide Colours from the background to cover the parts of the chipboard that had a small amount or no embossing powder on it. The colours of the Oxides remained so vibrant and bright on raw chipboard and I really liked the colourful distressed look.

I also inked the circle chipboard and heat embossed with black glossy embossing powder and lastly the Mini ATC Stars, I coloured with a gold glitter watercolour pen just to add that sparkle. I also added some gold splatters to the background. 

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#NaughtyorNice by Elisa Ablett - Guest Detective for CSI Challenge Blog (2Crafty Sponsored)

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 powder 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

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'Dream' by Elisa Ablett

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by the 2Crafty 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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