Love Completely - Lynette Jacobs

Hello Dusty Attic fans!

It’s Lynette here today to share my latest layout featuring some fabulous Dusty Attic chipboard.  

My daughter have always dodged the camera and when she and Peter got engaged last year this grainy photo is the best that I could get.  I used a very soft and romantic paper collection and decided that making the photo black and white would compliment the papers and hide the imperfections.

This is the chippies I used:

Life Beautifully

Page Pebbles #3

Seedlings #2

Elegant Pearls

I painted the Love Completely, the page pebble and the seedlings leaves with acrylic paint and heat embossed the Elegant Pearls.

Some close ups:

I used white gesso to mute the colours of the flowers and leaves.

I used many layers of patterned papers and a doily.  I separated the layers with foam dots to add dimension.

I just love how elegant this looks.

I love the magic of heat embossing.  I used white embossing powder and added pearls to the ends.

One of the patterned paper manufacturers strips became the perfect journalling.

Here you get an indication of the dimension added with the foam dots between the paper layers.

Thank you for visiting the blog.  Visit the Dusty Attic online store for more amazing designs.
Happy crafting!

Christmas Bauble - Kasia Salmanowicz - Mood Board Inspiration

Hello!

Beautiful Christmas decorations enchant us from all sides. I also decided to make bauble in retro style. I used to this Christmas chipboard and white pearls, which are arranged in beautiful swirls. Everything in shades of brown and a little bit of violet accent, although a result of whole was very bright because I whitening it with white acrylic paint. 

I found that this effect suits me best. A project inspired by moodboard 

As a standard, I covered a cardboard with a thin layer of white gesso, because during make mixed media I use a lot of water and gesso helps protect surface.

Elements which I glued by using heavy body gel and color with acrylic mediums.

Like I said mixed with water, but the colors were blurred and not so pronounced. Finally, after drying, strongly brightened and splashed in several

places. It’s almost like snow;)) which is very much lacking in Poland, where I live.

This bauble is also my last project for Dusty Attic. It was extremely inspiring andbusy year for me. Thank you very much Jennifer and Jen for the trust, for the

many wonderful products I received. You are amazing and very talented. I hug

you so much!

Used in this project:

Christmas Postmarks

Cosmic Swirl

Holly Flourish #2

Poinsettia Small

Dusty Attic Pearl Flourish

Have a nice day,

Kasia

Salmanowicz

Nicole Doiron - Mood Board Inspiration

Hello Dusty FANattics!

I am absolutely thrilled to be back with you today on The Dusty Attic blog

to share my project inspired by the stunning July mood board!

I chose to create this canvas card for my cousin who is getting married this month.

Here is one more look at the July mood board challenge:

How can one not be inspired by the gorgeous colours and texture in this image?!

I went looking in my stash to find some elements to showcase this palette

and some wedding theme elements that I knew my cousin would love.

A large Boho Feather serves as one of my focal points. I painted it with white acrylic paint and then added some Distress Oxide Spray.  I love the diluted pasty effect it created.

On the French Word Play quote, I used embossing powder and dabbed on some white paint.

I used the same beautiful teal shade of embossing powder on the piece from the Window & Shutters #3 set. Mixed with white paint, I love how it almost turned out denim blue as that is one of my cousin's wedding colours. Behind it, you can see a pretty Doily #2.

I decorated my card with pieces of pearl flourish and pearls, also from The Dusty Attic.

I also used Dusty in Bloom flowers in the very fitting Bridal Veil colour.

Here are all the Dusty Attic products that I used:

Chipboard

French Word Play - DA2003

Window & Shutters #3 - DA2199

Boho Feathers - DA1732

Doily #2 - DA0480

Dusty in Bloom

Bridal Veil - DA0805

Accessories

Pearl Flourish - DA1547

Pearls - DA1546

If you would like to see more of my creations, visit me at Scrap-Utopia!

I cannot wait to see your mood board-inspired and chipboard-filled creations.

Make sure to share them on the 
Dusty FANattics FB page.

See you next month!

Steampunk Box - Martina Stoycheva - Mood Board Inspiration

Hello everyone!

Our moodboard this month inspired me to create this steampunk box. 

I rarely create in this style, but I enjoyed making this one.

I used pieces from Timeless - Designer Mixed Chipboards, different metal pieces, Dusty Attic Pearls and stencils. You can find link of Dusty Attic products down bellow.

Here is our inspirational moodboard:

And some close up photos of my box:

Timeless - Designer Mixed Chipboard  -  DA2122

Clockworks Stencil  -  DA1485

Clockworks #2  -  DA1757

Dusty Attic Pearls  -  DA1546

Be inspired!

Hugs, Martina.

You're the One - Kristy Abela - Mood Board Inspiration

Hey Attic Dwellers! 

I have been busy playing with my Chippies and flourishes and have this gorgeous layout to share with you! I am am bit saddened that the weather has turned. No matter how hot it gets I still prefer it to winter... Brrr!! So check out this inspiration... I'm counting down the days 'til the spring blossoms 

are again in bloom. 

To start I had a play with my Modelling paste Black! OMG... In LOVE! 

Look at the way it perfectly framed all the chipboard in this layout. Here I marked out a boundary for my focal point and repeated the pattern in the stencil to frame the whole image.

I rarely use purple in my layouts and from what I read among other crafters' - you either love it or hate it! 

Its my favourite colour so perhaps that's why I am scared of it. The inner voice asking, "Will I do it justice?" You can decide!

I really felt that it needed a pop of colour so I tested it on the area under the focal point and BOOM! Look at that separation of colour! 

I used embossing powder to colour my Chipboard, I wanted the glossy look of sunlight reflecting off the flowers. I didn't have any dark flowers or embellishments so I ended up dying my fabric and flowers to match my layout. To give it a touch of femininity without colour i used my Dusty Pearl Flourish Bling... perfect!

Found these awesome paper straws! Check out your local IGA in Sydney or Melbourne... Perfect embellishment - (and a plug for hubby who distributes the product..)

I used some archival quality ink in blue and black to stamp in the background.

I finished it off with a Cuts 2 luv Flair... 

I hope you enjoyed my creative processes... 

Thanks for looking!!

Dusty Attic Products used. 

Wisteria

Love Heart Corners

Foliage #15

Foliage #18

Scroll Set #2 

Pearl Flourish