Nature Lover - Pascale B Scrap

Hello Sweeties,

Today I'm up on Dusty Attic's blog with a new canvas about nature.

Photo: @ArtHouseWhimsy

I primed the canvas with white gesso as usual. Then, I used different pastes to cover the background to obtain an uneven surface. I used paper paste, modeling paste, and Light modeling paste. The paints will react differently with each paste, and I want to obtain this result. I layered different shades of green (Avocado, Emerald, and Lime Green) and black liquid acrylic paints.

I primed all the chipboards with white gesso too. I painted the Strawberry #2 leaves with Avocado liquid acrylic. I mixed some carmine and crimson to obtain a lighter shade of the girl's pants to paint the strawberries and the center of the flowers. 

I used lime and avocado to paint the Boho Feather to add some contrast.

As for the Dandelions, I just painted the flower stems with the avocado paint. 

To finish, I added some glitter.

Dusty Attic products:

• Strawberry #2 – Dusty Attic
• Dandelions – Dusty Attic
• Boho Feathers #2 – Dusty Attic

Other products:

• Art Alchemy Liquid Acrylic - Finnabair Prima (Avocado, Emerald, Lime Green, Ink Black, Carmin, Crimson);
• Art Extravagance - Finnabair Prima (Paper Paste);
• Art Basics - Finnabair Prima (White Heavy Gesso, Light Modeling Paste, Modeling Paste, Heavy Body Gel, Soft Gloss Gel).

Remember the Now - Mixed Media Panel - Pascale B Scrap

Hello Sweeties,

Today I'm on Dusty Attic's blog with a new mixed-media panel.

Photo: @ArtHouseWhimsy

I covered the canvas board with Carte Postale tissue paper with the help of a soft matte gel. Next, I added a design with the Lace Stencil and paper paste in the edges, and 3D Gloss gel in the center. When dry, I used liquid acrylic paints to color the paste in the same shade as the photo.

I primed the base of Decorative Scroll #1 with white gesso and the top part with black gesso. Then I covered the base with Gilding glue and waited until the glue was completely dry before covering it with Gold Metallic Flakes. I chose the Gold Black wax to color the top part. 

I primed the Dandelions and the Flower Buds #1 with black gesso and Gold Black wax too.

I primed the Foliage #4 and the Lemon Leaves & Blossoms with white gesso. Then, I used Burnt Sienna and Orange Tiger liquid acrylic paints to color them. 

I primed some Wildflowers with white gesso and used the same color of liquid acrylic paint to color them.

When the composition was to my liking, I added some glitter. 

Dusty attic products:

• Decorative Scroll #1 – Dusty Attic
• Dandelions – Dusty Attic
• Flower Buds #1 – Dusty Attic
• Foliage #4 – Dusty Attic
• Lemon Leaves & Blossoms – Dusty Attic
• Lace Stencil – Dusty Attic

Other products:

• Flowers - 49 and Market (Celery Wildflowers);
• Tissue Paper - Finnabair Prima (Carte Postale);
• Art Ingredient - Finnabair Prima (Gold Metallic Flack);
• Art Alchemy Liquid Acrylic - Finnabair Prima (Tiger Orange, Burnt Sienna, Black Ink);
• Art Alchemy Wax - Finnabair Prima (Black Gold);
      
• Art Extravagance - Finnabair Prima (Paper Paste, Gilding Glue);
      
• Art Basics - Finnabair Prima (White Heavy Gesso, Black heavy Gesso, Heavy Body Gel, Soft Matte Gel).

Embrace - Mixed Media canvas - Pascale B Scrap

Hello Sweeties,

Today, I'm up on Dusty Attic blog with a mixed-media canvas.

Photo: ArtHouseWhimsy

First, I primed the canvas with white gesso. When done, I covered the background with paper and light modeling pastes to add more interest. Then I added a design with the Dots Stencil and white crackle paste. I let it dry naturally to allow the crackles to appear.

I primed all the chipboard with white gesso. I glued a piece of paper on the Jigsaw Pieces, then covered them with clear crackle paste.

I built my composition to my linking starting with the Jigsaw pieces, then I add the biggest elements such as the Flower Buds #1 and the Spring Blooms #3.

Next, I added the Dandelions and I finished with the Poppy Heads. 

When everything was completely dry, I added some color with black and brown liquid acrylic paints and a lot of water. 

To finish, I added some transparent glitter and a title. 

Dusty Attic products:

• Circuit Stencil – Dusty Attic
• Jigsaw Pieces – Medium – Dusty Attic
• Jigsaw Pieces – Small – Dusty Attic
• Flower Buds #1 – Dusty Attic 
• Dandelions – Dusty Attic
• Spring Blooms #3 – Dusty Attic
• Poppy Heads Small – Dusty Attic

Other products:

• Title - Idea-ology Tim Holtz (Small Talk)
• Art Alchemy Liquid Acrylic - Finnabair Prima (Ink Black, Burnt Sienna);
• Art Extravagance - Finnabair Prima (Paper Paste, White Crackle Paste, Clear Crackle Paste);
• Art Basics - Finnabair Prima (White Heavy Gesso, Light Modeling Paste, 3D Gel Gloss).

Memories and Moments looks like this - Kim Arnold - Mood Board Inspiration

 

Hi everyone! I am back with some more inspiration from this month’s beautiful mood board. The colours in this month’s mood board are so rich and vibrant and could work with any theme. I had this photo from the recent train trip I took with my husband and decided it worked perfectly with this 49 and Market collection that matched the mood board perfectly.

