Guest Designer - SUE SMYTH

Welcome to our Guest Designer Sue Smyth

She has done this amazing altered Journal

with a mini tutorial as well

 

 



Altered Journal 

By Sue Smyth

Today I am sharing an altered journal, made with a Dusty Attic notebook and chipboard. This is one of my favourite projects to do, and with chipboard it is very easy to achieve texture an dimension. I love the colours and gentle curves of peacock feathers. So I just had to create a journal featuring The Dusty Attic peacock chip feathers.

I have used Liquid pearls to colour the feathers as I like the raised surface they give.

There is an illusion of curves to the surface just like the real feathers. 

The iridescence is awesome. You could also use lumiere paints and Dimensional Magic.

Around the golden frame I have clustered assorted buttons, resin shapes and metal trinkets.

You can raid your stash to see what you have.

Anything that has a flat backed is suitable to be adhered to the front

with a thick wad of Gel medium, use it like you would icing.

Some nice close ups of the Gold frame, I have embossed the oval frame with Stampendous Aged Gold embossing powder. 

To speed up drying time use your heat gun, this will even dry gel medium.

May be not thoroughly, but enough to handle the book while working on the 

next step. 

When you have painted the peacock feathers flip them over and spray with black Dylusions to cover the whit gesso that shows on the sides. 

Take one Dusty Attic Journal 

To prepare the journal, I have used Gel medium to adhere assorted paper towels to the cover. Each brand has a different texture and pattern. so I like to mix it up. Adding masking tape to the edges gives it extra strength. I have also added plasterers tape and of course some Dusty attic chipboard. 

Once the gel medium is touch dry coat the whole book randomly with gesso.

Dry with heat gun.

Spray randomly with glimmer mists as desired.

Step 1

Coat feather in white gesso and allow to dry. Start with peacock liquid pearls and cover some of the fronds of the feather

Step 2

Add other colours to the feather, majestic purple and royal blue liquid pearls.

Keep the nozzle clean and unclogged, and

 add layers of colours until you build up a thick surface. Don't be afraid of 

adding more colours over the top of the previous.

Materials 

assorted paper hand towel

Gel Medium

brushes

mesh tape

masking tape

white and black gesso 

heat gun

fully purple, mallard and olive glimmer mist

Assorted metal trinkets, buttons and resin shapes

Peacock, Majestic purple and Royal Blue Liquid pearls

metallic gold and purple paint

pearl strip

Black dylusions( to spray the back of peacock feathers)

Gunmetal stickles

Stampendous Aged Gold embossing powder

Dusty Attic chipboard

peacock feathers 

oval frame

border and corner 

lock

chip flowers

wish 

 

THANK YOU SO MUCH SUE

you can see Sue's blog

  HERE

for more inspiring work

 

(Sue has more coming this month)

 

 

See, Play & Explore and Project Life Style - Audrey

I've been scrapping some photos of a little zoo adventure we had recently. Now I know the main stars of the day should have been the animals but a certain Little Miss, my granddaughter Cadence and her reactions to all the animals and things around her made her my star for the day, she absolutely loved it and was so excited about everything. As usual I took a heap, well maybe a mountain of photos so there'll be a few more pages later on about our Zoo Adventure.

I'm loving all the Project Life pages I'm seeing about and admire all my scrapping buddies who are doing it. Some of my pages are along the PL style so I'm loving using a lot of Dusty chipboard on these layouts, small chippy bits and even the larger chippy bits cut down are working really well for me. I adore the new arrows Jen's come up with, their so new they don't actually have a code for them yet, if you want them just let your LSS know and when they put in their Dusty order Jen will know when they put *New Arrows* what they mean.
Dusty products used - Navajo White DA0903, Fancy Trim 2# DA0446, Wattle Blossom DA0752, Mini ABC set upper DA0861, Mini number set DA0863, Polaroid Frames DA0932, Mini Words #3 DA0477, Mini Hearts 20.pk DA0514, Star #1 DA0933, Arrows TBA.
Other products used - Paper, stickers and card shapes by Kaiser, tags, thread, paper clips, ribbon.
This one is of Miss Cadence playing in a small water playground at the zoo. She loved it.

