The Dusty Attic Blog: November 2015

Thursday, 26 November 2015

Daddy & I - Patricia Basson

Hello to all my Bloggie friends today!

I am fortunate to have a few sheets of 7 Dots Studio papers and what better product to combine them with than my ever favourite Dusty Attic chipboard!!!

This is a photo of me and my Father when I was only a few weeks old...

At first I planned on having the frame behind the photo but after all the work I put into it and seeing what it looked like I decided to rather put it on the photo.

I used the Cog Stencil and some brown ink to add interest to the back page. I then thickened Hot Chocolate and Oceania Paint with Ayeeda's Magic Powder to create a nice thick paste that I used with the Circuit Stencil.

I wanted to add texture to my chipboard and also to my page and to achieve this I added some cotton to the top and bottom of my photo stack and Finnabair Plum Glass Beads, Sterling Glass Glitter and fine Black glitter.

The Vintage Frame and Ornate Pendant were both painted with the following Dusty in Colour Paints...Hot Chocolate

Mountain Meadow

Oceania

Sunburnt Orange.

I just painted each colour randomly and kept going until I was happy with the antique effect that I was going for. Once dry I distressed the frame in places with a sanding block to expose some raw chipboard which I then inked with Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink. Finally I gave it a light dry brush swipe with Gold Opal Magic Mica Powder.

Using various Distress Stains and paints...Abandoned Coral, Peeled Paint, Spiced Marmalade and Vintage Photo, I coloured the Cogs. I also added a little clear UTEE to them.

A few Bling elements on the Ornate Pendant...

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Find these and many more in the Dusty Attic Store...

Circuit Stencil: DA 1322

Cog Stencil: 1328

Dusty in Colours: Hot Chocolate

Mountain Meadow

Oceania

Sunburnt Orange

Thank you for your visit...

Being a great father is like shaving.

No matter how good you shaved today,

you have to do it again tomorrow.

~Reed Markham~

Tuesday, 24 November 2015

Altered CD - Lizzy Hill

G'day! I thought for my Dusty Attic extra this month, I'd do something Christmas-sy.

I had this CD & decided to create a sort of spinner decoration.

Here's the end result. This is my 'funny' photo. I found a hook on our verandah, but DH was in the background. He decided to 'hide', LOL!!!

Giggles! This is a double sided creation....& I've done a step by step, if, like me, you've got CD's that could be 'up-cycled':

1. Adhere ribbon through centre hole, onto both sides of the CD:

2. Cut out patterned paper. Use CD as a template. I've used 2 different

papers:

3. Adhere. I used PVA glue, which worked really well:

4. Add your title, or some nice Christmas words.

I outlined my words, as they didn't 'pop' quite enough:

5. Using the HANGING MASON JARS, I painted them white with a Sharpie

paint marker, then wrote the words on them. I added gold glitter nail polish

& finally some fine glitter, which stuck beautifully to the nail polish:

For the 'wrong' sides, I added my own lid lines with a marker:

6. Time to fancy up the FEATHER CHARMS #2 & #3:

Using DUSTY ATTIC paint in VINTAGE GOLD over the Sharpie white

paint pen, then adding some Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze on the baubles, with

some fine glitter sprinkled over, this is how they turned out:

The ORNATE PENDANTS #2 got a coat of the paint only:

I also added a touch of gold to some of the Hanging Mason Jars:

Here is how the front and back turned out:

I LOVE how you can actually HANG some of the little jars - on the

right side, above.

I really find those 'traditional' colours of red and green hard to use, so

was pleased with these ones! Some close ups:

You can see I also rubbed some DA Vintage Gold paint around the edges:

And the 'joy' side:

I added a die cut bell behind the chippy on this side, too:

I hope this gets you enthused about some Christmas decorating. It is coming up fast!

Thanks for looking & happy scrapping ~ Lizzy.

