Together - Patricia Basson

This crazy, crazy Year is nearing its end...leaving us in anticipation what the new year will hold in store for us all !

But until then we keep to some normality in our daily lives... One of which is sharing my monthly Dusty Attic Design Team project with you all.

This photo of me and Hubby was taken two years ago.

I used papers from AB Studio: Paradise lost.

I gave the background a light wash of thin white Gesso, and then stenciled a motif with texture paste. While wet I sprinkled Ranger Blue Glass embossing powder and Funky Gold Patina Embossing powder from Cosmic Shimmer on the paste. I let the paste dry and then heat embossed the embossing powders.

I gesso'd the different Dusty Attic frames with white gesso. I painted them with a Raw Umber Acrylic paint. The Fancy Frame was embossed with some random Vintage Beeswax Baked Texture embossing Powder. The Polaroid Frame and the small flourishes from the Decorative Frame set where embossed with Speckled Egg Embossing Glaze from Tim Holtz. I am loving the Distressed look all the frames have. 

I used several flowers from Dusty in Bloom as well as some fussy cut leaves and flowers. Shaved Ice from Stampendous and Blue and Green Prills and some dried roots add the finishing touches and added texture to the page.

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

Decorative Frame #2

DA 0208

Fancy Frame #12

DA 2241

Polaroid Frame Set # 5

DA 2458

Dusty in Bloom

Grassy Knoll

Dusty in Bloom

Cornsilk

Wishing all love and Happiness. 

Marriage resembles a pair of shears,  

 so joined that they cannot be separated, 

often moving in opposite directions, 

yet always punishing

 anyone who comes between them. 

~Sydney Smith~

Bad Ziva - Belinda Spencer

Hello Dusty Attic fans!!

Belinda here today to share my latest project for August featuring some of the fabulous NEW chipboard designs.

I am absolutely loving the NEW pet friendly designs as I have a LOT of animals on my farm including my fur babies.

So today's layout features my favourite dog out of my three fur babies even though she drives me insane with her barking!! She is very sweet and smart, lovely to walk and loves being in the car.

'Bad Ziva'

"She believed she could woof so she did. (and she hasn't stopped." Yes!! But how cute is she as a puppy?! German shepherds are adorable when they haven't grown into their big ears yet. 

I have used lots of the NEW chipboard on this layout. I mixed up some Capri and Oceania Dusty In Coloour paints along with a little white gesso to make the pretty soft aqua colour for the stencilling as well as the 'woof' and the Diamonds Broken Bits. How good are the Broken Bits?!!! I LOVE this new chipboard design and I can see that I will be using lots of these. 

I used heavy white gesso on the other words on my layout. I gave them about three coats for an extra bright and crisp white. I intentionally left the 'bad' raw so it wouldn't stand out as much because she really isn't a bad dog...just a little annoying. LOL She is my second German Shepherd and I will always have these awesome dogs in my life. 

In breaking news: I have used flowers on this layout!!! They are not a standard feature on my layouts but how can you go past these super pretty flowers. I have added two clusters of flowers in the soft Evening Blush colour as well as Cornsilk.

Oh and the cute little pawprints were also painted with three coats of heavy white gesso.

The Dusty Attic products used:

DA0806 Dusty in Bloom Cornsilk

DA0808 Dusty in Bloom Evening Blush

DA0912 Dusty in Colour Oceania

DA0915 Dusty in Colour Capri

DA 1638 Wise Words # 5 Stencil

DA0983 Teeny Tiny ABC Set

DA2390 Alphabet Jumble

DA2398 Broken Bits # 8 - Diamonds

DA2406 Woof Woof

DA2407 Eat Sleep Bark Repeat

DA2415 Paw Prints - Dog

Thank you for stopping by the blog. I hope you are inspired to have a play with some of these awesome NEW designs.

Cheers

Belinda

Nicole Doiron - Mood Board Inspiration

Hello Dusty FANattics!

I am absolutely thrilled to be back with you today on The Dusty Attic blog

to share my project inspired by the stunning July mood board!

I chose to create this canvas card for my cousin who is getting married this month.

Here is one more look at the July mood board challenge:

How can one not be inspired by the gorgeous colours and texture in this image?!

I went looking in my stash to find some elements to showcase this palette

and some wedding theme elements that I knew my cousin would love.

A large Boho Feather serves as one of my focal points. I painted it with white acrylic paint and then added some Distress Oxide Spray.  I love the diluted pasty effect it created.

On the French Word Play quote, I used embossing powder and dabbed on some white paint.

I used the same beautiful teal shade of embossing powder on the piece from the Window & Shutters #3 set. Mixed with white paint, I love how it almost turned out denim blue as that is one of my cousin's wedding colours. Behind it, you can see a pretty Doily #2.

I decorated my card with pieces of pearl flourish and pearls, also from The Dusty Attic.

I also used Dusty in Bloom flowers in the very fitting Bridal Veil colour.

Here are all the Dusty Attic products that I used:

Chipboard

French Word Play - DA2003

Window & Shutters #3 - DA2199

Boho Feathers - DA1732

Doily #2 - DA0480

Dusty in Bloom

Bridal Veil - DA0805

Accessories

Pearl Flourish - DA1547

Pearls - DA1546

If you would like to see more of my creations, visit me at Scrap-Utopia!

I cannot wait to see your mood board-inspired and chipboard-filled creations.

Make sure to share them on the 
Dusty FANattics FB page.

See you next month!

My Treasure Forever - Michelle Carrick - Off the page

Hello,

I have an off the page inspiration for you!

This was my childhood typewriter, so what better way to tell a story!    
and mix media it!

I started by covering the whole typewriter with heavy gesso.

After drying it, I stencilled with small damasks stencil.

Dried again.

I then cover it with Heritage Kwik crack (local product)

and applied heavy gesso, again.

Drying with heat tool.

Making sure it was completely dry,

I started pouring the alcohol inks on, starting with Oregano then continued with Butterscotch;sepia and teak-wood to create an aged look.

I sanded the edges of the typewriter keys!

For the chip boards I painted with Ayeeda paint (@13arts) metallic dark yellow

and touched up with the butterscotch ink and dusted with black chalk.

After this its just a case of placing and attaching all the elements down.

I used old card board to back and place the photo!

I used printable clocks and handmade butterflies.

I used all sorts of flowers including Dusty in Bloom - Grassy Knoll. 

(Adding words by Tim Holtz!)

Included metal hearts and screws (Prima) and a heart plus key padlock!

Products Used:

This was a totally fun experience!

You should try it,

you wont regret it! 

Lovies

Shells

xoxo