A Dog's Life - Kerstin Filou - Mood Board Inspiration

 

Welcome everyone!

 

Dusty Attic's January Moodboard invites you to create

 an amazing project of your own choice,

it shows beautiful warm natural colors.

 

I was inspired to create a natural mixed media layout with our darlings, the shelties.

I used some of the awesome dog chipboards, which where primed 

with white or black gesso, always a very good base when you plan to paint

 with acrylic colours. On the parts with black primer, 

I continued to work with dry brush technique,

 used white gesso and green gold metallic paint.

The natural looking chipboards were painted with two shades 

of green acrylic paint, for the wheat I used green, gold and white, 

ears became more vivid with micro pearls.

 

 

 

 

 

 

used Dusty Attic chipboards and stencils

Dog Border 

 Dogs

A Dogs Life 

 

Park Trees Large

Wheat #3 Small

Grass Clusters #2 

 

Sunburst Stencil 

Distressed Grid Stencil 

 

 

We are looking forward to see what you come up with this months challenge.

 Just put your own take of the challenge in the comments section

 of the Dusty FANattics facebook page HERE 

You could win one of two amazing Dusty Attic prize packs, 

...this year we are reverting back to the prize being a $50 (AUD) credit

 to the Dusty Attic website store so you can choose your very own designs.

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by...until next time!

 

 

2022 June Mood Board and May winners

 

Hello Dusty FANattics 

First I would like to announce the TWO winners of the May Mood board challenge whom receive a $50 (AUD) credit to the Dusty Attic Online store, I can see some new release products in their carts. 

JOAN ROSENBERG 

Joan has used, 100% Boy, Broken mesh, Mischief.

ANNA SALA

Anna has used chipboards:
- designer discs #17 - tree
-zoo animals #2
- techno Circles Large

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Second I would like to share a layout as inspiration for the June Mood Board challenge with you from 

JEN BURNS 

Although I started off with the Dusty Attic June mood board my layout took me into a different direction as I added greens, blues and yellows to my page below.

Today I have a layout of my gorgeous little grand daughter taken last year at the park across the road, just sitting playing with the leaves quite happily. 

I started off by slicing the large Park tree in half and using this on the left hand side of my page (and now I have another half for another layout)  I have painted the Tree with brown on the  trunk and branches and then the grass and leaves section with green, when it was completely dry  inked some brown ink over the top to add texture, I have painted the Autumn leaves the same way. 

Using the 49 and Market Curators Botanical range allowed me to connect the tree over to the photograph using the fence rub on then follow the layout upwards to add the Heart strings heart and large butterfly to the top of the page. 

The word "Blessed" is from Word pack #45 and is perfect for the way I feel about both of my grandchildren. I have sponged this with the same green as the tree but added a yellow ink over the top to add highlights. 

To finish off my page I have added a mini heart button in white and three cute little mini butterflies in yellow,

Remember you can purchase any of the Dusty Attic chipboard from the online store 

HERE 

Dusty Attic amazing products used :

Park Trees - Large - DA2700

Heart Strings DA2710

Mini Heart Buttons - DA0682

Autumn Leaves Large - DA2684

Flutterbies #3 - DA0766

Mini Butterflies #2 - DA

Word Pack #45 - DA2658

See you all again soon, in the mean time it would be awesome if you added any of your own projects to the 
Dusty FANattics Facebook page

J xxx

Love these memories - Lynette Jacob - Mood Board Inspiration

Lynette here, welcome to the blog today. I have the pleasure of sharing some inspiration for April.  This magical photo was taken while we were camping this last summer.  This story just needed to be told with a large photo.  

Dusty Attic products used:

Love these moments

Park trees large

Christmas lanterns small

Love Gnomes

Fire

Wordpl@y #11


Some close up details of my process:

I knew I wanted to use a very large photo and ended up printing it at 10,5 inches high and 6,5 inches wide.  I heat embossed the Title in gold and the lanterns in white embossing powder.


I painted the tree, the gnomes and the fire with acrylic paint and when it was done I found that it was just too bright.  I then watered down white acrylic paint and gave everything a wash.  The tree was first added to the page and then the excess was cut off.

We were camping next to the river with large trees and that inspired bringing the tree and the lanterns onto the little scene. 

We always have a fire gowing when we camp.  The photo is just so magical that I thought the gnomes would be a perfect addition.

I completed the page by adding the Wordpl@y phrases and I heat embossed tiny wood veneer stars with gold embossing powder.

I love it when another memory is documented. 

 

Thank you for visiting the blog.  Visit the Dusty Attic online store for more amazing designs.

Happy crafting

Dream Passionately - Rikki G - Mood Board Inspiration

Wow we are at the end of the year !!! What a year it has been, plenty of highs and lows but the one thing that has been constant is trying to do a little bit more scrapping and using that time to reflect on the positives, and with that in mind the NEW Dusty Attic Moodboard is perfect for those reflective moments.

This time I really wanted to focus on doing a boy page, the tones happen to be my middle sons favourite colours.

 

So to start off I used the Parkwood Large tree and grabbed a selection of Tim Holtz Oxides - Cracking Campfire, Aged Mahogany, Carved Pumpkin. Used a blending brush and worked between colours to get a mixed leaf effect with shadows and high lights.

I also did the same effect on the Moon, using Tim Holtz Oxide - Fossilized Amber and Wild Honey.

Now your probably wondering about the metallic effect? This is achieved by using Lindy Stamp Gangs Magicals in the brown/ gold /copper tones. I used a large brush and dropped the colours over the top of the oxides, this allows the ink to come up off the chipboard and interact with the other colours of the Magicials.

To achieve the heavy watermark look on the chipboard elements- heat with a heat gun and do it intensely, and I do mean heat to the point of smoking. Dont worry its not burning its more about the water drying in the chipboard.

Use embossing enamel rather than power, it gives you a nice thick layer that looks like metal. Plus they also come in mixed tones so you get a lux look rather than one flat colour.

If your wondering... the leaves are fussy cut out of washi tape, yes I know that sounds insane but you get this sheer effect and you can curl the edges up.

Adding a little glass cabochon will make it look like a water droplet over your twig formation. Just stack the Driftwood chipboard so you get plenty of height and dimension.

Moons #2 – by Nuneka

Park Trees Large

Drift Wood #1

Geo Tribal Arrows #3 

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.