Sunday, 22 November 2015

Treasures - Heather Jacob

Hi there my friends , a great big warm welcome to the Dusty Attic blog . We are in Spring here in Australia and today I have a nature layout to showcase . Gardening, blooms and nature are some of my favourite things in life.

This month I have used a Photograph of some seaside daisies, poking their happy little faces through the rustic cast iron fence .

TREASURES

Dusty Attic materials used

French flourish border/ DA0275

Bird cage /DA0678

Hanging Mason Jars/ DA1364

Leafy Stem #5 /DA1144

Decorative frame #1 /DA0207

Dusty in color Mountain Meadow /DA0916

Dusty in color Oceania /DA0912

The colors are mixed together to achieve this hue.

I began with Mountain Meadow

and gradually added tiny amounts of Oceania until I was happy with the tone .

Dusty in color Mountain Meadow /DA0916

Dusty in color Oceania /DA0912

Leafy Stem #5 /DA1144

the leafy stem is trimmed,

then painted and layered over and under the right side of photo .

loving these little mason jars... adorable x

Decorative frame #1 /DA0207

I placed this frame upside down and added a couple

of altered metal embellishments to the centre of the circle .

my blog

thanks so much for popping by and taking a look at my work

and all the other inspiring creations at Dusty Attic

bye for now

big hugz to you

love Heather x

Heather Jacob www.heatherartandlife.blogspot.com

Friday, 20 November 2015

Art Is Canvas -with tutorial - Mood Board Inspiration - Rachelle Sigurdson (plus some bonus creations)

Hello, today I am here to share with you a canvas I did using Dusty Attics Mood Board for November. The photo used, is a close up from my last post, so I repeated some of the products used on my last post...

The challenge has an amazing prize of a $100 Dusty Attic Gift Voucher for the winner and to enter you simply need to use the Mood Board for Inspiration, you can interpret it anyway you like. The only requirement is that Dusty Attic chipboard is used in your creation. Once completed simply add your link to the right side bar of the Dusty Attic blog.

The Dusty Attic used:

Spring Blooms #3

string frames small

barb wire frames

flower layers #4 mixed

mini branches #2

swirly vine #2

fish net panel

name plate #5

flutterbies #3

word tags #1

mini Script ABC

Dusty Texture paste

Dusty in Colour Denim

Dusty in Colour Raisin

Dust in Colour Gingernut

Dusty in colour clear crackle varnish

The Maja Design used:

Jeans

Time for reflection

Time for reflection-BS

Other products used:

Petaloo - Textured Collection - Mixed Layering Flowers - Black

Petaloo-Textured mixed layering flowers

Prima - Art Extravagance - Texture Paste - Graphite - 8.5 Ounces

Prima Texture Paste-Graphite

Prima - Art Basics - Heavy Gesso - Black - 8.5 Ounces

Prima heavy gesso-black

Prima glass pearls

Lyndy's Stamp Gang

grab a guy gold. afternoon delight denim,jazzy jiven purple

LuminArt: Black Emerald & Emperors Gold

My first step was to soak the flowers in warm water, separate the chipboard layers,then I crumpled them up.

I then painted the under side & top with DA paints Denim & Raisin....

Next step,painted on a thick coat of Clear crackle...

Paper Layers

I painted all of the paper with clear crackle....

Did some stencil work,using Gabi's new stencil moving vines, & prima texture paste,graphite..

I painted the DA swirly vine with clear crackle. Once that had dried I painted it with LuminArt,Black Emerald..I also used the black emerald on the stencil...

LO, is now turning into a canvas, that I had painted with black gesso....

I did some more stencil work, using DA texture paste that I had mixed Lyndy's Stamp Gang,grab a guy gold

I also used that on the fish net panel, frames,nameplate & butterflys...

I layered the flowers with the chipboard layers, & Petaloo textured flowers. I used a brad to hold them together. I then painted them with Lyndy's Stamp Gang, afternoon delight denim & jazzy jiven purple. The next step was to glue on the beads,then the Prima pearls...