{#happiness...}

Hello everyone!

I am back with another layout using the March mood board.  I knew this was going to be one of my favourite mood boards. My previous layout was soft and feminine. This layout is a grunge mixed media layout. I used the Week 4 sketch designed by Jen Hedger for inspiration.

Here is my layout.

To create the mixed media background, I used the Tim Holtz stencil Cargo, red and orange acrylic paint and stamped on the corners of the white cardstock.  I outlined some of the letters with a thin black Art Liner.  I randomly used the Words of Wisdom Duty Attic stencil. I also used a brick and chevron background stamp. I randomly stamped with a arrow stamp. I then used washi tape and very old Making Memories rub ons in different fonts. Despite how long I have had these they still worked fantastic.

The next step as to colour the chipboard pieces.  Here are some close-ups.

Because of the busy background I kept my chippies simple and just coloured them with black and red acrylic paint.  I glued some of the little hearts from the Heart Attack Panel used on my previous layout to the Polaroid Frames.

When everything was glued down I made splatters with diluted white gesso and black ink.

These are the Dusty Attic chipboard pieces that I used.

 DA1076 - Hashtag Sayings

DA1026 - Heart Arrows #2

DA0999 - Arrows #2

DA0933 - Polaroid Frames

This is the Dusty Attic Stencil.

DA1539 - Words of Wisdom Stencil

Thank you for visiting my blog. Please join us in creating something with this beautiful mood board.  You can visit the Dusty Attic website for more beautiful chipboard designs.

{You are so beautiful...}

Hello everyone!

This is my layout inspired by the beautiful March mood board. I have never used red and orange on the same layout, and this colour combo might just be one of my favourites.
This is a photo of my little granddaughter that I took on Valentine's Day.  I am so thankful that I have a daughter-in-law who loves photos and always allow me to take as many photos as I wish of the little ones.

Here is the mood board.

and here is my layout.

To create the background, I used a stencil and outlined the heart and arrow shapes with a white gel pen.  I also used my sewing machine to sew around the background paper. I then splattered with red and orange acrylic paint.

The next step was to colour the chipboard pieces.

The title was painted with black acrylic paint.

I only used one half of the beautiful String of Heart Frame. I painted the frame with red acrylic paint.  Once dry I covered it with glossy accents and sprinkled dry red glitter on top.

I painted the foliage with orange acrylic paint and dabbed with red, white and grey acrylic paint.  The leaves were painted grey and dabbed with white, red and orange acrylic paint.

The pieces of the Heart Attack Panel were painted with red acrylic paint.  The little heart centers were glued down randomly.  I also used Dusty Attic Pearls in the centers of my punched out flowers.

The page pebble and wordplay phrases were embossed with black embossing powder and filled up the engraved words with white embossing paste.  I allowed the paste to dry for a couple of seconds and then cleaned the excess paste with a baby wipe. 

These are the Dusty chipboard pieces that I used.

DA0952 - You are so beautiful

DA1017 - String of Hearts Frame set

DA1204 - Heart Attack panel set #2

DA1342 - Leaves #2

DA1107 - Page Pebbles #3

DA1647 - Wordpl@y #4

DA1294 - Foliage #4

DA1546 - Dysty Attic Pearls

Thank you for visiting my blog.  I hope you find some time to play along with the mood board.  Please visit the Dusty Attic website for more beautiful chipboard designs.