find Yourself - created for 2Crafty chipboard

Hello 2Crafty addicts.

Emma here with you all today.

Today's share is a soft yet spacey vibed layout.

Find Yourself

Here is the chipboard pieces I chose for this page.....

Flower Doilies
Corner Retro

6" Mandala No.1
Mini Word Set 1

I have been putting myself under a lot of pressure lately and felt I was over doing it on my pages. So with this one I decided to keep It more simple.

All the chippy I used this time I primed with either a black or white gesso.

So for this beautiful Mandala I rubbed over it with a Prima Wax once the gesso was dry. But I didn't want to cover it completely in wax, so when rubbed with a finger it allows for the base colour to pop through. Giving contrast.

For the Retro Corners I painted gesso and then once that was dry I painted over it in an acrylic metallique paint. look at all that shine.

For the Flower Doily I applied the same principle as the Mandala, but went heavier with the wax, this time full coverage.

And finally for the 'Capture' word, I simply applied wax to the chipboard, no gesso for this and it still worked perfectly. That is why I love 2Crafty chipboard, every medium works beautifully on it.

And that's this page done.

It brought me a lot of joy to create this piece, feeling more true to me.

I hope it inspires you in some way?

I'll catch you all very soon, till then happy scrapping :)

Em xx

Time 4 Tea - created for ScrappingClearly

Yay! It's Friday friends!

Emma here with you all today and today's share is a page full of inspiration from this months

 mood board.

And the glorious mood board.....

The first thing that grabbed my attention was the Gold.

Then it was the Tea.

I'm a massive tea drinker, I love it. It's my go to beverage, so I found this feminine (also inspired from the board) image from Pinterest.

Let me tell you a little about what I used for my background work.

I started by using through a stencil some Stone effect paste in Concrete, as I was using a dark background I wanted colour to still come to the front.

Then I flicked some Lindy's around, Buccaneer Bay Blue as this had blue and gold tones and Silent night Silver for the grey tones.

Within my layers, I used up older papers that I cut into tags and a Heidi Swapp Decorative tag that I stenciled over and then rubbed Art Alchemy acrylic paint in Ancient Coin over it to make it shimmer from the rest of the layers.

I added a couple of PinkFresh stitched hearts for some of my embellishments.

My chipboard is also painted with the Ancient Coin paint. So much shine it gives.

Finally my title is made with Heidi Swapp glitter stickers, naturally choosing the Gold ones to create this.

At the top of this picture I snuck in a few teabag tags and string to use as elements of interest.

I really hope you get to play this month with this beautiful board.

I'll be watching to see your creations coming through ;)

I'll see you all again soon.

Happy Scrapping, Em xx