Showing posts with label wood slces. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wood slces. Show all posts

Monday, 15 August 2022

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.



Thank you for visiting the blog today.

Happy crafting!



Friday, 25 September 2020

It's a boy - Adri Du Preez - Mood Board Inspiration

Hello everyone!

This is my layout inspired by the September mood board using some stunning Dusty Attic chippies.  I added a few colours to suit my photos. This is a
 photo of my daughter and her husband's 
maternity shoot.

They are expecting their first baby at the beginning of October and it is a boy. With this layout I want to celebrate this miracle. 
There is no bigger miracle than the miracle of life!

This little boy is coming into the world where he is already so loved, and we cannot wait to meet him and welcome him into our hearts.  We wonder what 
he will look like.  What his soft baby head will smell like.  What the colour of his eyes will be.  We are counting the days and soon we will never remember 
life without him. 

Here is the mood board.


and here is my layout.




I painted the foliage with acrylic paint and the toadstools with Versa Magic in 
Wheat and edged with Brilliance Chocolate ink. The Wood Slices were coloured with Brilliance Chocolate ink.


The title was heat embossed with Ranger white embossing powder.



I used the small frame of the Floral Frame Set and heat embossed the frame with Iced Enamels Relique Powder in Turquoise.


some close ups.


I am proud to say that I made this nest myself.



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


 


Thank you for visiting my blog.  I hope you find some time to play along 
with this beautiful mood board. 

Happy crafting.


Monday, 8 June 2020

Tags and Cards - Patricia Basson

Hi and Hello to all ...
Today I am back celebrating finally moving back into my craftroom again!  I can honestly say that I have so much more respect to everyone working form a small  kitchen table or corner in a room. Having a designated craft area is really such a privilege and I am planning on making the most of it for sure...
I have two Tags and two Cards using gorgeous Dusty Attic pieces to show today. Let's start with the Tags.

















I used two giant Tags from Prima. On the background I painted with Raven Black Sparks Acrylic Paint which gave the lovely Silver / Black shimmer. The Broken Bits pieces I covered with Grey Rust effect Paste and a random touch of Antique Gold Mica mist from Nuvo. 
For the Toadstool Border I mixed some vivid Orange paint from 13Arts with a tiny bit of Brown Sugar paint and used it on the top of the Toadstool. For the bottom part I used Green Grey Rust Effect Paste as well as some Vintage Beeswax Embossing Powder. On the Wood slices I used Brown Rust Paste.
 The Seagrass, Wildgrass and Swirl Vine were painted with Brown Sugar Paint from 13Arts and Mission Bells Brown Spray from Lindy's Stampgang.
For decoration I added I'm A-Maized and A Penny Saved Prills.















For the Cards I layered several pieces of Cardstock. I created a background with white Crackle Paste colored with the new 13Arts Color Glows Fire Opal and Golden Calcite.
Whilst sorting and re-organizing my Dusty Attic chipboards I came across these Rose images...I am loving the simplicity of the Designs, so delicate as well.
I used Rose in Bloom and a Rose Stem. They were gesso'd  and painted with Green Goblin and Stormy Ocean Sparks Paint from Finnabair. I cut the Delicate Frame #2 in half and embossed it with Shabby Green embossing powder from Stampendous. The pieces of Mini Foliage are Gesso'd and got a gentle rub of Aged Brass Metallique Wax.
Some Laces and a Shaker box filled with Glitter and Sequences finises the Cards.

All of these Chipboards  are available from the Dusty On-line Shop.





  





















Thank you, till next time.


Two kinds of gratitude,
 The sudden kind we feel for what we take,
 the larger kind we feel for what we give.
 ~Edwin Arlington Robinson~