Man Cave & Beautiful Layouts - Jennifer Hedger

Hello Everyone

I want to share a layout that I am teaching

 in Hyden next month and

12th August at Made with Memories

 

I have used our Corregated Card as a base  

 

 

 

The Nuts and Bolts have been "rusted" with the NEW Dusty Attic Rusting Powder

coming out in the next release (VERY SOON)

 



and now for the complete opposite style

a Layout of my Beautiful Daughter which I am also teaching



 

 

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Shabby-Chic ATC - Gabrielle

This months theme for the Dusty Attic ATC challenge is 'Shabby-chic", a style that is near and dear to my heart.  For my ATC I used the cute lil 'Corset' chippie and just added a little DMC thread to lace it up.  I added a little Mini Bird simply painted white and lightly inked with brown chalk ink.  And finally I wanted to add a flourishy element so I used part of the Sweet Pea Border to crown the ATC. 

Supplies:

~ Corset

~ Mini Birds #3

~ Sweet Pea Border

~ Dusty Roses Latte

 

If you enjoy creating in the Shabby-chic style as much as I do, I know you'll have a blast creating your ATC for this month! xo

Guest Designer - SUE SMYTH

Welcome to our Guest Designer Sue Smyth

She has done this amazing altered Journal

with a mini tutorial as well

 

 



Altered Journal 

By Sue Smyth

Today I am sharing an altered journal, made with a Dusty Attic notebook and chipboard. This is one of my favourite projects to do, and with chipboard it is very easy to achieve texture an dimension. I love the colours and gentle curves of peacock feathers. So I just had to create a journal featuring The Dusty Attic peacock chip feathers.

I have used Liquid pearls to colour the feathers as I like the raised surface they give.

There is an illusion of curves to the surface just like the real feathers. 

The iridescence is awesome. You could also use lumiere paints and Dimensional Magic.

Around the golden frame I have clustered assorted buttons, resin shapes and metal trinkets.

You can raid your stash to see what you have.

Anything that has a flat backed is suitable to be adhered to the front

with a thick wad of Gel medium, use it like you would icing.

Some nice close ups of the Gold frame, I have embossed the oval frame with Stampendous Aged Gold embossing powder. 

To speed up drying time use your heat gun, this will even dry gel medium.

May be not thoroughly, but enough to handle the book while working on the 

next step. 

When you have painted the peacock feathers flip them over and spray with black Dylusions to cover the whit gesso that shows on the sides. 

Take one Dusty Attic Journal 

To prepare the journal, I have used Gel medium to adhere assorted paper towels to the cover. Each brand has a different texture and pattern. so I like to mix it up. Adding masking tape to the edges gives it extra strength. I have also added plasterers tape and of course some Dusty attic chipboard. 

Once the gel medium is touch dry coat the whole book randomly with gesso.

Dry with heat gun.

Spray randomly with glimmer mists as desired.

Step 1

Coat feather in white gesso and allow to dry. Start with peacock liquid pearls and cover some of the fronds of the feather

Step 2

Add other colours to the feather, majestic purple and royal blue liquid pearls.

Keep the nozzle clean and unclogged, and

 add layers of colours until you build up a thick surface. Don't be afraid of 

adding more colours over the top of the previous.

Materials 

assorted paper hand towel

Gel Medium

brushes

mesh tape

masking tape

white and black gesso 

heat gun

fully purple, mallard and olive glimmer mist

Assorted metal trinkets, buttons and resin shapes

Peacock, Majestic purple and Royal Blue Liquid pearls

metallic gold and purple paint

pearl strip

Black dylusions( to spray the back of peacock feathers)

Gunmetal stickles

Stampendous Aged Gold embossing powder

Dusty Attic chipboard

peacock feathers 

oval frame

border and corner 

lock

chip flowers

wish 

 

THANK YOU SO MUCH SUE

you can see Sue's blog

  HERE

for more inspiring work

 

(Sue has more coming this month)

 

 

See, Play & Explore and Project Life Style - Audrey

I've been scrapping some photos of a little zoo adventure we had recently. Now I know the main stars of the day should have been the animals but a certain Little Miss, my granddaughter Cadence and her reactions to all the animals and things around her made her my star for the day, she absolutely loved it and was so excited about everything. As usual I took a heap, well maybe a mountain of photos so there'll be a few more pages later on about our Zoo Adventure.

I'm loving all the Project Life pages I'm seeing about and admire all my scrapping buddies who are doing it. Some of my pages are along the PL style so I'm loving using a lot of Dusty chipboard on these layouts, small chippy bits and even the larger chippy bits cut down are working really well for me. I adore the new arrows Jen's come up with, their so new they don't actually have a code for them yet, if you want them just let your LSS know and when they put in their Dusty order Jen will know when they put *New Arrows* what they mean.
Dusty products used - Navajo White DA0903, Fancy Trim 2# DA0446, Wattle Blossom DA0752, Mini ABC set upper DA0861, Mini number set DA0863, Polaroid Frames DA0932, Mini Words #3 DA0477, Mini Hearts 20.pk DA0514, Star #1 DA0933, Arrows TBA.
Other products used - Paper, stickers and card shapes by Kaiser, tags, thread, paper clips, ribbon.
This one is of Miss Cadence playing in a small water playground at the zoo. She loved it.

See Play Explore

Dusty products used - Navajo White DA0903, Wattle Blossom DA0752, Bookman ABC Set DA0666, Flags DA0484 Other products used Paper - BoBunny & Kaiser, stickers and die cuts by Kaiser

Feel

Dusty products used - Navajo White DA0903, Buttons and Arrows Other products used Paper, stickers and die cuts by Kaiser. String and paper doily.
Think I might need some professional help, I may be getting an addiction to those chevrons and arrows!! ;)

I hope you find some time to yourself to indulge in whatever makes you happy.

Until next time

Happy Creating

Audrey

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Shabby Vintage ATC - Audrey

Isn't this year flying past?

It's the beginning of the month so my turn for a Dusty Attic post.

Here's my ATC for this month the theme is 'Shabby Vintage' If you'd like to come play, visit the Dusty Ning site and you'll be directed from there HERE

Dusty products used - French Window DA0365, Wings large DA0850, deVine frame set DA0733(just a small amount of this)Dusty in Colour Navajo White DA0903.
You can find Dusty Attic products HERE
Other products used - Paper - Kaiser, lace, muslin, ribbon, Stamp Quote Kaiser, decorative pins, glitter.

There is other challenges on the Ning site including the monthly SKETCH. Here's this months

I love this one and it's given me the inspiration to create, I hope it does the same for you and

 you'll share with us what you've created.

 I’ll be back soon with some more inspirations using Dusty goodies

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