Hi everyone! I took some happy snaps when I
was out on a walk at our last scrapbooking retreat. It was such a beautiful and
warm winters day (a little unusual here in the South Island of New Zealand!)
and I just really wanted to capture the beauty and peace of this rural area. I
knew that the little mushrooms and foliage from Dusty Attic would work
perfectly with the Mintay Woodlands collection.
I have made this layout using a selection
of mushrooms, foliage, words and a lovely title. I will walk you through the
techniques I applied to each of the elements.
I started by painting up the mushrooms. As
the paper collection included mushrooms, I painted the chipboard mushrooms to
match in – so some I painted with red caps and white stems, and some in tones
of brown.
I then painted up various grass pieces in
shades of green to layer on with the mushrooms and die-cut pieces from the
paper collection to create little mushroom scenes on each side of the title.
For the title, I painted it dark brown and
then rubbed a bronze wax from Prima on the bottom part of each of the words to
give it dimension and a variety of tones and shine.
For the foliage, I painted them in various
shades of green, picking out the berries with a bright orange red. I then
incorporated these pieces into the layout by layering them with die-cut pieces
from the paper collection.
The finishing touches for the layout were
some words – I painted a word strip in cream and tucked it under the edge of a
photo and I painted a # word from the daily 4 word pack with brown paint and
included it on the right side of the wreath.
I hope you have a chance to get some
creative time in soon.
Dusty attic products:
https://dustyattic.com.au/product/breathtaking-views/
https://dustyattic.com.au/product/custom-mixed-chipboard-dacc12-escape-to-nature/
https://dustyattic.com.au/product/mini-foliage-4/
https://dustyattic.com.au/product/word-strips-2/
https://dustyattic.com.au/product/daily-4/
https://dustyattic.com.au/product/foliage-clusters-3/
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