Showing posts with label Mini Foliage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mini Foliage. Show all posts

Friday, 10 May 2024

Shine Brightly - Mixed Media canvas - Pascale B

Hello Sweeties,

Today I'm up on Dusty Attic blog with a new canvas. 


First I primed the canvas with white gesso, then added a design with the Fosiilised Stencil and modeling paste. When the modeling paste was completely dry, I covered the whole canvas with clear and white crackle paste, I was careful to remove all excess of the crackle pastes to allow the design to show. I let it dry naturally to allow the crackle to appear.


I painted the canvas with coral and Prussian blue liquid acrylic paints when the pastes were dry. 


I primed all the chipboards with white gesso. For the Floral Corners, I decided to use only copper, Firebird, and honey waxes.


I painted the Wildflowers #3 with the same colors of liquid acrylic paints I used for the background. For the Tea Leaves and the Mini Foliage #5, I used a combination of liquid acrylic paints and waxes.


I colored the flowers with diluted coral paint and distressed the edges with brown Distress ink.  


To finish, I added some gold and copper glitters. 


Dusty Atty products:
Other products:
  • Flowers - 49 and Market (Ivory Royal Posies);
  • Art Ingredients - Finnabair Prima (Luminous Glitter Set);
  • Art Alchemy Liquid Acrylic - Finnabair Prima (Prussian Blue, Coral, Burnt Sienna);
  • Art Alchemy Waxes - Finnabair Prima (Rich Copper, Honey, Firebird);
  • Art Extravagance - Finnabair Prima (Clear Crackle Paste, White Crackle Paste);
  • Art Basics - Finnabair Prima (White Heavy Gesso, Modeling Paste, 3D Gloss Gel, Soft Gloss Gel).

Tuesday, 26 December 2023

Breathtaking Views - Kim Arnold

 

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.

Happy scrapping
Kim x

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/


Friday, 3 November 2023

Treasure the little moments - Michelle Van Oudtshoorn

 Hello Dusty FANattics

It's hard to believe we just under two months to the end of 2023! Here is my project for November:

The layout is made with Scrapboys papers and 49 and Market flowers. I tore the one paper and adhered it to the base paper. The photos were then matted with distressed papers, and adhered to the page with foam tape. I then used some letters from DA2390 (Jumbled Letters) - painted with white acrylic paint (dabbed on with a sponge), and tucked these under the photo matt as a feature.
The rest of the chipboard was also painted with white acrylic paint and when this was dry, lightly sponged over with a chalk brown paint. Once this was dry, I lightly brushed over the pieces with stickles.
I began first with my flower clusters - and added mini foliage (DA2786) among the layers of flowers. I add the shutters (DA2199) apart and lifted them.
I have also added botanical buttons (DA3316) and added the title Treasure the little moments (DA1606). I finished off adding some white splatters.
These are the products I have used:





Thank you for visiting the blog today.

Hugs,
Michelle







Tuesday, 31 October 2023

Halloween Card - Kerstin Filou

 

  Hello everyone!

 

 Today a new Halloween inspiration, it's a pop up card with fun.

I enjoy creating spooky Halloween scenes, filled with imagination and a touch of humor.

 This 3D card is intended for those who prioritize more important things  over constantly cleaning their home. 😁


Halloween is wonderful, it's the only time of year 
when cobwebs and dust are considered decorative in the home.


 

 

 

 

 some close up's

 







  

 used chipboards

 

 

Main Street 
 
 Spider Web panel small 
 
Antique Frame
 
Halloweenies #2
 
Mini Foliage #2 
 
 
 Have fun!
 
 
 

Thursday, 21 September 2023

You & Me - Kim Arnold

 

Hi everyone! I am back with some more inspiration from this month’s beautiful mood board. There is no doubt that this month’s mood board suits a layout about love, so I chose to scrapbook a recent selfie of my husband and I when we went on a day trip on the Trans-Alpine railway in the South Island of Ne Zealand. It wasn’t the best weather but we had an amazing day anyway.



From the huge range of Dusty Attic chipboard, I chose some textural elements from the Discover custom mixed chipboard, a title, word strips, foliage and a butterfly for this layout. I will take you through what I have used and what techniques I applied.



I started with the title, going with an ombre effect with a pink red at the top going to a lighter version of this colour on the bottom. I used the same colours on the “love this” word circle (which is from the Discover custom mixed chipboard sheet). The darker colour is in the middle and the lighter colour on the outside circle. I finished both pieces with dimensional magic to really make them pop.





Word Pack #52




I painted the broken circle pieces from the Discover custom mixed chipboard sheet with black paint and then sprayed it with a dark grey mica spray which gave it a beautiful sparkle.








The butterfly was painted pink with white paint sponged through the middle and finished with glitter. The word strips were also painted pink and then finished with dimensional magic.





Word Strips #2



Butterflies #3 small



There are a couple of little banner flags which are also from the Discover custom mixed chipboard sheet, tucked under the paper flowers on the left. I used the pink red colour from the title on this and made polka dots with dimensional magic to add extra interest. I love how this turned out and will use this technique in the future. The smaller banner flag is done the same way as the broken circle pieces – paint and mica spray.



The last piece is the foliage. My love affair with foliage and berries continues and for this layout I painted the leaves and stems green and used the dark pink red for the berries. Touches of dimensional magic on the berries makes them come to life. The berries were snipped from a piece in the foliage clusters 3 set, which I had left over from using the leaves on another layout. Chipboard is great because it is easy to cut up and use the different bits.


Mini Foliage #4


Foliage Clusters #3


I hope you have a chance to get some creative time in soon.

Happy scrapping
Kim x



Dusty attic products:




https://dustyattic.com.au/product/word-pack-52/

https://dustyattic.com.au/product/custom-mixed-chipboard-dacc06-discover-2/

https://dustyattic.com.au/product/butterflies-3-small/

https://dustyattic.com.au/product/word-strips-2/

https://dustyattic.com.au/product/mini-foliage-4/

https://dustyattic.com.au/product/foliage-clusters-3/