The Dusty Attic Blog: Soul Happy

Friday 8 September 2023

Soul Happy - Kim Arnold

Hi everyone! I love the foliage available from Dusty Attic and the best part is you can customise it to any colour combination you want.

I have made this layout of an older photo of my husband and I wanted it to include floral elements, but not be too girly so I used a beautiful Dusty Attic chipboard title, the mystic frame, holiday spray foliage clusters and butterflies. I will take you through what I have used and what techniques I applied.

For this layout, I decided that I wanted to make some of this foliage look like it included some golden wattle as that would work well with the colours I had chosen. So, I painted the berries up yellow and I think it shows that you can make foliage whatever you want – even though these foliage items are meant to be Christmas themed! The leaves have been finished with a variety of inks. I have built up the foliage clusters by laying the finished chipboard over laser cut and acetate foliage from 49 and Market.

Holiday Spray

I painted the mystic frame with gold mica ink, and I love how this works with it laid over the foliage so it looks like the swirls and the foliage are integrated together.

Mystic Frame #1

For the title, I painted it blue and then touched the edges up lightly with a bronze wax. For the main word I finished it with dimensional magic so that it stood out more. I then layered the title over the “arms” of the mystic frame so it really stands out.

This makes my Soul Happy

I then coloured the butterflies with blue paint (the same as the title) and then sponged white paint over the blue. I then finished the butterflies with some sparkle.