First Day - Adri Du Preez

 Hello everyone!

Welcome to the blog today. 

My September design team layout features beautiful school chippies from Dusty Attic.

Our lives are filled with new events and experiences, and going to school for the first time is one of those very special events. How can one forget their first day?  I still remember my first day of school clearly.

My granddaughter started Grade 1 in January of this year.  She was so excited when she put on her school uniform for the first time. It was such a memorable day for the family.  She is so sweet, brave, and smart, and already made a lot of friends and beautiful memories.

A week after school started I arranged this photo shoot.

Here is my layout.

I included a folder and booklet with tabs in this layout.

Here is the inside of the folder.

Here is the booklet.  I will show photos of the inside as well.

All the chippies were first primed with a layer of white gesso and then painted 

with Americana Acrylic paint.

For the Ombre effect on the title and word pack, I used Cool Blue at the top and Quilt Blue Heritage Acrylic Paint at the bottom and dry brushed with white acrylic paint in the middle.

I used a white Posca Pen as well as the Light Green to color the book stack.

I colored the apple with  and the bracket as well as the bracket on the folder with Sour Apple.

The broken bits numbers were painted with white acrylic paint and the edges were dry brushed with Cool Blue.

I colored these adorable little pencils with Posca Pens in Orange, Light Green, and Yellow.  I left the wood part of the pencil raw.

These Mini Me chippies are my favorite.  They are so cute!  They were colored in the same colors as the pencils.  I glued some of these Mini Me chippies to the title as well.

Some close up of the inside of the booklet.

Dusty Attic products used.

DA1984 - Word Pack #42

DA1974 - Pencils

DA1966 - Book Stack #1

DA1154 - Mini Me Small

DA1961 - First Day

DA2499 - Brackets

DA2391 - Broken Bits #1 – Numbers

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Adore - Lynette Jaobs - Mood Board Inspiration

 Hello Dusty Attic Fans!

Lynette here, welcome to the blog today. I am sharing my take on the December mood board.  This month I chose to showcase my stunning little grandson Kian, who lives in Australia and whom I miss very much.  I papers of the Heidi Swapp Honey and Spice collection perfectly matched the mood board.

Isn't he just too beautiful!

Here is the mood board:

These are the chipboard pieces used to complete my project:

Botanical Ringlets

Foliage #27

Love Cherish Adore

Wordpl@y 3

Mini Me

Here are some close up details of my process:

I first prepared my white background paper by sprinkling Minc Reactive Mist onto it and then foiling it with Champagne foil.  I then cut strips of the Honey and Spice papers that match the mood board and distressed them before adding them down the page.

The Botanical Ringlets were heat embossed with white embossing powder and perfectly frames that cute little face.  I inked the edges of a canvas tag and added the Mini Me icon to it.  The icon was dry brushed with white acrylic paint.

I added two floral clusters to frame the photo.  The foliage was also painted with acrylic paint and then the flowers as well as the foliage was dry brushed with white acrylic paint.  The Wordpl@y words were also dry brushed with white acrylic paint. 

I just love how this page turned out.  This colour combination is just so beautiful.

We would love to see your take on our moodboard.  Don't forget to share your projects on our Facebook page.

Why not enter the Mood Board challenge yourself? All you need to do is add your take of the challenge into the comments section on the Dusty FANattics Facebook page HERE for your chance to win one of two amazing $50 Credits to choose any. Good Luck and have fun creating.

Until next time.  Happy crafting.

Summer beauty - Nicole Doiron

As you can see, I choose very bright papers from my very old Bo Bunny stash.

I then picked some fabulous chipboard from my Dusty Attic collection that I thought

would complement well the Summer feel and the kid style I wanted to express.

The first piece that caught my eye was the Mini Me set. I picked one of the cute little girls to represent the cutie in the photo, my friends' daughter. Because I wanted some of the chipboard to really stand out against all the background colours, I decided to cover it with white embossing  powder.  I created my title with a Mini Tag and a word from Word Pack #20. You can also see a glimpse of a newly released Polaroid Frame Set #1 poking out from the bottom of the picture.

Another new release from Dusty Attic is a line of very intricate Swirls. The one below comes from Set #1. I thought it went perfect with the design of this layout.

To mimic the geometric pattern on the background papers, I decided to add the Geometric Border and part of the Geometric Corners on both outer edge of my page.  They are absolutely fabulous. And I just love how cute the little Twine Bow looks on the tag! I colored it with a marker and gel pen.

Even my flowers are chipboard on my layout. I used Flower Layers #5 that I painted with Dusty in Colour Sunburnt Orange paint with a few dabs of the lighter Bisque.  Then finally, I added a few final touches of blue and purple with Decorative Dots and Page Pebbles.

I used a LOT of Dusty Attic chipboard on this project. Here is the complete list.

Chipboard

Geometric Border - DA1029

Geometric Corners - DA1030

Floral Layers #5 Small - DA0889

Mini Me - DA1156

Swirls #1 - DA2354

Twine Bows #3 - DA1828

Polaroid Frame Set #1 - DA2454

Decorative Dots - DA1816

Page Pebbles #11 - DA1116

Page Pebbles #8 - DA1113

Mini Tags #3 - DA1814

Word Pack #20 - DA1276

Dusty in Colour

Sunburnt Orange - DA0906

Bisque - DA0921

If you'd like to see more of my creations, I hope that you'll visit me at Scrap-Utopia.

Make sure to check out all the wonderful new release chippies right in the online store

 and share with us your project on the Dusty FANattics FB page.

I'll be back later this month with my take on the mood board!