Happy Easter - Adri Du Preez

Hello everyone!

Welcome to the blog today. My April design team layout features beautiful Dusty Attic Easter elements. I have now used all my Easter chippies. This layout is filled with carrots and bunny ears peeking out everywhere.  They are just so cute.

This is my daughter and her family celebrating Easter. 

Here is my layout.

All the chippies were first covered with a layer of white acrylic paint, and then painted with Americana Acrylic paint.

I glued pink cardstock behind the ears of the bunny title.

For the rust effect on the spade and watering can I lightly covered them with white gesso making sure I don't cover the detail. With a sponge brush, I then dabbed the spade and the watering can with Grey Storm, Slate Grey, and randomly with Georgia Clay.

I covered the picket fence with white acrylic paint, Grey Sky, and the edges with Grey Storm.  This was glued on top of the carrots, plant labels, and bunny ears.

ADRI

Dusty Attic products used.

 DA3272 - Happy Easter #1

DA3282 - Wordpl@y #16 – Easter

DA3279 - Carrots

DA3280 - Bunny Buttons

DA3278 - Bunny Headbands

DA2499 - Brackets

DA0510 - Buttons

DA2897 - Seedlings #2

DA2893 - Garden Tools #1

DA2894 - Garden Tools #2

DA0403 - Watering Cans

DA2899 - Plant Labels #2

DA05572 - Picket Fence Small

DA2789 - Mini Tulips

DA3329 - Botanic Runners #1

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In the garden - Adri Du Preez

Hello everyone!

I am sharing my July design team layout with you, loaded with stunning Dusty Attic chipboard pieces. 

 After what has seemed like the coldest winter in Pretoria, change is finally on the horizon as we are experiencing wonderful weather at the moment.  I am sure spring is on its way and I have never been more ready.

This is my grandson Janco helping me plant seedlings.

For this layout, I used paper from the 49 and Market Curators Botanical collection.

Here is my layout.

I used bookplates and tabs from the Curators Essential collection to create a booklet and stamped it with a coffee stain stamp. 

Chipboard pieces are always painted with Americana Acrylic paint unless otherwise stated.

Both titles were covered with white gesso before being painted with Hauser Light Green and Cool Blue, then dry brushed with white acrylic paint.

Bugs, ants, and spiderwebs are essential to a garden and were painted with black acrylic paint.  The spiderweb was dry brushed with silver acrylic paint.

The flower clusters are made up of a variety of pretty blooms and die-cut foliage and flowers.  I also used the Foliage Clusters #2, a new addition to the beautiful foliage collection.  The foliage was first covered with white gesso and then painted with Hauser Light Green and Cool Blue and dry brushed with white acrylic paint.  I snipped the foliage into pieces and tucked them into the flower clusters. 

The wood slices were inked with brown and black ink and dry brushed with Plantation Pine for a moss look.

The birdhouses, butterfly, plant label, and seedlings in the wheelbarrow were first covered with white gesso and then painted with Hauser Light Green, Cool Blue, Pineapple, and dry brushed with white acrylic paint.

I covered the garden tools with black gesso and Burnt Umber and dry brushed them with Mont Marte Metallic acrylic paint in Silver.  

For the rust effect on the wheelbarrow and watering can I lightly covered them with white gesso making sure I don't cover the detail. With a sponge brush, I then dabbed the wheelbarrow and the watering can with Grey Storm, Slate Grey, and randomly with Georgia Clay.

The flower pots were randomly covered with coarse texture paste.  I then painted the posts with Traditional Burnt Umber and Georgia Clay.  For the moss on the pots, I used Plantation Pine and Hauser Light Green. Twine was also glued to the pots.

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The final touches to this layout included art stone and splatters with diluted white gesso.

 Dusty Attic products used.

DA2909 - Green Thumb

DA0403 - Watering Cans

DA2893 - Garden Tools #1

DA2895 - Wheelbarrows

DA2894 - Garden Tools #2

DA2898-3 - Pot Plants #3

DA2890 - Potplants #1

DA2899 - Plant Labels #1

DA2898 - Planter Pots #1

DA2897 - Seedlings #2

DA3095 - Bugs #1

DA0677 - Mini Ants – 20pk

DA0893 - Mini Butterfly #2

DA0706 - Mini Birdhouses

DA2180 - Wood Slices

DA1791 - Wordpl@y #7 BLACK

DA1797 - Wordpl@y #12 BLACK

DA2499 - Brackets

DA0612 - Spiders and Webs Set

DA3303 - Foliage Clusters #2

Thank you for visiting the blog today.

Happy crafting!

Adorale - Michelle Van Oudtshoorn

Hello Dusty Attic fans

Welcome to October! This year sure is flying - and for us in New Zealand we are heading into summer. I have created a new layout for my October project:

I have used papers from AB Studio to create my layout. All the chipboard pieces were painted in Dusty in Colour Lavender Blush, and then brushed over with different waxes. The wording is brushed over with Stickles.

I started first with adding the photo on foam tape, before layering the flowers and fussy cut pieces. Among the layering I added the smaller window and shutter (DA2199). And under the cluster I added the foliage (DA2233). I cut up these pieces of foliage.

The pearl pendants (DA1359) were added under the flowers and leaves with some pearls.

In the flower cluster and paper pieces layered in the left of the photo I added a watering can (DA2802) and the word "delight" from the word play pack (DA1645) - also adding more foliage.

The title "adorable" is from a word pack DA1268

These are the products I have used:

Thanks for visiting the blog today.

Take care,

Michelle

Love this - Michelle Van Oudtshoorn

Hello there,

Beginning of August already - and we are starting to see longer days in NZ as we start creeping one day at a time closer to summer (although it is still really cold here). Here is a spring-like layout just to invoke that spring fever:

We were lucky to receive a box of new goodies - and in it was the newly released set of gnomes. Of course, I just had to do a layout using at least one! Aren't they just adorable?

I started with painting the gnome (DA2966) using art alchemy metallique paints. 

I created my layout layering the flowers and adding the gnome among these. I paint the foliage DA1292 in a very light green (although in my photo they look more silver) - the same paint was applied to the watering can (DA2802) and the title (DA1074).

Once I had layered all my elements, I then added my title

These are the products I have used:

Thanks for popping over to visit!

Till next time,

Michelle