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Wednesday, 30 January 2019

My Art, My Therapy - Patricia Basson - Canvas off the page

Hello Dear Blog Friends....

I often get asked how does one use and interpret a Moodboard....

A Moodboard should inspire you with its colours, Images and overall feeling ...You can take either all or some of the colours that inspire you, maybe an image speaks to you or some moodboards have phrases or titles that you can use.

As you will see with this month beautiful Dusty Attic board, we have soft Aqua looking colours and the beautiful waves and shoreline image. Now I have to admit that my canvas started out quite differently. I had tissue tape and lovely tissue paper on it all going for a beach theme...and then I changed direction and rather used the colours but went for a more industrial looking canvas!!! Just showing that you can really go where your Mojo leads you.

I also want you to see that there is all that extra chipboard that we should keep and utilise...Yes, I'm talking of the of-cuts / negatives that one tends to throw away! Not only are they perfect to use behind photos or embellishments to lift them, but some have the most amazing designs that can be used as well. Here I have used the of-cuts from the Industrial Corners and also the insides from the ATC frames. I embossed them with an embossing folder to add texture to them.

After adding the different tapes and changing my mind, I added a thick, rough layer of Plaster paste on the canvas. I stamped with a texture stamp to add texture and interest. I also added layers of embossed cutoffs and other chipboard elements. After a layer of Gesso and drying, I added my firsts layer of colour, A Bit o' Bubbly from Lindy's Stampgang.

The Industrial Corner was Gesso'd and sprayed with the same Spray. The wings of the Winged Keys got a rub of Mystic Turquoise Antique Wax. As for the rest I painted and sprayed with the following products. Matte Turquoise Paint and Pearl Turquoise Light Mist from 13Arts, Sassy Sapphire from Lindy's and Blue Green and Cool Grey Rust Effect Pastes. I also used Blue Light Fine Grained Grit from 13Arts in places.I used White Gold Metallique Wax to highlight certain areas.

The next 3 photos are just to show a little before all the mist and paints and elements were added.

I hope I have inspired you to also give the Moodboards a try.

Also remember that we have TWO x $50 Vouchers to the Dusty Attic website, so there are more chances to win. Remember the only criteria is that is has to have Dusty Attic chipboard on your creation. Just add your link, name and county to the right hand link and have fun with the board, and happy Creating everyone.

These are the products from the Dusty Shop that I have used....

Thank you for the visit and I leave you with this little piece of wisdom....

The purpose of art

is washing the dust

of daily life

off our souls.

~Pablo Picasso~

Paradise Found - Joanne Bain - Mood Board Inspiration - Off the page canvas

Hi Everyone!!

Joanne here with you today sharing my latest creation created for the gorgeous Dusty Attic January Mood Board Challenge. The challenge gives you the chance to win one of two $50 Dusty Attic Gift Vouchers. To enter you simply need to use the Mood Board for Inspiration, you can interpret it anyway you like. The only requirement is that Dusty Attic chipboard is used in your creation. Once completed simply add your link to the right side bar of the Dusty Attic Blog.

So this is the January Mood Board.

I was inspired by the theme and the colours for my project and decided to create a small beachy themed canvas featuring my kids.

'Paradise Found'

To create the main focal point of my cluster and to frame my photo I used the larger window and shutter from the Window & Shutter 3 set.

The chipboard was given a very heavy wash of white gesso as I wanted it to be as white as possible. In amongst the flowers I have placed a piece of the small sea grass chipboard which was also painted white.

To add interest to the background of the canvas I added a few pieces from the Broken Mesh set. The base of the cluster started with a large scroll border piece.

I turned the window & shutter sideways to accommodate the landscape photo. I trimmed away the centre piece of the window so that it draws the eye into the window.

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Materials List

DA2201 Window & Shutter 3

DA0219 Scroll Border #1

DA1956 Broken Mesh

DA1104 Seagrass Small

DA1836 Mini Captions #13

my Sweet Baby - Belinda Spencer - Mood Board Inspiration

Hello!!

Belinda here today to share my take on the stunning January Mood Board.

Here's a peek at the mood board in case you missed it.

Aren't those colours just gorgeous?!! Aqua is my most favourite colour so I was super happy to play along with this inspiration.

*NOTE: I actually did use every colour from the inspiration however that stunning chipboard frame covered up my darker blues.

To start this layout, I applied some clear gesso to my background patterned paper and let it dry. Then I mixed up a lovely watery wash with Dusty In Colour Alabaster and Capri paints. I spritzed my paper and then dropped the paint on with a soft wet paintbrush. I let the colour pool and drift over the page and then set aside to dry. Once dry I flicked some of the leftover paint over the page to add some more interest.

I added some more detail to my background using some tiny little heart stamps from Darkroom Door and a matching ink.

I painted all of my chipboard with a couple of coats of heavy white gesso and then a white paint pen to make a lovely crisp bright white. I painted the 'sweet' and the Mini Heart Button with undiluted Capri paint.

One of my favourite things to do is create lots of layers on my layouts. I started with the large frame from the Fancy frame # 12 set. I then added many layers of co-ordinated patterned papers. I like to shuffle around my layers and then staple them together before adding to my layout rater than sticking one layer on at a time. I prefer to use staples so that I can add little bits in around the sides of my layers later.

After the paper layers I added the smaller frame from the set, my photo and all of the sweet embellishments and words. I love to mix up and combine a variety of fonts when I add my title.

Dusty Attic products used:

DA0682 Mini Heart Buttons

DA0862 Mini ABC Lowercase

DA0902 Dusty In Colour Alabaster

DA0915 Dusty In Colour Capri

DA0983 Teeny Tiny ABC

DA1040 Mini Stars

DA1450 Word Pack # 34

DA2241 Fancy Frame # 12

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today.

Cheers

Belinda

Dreaming of Summer - Aleksandra Mihelic - Mood Board Inspiration - Altered Art

It's snowing heavily here in Slovenia. It's our first snow this year and it felt somehow strange to be making a summer project. But there are places where it is summer now.
And one of those places is Australia, the home of the gorgeous Dusty Attic chipboards. I've never been to Australia and would love to visit once. It's one of the countries on the very top of my list to see. And it was actually really nice to make a summer project in the middle of the winter, dreaming about a warm summer days.

So in the atmosphere of dreaming about a warm summer day somewhere in Australia in the middle of a cold and snowy winter days I decided to alter a suitcase, using many of the chipboards from the new and older releases. I hope you'll like it!

Paradise Found - Tanya Cloete - Mood Board Inspiration - Altered Art

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Mood Board Inspiration

Altered Crab

"Paradise Found"

Hello dear Dusty FANattics!

Here is my take on this months mood board.

I LOVE sea/beach themes and this colour palette is just absolutley STUNNING.

I have altered this cute little crab featuring lots of the pretty sea/beach

Dusty Attic chipboard pieces. I prepped the little guy with white gesso

and added some gauze along the bottom section.
I also painted all the chippies I used with white gesso first and then started adding them in layers onto the gauze, I adhered all of these with a heavy body gel and gave them another coat of gesso.

I then painted it with some impasto and metallique paints, I added water now and again to tone down the colours a bit. I randomly added some touches of rust pastes. I then tucked in some lace flowers and extra gauze behind the chippies. I also added some seashells and a starfish embellishment. The chipboard titles have been embossed with white embossing powder (I generally love embossing the chippie titles

with white, simply because it looks pretty and a lot more visible). I then finished the piece off with some lovely art stones for extra texture.