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Saturday, 26 March 2016

All Smiles - Gabrielle Pollacco

Hello friends, I'm happy today to share with you all a very special project that is dear to my heart. As many of you know I have been with the Maja Design team for over 4 years now. Today will be my last post for this wonderful team.

As always I used a variety of collections in one layout (5 in all), but I mainly chose papers from the Life by the Sea collection. I drew my inspiration from the navy and white stripe top my oldest daughter is wearing in the photo above of her and our dog. These are the papers I used on this project:

Maja Design Papers used in this project:

~ Life by the Sea (Seaside Cottage, Bottle Message),

~ Vintage Summer Basics (1945-bs),

~ Vintage Autumn Basics (XXIII-bs, XVI).

Dusty Attic Chipboard used in this project:

~ Chains

~ French Flourish

~ Lattice (small)

~ Vintage Frames #4

~ Word Strips

~ Mini Captions #9

~ Mini Tabs #2

~ Clear Gloss Varnish

~ Dusty Attic Blossoms (Blue Bonnet)

I chose the fresh and pretty 'Seaside Cottage' strip paper as my matting paper....and the softly scripted 'Bottle Message' paper as my background. I decided on my photo and embellishment placement and then softly tinted the surrounding area with some Colorbox Mixed Media Inx in a Patina color.

Before adhering my background paper to the matting paper, I added a little accent by tearing the two papers and curling back the edges to reveal the pretty check paper from the Vintage Autumn Basics collection with a little peek of lace as well. I added a small zipper pull from Prima Marketing to finish the look. I also sandwiched a strip of burlap between the two papers before I finally adhered the two pieces together. As an added finishing touch I added two 'hinge' designs by cutting a Dusty Attic 'French Flourish' chipboard design in half and glued them to the top and bottom of the right side.

I double matted my photo with papers from Vintage Autumn Basics and Vintage Summer Basics, sandwiching the Dusty Attic 'Vintage Frame #4' between the two layers. Then I added some butterflies (just some images I printed off from the internet), blossoms and clock images that I fussy cut from the Vintage Autumn Basics XVI paper, and applied with pop dots, adding a border with Platinum Stickles (glitter glue).

I also added some randomly cut sections of Dusty Attic chipboard Lattice.....and as a final touch used some Dusty Attic Clear Gloss Varnish to attach some seed beads in around the lattice (Prima - Licorice seed beads). To add another bit of curvy design to the page, I slightly bent a strip of Dusty Attic Chain under the photo and attached it with a 'screw' brad.

I hope you enjoyed checking out my project as much as I enjoyed creating it! xo

Friday, 25 March 2016

Life is a Journey ( and Much MORE) - Rachelle Sigurdson

Hello, today I am here to share with you, another LO I did, using Dusty Attics Mood Board for March

From the Mood Board I used the Colors, luggage, globe, clocks, map, Quote & Title, flowers,doilys,lace, & distressed look

The Challenge has a amazing prize of a $100 Dusty Attic Gift Voucher to the Dusty Attic Website for the winner. To enter all you need to do, is use the Mood Board for Inspiration, you can interpret it anyway you like. The only requirement is that Dusty Attic chipboard is used in your creation. Once completed simply add your link to the right side of the bar of the Dusty Attic Blog...

The Dusty Attic used:

Cog Cluster

Creative Script ABC

Dusty Attic Texture Paste

Laurel Sprigs

Film Strips Small

Cogs

World Globes #2

Word Tags #1

The Maja Design used:

From the Vintage Spring I used:7th of April, 7th of April-BS 10th of March, 1st of May, & 9th of March-BS From the Vintage Summer Basics I used: 1932-BS, Vintage Autumn Basics NO. XVI