See Play Explore

Dusty products used - Navajo White DA0903, Wattle Blossom DA0752, Bookman ABC Set DA0666, Flags DA0484 Other products used Paper - BoBunny & Kaiser, stickers and die cuts by Kaiser

Feel

Dusty products used - Navajo White DA0903, Buttons and Arrows Other products used Paper, stickers and die cuts by Kaiser. String and paper doily.
Think I might need some professional help, I may be getting an addiction to those chevrons and arrows!! ;)

I hope you find some time to yourself to indulge in whatever makes you happy.

Until next time

Happy Creating

Audrey

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Shabby Vintage ATC - Audrey

Isn't this year flying past?

It's the beginning of the month so my turn for a Dusty Attic post.

Here's my ATC for this month the theme is 'Shabby Vintage' If you'd like to come play, visit the Dusty Ning site and you'll be directed from there HERE

Dusty products used - French Window DA0365, Wings large DA0850, deVine frame set DA0733(just a small amount of this)Dusty in Colour Navajo White DA0903.
You can find Dusty Attic products HERE
Other products used - Paper - Kaiser, lace, muslin, ribbon, Stamp Quote Kaiser, decorative pins, glitter.

There is other challenges on the Ning site including the monthly SKETCH. Here's this months

I love this one and it's given me the inspiration to create, I hope it does the same for you and

 you'll share with us what you've created.

 I’ll be back soon with some more inspirations using Dusty goodies

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Remembering Childhood - Geraldine

Remembering Childhood 

Hi there, today I'm sharing a layout of Raggedy Anne and Andy..... this brings back my childhood memories of some of my favourite toys. My daughter Mackenna wasn't too impressed with this layout because I chopped her head off  Sorry Missy..but I wanted the focus to be on the toys.

'Sweet, Sweet, Memories'

g

Dusty Attic Products used:

Dusty Rose Leaves

Dusty In Bloom Bridal Veil

Dusty In Bloom Grassy Knoll 

Dusty in Colour Alabaster

mini Butterfly

Leafy Flourish #2

Lace Border #1

  (Removed hearts and altered to make frame)

** My Tip** Don't be afraid to pull out some old scrapping products to add to the new - my Title rub-on came from a pack about 5 years old!

Thanks for dropping by the blog...Enjoy. G!

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Medieval atc's - Tina and Olga

Our theme at Dusty Attic for our ATC August is Medieval, and they have the most amazing range of chipboard to accomadate this theme, I have used the Sheilds (Coat of arms) and the coat of arms add on #2

 

make sure you call past the Dusty ning and have a look at all the amazing inspiration.

Thanks for calling past 

Tina xx

My Medieval ATC

I have used

Coat of arms add on #2 DA0833

Shields (coat of arms) DA0831

Dusty in Colour

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Olga

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August Sketch Winner and new sketch for September

Congratulations 

 MARCI BENSING 

Your have won the August sketch challenge 

THANK YOU for entering - your take on the sketch
 is great and what a cute photo !  

This is Septembers Sketch Challenge

 (by Michelle Grant )

Go to the Ning HERE

to join in 

Cant wait to see people's own interpretation of this one !!

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Little Darlings layout and ATC with - Robin

 

Hello everyone!

Today I am sharing a dimensional layout I made using three gorgeous chipboard frames. 

I painted each piece using ivory acrylic paint which I applied with a sponging technique.  I used the largest frame flat against my 12x12 paper to frame my design.  I then began to layer the two smaller frames using rosettes.

Here is a close-up photo of the layered frames.

This is my ATC as well ...

 

I used the "Coat of Arms" add-on #2 chipboard set (DA0833) to assemble this medieval collage ATC for this month's ATC theme.

I painted the lion using silver acrylic paint, then I applied Dusty Attic's Clear Crackle Finish. I mounted my silvery lion using foam adhesive.

Thanks for visiting with me today.

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GIVE-A-WAY - Easy as 1... 2....3

Welcome to another month of Dusty Attic goodness from our 

awesome Design Team 

AND 

"insert drum roll here" 

we have an A-Maze-ing

 Give a way pack - including the paint caddy, which has drawers

 underneath to store your paint brushes or sponges for easy access

 and some of the  beautiful Dusty in Colour Paints  (pictured below)

 happening on our 

FACE BOOK

Also pictured is of corse some of the stunning chippy designs that we have and the 

Dusty Attic Gloss and Dusty Attic Crackle as well

 (RRP at well over $150)

I will be back tomorrow with the August sketch winner and the 

new sketch for September

Until then 

Happy creating