Halloweenies ATC set - Belinda Spencer

 Hello Dusty Attic fans!!

It's Belinda here today to share some spooky but cute Halloween ATCs for The Dusty Attic featuring some of the new Halloween chipboard.

I started with a 12 x 12 sheet of kraft cardstock and altered it using various spray inks. Once it was dry, I added stencilling using texture paste with the Bats Stencil and heavy white gesso with the Spooky Faces Stencil. I then chopped up the sheet into ATC sized pieces.

I chopped up the Small Crooked Fences to fit on the ATCs and added those to each in their raw, unaltered form. I also kept the bats unaltered. The rest of the chipboard pieces were first coated with three coats of heavy white gesso before some of them were altered further using Posca Paint Pens and a Sharpie.

Here are the ATCs with the white gesso finished pieces. I added some Mini Stars to complete the night time look. I also finished each ATC with a Halloween Wordpl@y word.

And here are the ATCs that I altered using Posca Paint Pens and a purple Sharpie.

Here's a closer look at the individual ATCs:

Dusty Attic products used:

DA3119 Small Crooked Fence # 2

DA3118 Small Crooked Fence # 1

DA3108 Mini Pumpkins

DA3104 Dancing Skeletons # 2

DA3102 Halloweenies # 2

DA3101 Halloweenies # 1

DA3090 Bats # 2

DA1790 Wordpl@y # 6 Black

DA1040 Mini Stars

DA3062 Spooky Faces Stencil

DA3060 Bats Stencil

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. I hope you are inspired to have a play with some of the awesome Dusty Attic Halloween inspired products.

Cheers

Belinda

Under the Sea - Belinda Spencer - Mood Board Inspiration

 Hello Dusty Attic fans!

It's Belinda here today to share my project for The Dusty Attic inspired by the gorgeous July Mood Board. For my project today I decided to create something a little different to my usual layout and make some ocean themed artist trading cards instead.

Here's a peek at the mood board:

I love these colours so much and they are perfectly suited to an ocean/beach theme.

To start my atcs, I played around with acrylic paints in the colours of the mood board. I used a palette knife to spread the paints over the surfaces.

Next I used the Webbing Stencil to add some pattern and a couple of Dina Wakley Gloss Sprays that I drew on using the nozzle removed from the bottle.

I used a selection of fabulous mini ocean themed chipboards to decorate my atcs. I painted them all with a few coats of heavy white gesso to seal them and create a light base to make my acrylic paint colours more vibrant. The gesso seals the chipboard and stops the colours soaking in. Then I painted them using the same acrylic paints as the background.

Here's a closer look at the individual artist trading cards.

The Dusty Attic products used:

DA1489 Webbing # 1 Stencil

DA2767 Ocean Elements # 1

DA2769 Ocean Elements # 3

DA2771 Ocean Elements # 5

DA2774 Mini Fish # 2

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

Cheers

Belinda

ATC's - Kristy Abela

 Hey there Fanattics!

Nothing beats the excitement of getting new mediums and testing their limits... but what then? This month I wanted to show you how to use up some of those "experiments" with your products and turn them into easy and interesting cards with our favourite chip boards. As an avid art journaller... yep,  pages and pages of play, some great and some I would rather forget (those become collage papers...) but that's another story! 

 

 

I created these backgrounds out of Alcohol ink and a Lift Off stamp pad. The aim was to use the stamping as coordinating embellishments. I find Alcohol ink an unforgiving medium to work with but when you get it right the effects are well worth the effort. Dusty Attics corrugated card stock is a perfect matt for me. It has texture and only needs a little highlighting with a stamp pad to create some amazing effects.  

 

I didn't want to cover up the stamped images and the Polaroid Frame along with the baby polaroid was perfect to draw the eye and the frame quote was a perfect compliment to the Mini Caption. Now we Cherish little memories...

 

I had added some splatters to the Alcohol ink background and added some to the foreground as well. This helps to integrate all the elements into one as well as to reinforce the "unisex" possibilities of the card.

 

 Here I repeated the process. I used some texture & script stamping on the background and coloured my chipboard to match this one. I coloured my chipboard to contrast in the previous card.

 

Here is the final product! Check out the chip board I used below.

Chipboard

 Dusty Attic Chipboard

 Polaroid frame set #1

Corrugated Cardstock

Mini Captions #6

Squiggly frame #5

Mini Brackets

 

-- Kristy - Abela Artistry https://abelaartistry.com.au https://abelaartistry.blogspot.com.au https://www.instagram.com/abela.artistry https://www.facebook.com/abela.artistry

Mixed Media ATC - Juliya Tirskaya - Mood Board Inspiration

Hello dear friends!

Today i'm with a new project - Mixed Media ATC.

Marine Inspiration - Julia Ost

Hello dear frends!

Today I have a sea-inspired for you.

  This time I decided to make it about my vacation at the sea. I used one small paper collection from Prima marketing with resist effect, water-colors and of course sea chipboard from Dusty Attic. 

My small cards I made during my vacation, so to keep our sweet memories I also added beach sand and shells as toppings. I didn’t have texture paste and other complex elements for decoration with me there so I was collecting them accompanied by the sound of the waves and seagulls. 

I hope you enjoy it!

Here I used: 

Mini Shells #2

Quoted Sentiment #1 BLACK

Christmas Postmarks

Cheers, 

Julia Ost