Happy Northern Lights canvas - Kerstin Filou

 

Welcome everyone!

Welcome into the new year 2023, 

wish you a year full of fun and joy in creative work !

It's wintertime here, cold, snow and ice have us again fully in the grip. 

but it can be also a very special time, in the high north of Europe  you can now discover  Northern Lights, they change the landscape into a magic winterland.

 I  have not seen them myself yet, but they fascinate me.

 

I was inspired to create a mixed media canvas as new wall decoration for a childs room.

 In the dark starry sky they shine especially bright

 and the little penguin marvels at these great wonders of nature.

 

 

 

Nothern Lights were painted with acrylic and metallic paints, love to combine several techniques with the classical scrapbooking style, it's always very exciting.

At Dusty Attic you can find always a lot of inspiring chippies, which can be magnificently combined for all kinds of techniques and ideas,I just love to try out new ideas and surprise others with them.

some details

 

used Dusty Attic chipboards

 

Winters Forest #1

 Mini Icicles

 Mini Branches #1

Happy #2

Iron Garnish #4 

 

 

 

  I hope I could inspire you. 

Thanks for your visit!

Kerstin

Magic - Kerstin Filou

 

Welcome creative friends!

 I created a mixed media canvas in fantasy style and chose a magical forest theme.

Love the selection

 Foliage, Flowers & Branches

at Dusty Attic, all the chippies are very natural and inspiring for me. 

They are a good addition if you want tell stories from your last hiking tour or the last discovery tour with your kids, but always very suitable for magical fairytales too.

 

 

I worked with papers and transpareny foil from 13arts, some cutting dies, flowers and floristic materials.

 

Some Close ups

 

used Dusty Attic chipboards

 

Toadstools #2 

 Spiders and Webs Set

Ferns

Owls #2 

Winters Forest Small

 Mini Bare Tree #2 

 

I hope you find inspiration!

Thanks for stopping by...until next time!

 

 

 

Winter Delights - Mixed Media canvas - Kerstin Filou

 

Welcome creative friends!

Welcome into the new year, 

wish you a year full of fun and joy in creative work !

It's wintertime here, cold, snow and ice have us again fully in the grip. 

Snow shovelling is again announced, an occupation  not always great joy arises, our dog sees that but quite different, he is completely thrilled by the snow broom and would like to sit on top and push along.

 

 

 

I created a mixed media layout with lots of snow and ice crystals, not to forget a bird house, which is especially popular in winter in our garden.

 

I found a lot of suitable theme shapes at Dusty Attic,

love the 3d optic of the bird house and the nature inspired chippies.

 

I worked mainly with white gesso and added a few color accents with diluted blue acrylic paint and a little brown. I also used die-cuts, which together with the chipboards bring more vividness and fullness to the layout. 

To bring more depth to the project, dried wood slices and branches were used.

 

some close up's

 

 

 

 used Dusty Attic chipboards

 

Winters Forest #1 

Holly Wreath #2

Birds a field 

 Bird Houses

Poppy Heads Small 

 Pine Sprigs #2

Mini Birds #3

 

 

 

 

 

  I hope I could inspire you

Thanks for your visit!

Kerstin

Mini Best Wishes box - Anat Weksler - Mood Board Inspiation

 Hello crafty friends!

It's Anat here with a mini Best Wishes Box using fabulous Dusty Attic's Chippies and inspired by November's Moodboard.

I needed to make a mini box which will hold a bracelet so that's what I've done.

The box was painted with impasto paints, adding crackle paste to give it a peeled paint look.

Inspired by the Moodboard I wanted to give it a touch of nature.

Here are the chipboards I have used in my Box:

Foliage#27

Foliage#25

Winters forest mini border

Deer

Card sentiments#2

Thanks for stopping by!

xoxo

Dance in May - Kerstin Filou

Hello creative friends!

It's a big tradition here to welcome spring and celebrate 'Dance in May'.  I live near the mountains Harz where the Brocken is the highest mountain peak.

 In  Walpurgis Night (in German folklore the night from 30 April to 1 May), when witches meet there, hold revels with the devil and await the arrival of spring.

 Mystical fires, eerily beautiful witches and the dance into may make it to a magical night.  In normal good times, the beginning of spring is celebrated in a big way. 

Unfortunately it could not take place again this year, but this special magic  of this festival has inspired me again.

 

  

 

I used a funny postcard as inspiration and choose some suitable natural chipboards elements.

Love the  trees, they really look like the spruces on the Brocken, awesome!!

 

some close up's

! Wanted !

 - Talented female co-pilot with flying licence 

and 

multi-engine multifunction broom -

  😁

 

Dusty Attic chipboards

 

Winters Forest Small

 Cogs #3

Foliage #3

Mini Branches #1

Ferns

Acorns

Toadstools #2

 

I hope I could inspire you!

Thanks for your visit!

Adore - Kerstin Filou - Mood Board Inspiration

 

 Welcome creative friends! 

Now it's my turn to feature a layout using the beautiful Dusty Attic Moodboard for January.

 Palm trees, sun, beach and sea and these sunset colors on the January Moodboard  make you dream of vacation.

But here it's winter now and we are happy when some snow falls from the sky and the frost enchants nature with hoar frost snow crystals. From the winter walk you get red noses, because outside it's frosty cold and you are grateful for every warming ray of sunshine.

We also like to go into the garden now and feed our winter birds. 

That was my inspiration and thoughts behind  this wintry mixed media layout.

 

Suitable to the winter temperatures I used mainly the cool blue shades and only some little shades of warm tones for the birds. 

I love to create with Maja Design papers, here some sheets from the collection 'Holidays in the Alp'.

 

Some close up's

Little birdies were painted with some diluted acrylic colours

 

This little bird house is so amazing, you can glue the window and the roof trim  for an additional 3d effect, I added some small icicles too

 The trees fits perfectly to this photo, I snowed them in, just like my last project, 

Altered book - Winter Tales

 

Dusty Attic chipboards Used    

Birds a field

Bird Houses

Snowflakes #1 Small

Grass Clusters #2

Grass Border #1

 Winters Forest #1

Mini Titles #2 – Perfect

 

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.

 

I hope I could inspire you!

Thanks for your visit!

Kerstin