A Girl and her Dog - Belinda Spencer - Mood Board Inspiration

 Hello Dusty Attic fans!

It's Belinda here with you today to share my layout inspired by the gorgeous February Mood Board using lots of fun Dusty Attic products.

Here's a peek at the Mood Board

'A Girl and her Dog'

For this layout I started by adding some stencilling to the background patterned paper using the Heart Attack Stencil with white gesso. The white spots on the paper made the love hearts look weird so I used a fineliner pen to add an outline.

Next I created a stack of co-ordinating patterned paper, a torn piece of the corrugated card and a Grid Panel at the bottom. I tore the edges of the grid panel away in places to give it a more rustic look.

Next I painted the chipboard pieces that I wanted coloured. I gave those pieces a couple of coats of gesso first. Then I mixed up some acrylic paint to match the mood board and applied that to select pieces.

Finally I assembled my layout adding my photo and some extra embellishments.

The Dusty Attic products used:

DA0830 Corrugated Card

DA1119 Tile ABC Set

DA1309 Heart Attack Stencil

DA2372 Grid Panel # 1

DA2411 A Girl and her Dog

DA2415 Paw Prints - Dog

DA2937 Daily #

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. I hope you find some time to play with the mood board and some awesome Dusty Attic chipboard too.

Cheers

Belinda

Handsome Boy - Deb Stephens - Mood Board Inspiration

This altered embroidery hoop was inspired by the February Mood board and came together with a lot of beautiful products including some the Naturalist 6x 8"collection Pack from 49 & Market, Die cuts, Paint and and Dusty Attic Chipboard and stencil.

The hoop was painted in shades of green and then gold embossing paste was applied through the stencil to the sides using the DA stencil called Scales. The hoop was then glued to a thick sheet of clear acetate after removing the protective film from one side and left to dry. The excess acetate was then trimmed from around the hoop with a trimmer and more gold embossing paste was stencilled onto it in various sections and left to dry.

Gesso was then applied to all the chipboard (except the black Mini Tabs) then painted and embossed. I used a selection of frames, mini tabs, mini foliage, love arrows for this. My favourite part is that there was not a lot of fussy cutting! I used dies to cut out more leaves of different sizes from the Vintage Artistry collection of paper along with their pop out elements and flowers.

I finished it off by building and adhering up the layers and adding bits of Tule and Sisal for added interest along with some 49 & Market Flowers. I removed the protective backing from the acetate from the back of the hoop and sat it on a clear stand for display. I love how the layout seems to "float" in the hoop (it's hard to take a photo because all backgrounds show through the acetate).

I hope the Mood Board inspires you to get out your craft stash and start creating again.

The Products used are listed below:

• VAN-35335 - 49 & Market 6x8" Vintage Artistry Collection
• SKU: DA1759 - Scales stencil
• SKU: DA1759 - Mini Tabs #7 - Black
• SKU: DA1526 - Royal Frame set
• SKU: DA2786 - Mini Foliage #2
• SKU: DA3242 - Love arrows

Why not give the mood board challenge a go yourself? It is super easy to enter, just add your take in the comments section on the Dusty Attic FANattics page here

https://facebook.com/groups/1949690068580466

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Farmlife - Kerstin Filou - Mood Board Inspiration

 

Welcome creative friends!

Our monthly Moodboard is an absolutely wonderful natural inspiration, Love the color theme, shades of green and beige  it has so much harmony and peacefulness for me.

 

So I was inspired to create a canvas in mixed media style, 

 

my chosen theme - Farm Life -

 

 

 

 

 

some close up's 

 

 

 

Wildgrasses primed with white gesso 

deco sand was sprinkled into the still damp medium

 

a very old water pump 

primed with silver metallic paint and some texture paste 

and finished with black lacquer paint, both colours repel each other

 and so this special aged effect is created

 

 

 

 

Love those old wagon wheels

 together with the beautiful rooster and an old fence

 a wonderful ambience for a farm

 

used Dusty Attic chipboards

Wildflower #4 small 

Wildgrass #1 

Mini Water Pump 

Mini Wagon Wheels 

Farm Animals Small

Mini Wicker Fence

Bali Border #1

Woodgrain Frames

Thankful Labels 

 

 

 

We are looking forward to see what you come up with this months challenge.

