Smile - Canvas - Rachelle Sigurdson

Hello,today I am here to share with you a canvas I did of my son Erlendur,who is recovering from a brain injury.Erlendur also had a spinal injury that is healing on its own.He had no other injury's or breaks except for his front tooth!

My inspiration came from Heather Jacobs LO Moments in time. I just love all her work that she does with Kraft paper & I loved the colors Heather used in this LO.

http://www.heatherartandlife.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/my-interview-with-paula-cheney.html

The Dusty Attic Chipboard used:

mini number grid (DA1073)

scribble hearts (DA1019)

number border #1 (DA1049)

spider chrysanthemum (DA1043)

zippers (DA0816)

cogs #1 (DA0001)

mini cogs (DA0689)

Film strip small (DA0935)

mini chicken wire (DA0788)

teeny tiny ABC set (DA0983)

skeleton clock faces (DA0430)

Bar Code (DA0624)

Dusty in Color Clear Crackle Varnish (DA0900)

All of the other products I used on this canvas,are from my stash. I  used some Graphic 45 Kraft,& the main piece of Kraft paper is from a Halloween collection from My Minds Eye. I also went through all of my metal,& found lots of oldies (Graphic 45,Tim Holtz,Prima ect. that I could use on this canvas.I have a crazy mess going on from pulling out so much stuff.. Here is the first photo I got of DD,when we got home,before his father fixed that tooth!

This is a smile I will never forget! It is when I felt DD, was in tuned to his body,& knew who is was. As soon as he started to wake up his tongue went straight to the chipped tooth. Once the nurses were able to transfer DD to the bathroom,I would watch him, as he would look at himself at all angles, at this tooth,sometimes I could not help myself ,by getting the giggles. He was still confused & in post trauma brain injury.Well with his father being a Dentist,I thought they both forgot about the brain injury,because all they could talk about is this tooth. Erlendur kept asking Siggi when he was going to fix it,& Siggi was @ home 200 hundred miles away,where his dental practice is,so he could not help him out,@ this time. Siggi offered to send up a Dentist from the City,but no DD wanted Sig to fix it! So the tooth became a distraction from the brain injury,the smile I will never forget,& so happy I took the photo before it was fixed!!!

Here are some close ups of detail....

I used 4 different products on the chipboard & the metal. I dabbed on aqua & ginger Tim Holtz adirondack ink,on both the chipboard & metal & once that dried I applied DA crackle varnish on the chipboard & ranger glaze metal sealer on to the metal.....

Erlendur is staying very positive & trying very hard,I believe in time he will come back 100%. Thank you so much for taking the time to look....Rachelle

Moments Canvas - Nadia Cannizzo

 Good morning! I am here today to share with you a cute little storage box I altered for The Dusty Attic. 

The Dusty Attic have a HUGE website.. it includes:

Product Gallery HERE

The ning site and gallery HERE

The blog HERE

To start with , I painted the whole wooden box with 2 coats of Gesso. 

Once that dried, I applied 2 coats of Dusty Attic's Navajo White paint. 

I then used an old Tattered Angels mask and Modeling Paste to create the pattern you can see. 

 I then used the smaller pieces of the  Flourish Frame Set, and painted them with Gesso too before applying 2 blue tones of Tim Holtz Distress Stain. When that dried, I added some more colour to the chipboard with a brush and a new product I have tried recently called Viva Decor Precious Metal Colour in Turquoise . This gives it a lovely deep colour and a bit of shine and shimmer. 

As you can see above, I also used the Turquoise colour on some of the flowers. 

The roses I used here are also from Dusty Attic. They are 1.5cm Roses. I simply added some Viva Precious Metal Colour on them too. 

 Besides the Dusty Attic Roses I added some Prima Marketing larger flowers and some Dusty Attic Bridal Veil blooms. 

