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Monday, 29 June 2020

Underwater treasure - Kerstin Filou (Altered Bottle)

Welcome creative friends!

I was inspired to create a steampunk
bottle in altered art, because

I discovered my creative passion for
upcycling projects, especially for glass bottles.

I used a liquor bottle as base
and worked with some awesome chipboards and some mixed media products
from Finnabair, DecoArt and Ranger.

Tips & Tricks

1 I glued all the chipboards and texture elements
with construction adhesive on the glass bottle

2 primed with two chalky finish paints from DecoArt

3 I love to use diluted colours - here two Distress
Spray colours for the deepenings, this creates interesting effects

4 some grungy effects with Rust Effect Paste
(Finnabair) and highlighted with wax cremes some

close up's

I was in love with this special porthole, it consists of two parts, which are glued together, a porthole with 3D effect, my favourite.

I extended it with two pipes suitable to steampunk style.

And another favourite of mine, this very amazing seadragon created with embossing powder and diluted acrylic paint

The bottle had an inappropriate imprint embossed in the glass on the side, which had to be concealed. The new borders were ideally suited for this.

in illuminate state with battery
cylinder lighting

Dusty Attic chipboards used

Porthole
11″ (2 piece)

Industrial
Pipes

Industrial
Chains

Seadragons

Anchor #2

Bali Border
#4

Ocean Wave
Small

Thanks for your visit!

Happy crafting!

Kerstin

Friday, 17 April 2020

Happiness is... - Patricia Basson

With the entire world gone crazy and most being in total lock-down I have created a calming and serene page for Dusty Attic.

I used papers from AB Studio Paradise List: Paradise Lost and Road to Paradise and Gently from Take me There.

The photo is one that I took end of last year at Langebaan.

I distressed the papers quit heavily, added texture with Cosmic Shimmer Strata Paste and some Lava Paste.

After Gesso'ing, I painted the Iron Garnish with Orange paint and some Crimson Velvet spray from Nuvo. The wings and Port Holes I painted with Turquoise Blue and Dark Patina and Orange paints. I added some Distress Crackle to the wings as well.

The Sea-stars were treated with Blue Green Rust effect paste and orange paint and layerd with a Sign post and some natural elements.

The black Title got a little of the Rust Paste on the edges.

You will notice that Dusty's website has a brand-new Look!!! We have everything placed together now for your convenience. The on-line shop, Blog and much more is now easy to reach from only one page!

Wishing you all well and Please look after yourself, your Loved ones and stay safe!!!

It isn't enough to talk about peace.

One must believe in it.

And it isn't enough to believe in it.

One must work at it.

~~Eleanor Roosevelt~~

Saturday, 10 August 2019

Summer Love - Mary Tzalla

Hello dear friends!

Today, I'm back with a new summery and fresh layout.

For my background, I used the Faded Memories paper from the 49 and Market Captured Adventures collection. I used the Finnabair paper texture
paste and the Dusty Attic Fishnet stencil to create texture on my background. I added color with a Lindy's spray and made
some random stamping for more interest.

Next, I heat embossed the shell chippies from the ''Shells #2 & #3'', the ''Mini Shells'' and the ''Starfish #2'' sets with the Stampendous Aged Ivory embossing enamel.

The ''Doodads #4'', the chipboard from the ''Port Holes Small'' along with the frame from the ''String Frames Small'' were also embossed with
the Stampendous Aged Taupe enamel.