Mood Board winners for March

 Hello and Happy Friday everyone

Below are the two lucky winners of the March Mood Board challenge.  We would like to thank every one that takes the time to create and enter.

Sanne ter Horst 

and

Lydia Guijt

(If you could both email your address details to 

info@dustyattic.com.au)

Why not enter April's challenge for your chance to win one of two $50 (AUD) credits to the Dusty Attic Online store just like Sanne and Lydia have.

All you need to do is enter your take on the challenge in the comments section on the 

Dusty FANattic Facebook Page

Keep watch over the month for our amazing Design Team inspirations for us.

Techno Heart - Anat Weksler - Mood Board Inspiration

 Hello craft friends!

It's Anat here and I'm back with my Moodboard inspired project.

Dusty Attic's March Moodboard inspired me to create this project which I'm calling Techno Heart. 

To create my project I first cut an heart out of  cardboard, next I've created a ressit effect with Lindy's Embossing Powder, Prima Stamps and a few Lindy's Sprays. 

I used 2 Techno circles to shape my heart, to do that I've  sprinkeld a bit of water on them and carefully  started bending it around my Heart. As soon as it got the shape I attached it to the heart. When dry I colored the bended techno chipboards with redish brown paint and added on top Brushed Amber Finnabair Jewel Paste.

DA2856 - Techno circles

All other chippies and metal elements were colored with different acrylic paints brushing on top Sparkling Onyx and Rose Quartz - Finnabair Jewel Pastes and a bit of metalique waxes.

Here are the gorgeous pieces I have used:

DA2860 - Industrial jumbo gears

DA2861 - Gear corners#1

DA2185 - Decorative hinge#1-small

DA1128 - Elegant swirl#8

DA2526 - Fancy trim#15

and some more picture:

Thanks for stopping by!

xoxo

Champions - Adri Du Preez - Mood Board Inspiration

 Hello everyone!

I am sharing my project inspired by the March moodboard filled with so many wonderful Dusty Attic chippies, Prima resins and Mitform Casting metal elements.

This is my son-in-law Juan, who loves mountain biking.  The dirt, adrenaline, mental and physical challenge is what makes him tick, and he is always up for a challenge. 

Here is the moodboard.

and here is my project.

This large gear was cut out off  thick cork by my husband, as I could not find one in any of our craft shops. 

All the chipboard pieces, except the mini captions, were randomly covered with coarse gesso, and once dry covered with black gesso. Next, I painted the parts with using a sponge brush and Americana Acrylic paint in Burnt Umber, Georgia Clay, Tangelo Orange and True Ochre. I dry brushed all the parts with white gesso and Art Alchemy Wax in Rich Copper.

Behind the cork gear I glued a piece of corrugated cardboard that has some randomly torn sections. I covered the corrugated cardboard with black gesso and once dry I painted it the same way as I did the cogs and gears without using course gesso as I felt the torn sections had enough texture.

The three mini captions defines Juan's character so well, and were covered with the Georgia Clay acrylic paint and edged with the Burnt Umber.

I love the Geckos. They were both first covered with clear gesso and then Distress Oxide in Black Soot and Walnut Stain, pressed onto a craft mat and spritz with water and slid through the droplets a few times. Then, dry brushed with Tangelo Orange and white acrylic paint. 

The bike chains were painted with Burnt Umber acrylic paint, edged with black ink and dry brushed with Tangelo Orange and white acrylic paint.

Some close ups.

Look at the amazing texture on the cork and corrugated cardboard.

Here you can see the stunning Mitform Casting metal elements.

After everything was glued down I added copper glass glitter and splatters with diluted white gesso.

These are the Dusty Attic chipboard pieces that I have used.

DA1151 - Bard Wire Frames

DA2595 - Geckos

DA1935 - Machine Parts #2

DA0405 - Mini Chains

DA1939 - Gauge Pointers

DA1308 - Mini Captions #5

DA1941 - Bike Chains

DA2184 - Industrial Globes #3

DA1949 - Industrial Border #1

DA1977 - Cogs and Gears

DA0002 - Cogs #2

DA0232 - Jumbo Cogs #1

DA2501 - Jumbo Cogs #2

DA1938 - Industrial Chains

DA0327 - Cogs Frame Set

Why not enter the moodboard Challenge yourself?  All you need to do is add your take on the challenge into the comments section on the Dusty FANattics Facebook page for your chance to win one of two amazing $50 Credits to choose any chippies you like. 

Good luck and happy crafting!