Magic Frost Flowers - Kerstin Filou - Mood Board Inspiration

 

Welcome creative friends!

Our monthly Moodboard is an absolutely wonderful natural inspiration, 

Love the color theme, it reminds me on sunsets by the sea

 it has so much harmony and peacefulness for me.

 

So I was inspired to create a new magical layout in mixed media style, 

  I chose the delicate variation of this Moodboard colour palette

 to match an icy frosty winter morning.

 

 

 

 The chipboards were primed with white gesso and partially decorated 

with a little silver glitter paint. I reassembled the pearl pendant and

 added an ornate pendant.

 

Extra tip:

 

I turned all the paper flowers into ice flowers by first dipping them

 in liquid white acrylic paint and then sprinkled with synthetic snow 

to give them a quick and easy frosty look.

 

some close up's 

 

 used Dusty Attic chipboards

 

Star Banner 

 Elegant Pearls

Christmas Berries #1

Ornate Pendants #1

Pine Sprigs #2

Snowflakes #1

Flower Buds #1

 

 

We are looking forward to see what you come up with this months challenge.

 Just put your own take of the challenge in the comments section

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Love Completely - Lynette Jacobs

Hello Dusty Attic fans!

It’s Lynette here today to share my latest layout featuring some fabulous Dusty Attic chipboard.  

My daughter have always dodged the camera and when she and Peter got engaged last year this grainy photo is the best that I could get.  I used a very soft and romantic paper collection and decided that making the photo black and white would compliment the papers and hide the imperfections.

This is the chippies I used:

Life Beautifully

Page Pebbles #3

Seedlings #2

Elegant Pearls

I painted the Love Completely, the page pebble and the seedlings leaves with acrylic paint and heat embossed the Elegant Pearls.

Some close ups:

I used white gesso to mute the colours of the flowers and leaves.

I used many layers of patterned papers and a doily.  I separated the layers with foam dots to add dimension.

I just love how elegant this looks.

I love the magic of heat embossing.  I used white embossing powder and added pearls to the ends.

One of the patterned paper manufacturers strips became the perfect journalling.

Here you get an indication of the dimension added with the foam dots between the paper layers.

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Love, Dream & Believe - Kerstin Filou

 Hello creative friends!

Where has time gone, today is already the first Sunday in advent. In these difficult times one sometimes believes that time stands still, but we have reached almost December, the Christmas month.

Christmas is for us also the time to read fairy tales and stories before the shining eyes of children.

If you are lucky, the first snow falls outside and envelops the landscape in a magical light.

 

some close up's

 

I used some of my fav chippies from Dusty Attic, e.g.

Elegant Pearls

They were once splited, I treated with white embossing powder and highlighted with pearls

 I supplemented it with two honeycomb ornaments, which were bought as gift tags.

 

 

For the words I used a dark red embossing powder,

additionally I used some snow paste for a magical effect.

 

Dusty Attic chipboards  and stencils 

Star Frames

Fancy Trim #19

 Elegant Pearls

 Squiggly Frame #4

 Mini Titles #1 – Love

Sunburst Stencil

 

Have a wonderful advent season!!

 

XVI - Tina Ollett - Mood Board Inspiration

Hello and welcome Dusty Atttic friends. I hope this post today finds you happy and well. I am back today to share my moodboard inspired project with you. The challenge is open until the end of the month of November. All you need do is to create a little something using Dusty Attic products which has been inspired by the Dusty Attic Moodboard for this month. I have shared the moodboard for you below if you have already not seen it. 

And this is my project XVI.

I feel that this is one of my most favourites of the moodboards for the year. And although this soft palette was where I started it isn't exactly where I ended up. And I think this is definitely what happens to me a lot. And I get asked often why my projet does not always reflect the moodboard. I feel it is a very personal thing. What one may see another may skip over. And although I love the softness of this moodboard somehow my project became a little deeper in colour. But all the same I was very happy with the outcome.

I started out with a round 12 inch canvas which I primed with white gesso just to give it a stark white crisp colour to start off with. I then created some texture using the Dusty Attic Creative Script stencil along with Tim Holtz's Distress Texture Paste and embossing powder. I also gave the background a little colour using chalk paint in the colour of Minnesota Pines. I also added in some white Crackle Texture paste and splatters of Dylusion Ink spray in Linen.

I printed off my photo of my eldest daughter in a low key colour which bought out the apricot of her gorgeous dress she was wearing. I layered the photo up on pieces from 49andMarket's Coral Collage Stacks. Once these were all adhered together I coloured my first piece of Dusty Attic chipboard being the Decorative Frame #5. 

I coloured this gorgeous frame with Roman Purple chalk paint and sprinkled it while it was still wet with some Shabby Pink Embossing Enamel and then heat set it. I also added a little of the Minnesota Pines chalk paint to the edges of the chipboard too. I cut the piece in half and layered over the top and at the base of my photo. 

My next piece of chipboard to use was the Elegant Pearls. I have used two packs of this piece as I wanted to have more pendants to hang from the base of the photo. These pieces were dressed in chalk paints in varying colours starting off with a Mystic Shadow and then some drybrushing of Desert Warmth which is a softer shade of apricot. I cut the pieces and spread them out as you can see. 

Above you will see a new release piece of chipboard from the Dusty Attic. Oh I really love this new foliage piece. I have used nearly a half of the sheet of this for my project. 

The Foliage #27 was coloured again using chalk paints in the Minnesota Pines and Roman Purple along with a splashing of white gesso to help the colours pop a little more.

You will also see below that I have added in a ATC frame. I used one from the #6 pack which is super pretty. This I coloured in the green chalk paint and added over some Dusty Attic Varnish Crackle.

Below you can see the Dusty Attic piece the Decorative Frame #1. I have used the smaller piece from this pack to give my project some more layers. This piece was dressed in white gesso. You will see that I have made more layers around it using the roman numeral moulds and also some laser cut elements from 49andMarket. I added in some touches of the Roman Purple to the edges of the laser cuts to bring all the colours together.

Finishing off my project I added in some more splashes of the Dylusions Linen and I coloured the backs of some Melange pebbles from Prima Marketing with the Roman Purple Chalk Paint. Over the top of my laser cuts and other elements I added in some shimmer using Star Dust Stickles.

Well that is all from me today. I hope I have helped with some small piece of inspiration to inspire you to play along with this month's Moodboard Challenge. 

Happy Creating.

Tina xx