April 2023

 Hello everyone and welcome to the month of  April. 

Easter is upon us in a week! 
I can't wait to be able to scrapbook my grand kids doing an egg hunt with chocolate covered faces and Dusty Attic have the most amazing Easter range ! 

Here is a sample of some of the designs 
You can find them right HERE in the Easter section 

Some amazing layouts by Sharon Giles and Jen Burns

The "Boss" is still away but will be back just after Easter and I KNOW she has been working behind the scene's on another Spectacular NEW RELEASE ! 
So stay tuned 

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A new month brings a new Mood Board and Sketch challenge along with March winners being revealed. 

These two amazing entries have both won a $50 AUD voucher to the website to use on anything they wish to purchase.   Won't you enter for a chance to win ?? 

It is so easy, Just pop your take of the challenge into the comments section of the Dusty Fanattics Facebook page HERE.

Mood Board winner ..... JUDITH BUNCE 

and  Sketch winner .... Robyn Leeanne

Are you ready for the April reveal ?

Remember that these are to inspire you, use one colour or all, use the photo or with the sketch, flip it, turn it upside down, what ever gets you creating.

MOOD BOARD

SKETCH CHALLENGE

WISHING YOU ALL A SAFE AND HAPPY EASTER

Every photo tells story - Michelle Van Oudtshoorn - Mood Board Inspiration

Hi there,

I am sharing a canvas I created for the February moodboard

I drew inspiration off the circular macrons, and the edges of the lace under the coffee cup and thought that this reminded me of gears and I created this canvas

The canvas is covered with a prima tissue paper, then covered with matt gel. When this was dry I added crackle paste and when that was dry I used the the Distressed Grid Stencil DA1538 and used this in places with modelling paste.

All the chipboard was prepared with black gesso. 

I used a combination of gears - DA2734, DA2744, DA2859 and DA2864, as well as industrial clusters DA3374 and DA3377. I also used Industrial Globes DA2184, mini film strips DA2511, layered bolts DA2880 and the small distressed frame DA2872.

I first started layering the gears and bolts and built these up in the left bottom corner and top right corner, building these up to create clusters of gears.

Once this was all layered, and the frame was added, I started dabbing all the cogs with ARTalchemy waxes in browns and iron colours - using a round paint brush, until all the black gesso was covered. The title DA1783"every photo tells a story" was added last.

These are the products I have used:

Thanks for visiting the blog today. And why not take part in the March moodboard challenge and post your entry to the Facebook DustyFANattics page.

Till next time,

Michelle

Daring and Strong - Adri Du Preez - Mood Board inspiration

Hello everyone!

Here is my layout inspired by the March mood board which features beautiful Dusty Attic chipboard pieces.

Here is the mood board.

and here is my layout.

I used a lot of industrial chipboard pieces on this layout. I cut the large frame from the 

Cogs Frame Set in half and glued it to the corners of my page.  One piece of the cog was 

leftover, which I will use for another project.

All the Industrial chipboard pieces were covered with black gesso. 

Next, I painted the chipboard pieces using a sponge brush and Americana Acrylic paint 

in Burnt Umber, Grey Storm, and Slate Grey, and then dry brushed with white acrylic paint.

Two mini captions were covered with Slate Grey and dry brushed with white acrylic 

paint.  To make the captions stand out more, I glued dark gray cardstock to the back.

Some close-ups.

Dusty Attic products used.

DA0405 - Mini Chains

DA1977 - Cogs & Gears

DA3373 - Industrial Cluster #1

DA3374 - Industrial Cluster #2

DA2370 - Cogs #3

DA2501 - Jumbo Cogs #2

DA2184 - Industrial Globes #3

DA2133 - Chain Circles

DA0327 - Cogs Frame Set

DA1308 - Mini Captions #5

I hope you find time to play along with this mood board.  Share your projects on 

our Facebook Page here for your chance to win a  $50 (AUD) credit for two lucky winners 

to the Dusty Attic online shop so you can choose 

your very own chippies you would like to use.

Thank you for visiting the blog today.

Happy crafting!

Vintage Moodboard - Deb Stephens - Moodboard inspiration

Hello everyone and welcome to another Dusty Attic Mood Board project!

To get this look I used a combination of texture through DA2103 Burlap stencil and crackle paste with liquid acrylics and sprays.

DA0506 Foliage #1 was painted sprayed and stamped to help build up layers on the round piece.

Pattern Paper, resin embellishments, vellum die cuts and 49&Market Flowers were used to layer up and finish this off.

Below are a few more photos of this project and the Dusty Attic products used.

Don't forget to upload your Mood Board entry photos for March to be in the running to win more fantastic chipboard!