From the huge range of Dusty Attic chipboard, I chose one of the lovely, long multi-font titles, film strip, a hashtag word, some chevrons I had left from another project and some more of my absolutely favourite dandelions for this layout. I will take you through what I have used and what techniques I applied.

Moments and Memories Title DA3429

I started with the title, painting it with gold mica paint. This gold paint works perfectly directly on the chipboard and gives such a beautiful shine. I attached the title over the photo and really like how it sits between us on the photo. Long multi font titles are a real favourite of mine. By using a Dusty Attic title like this you can still have it cohesive by painting it all the same colour, but have the benefits of the different fonts. I also chose to reorder the words, going with Memories and Moments, rather than Moments and Memories.

Dandelions

I used the same colour on dandelions. I often use these dandelions with other flowers, but this time chose to use them by themselves, just tucking the stems behind other elements to hide the ends.

Mini Filmstrips 

Chevron Panel Small 

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Daily #4 

I used a translucent umber (brown) paint for the filmstrips, #thatwasfun from the daily word 4 pack and the chevrons. The chevrons are the pieces you might chose to discard from the chevron panel. I keep all of these bits and then use them as “arrows” on other layouts – a great way to get value from your products. The translucent brown paint really made the chipboard look like wood.

To make the film strips long enough, I cut them in half and covered the gap with the photo and photo mat. This is another way to get more use from my products.

I hope you have a chance to get some creative time in soon – maybe you might get a mood board inspired layout done!

Happy scrapping

Kim x

Dusty attic products:

https://dustyattic.com.au/product/moments-memories/

https://dustyattic.com.au/product/mini-filmstrips/

https://dustyattic.com.au/product/daily-4/

https://dustyattic.com.au/product/chevron-panel-small/

https://dustyattic.com.au/product/dandelions/

Angel Heart Mixed Media Panel - Pascale B Scrap

Hello Sweeties,

Today, I'm up on Dusty Attic blog with a new mixed media panel for Dusty Attic.

To begin, I primed the canvas board with white gesso. Next, I added two designs with the Circle Dots and Starry Night stencils, and paper paste. I make sure that the paste was completely dry before I covered everything with both white and clear crackle pastes. I didn't try to obtain an even surface as it wasn't what I was looking for, but I make sure that the designs were still visible under the crackle pastes. 

I sprayed the edges of Wings #1 with water to allow the layers of the chipboard to separate to give more dimension to the wings. When done, I primed all the chipboards I'd selected with white gesso. I was careful to keep all the layers of the wings separate when I painted and dried them. 

I used mica powders mixed with a liquid fluid medium and liquid acrylic to paint the chipboards. Then I added some silver wax on top. 

My background was dry, I started to paint it with mica powders mixed with the liquid fluid medium too. Next, I stamped randomly the background and dry brushed some parts with white gesso to remind the background of the photo.

I assembled the composition to my desire and added a touch of white pearl wax to add some light. I kept some part of the middle of the Decorative Frame #4 in order to glue it easily under the photo. 

I decided to add a little cluster on the left side to remind the main cluster.

To finish, I added some glitter.

Dusty Attic products:

• Starry Night Stencil
• Circle Dot Stencil
• Wings #2
• Decorative Frame #4 Small
• Dandelions
• Foliage #16
• Mini Bird Cages #1

Other products:

• Art Ingredients - Finnabair Prima (Golden Hours Mica Powder, Winter Glitter);
• Art Alchemy - Finnabair Prima (Liquid Color Fluid Medium);
• Art Alchemy Liquid Acrylic - Finnabair Prima (Umber);
• Art Alchemy Waxes - Finnabair Prima (White Pearl, Old Silver);
• Art Extravagance - Finnabair Prima (White and Clear Crackle Pastes, Paper Paste);
• Art Basics - Finnabair Prima (White Heavy Gesso, 3D Matte Gel, Soft Gloss Gel).

I hope you get inspired.

Don't forget to check out all the beautiful inspirations from my teamies.

See you soon!

Fun Times - Kim Arnold

Hi everyone! Today I am bringing you my take on the June mood board. I loved the colours of this moodboard and used all the colours in my clusters of flowers. For the base of the layout, I focused on two shades of purple with a pop of the orange. These photos are from when hubby and I attended a local production of Hair the Musical, and it just happened that the lighting made our selfie very orange and the image for the musical was very purple – so perfect for this moodboard!

I decided to use a section of the large geo panel 12 x 12 background (3 squares wide by 4 squares long – I used other parts of the geo panel on other layouts) to create a panel that would sit behind my photo cluster. I painted this with a pale creamy apricot acrylic paint.

Geo Panel #3 Large

I liked the Fun Times words that were in the Mini Captions 21 pack. Although not a big title, I thought it worked well next to the cluster of flowers. So the title would pop, after I painted in an orange acrylic paint, I finished it with Dimensional Magic so it had a dimensional shiny finish.

I painted the dandelions using gold mica paint. This colour isn’t specifically on the mood board, but I think of gold as a neutral colour and it brings a real pop to the flower clusters. These dandelions are one of my absolute favourite Dusty Attic products and they look so beautiful tucked into flower clusters.

Dusty Attic products:

https://dustyattic.com.au/product/mini-captions-21-segway/

https://dustyattic.com.au/product/geo-panel-3-large/

https://dustyattic.com.au/product/dandelions/

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

Happy scrapping

Kim x