Me being creative

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

{a little DIRT never hurt...} and {Soaking up the sun...}

Hello everyone!

I am sharing my March design team layouts with you, inspired by the Week 9 sketch designed by Jennifer Hedger. She has designed a sketch for every week, and they are stunning! Check out the Dusty Attic Face Book page for these weekly sketches and inspiration.

This is my two grandchildren, Mila and Janco. They just love playing with water and sand and I have endless photos of them. When I make a layout for the one I always try and make a layout for the other one. This sketch is perfect for this purpose. I just changed the colour, title and elements and I have a boy and girl layout.

Here is the sketch.

Here is my first layout.

This is how I treated the chippies.
I coloured the title with a white Posca pen.

The flowers and Polaroid Frame were painted with acrylic paint.

These very cute Toadstools were coloured with Versa Magic Chalk Ink in Pink Petunia and Sea Breeze and the white dots with the white Posca pen.

I covered the Wordpl@y #2 and #7 with white gesso, making sure I get into the letters. Once dry, I dry brushed the words with acrylic paint.

some close ups.

When everything was glued down I added art stones and splatters with diluted white gesso.

Here is my second layout.

This is how I treated the chippies.
I heat embossed the title with white embossing powder. The Geo Tag were painted with dark blue acrylic paint and Glossy Accents.

The Polaroid Frames were painted with acrylic paint.

I coloured the bubbles with blue and dark blue acrylic paint. I popped out the inside circles and covered them with glossy accents and glitter. Once dry, I glued them back in the circles and some were randomly glued to the layout.

Some close ups.

These are the Dusty Attic chipboard pieces that I used.

DA2016 - Soaking up the sun

DA2028 - a little DIRT never hurt
DA1509 - Bubbles

DA2442 - Mini Brackets
DA0010 - Flowers 6pk
DA2455 - Polaroid Frame Set #2
DA0565 - Toadstools
DA1808 - Mini Tabs #6 Black
DA1088 - Geo Tags
DA1645- Wordpl@y #2
DA1687 - Wordpl@y #7

Thank you for visiting my blog. Please visit the Dusty Attic online store for more beautiful chipboard designs.

Thank you for visiting my blog.
Happy crafting!

Friday, February 21, 2020

{Hello winter...}

Hello everyone!

I am back with layout inspired by the beautiful February mood board. I love the soft colours of this mood board. It looks like snow and winter and cold, and that is why I used these photos of my daughter.

Here is the mood board.

and here is my layout.

For my title "hello Winter" I used a digital brush designed by Kate Pertiet.

This is how I treated the chippies.

I inked the beautiful Decorative Frame #4 with Versa Magic in Sea Breeze.

The Scroll Set #2 and Iron Accents #4 were heat embossed with Ranger Embossing Powder in White. I snipped the Scroll Set into pieces and tucked them under the flower clusters.
The Wattle Blossoms were heat embossed with Iced Enamels in Turquoise.
The leaves #2 were painted with Americana Acrylic paint in Grey Storm and dabbed with white acrylic paint.

The Wordpl@y elements are my favourite chippies and adds magic to any layout.

Some close ups.

These are the Dusty Attic chipboard pieces that I used.

DA2253 - Decorative Frame #4 Small

DA2242 - Scroll Set #2

DA1342 - Leaves #2

DA1793 - Wordpl@y #9 Black

DA0752 - Wattle Blossom

DA1875 - Iron Accents #1

Thank you for visiting the blog today. I hope you find some time to play along with this mood board and some gorgeous Dusty Attic chippies.

Happy crafting!

Monday, February 10, 2020

{Down on the farm...}

Hello everyone!

I am sharing my February design team project with you. My layout is filled with so many wonderful elements. Die cuts, flowers and of course Dusty Attic chippies. My daughter and her husband visited family in Ireland last year April. They visited a Pet Farm in Dingle where you get to pet and feed sheep and goats. They took the most amazing photos especially for me, I think.

Here is my layout.

This is how I treated the chippies.

The wagon wheels, driftwood and chicken wire were painted with brown and black acrylic paint and dry brushed with white acrylic paint. I snipped the chicken wire into pieces and tucked them under the flowers. The wood slices were dry brushed with brown, white and green acrylic paint.