The Dusty Attic Materials List

 Chipboard: Flourish Frame Set (DA1035)

Paint: Dusty In Colour Navajo White(DA0903) 
Flowers: Dusty In Bloom Bridal Veil (DA0805), Dusty Roses 1.5cm White (DA0971)

 

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Friday afternoon 28th March to 

Sunday 2pm 30th March 

St John of God Retreat Centre

Shoalwater 

 $280 per person

 

Includes

(are you ready?)

Two Nights accomodation 

with your own room and ensuite.

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Morning and Afternoon Tea's

(yep all catered for!)

Function room scrapbooking area

(Carpeted and Air-Con, wet area)

and

A Goody Bag

We will also be holding five classes 

that you can book into as well

Classes will be $30 each and can

be booked separatley 

 

So Be quick to put your name down

 and join in this AWESOME retreat ! 

  We will also have a Shop there with

Scrapbooking supplies and of corse 

Dusty Attic Chipboard  (some never seen yet items !)

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Love You - Gabrielle Pollacco

 

I decided this weekend I would dig through some of my older stash in creating this page....so some of the pieces are new, but I dug through some older papers (like Basic Grey, Capella papers and stickers), some old MME (My Minds Eye) with a dash of Maja and 7 Dots (The Background paper is from the Dreamer collection, a paper called Sleepless). 

 

I rarely use sketches when I make up a layout because I'm usually trying to feature certain products so I let the products be my inspiraton.  But in this case was inspired by a sketch I saw on Pinterest by Tinci Designs....it was actually a sketch made for digital kits, but I really liked the design and thought it would work well with the Dusty Attic large Film Strip chippie I've been wanting to use.  Here is a picture of Tinci's Digital kit sketches...

 

I used the sketch in the top right corner.  If you are interested in digital kits you can find her link HERE.

I used the film strip as the bridge to the two design clusters and kind of a title space as well. I painted all my chipboard pieces with white gesso (two coats) and did a little random stamping on them with word and script stamps. I also edged with some soft brown chalk in as well.

 

I used one of my favorite little scroll chippies in the bottom right corner of the page as well.  I love the light airy filligree look the fine cut chipboard gives to a page.  The cute little natural/lavender floral cluster is from Tresors de Luxe.

 

I've had this Dusty Attic Bracket Frame set for years in my stash and only this weekend got to using it!   I used one of the smaller frames in the set to frame my photo. 

 

 

I used a really intricate and beautiful border chip from Dusty Attic called 'Sweet Pea Border' for the left side of the page design. (it is not pictured in the supplies photo below because a photo was not available online, but you can get it at the website).  I added a few adhesive pearls to finish the look.

 

I also did a bit of inking on the page with some colors that I picked out from the background paper (7 Dots Studios Dreamer/Sleepless) ....I wanted to feature the teal blues with the soft pinky/lavender.  So I did a little inking with Donna Salazer Distress Inkpad (Denim), Versa Magic Chalk Ink (Spring Pansy) and did a little spritzing with Lindys Starburst Spray (Steampunk Sepia).  And I added some texture with my home-made texture paste and a Crafters Workshop Stencil called 'Art Is'.

 

Dusty Attic Supplies used in this project:

~ Bracket Frame Set

~ Sweet Pea Border

~ Small Scrolls

~ Dusty Roses - Eggplant

~ Film Strip

 

I hope you enjoyed my Dusty Attic project today and hope that you feel inspired to create a project using beautiful Dusty Attic products! xo

 

Lola Boo and You and 5th May - Audrey Underwood

Audrey here with my creations for the month of March

Lola Boo and You

Based on the Dusty Attic Sketch this month.

Dusty Attic Products Used: Dusty Attic Custom Title – Lola Boo and You, Love You Arrows DA1070, Heart Arrows #2 DA1026, Nesting Bracket Frame set DA0326, Lavender DA1001, Mini Heart Border DA1015, Banner #2 DA1024, Fancy Trim #3 DA0469, Rulers DA1005, Corrugated Card DA0830.

Other Products Used: Kaisercraft Paper, Bazzill Card, ribbon and thread.

