Blessed - Heather McMahon (with a mini tutorial)

Hello!

 

I've been having fun this week channeling my inner grunge queen for this layout for Dusty Attic. Here's what I made:

I find it so easy to use chipboard on projects. It's just so versatile. I thought I'd show you how you can use chippie shapes to create completely new shapes. Those circles are actually viewfinders and the arrows under one of the circles plus the corner frames on the photo are actually arms of crosses.

 

Here are some closies:

 

To show you what I mean, here are some of the the products I used to make new shapes:

And here's how I grunged them up:

Step 1

Cut the long arm from a cross and swipe Alabaster Dusty in Colour paint across a few places of the remaining piece with your finger.

 

 

 

 

Step 2

Randomly ink a few places with a brown stamp.

 

 

 

Step 3

Draw on Gelatos in a few places and rub in with a baby wipe.

 

 

 

Step 4

Add Bronze Beck BT's Tinby Designs Metallic Melts to random sections.

 

 

Step 5

Add Carbon Metallic Melts to other sections.

 

 

The finished piece:

To finish off this piece I took a Page Pebble, smudged a bit of Alabaster paint over it with my finger, inked the edge and used a brown pen to make the word stand out more. I then layered it on a View Finder and an Ornate Cross that I had treated in the method above.

I hope you enjoyed this post.

Happy scrappin'!

Adore - Vicky Alberto - Sketch inspiration

Hi, Vicky blogging today to share a layout inspired by the November Dusty Attic Sketch Challenge.  I went a little retro this month and used some very old Prima papers and a photo of my daughter on her first birthday. In addition to chipboard, I also used some gorgeous Dusty Attic Celestial White blooms.

Here is the beautiful sketch (I flipped it). Don't forget to enter your interpretation of this sketch for a chance to win some awesome chipboard!  Just link your project on the Dusty Blog (top right side).

Here is a close-up of the scallop Lacing Tash, painted with Dusty Attic Navajo White and Dusty Pink paint.  I also used the same paints on one of the the Fancy Labels and the title from the Mini Words #1 pack. I splattered the paint to leave some bare chipboard exposed.

Next is a close-up of one of the gorgeous Baroque Corners set wit home of the white paint splattered on.

Don't forget that Dusty Attic now sells GIFT CERTIFICATES - just in time for holiday giving!

Thanks for joining me on the blog today.

Card (with Tutorial) and #justsaying - Gabrielle Pollacco

Hello friends!  Gabrielle here with you today!  I have a fun and easy little card tutorial to share with you all today.  It's the weekend and I wanted to have a little fun playing with some of my Shimmerz Paint products, and some of my Dusty Attic chipboard.  So I gather up a few supplies, some watercolor paper and got playing!

Here is a quick l'il video tutorial I made up to show how I put it together!  (Note:....my lighting is bright when I film so the card appears softer in color in the video...above is the actual colors)  Enjoy!

Here are a couple of close-ups of the card design: 

I used some old stash for this card, some Prima Hydrangea blooms I had from an old kit.  I also used Martha Stewart leaf punch for the green leaves (just punched from cardstock and given a bit of a wrinkle.

I used one of my stamp designs, the Dandelion, as my center piece.  I used some white embossing powder with it....I would recommend not to press as hard as I did for this card as I feel I lost a lot of my detailing because of this :)

Products Used in this project:

Dusty Attic Chipboard:  Filigree Frame

I have one more project to share with you Dusty Attic Fans, I got my happy little hands on some of the NEW chippies and just fell in love with the new Wildflowers #3 chippie!  I used it to make this layout of my two sweet lil great-nieces Jade & Kierra.

I used some fun new designs on this page and some old favorites!.... 

I just love those cute NEW Hashtag Sayings chippies for titles....perfect size for me as my layouts get pretty busy and fitting in a large title is not always easy!  I also used the fun little Mini Numbers panel as an accent behind the right bottom corner of my photo.  I just inked with a few colors and added a gloss coat.  I also used a couple of my new 'Word Stamps' for this page 'fabulous'.  These are words I like to use in my scrapbook work done in my own handwriting.  You can find these stamps at The Scrapbook Diaries ....ask Janene for a shipping quote for small packages! :) ....there is also a Scrapbook shop in New Zealand that sells my stamps (for you Australian ladies :) , check with Joanne Flannery for more info on this :)

For those adorable NEW Wildflower #3 chippie, I just used some browns and green inks on it and added some pearl white 3D paints to the blossoms.

I used some Recollections blooms and one of my all time favorite chippies, the Zipper, on this page as well. I used a metalic 3D paint on the zipper Scribbles Bronze Paint.

Another view of the side zippers...

I hope you enjoyed my projects today and hope you find the time to get your Dusty Attic on! xo

Bliss - Heather - McMahon - Sketch inspiration

Hello again.

It's Heather McMahon here with you today with my layout for the November Dusty Attic sketch.
Here is the sketch:

To enter just add your link to your page on the top right hand sidebar

And here's what I made:

Isn't that photo stunning? My mum took it on one of my parents' camping trips to South Australia last year. I'll give this layout to them to keep.

The chippie under the photo is a Swirly Vine #4. To colour it I put some Hot Chocolate Dusty In Colour paint in a mini spray bottle, added water and sprayed the paint on. It's much quicker than hand painting it all. I added a few random sections of Gingernut paint on too. I painted the flowers with Sunburnt Orange and Sunshine paints and added Bronze Beck BT's Tinby Designs Metallic Melts to the leaves.

To colour the chippie letters I simply inked them then added Metallic Melts.

 

The background is one I had previously made from stamping the leftovers from stenciling projects onto a piece of cardstock. I love that I can just rummage through my pre-made backgrounds for something to suit a particular photo.

 

Dusty Attic products used:

 

Page Pebbles #3

 

Swirly Vine #4 large DA1100

 

Seagulls DA1042

 

Geotags DA1088

 

 

Bookman ABC Set DA 0666

 

Mini Spritz Bottle DA0610

Dusty in Colour Paints - Hot Chocolate, Gingernut, Sunburnt Orange and Sunshine.

 

 

Happy Scrappin'!

Dont follow your dreams - Chase them - Jen Burns

Hello everyone

Did you see that Dusty Attic now do

GIFT CERTIFICATES ?

(Time to drop a big "hint" to the hubby for a Christmas gift)

 

I have recently found the art of book folding

I LOVE it - so relaxing and you don't need a lot of supplies to do this craft

so it is easy to "take with you".

 

This is one of the bird houses that I did 

and put into a frame, this is in my Scrap room

** Don't follow your dreams - Chase them**

 

 

 

I have used lots of Dusty Attic chipboard to decorate it along

with Kaiser papers in the background 





The flowers are from Prima and the leaves I had in my "stash"

  

 French Garden Border DA0845

  Reeds  DA1002

          Mini Brick wall DA0814
                 Alphabet DA0861


 

I also did this Fleur De Lis BOOK FOLD and covered the book, I added a bottom to the book and decorated that as well.

The flowers are old book pages punched out with a die, the Cherish word is from Dusty Attic and the cute little bird and nest I had.

This is also in my scrap room
(can you see the theme here ? LOL )  

 



  Word Pack #4  DA1077


Are you scrap booking this weekend?

I am hoping to get the SKETCH done for
 the November challenge.



All you need to do is add your link to your
layout at the right hand side bar


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