The Dusty Attic Blog: custom mix

Saturday, 7 October 2023

Journey - Kim Arnold

Hi everyone! I have some travel inspiration for you today. My husband and I recently spent two months in the UK and Europe and this photo is from our first night of our journey which we spent at an airport hotel waiting for our very early morning flight to London. What better way to record this photo than with the Dusty Attic travel themed chipboard.

I have made this layout using the amazing Journey Custom Mixed Chipboard sheet which has so many perfect travel embellishments along with a title and phrase strip. I used just about everything off the sheet and I will walk you through the techniques I applied to each of the elements.

Custom Mixed Chipboard #16

I chose a palette of blues, greens and beige, pulling out the colours that were in the background papers and rubons. For the journey title, polaroid frame and photo negative strip, I painted them an army green and then sanded to distress them once the paint was dry.

To make the title pop, I covered it in dimensional magic.

I painted the reels and compass blue. I then added rubons to the centers of the reels before distressing all of these elements with sanding. I painted the place marker and larger camera beige and then sanded them and then layered them over the centre of the reels.

The phrase strip, globe and smaller camera beige and then distressed them by sanding then edges. I love the worn effect that the sanding gives to all of the elements – it softens the finish and allows the colour of the chipboard to show through.

For the explore arrow, I initially painted it green but didn’t like it. So I repainted it blue and when I sanded it I love how the green peeps through along with the natural chipboard colour.

I absolutely love how this layout turned out and it is going to be the perfect opening layout for my album recording our travels.

I hope you have a chance to get some creative time in soon.

Happy scrapping

Kim x

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Thursday, 21 September 2023

You & Me - Kim Arnold

Hi everyone! I am back with some more inspiration from this month’s beautiful mood board. There is no doubt that this month’s mood board suits a layout about love, so I chose to scrapbook a recent selfie of my husband and I when we went on a day trip on the Trans-Alpine railway in the South Island of Ne Zealand. It wasn’t the best weather but we had an amazing day anyway.

From the huge range of Dusty Attic chipboard, I chose some textural elements from the Discover custom mixed chipboard, a title, word strips, foliage and a butterfly for this layout. I will take you through what I have used and what techniques I applied.

I started with the title, going with an ombre effect with a pink red at the top going to a lighter version of this colour on the bottom. I used the same colours on the “love this” word circle (which is from the Discover custom mixed chipboard sheet). The darker colour is in the middle and the lighter colour on the outside circle. I finished both pieces with dimensional magic to really make them pop.

Word Pack #52

I painted the broken circle pieces from the Discover custom mixed chipboard sheet with black paint and then sprayed it with a dark grey mica spray which gave it a beautiful sparkle.

Custom Mixed Chipboard - Discover

The butterfly was painted pink with white paint sponged through the middle and finished with glitter. The word strips were also painted pink and then finished with dimensional magic.

Word Strips #2

Butterflies #3 small

There are a couple of little banner flags which are also from the Discover custom mixed chipboard sheet, tucked under the paper flowers on the left. I used the pink red colour from the title on this and made polka dots with dimensional magic to add extra interest. I love how this turned out and will use this technique in the future. The smaller banner flag is done the same way as the broken circle pieces – paint and mica spray.

The last piece is the foliage. My love affair with foliage and berries continues and for this layout I painted the leaves and stems green and used the dark pink red for the berries. Touches of dimensional magic on the berries makes them come to life. The berries were snipped from a piece in the foliage clusters 3 set, which I had left over from using the leaves on another layout. Chipboard is great because it is easy to cut up and use the different bits.