My Soulmate Layout for ***2Crafty Chipboard***!

Hello and goodmorning lovely friends,
How wonderful of you all to stop by my blog, this is my first layout for the month february the month of love as we all know. So this year will mark 27 years of being together with "my soulmate" that's why I called my layout this way. The picture I used is on of us both during a wedding of a now ex-colleague of my husband last may. 

My Soulmate

Gorgeous 2 Crafty Chipboards used: 
Frame Chained Hearts
11" Circular Leafy Frame
Frame Chained Circles
Scrabble Tiles
Beaded Hanging Heart Set
Heart Clumps
Crazy About You
Foliage Set 12
Ruby's Swirl
Frame Yvettes

This layout was sitting in a plastic layout holder for like a whole year! I started it but then my inspiration for it got lost along the way, I hope I am not the only one with that problem sometimes. Now I finally had the inspiration & right chippies to finish it. 

I treated the chipboard pieces with one layer of white gesso, then I used both my aqua/alcohol markers to color them in different colors. Behind some of the pieces I added papers from the same collection. I have to say I am in love with the new Foliage Set 12 just as much as I am with my husband hahaha just kidding.

Thank you so much for your visit today. And I sure hope that I have inspired you to take out your lovely 2Crafty Chippies and create and have fun while doing so. Have a wonderful & happy rest of the week! 

Embrace The Journey Mixed Media Panel ***Playing at Finnabair February 2022 Art Recipe***

 Hi lovely friends,

I saw my sweet friend Pascale Bernard use some amazing sized canvasses a while back and I really wanted them too. So I asked her what size they where and she told me they are 10 by 30 cm. I asked my husbands friend {who lives in France} if he could buy me some since we don't have them here in The Netherlands. This is a fun size to create with.

Embrace The Journey:  

I painted my canvas with heavy black gesso, then I added the swirly florel stencil with some crackle paste when that was dry I put on a layer of black gesso again. Then I used three different mica powders rust, copper & vintage ivory and some water. 

Then I made my mouds four different ones, the frame was also treated with heavy black gesso and the gears & star too. Then I added some matallic flakes on the frame and some waxes. The rest of the moulds are treated with white gesso and a bunch of different acrylic paints & waxes. 

And for the finishing touch I added some memory hardware pearls, wishing bubbles, mechanicals and snow and at the end I used my new favorite wax white pearl to accent the edges of my panel as on the flowers and stencil work.

This is the amazing Art Recipe that's on the Finnabair blog!

 I have used: ArtAlchemy Metallique Paint, Mechanicals & Metallic Flakes 

Products to choose from:  ArtAlchemy Metallique Paint, Mechanicals, Jewel Paste, Metallic Flakes

The colours: beige, dusty orange, light grey

Finnabair products used:

Thank you so much for your visit I hope you like my work & if you would like to know something please let me know. 

Have a great day!