{with all my heart...}

 Hello everyone!

Here is my layout inspired by the beautiful October mood board. 

I am again using photos of my daughter's maternity shoot. They had a wonderful 
photographer who allowed me to share some ideas which I found on 
Pinterest with her. 

I love these photos of my daughter and it warms my heart

every time I look at them.  I changed the colour cast of the photos to sepia to match

 the mood board.

Here is the mood board.

Here is my layout.

I found this story book in one of our local bookstores. The title of the book is

 "Guess how much I love you..." by Sam McBratney and I answered with the beautiful 

title "with all my heart."

All the chippies were first covered with white gesso.

I painted the title with Americana Acrylic paint in Whispering Turquoise, Open water 

and White for an ombre effect.  The bracket was painted with Whispering Turqoise.

The leaves were heat embossed with Ranger's white embossing powder.

I heat embossed this beautiful Wrought Iron Trim set with Zing embossing powder in Powder.

I painted the flutterbies with Americana Acrylic paint in Blueberry water and dry brushed 

the edges with Whispering Turquoise and white acrylic paint. 

The Tea Leaves and foliage #23 were painted with Americana Acrylic paint in Green 

Mist, Hauser Light Green and dry brushes with white acrylic paint. All the chippies 

were lightly rubbed with Art Alchemy Metallique wax in Vintage Gold.

Some close ups.

These are the Dusty Attic chipboard pieces that I have used.

DA1564 - with all my heart

DA0547 - Wrought Iron Trim Set

DA2594 - Foliage #23

DA0766 - Flutterbies #3

DA1342 - Leaves #2

DA2599 - Tea leaves small

DA2442 - Mini Brackets

Thank you for visiting my blog.  Please visit the Dusty Attic online store for more amazing designs as well as the "What's new Wednesday" designs.

Happy crafting.

{Special moments...}

Hello everyone!

I am sharing my October design team layout with you using some stunning 

Dusty Attic chippies and the gorgeous Mintay Harmony collection.
These are photos of my daughter and son in law's maternity shoot.  Their little
 miracle was born on the 29th September 2020.  He is the most beautiful little boy 
and I feel so blessed to be his granny

Here is my layout.

This is how I treated the chippies.

I used the large string frame and painted the frame with Martha Stewart acrylic 

paint in Surf.

The title and ATC Frame were heat embossed with Ranger white embossing powder.

I coloured the the Flower Buds with Versa Magic Chalk Ink in Persimmon and Pink 

Grapefruit and dry brushed with white acrylic paint.

I coloured the Tropical Foliage with Versa Magic Chalk Ink in Aegean Blue and 

the feathers with Sea Breeze.

I chalked the two bird nests with Chocolate Versa Magic Ink. 

The small branch set were coloured with Distress Oxides in Mowed Lawn, Dried 

Marigold and Walnut Stain.

some close ups.

I love adding these stunning Quoted Sentiments and Wordpl@y elements to my projects.  They are amazing.

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

These are the Dusty Attic chipboard pieces that I have used.

DA1796 - Quoted Sentiments #1 Black

DA0651 - Feathers

DA0721 - Birds Nests #2

DA1184 - Branch #4 small

DA1787 - wordpl@y #3 Black

DA2537 - Tropical Foliage #9

DA1525 - ATC Frame #7

DA1181 - String Frame Set

DA0523 - special Moments

DA1406 - Flower Buds #2

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

Happy crafting!

{Favourite moments...}

 Hello everyone!

It is a lovely raining day in Pretoria. Perfect time to be indoors and creative.

Here is another layout using the Little Moments collection designed by Lady Pattern Paper and Dusty Attic chipboard pieces.

I used photos from my grandson's newborn photo shoot.

Here is my layout.

I used textured white cardstock as the base for my layout. For the background I  

used the very cute Cuddly Time paper. I fussy cut all the quotes from the B side 

of the Dream Big pattern paper that would be suitable for my layout and the fox, 

bunny and bear and two banner pieces from the B side of the Snip Snip paper.

 The vertical banners were cut from the B sides of the Best Friends, 

Soft Blooms and Cuddly Time.

The Dusty Attic chippies were all covered with acrylic paint.

These are the Dusty Attic chippies that I have used.

DA2571 - Favourite moments

DA1026 - Heart Arrows #2

DA2499 - Brackets

Thank you for visiting my blog.

Happy crafting!