I am enough... - Patricia Basson

Hello Blog Friends!

I am starting the new creative Year with this page for Dusty Attic using papers from 49 & Market's Natural Mini collection.

I used a sheet from the Serendipitous collection as background. I cut the frame from the design and raised it with foam tape. The rest of my layers are also all raised giving the page a lot of depth and interest.

Using the gorgeous Ornate Tile Stencil with Rusty Hinge and Hickory Smoke Distress Inks, I added interest to the background.

The photo image was taken from Pinterest.

I treated the Leafy Stem in the following way. After a lick of Gesso I used Speckled Egg Distress Ink and Distress Oxide. Also some Rusty Hinge on the tip and edges. Whilst the ink was still wet I sprinkled Speckled Egg Embossing Glaze on top and Heat set it. 

I cut the Stem apart and layered it together with a Garden Vine from 49 & Market.

The Distressed frame and some of Nuneka's Feathers were inked with Hickory Smoke and Rusty Hinge DI. I randomly sprinkled some Iron Age Mixed Media Embossing Powder from Cosmic Shimmer on them and also Heat set it. This will always be a favorite technique of mine to not fully cover the chipboard with embossing powder, I just love the texture especially when it is one of the chunky powders. 

The beautiful, delicate feather elements are just enough to add some interest to the page without overpowering the photo and other elements!

I tore the ends of the Quoted Sentiment and used my awl to slightly curl the ends resulting in a little bit of layers. I inked with the Hickory Smoke and embossed with the Iron Age Powder.

I mixed Andalusite Color Glow with Acrylic Liquid Medium both from 13arts and splattered it on the page.

Also added some rusted washers and paper clips, lace and colored gauze.

From the Dusty Attic on-line shop I used the following....

Leafy Stem #5

DA 1144

Feathers by Nuneka

DA 2733

Get Framed - Distressed Rectangle

DA 2673

Quoted Sentiments #3

DA 2582

Ornate Tile Stencil

DA 2485

Thank you and the very best wishes 

Patricia

Start where you are. 

Use what you have. 

Do what you can.

~Arthur Ashe~

Thinking of You - Tina Ollett

 Hello and welcome back Dusty friends. Today I have a shabby chic romantic themed layout to share 

with you today. I hope you enjoy it.

This project was really a labour of love. I wanted to make something shabby and pretty and I think I come up pretty close to that with my layout above. I have used the gorgeous collection of Miles Apart to make lots of layers and I combined this with the Dusty Chipboards to give even more layers. You will see at the end of my post the close-ups of the layers. This is something that I really enjoy doing these days, and while it is not everyone's cup of tea I love being able to add these kinds of details to my projects to enhance the photos of my memories. 

My first piece of Dusty was the gorgeous Vintage Frame. This is also a big favourite of mine. And with most of my Dusty I love to cut them sometimes to change them up a little. This has been cut in half, dressed with relief paste sanded and embossed and layered up amongst the papers and fussy cut elements. You can see below in the photo of this piece.

Another favourite that I use quite often is the Window and shutters . This time around I have used it in such a way that it helps to frame my photo. I wanted to keep with the shabby chic theme so I simply painted and sanded this piece. Again it was layered amongst the layers of papers and embellishments.

on top of this piece as you will see in the above photo I have layered this with a small charm that was coloured with white acrylic paint and then the Dusty Attic chipboard from the Roman Numerals pack. 

The Fancy Trim #16 chipboard was used coming out from under the photo. I used these pieces sitting back to back and layered another piece of distressed paper over the top of it. 

You will also see to the left of the photo the use of the gorgeous ATC frame... yet another well used piece that I favour to use quite often. 

I layered up this piece using paper from the Maja collection to sit behind the frame and then a fussy cut element to sit inside the frame. I added in some muslin and flower pearls to keep with the theme and to keep it pretty.

I hope you have been inspired in some small way to create something of your own from my project today. Thankyou for popping by.

Teen x

Normal - Belinda Spencer - Mood Board Inspiration

 Hello Dusty Attic fans!!

It's Belinda here today to share my layout inspired by the January mood board featuring a mix of new and older chipboard and products.

'Normal'

For this layout, I started by adding some colour to my white cardstock background using a Lindy's Stamp Gang spray. I then added some stencilling using the Distressed Grid Stencil and some heavy white gesso. Once that was dry, I added some more stencilling using the Confetti Stencil with Faded Denim Dusty In Colour Paint. 

Here's a reminder of the gorgeous mood board:

While I had the paints out, I painted everything with the heavy white gesso. I gave it all about three coats as is my standard operating procedure. I kept some of the chipboard white and painted the others with the Faded Denim paint.

I added the face mask chipboard to a cute face embellishment to represent my daughter and myself in the photo.

I layered the matching patterned papers and chipboard pieces behind the photo.

I love the new Impact ABC Set to make a statement and create a bold title on the page.

The Dusty Attic products used:

DA0913 Faded Denim Dusty in Colour paint

DA1538 Distressed Grid Stencil

DA1764 Confetti Stencil

DA1801 Mini Tabs # 4

DA2616 Covid-19

DA2619 Covid-19 Icons

DA2674 Get Framed - Postage Square

DA2696 Impact ABC Set

Thanks for stopping by the blog today. I hope you find some time to play along with the mood board this month too.

Cheers

Belinda

Doing what makes me HAPPY - Rikki G

 Good morning how are you? Hopefully you are feeling relaxed and energized for the New Year, myself I am hoping to kick into creative overdrive and have the mojo flow. What are you creative goals this year?

Today I am sharing a multiple photo layout, this is one of my goals this year to use more photos on single layouts, considering for the last two weeks I have been trying to stuff all the layouts completed into albums and then realizing I still dont have enough !!!!

Dusty Attic Chipboard - Brick Wall Boarder, Spring Blooms #3,Doing what makes you happy title, 49& Market Vintage Artisty Wedgewood pattern paper and rub ons, Sequins

The one thing I love to do is just spray paint all my chipboard with a chalk primer/colour in white so its ready to go and the plus side is that when you spray you dont lose the etched details in your chipboard.

The Spring Blossom #3 set has more than enough peices to add into your diecuts or fussy cut papers to add details and clusters, on of the things I love to do is sprinkle them onto the page and where they land is where they get stuck, this stops you lining them up, because your eye/brain will naturally do it even when your trying not to...... this technique also works for sequins/rhinestones etc.

                   Brick Wall Border

                    Spring Blooms #3

Till next time have a creative day.

  Rikki G 

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