Breathtaking Views - Kim Arnold

 

Hi everyone! I took some happy snaps when I was out on a walk at our last scrapbooking retreat. It was such a beautiful and warm winters day (a little unusual here in the South Island of New Zealand!) and I just really wanted to capture the beauty and peace of this rural area. I knew that the little mushrooms and foliage from Dusty Attic would work perfectly with the Mintay Woodlands collection.

I have made this layout using a selection of mushrooms, foliage, words and a lovely title. I will walk you through the techniques I applied to each of the elements.

I started by painting up the mushrooms. As the paper collection included mushrooms, I painted the chipboard mushrooms to match in – so some I painted with red caps and white stems, and some in tones of brown.

I then painted up various grass pieces in shades of green to layer on with the mushrooms and die-cut pieces from the paper collection to create little mushroom scenes on each side of the title.

For the title, I painted it dark brown and then rubbed a bronze wax from Prima on the bottom part of each of the words to give it dimension and a variety of tones and shine.

For the foliage, I painted them in various shades of green, picking out the berries with a bright orange red. I then incorporated these pieces into the layout by layering them with die-cut pieces from the paper collection.

The finishing touches for the layout were some words – I painted a word strip in cream and tucked it under the edge of a photo and I painted a # word from the daily 4 word pack with brown paint and included it on the right side of the wreath.

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

Happy scrapping

Kim x

Dusty attic products:

https://dustyattic.com.au/product/breathtaking-views/

https://dustyattic.com.au/product/custom-mixed-chipboard-dacc12-escape-to-nature/

https://dustyattic.com.au/product/mini-foliage-4/

https://dustyattic.com.au/product/word-strips-2/

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

https://dustyattic.com.au/product/foliage-clusters-3/

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.

Mini Foliage #4

Foliage Clusters #3

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

Happy scrapping

Kim x

Dusty attic products:

https://dustyattic.com.au/product/word-pack-52/

https://dustyattic.com.au/product/custom-mixed-chipboard-dacc06-discover-2/

https://dustyattic.com.au/product/butterflies-3-small/

https://dustyattic.com.au/product/word-strips-2/

https://dustyattic.com.au/product/mini-foliage-4/

https://dustyattic.com.au/product/foliage-clusters-3/

 

Delicate Beauty - Heather Woodall

 Good morning all

I have been working on this altered book for some time now, but decided that it was time to get it finished.

I started with an old book and tore out sections of pages

I then covered pages and the cover (not all the cover, I wanted some of the original book to be seen) with 49 and Market papers from the Irrevocable Beauty range, which I love and have used multiple times.

I then added some photos thanks to google free photo selection.

I then added some fussy cut pieces and pieces from the Laser Cuts pack from the same paper range.

I then chose some chipboard to match. Some I've coloured with coloured pencil to give the layered effect. Other pieces I've just very simply used some good old Crayola textas to colour.

I have left some negative spaces, as I quite like negative space on my work, but it also leaves room if I ever want to come back and add some hand written journalling in the future

I am going to list all the chipboard here in one go to make it easier this time.

Mini Words #2 - https://dustyattic.com.au/product/mini-words-2/

Foliage Clusters #2 - https://dustyattic.com.au/product/foliage-clusters-2/

Botanic Mix #1 - https://dustyattic.com.au/product/botanic-mix-1/

Creative Layer #8 - https://dustyattic.com.au/product/creative-layer-8/

Scroll #12 - https://dustyattic.com.au/product/scroll-12/

You can find all of these products and lot lots more at https://dustyattic.com.au/

Heather

The girl in the water - Pascale B

Hello Sweeties,

Today I'm up on Dusty Attic blog with a simple layout.

I really want to keep the design of my layout very simple. I die-cut a few hexagons in papers from the same collection as my background.

I primed my selected chipboard with white gesso. 

I colored them all with a Distress Oxide Spray matte finish like the Foliage #5, or a mix of the Distress Oxide Spray and Starbust that add some shine with the mica it contains like for the Foliage Cluster #2 and #3. 

For the Wildflower #5, I used the same Distress Oxide Spray to color the branches and leaves, but I colored the flower buds with a Distress Oxide Spray with the same tone as the flowers. 

I glued all the hexagons on a cardboard to rise them a little. Then, I started my composition: I glued first the hexagons, then I added the chipboard and flowers.

Dusty Attic products:

Foliage Cluster #2 DA3303

Foliage Clusters #3 DA3304

Wildflower #3 DA1143

Foliage #5 DA1295

Other products:

• Papers - 49 and Market (Vintage Artistry Everywhere: The Unknown, 6x8 collection pack);
• Flowers - 49 and Market (Florets: Salt, Nature's Bounty: Taffy);
• Starburst - Lindy's Gang (Tainted Love Teal);
• Distress Oxide Spray - Ranger (Saltwater Taffy, Salvaged Patina).