Here's the sketch

Follow the links on the Dusty Blog, to play along and possibly win a great prize HERE

5th of May

Dusty Attic Products Used: Mini ABC set Lower DA0862, Mini ABC set Upper DA0861,Mini Key Hole DA0323,Crowns #5 DA0159, Mini Marrakesh Trellis, Mini Number Panel DA1052, Love You Arrows DA1070, Heart Arrows #2 DA1026,Crackle Varnish DA0900,

Other Products Used: Kaisercraft 6 ½ x6 ½ pad – Art of Life – Paper- Memories, Kaisercraft 12x12 paper - Art of Life – Everyday, Letter Stickers & Stencil Tim Holtz number & brads. Versa Fine ink – black Versa, Color ink - Pinecone,Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist – Tattered Leather. Jo Sonja Texture Paste & Burnt Umber paint. Luggage Tag, bead caps, chain, frame charm, lace. STAMPS USED - Hero Arts, Stamp-it and Fiskars

For more creative musings visit my blog HERE

Until next time

Happy Creating

Audrey x

SWIRLYDOOS BLOG HOP

Welcome to:

Swirlydoos Kit Club 

March Scrapbook Kit Reveal & Blog Hop!

If you came here from Paulien's blog, then you are on the right track. If not, go back to Swirlydoos' blog and start from there. We have some amazing projects for you to see today !! Make sure to leave a comment on all of the blogs for a chance to win!!! Make sure you have LIKED & FOLLOWED Swirlydoos on Facebook!!!

Swirlydoos is proud to bring you our beautiful March collection:

Salutations

And check out these coordinating add ons that perfectly compliment our March scrapbook kit!

Are you a subscriber? If so, your kit is on it's way! If not, check out the Swirlydoos store to see if there are any March kits or add ons in the store!

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We have some absolutely beautiful scrapbook projects for you to see today !! 

DUSTY ATTIC 

So, let's get started! Make sure to leave a comment on all of the blogs for a chance to win!!!

You have until midnight, eastern time, on Thursday 3/6 to complete the hop. Winners will be announced on theSwirlydoos Blog on Friday 3/7. In order to qualify to win here is what you need to do:
1: Visit all of the blogs and leave a comment on each. This way we know you were there. Take your time. There are REALLY beautiful things to see along the way.
2: Before you leave each blog, look for the “special” words and write it down. 
Once you have visited all the blogs and collected all the special words, they will create a sentence. 
3: Finally, go back to the Swirlydoos blog and leave a comment letting us know how much fun you had, tell us the sentence that was created with all of the special words you collected. Can't wait to hear from you.

My special word is : FALL

The party continues over at Angelica's blog. Have fun!

February sketch winner and March NEW Sketch

 And the WINNER is ... "Andipants"

Thank you for entering our February Challenge

You can win your very own Dusty Attic pack by entering the 

March Sketch Challenge 

HERE 

Cant wait to see your entries 

and we will be back during the month with inspiration

of the Sketch from the Design Team 

March Sketch Challenge

Hello Everyone 

Cant believe it is March already 

Nadia has done another beautiful sketch for us this month

I love the Design Teams takes on the sketches - today there is Nadia and Heather - Hope you are inspired and give the sketch a go yourself for a chance to win an awesome Dusty Attic prize pack 

NADIA CANNIZZO - STAR

Chipboard: Flourish Frame Set (DA1035)

Paint: Dusty In Colour Navajo White(DA0903)  , Dusty In Colour Sugar Plum(DA0908) and Dusty In Colour Lavender Blush(DA0911)

Flowers: Dusty In Bloom Bridal Veil (DA0805), and Dusty In Bloom Evening Blush (DA0808)

HEATHER JACOB - THOUGHTS

Dusty Items used

March Sketch layout  - Thoughts

Vine corner:DA0753

Dusty in Colour Navajo White : DA0903

Dusty in Colour Pesto : DA0918

Dusty in Colour Clear Crackle Varnish: DA0900