Love and Laughter - Adri Du Preez

 Hello everyone!

Welcome to the blog today. My November design team layout features beautiful Dusty Attic chipboard pieces.  For this layout, I used pattern paper from the ARToptions Alena collection from 49 and Market and Ephemera bits and rub-ons from various other 49 and Market collections. I love the wreath on the Dramatic paper and the colors are vibrant and beautiful.

I love the laughter and happiness in this photo of my daughter, Juan, and Jamesie. This is pure joy and warms my heart. 

All the chippies were first covered with a layer of white gesso.

I painted the title and brackets with Americana Acrylic paint in Peaches 'n Cream, Desert Turquoise, and Bahama Blue and dry brushed with white acrylic paint.

The flower cluster is made up of a variety of pretty blooms and die-cut foliage and flowers. 

I painted the Foliage #10 in Mint Julep Green and the Botanic Runner in Peaches 'n Cream.

Bahama Blue acrylic paint was used to paint the polaroid frames and white acrylic paint was dry brushed over them.

Peaches 'n Cream and Bahama Blue were painted on the Botanic Buttons, and then dry brushed with white acrylic paint.  White acrylic paint was used on Leaves #2.

To finish off my layout I added art stones and splatters with diluted white gesso.

Dusty Attic products used.

DA2087 - Love and Laughter

DA3331 - Botanic Runners #3

DA1342 - Leaves #2

DA1808 - Mini Tabs #6 BLACK

DA2454 - Polaroid Frame Set #1

DA3315 - Botanic Buttons #1

DA1972 - Foliage #10

DA2442 - Mini Brackets

Thank you for visiting the blog today.

Happy crafting!

Dreams do come true - Adri Du Preez

 Hello everyone!

What a year, and yet I have so much to be thankful for, a new grandson, my husband, children and grandchildren are all healthy, I am healthy...so blessed.

I am sharing my December design team layout with you using some stunning Dusty Attic chippies.  These are photos of my daughter and son in law's 

maternity shoot.

"Dreams do come true..." holds so much truth that can be life changing.  There is something about this phrase that captures me, perhaps it is because we all have dreams, thousands of dreams and so many of my dreams have come true, and I am so thankful!

Here is my layout.

I painted the title, heart arrow, tiny polaroid frame, polaroid frame negative and brackets with white gesso as the base.

Next, I painted the heart arrow and polaroid frames with Americana acrylic paint  in Whispering Turquoise and the bracket in Peaches 'n Cream.

The tiny polaroid frame was perfect to highlight the tiniest baby's sonar photo.

The subtitle is a digital brush designed by Katie Pertiet.

Both sets of foliage were first covered with clear gesso and then Distress Oxide in Broken China, Mowed Lawn, Crackling Campfire and Vintage Photo. 

Press the four Distress Oxide Ink pads onto a craft mat and spritz with water creating small droplets.  I started with the Vintage Photo for the base colour 

and slided the chippies through the droplets a few times and dry with a heat tool.  

Repeat the process with all the colours and dry in between.

I randomly covered the cogs, with coarse gesso, and when dried I covered all the parts with black gesso.  I then dabbed the cogs with a sponge brush and

 Americana Acrylic Paint in Traditional Burnt Umber, True Ochre, Georgia Clay and Whispering Turquoise. I dry brushed all the parts with white gesso and added 

Art Alchemy Wax in Rich Copper.

I have said it before, but my favourite additions to my layouts are these stunning Wordpl@y elements.  I dry brushed them with white gesso and then Americana Acrylic paint in Peaches 'n Cream and Whispering Turquoise.

some close ups.

After everything was glued down I added beads and splatters with diluted white gesso.

 

These are the Dusty Attic chipboard pieces that I have used.

DA1077 - Word Pack #4

DA1645 - wordpl@y #2

DA1463 - mini Tabs #2

DA10166 - Heart Arrows #1

DA2442 - Mini Brackets

DA2501 - Jumbo Cogs #2

DA0001 - Cogs 1

DA1977 - Cogs and Gears

DA2594 - Foliage #23

DA1873 - Foliage #11

DA2509 - Simply Perfect

Wishing everyone a joyful, peaceful and healthy Festive Season and 

New Year!

Thank you for visiting my blog.  Visit the Dusty Attic online store for more

amazing designs.

Happy crafting!

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

Adore - Belinda Spencer

 Hello Dusty Attic Fans!

Belinda here today to share my latest layout created for The Dusty Attic.

Adore

I started with a super cute photo of my kids when they were much younger. I chopped it to a non-standard size because I never do anything 'normal'! I then created a cluster of papers, tags and embellishments underneath. I create my cluster first and staple everything together with my Tiny Attacher. Then I know how big an area to add some mixed media on my background. This background paper was so lovely that it didn't need too much done to it. I simply misted over a bit of Heidi Swapp Colour Shine and added some splats too.

I painted all of my chipboard with three coats of heavy white gesso and set aside to dry. Once dry. I tucked the chipboard in and around my central cluster which had been added to the layout with a double layer of 3D foam. This gives enough clearance for the embellishments and chipboard to be added in.

I finished by adding the photo, a few embellishments and the title.

The Dusty Attic products used:

DA2438 Blooms # 4

DA2440 Mini Foliage

DA2442 Mini Brackets

DA2544 Mini Titles # 1 - Love

DA2594 Foliage # 23

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. I hope you are feeling inspired to play with your Dusty Attic stash too.

Cheers

Belinda

make a WISH - Adri Du Preez

Hello everyone!

I am sharing my June design team project with you.

 The 31^st of May was my grandson’s second birthday and nothing stopped us at making wonderful memories, not even the coronavirus. 

We celebrated a memorable birthday during lockdown. South Africa was on level 3 of
the lockdown and early morning walks between 6 am and 9 am were permitted. To spread the joy his mommy decided to decorate his pram with balloons and handed out lollipops in our neighborhood.  Old and young accepted a lollipop from him and his sister. Here are a few photos of the early morning celebration.

The journaling on the back of my layout reads:

You are cuteness
overload from head to toes. 

Your boundless energy, your creative spirit and
your love for Mila all comes together to make you a truly remarkable little human being. I am filled with anticipation to watch your journey into the next
year, which I am sure will be the tremendous twos. It has been two amazing years watching you grow, learn new things, and bring so much love and happiness into
our lives.

My wish for you is that you will live a fulfilled and
happy life.  Chase your dreams and work
hard towards achieving your goals.  Life
is not perfect and there will always be challenges, but know that they will pass.  We will always be there to guide you and support you to the best of our ability.

Continue to be kind and happy.  We love you with all our hearts and can’t wait
to continue creating memories with you.

Here is my layout.

 I painted all the chipboard pieces with Americana acrylic paint to suit the colours in the pattern paper.

some close ups.

These are the Dusty Attic chipboard pieces that I used.

DA0945 - Make a wish

DA1066 - Chevron Panel Large

DA1688 - wordpl@y #8

DA0999 - Arrows #2

DA1040 - mini Stars

DA2442 - mini Brackets

DA1153 - Stars #3

Thank you for visiting my blog.

Stay safe and happy crafting.