 Just put your own take of the challenge in the comments section of the Dusty FANattics facebook page HERE 

You could win one of two amazing Dusty Attic prize packs, 

...this year we are reverting back to the prize being a $50 (AUD) credit

 to the Dusty Attic website store so you can choose your very own designs.

 

I hope I could inspire you!

Thanks for your visit!

 

 

Great Outdoors - Lynette Jacobs - Mood Board Inspiration

Lynette here, welcome to the blog today. I am sharing my take on the February mood board. I used photos that we took on a hike of Robberg Nature reserve.  It is so beautiful where the ocean meets the mountain.

The February Mood board

Dusty Attic product used on this project:

Word Pack 35

Beaded flourish

Bubbles stencil

Daily #

Weather

Weather icons

Tabs and starbursts

Clouds

Mini compass

Some close up images of the page:

I first applied some Antique Linen distress ink through the bubbles stencil to break the white background. The compass was dry brushed with white acrylic paint.

The beaded flourish and words # was heat embossed with white embossing powder. I then applied some Nuvo glitter drops to the beads.

I just love the little life unscripted embellishments and made a little cluster of them in the corner.  They were all painted with acrylic paint.

The Great Outdoors title was heat embossed with a Lindy's embossing powder. We would love to see your take on our moodboard.  Don't forget to share your projects on our Facebook page.

Why not enter the Mood Board challenge yourself? All you need to do is add your take of the challenge into the comments section on the Dusty FANattics Facebook page HERE for your chance to win one of two amazing $50 Credits to choose any. Good Luck and have fun creating.

Until next time.  Happy crafting.

Mixed Media Altered Cigar Box - Pascale B

Hello Sweeties,

Today, I'm up on Dusty Attic blog with a new mixed media project: an altered cigar box.

First I primed the box with black gesso. I cut a piece of the "Underground Network", which will be the base of the composition. Next, I added some floral resin elements, I continued with "Jumbo Cogs" and "Cogs #1". I added some "Wildflower #6", "Foliage #13", and "Flowers Posies". I finished the composition with a resin dragonfly. 

When I was happy with my composition, I painted everything with black gesso. I made sure everything was perfectly dry and nothing was moving. I dry-brushed everything with Linen paint and dried it again.

I continued with liquid acrylic paints in crimson, purple, and nude. And I dried again before dry brushing Jade Impasto. I dried everything again. 

I continued with Lime Green and Carmin liquid acrylic paints and dried them again. As the background is black, even with very bright colors, the whole composition is still very dark.    

For the next step, I added some metallic accents with waxes. They will help to reveal all the details not only of the resin elements but of the chipboards as well.

To finish, I added some glitter and Golden Dragon paste. 

Dusty Attic products:

Underground Network Large DA2282	Jumbo Cogs DA2501	Cogs #1 DA0001
Wildflower #6 DA1710	Flower Posie #3 DA2634	Foliage #13 DA2231

Other products:

• Moulds - Prima (Herbology, Mechanical Insectica );
• Art Alchemy Liquid Acrylic - Finnabair Prima (Purple, Crimson, Nude, Carmin, Lime Green);
• Art Alchemy Impasto - Finnabair Prima (Linen, Jade);
• Art Alchemy Waxes - Finnabair Prima (Aged Brass, White Gold, White Pearl);
• Art Extravagance - Finnabair Prima (Golden Dragon Effect Paste);
• Art Basics - Finnabair Prima (Black Heavy Gesso, 3D Matte Gel, Soft Gloss Gel).