RemeberDusty Attic July 2015

Good Morning all...

I got tired of just having a plain old paper calender hanging on my fridge door, got the idea to create myself something beautiful which of course meant I had to grab my Dusty Attic chippies and start playing!

I actually wanted something more grungy and industrial...but alas...Shabby-chic won, again! That only leaves the door open to just create another one, sometime soon... 

I have been wanting to use this mini canvas for some time and thought it would look cute with a Prima resin frame and Angel on it. My all time favourite Dusty chippy, the Swirl Vine was just perfect to frame the canvas.

I made two boards. The top one has a note book and the bottom one has the calender hanging from  it.

I gesso'd the Vine and Fish Net Panel and painted them with Lindy's mist. The Ornate Corner and Mini Word ~Remember~ were both painted with Dusty Colour Paint "Sugar Plum".

I painted the easel with Dusty in Colour Cranberry and Hot Chocolate. On the canvas and boards I used Prima crackle paints and Lindy's mists.

The Dusty fish Net Panel is ideal to use as filler tucked between and behind layers and elements...

This is what my calender looks like now...much better!

 The Chipboard pieces used are....

Vine Border DA0459

Fish Net Panel DA0654

Ornate Corner #7 DA0466

Mini Words #1 DA0386

Dusty in Colour

Cranberry, Hot chocolate, Sugar Plum

All these and so many more are available from the Dusty Attic store.

And please visit our Dusty Attic Blog to enjoy more creations from the rest of the talented Design Team girls...

Heritage RoadApril 2015 Scraps of Elegance KitMay Prima Build-A-Page

7 Hours left....and I am once again making the deadline for the Prima Build a Page sailing in by the skin of my teeth!!!

This month Jennifer had another great sketch incorporating an all time favourite of mine, tearing. I loved the diagonal strips and the lovely words featured on the sketch. I am still using products from our April Scraps of Elegance Kit 'Lynne's Garden Terrace' which was filled with papers from the gorgeous Prima Butterfly Collection. All the Prima flowers, leaves, little resin Ladybug and 'Tag Me' pieces are from the Main and Add-on Kits.

The little Beauty is my youngest daughter Michelle, age 2, way back in 1992...

I used a Prima Mask and white Crackle Paste from Art Extra-vagance for texture. The Prima crochet Doilies are from a previous and the Lamppost and Street sign from Prima are from my own stash.

The beautiful Butterfly is as usual from Renea Bouquets. I made some elements from the beaded string found in the Main Kit. I simply glued them into a circle on my craft-mat and once dry, I coloured them with some alcohol Inks.

I achieved the diagonal strips from the sketch by tearing and punching strips of paper and layering them on the top of the page. 

Textures achieved by using white crackle Texture Paste and spats using the Gelatos mixed with some water.

A cluster using the Tags, flowers, leaves and the cute Lady-bug...

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Our heritage and ideals, 

our codes and standards,

  the things we live by and teach our children

 are preserved or diminished by how freely

 we exchange ideas and feelings.

-Walt Disney-

SpecialMarch-Lindy's Stampgang Colour Challenge

Another nail scrapping entry...

This one is more soft and elegant befitting the gorgeous Mood board at Lindy's Stampgang...

I stared by adhering some tissue paper to the background and added modelling paste through a stencil and white crackling paste to the edges.

The Dress form and Ivy Corners are from Dusty Attic.

I sprayed the background with A Bit o' Bubbly Starburst Spay. On the crackled corners I used South Shore Sand Flat Fabio Spray. On the Swirl and Blossom Stencil I used C'est la Vie Cerise Embossing Powder and on the Mini Dots there are actually two Embossing colours, Cosmic Pink Blue and Orange Creamsickle.

The Ivy Corner was Gesso'd and painted with C'est la Vie Cerise Flat Fabio Spray. On the leaves I painted a little clear crackle accent. 

The bodice of the Dress form I painted with Autumn Leave Crimson Mica Powder mixed with Modelling Paste.

This whimsickle  'dress' was another Prima flower that I never knew were to use but could not get to throw out...It's the Tiffany Petals Platinum flower...and so glad I kept it for it made the ideal dress! I cut the petals loose and layered them and filled them with Prima Candy Gems and a few dainty Roses...

The stand was also embossed with Orange Creamsicle.

I can not invite you to play along with this colour challenge...but tomorrow is a new month meaning another Challenge will be up at Lindy's Stampgang!

Follow this link to the challenge...

On this project I used....

Autumn Leave Crimson Micas

Embossing Powders: C'est la vie Cerise

                                   Cosmic Pink Blue

                                     Orange Creamsicle

Sprays: A Bit o' Bubbly

                C'est la vie Cerise

               South Shore Sand

The fairies went from the world, dear,

Because men's hearts grew cold:

And only the eyes of children see

What is hidden from the old...

~Kathleen Foyle

Dream PassionatelyMarch - Prima Product Pick

Hello dear Bloggy friends...

I am scrapping in on the last skins of my bottom for this Prima Product Pick challenge!!!

I made this canvas with a lot of Love for some one special...have finally also done a paintbrush alter, and boy it was such fun...will have to do another one soon...

Using the beautiful Teal colours from the Prima mood board I used Glistening Waves Color Bloom Mist and Tea Stain Mist on the background. The Teal flower behind the Resin Angel is a very old Prima flower that I have had for ages, and finally I found a use for it on this canvas. The rest of the flowers as well as the Glass Pebble are also from Prima.

The wings are from Dusty Attic and were placed in warm water for a few seconds to separate the three layers. I curled them a little, let them dry and gave them a final blast with my Heat gun to really make them curl. They were painted with Silver and Teal paints and the two top layers were dusted with Gold, Blue, Copper and Green Perfect Pearls.

I used Modelling Paste and White Crackling Pastes from Art Basics.

Between the brushes I painted a little Lime Wedge Mist as accent. I also have some Mulberry Mica Flakes and Pearl Glass Glitter on here. I also coloured some of the Glass Glitter with alcohol ink for extra colour.

Hold fast to dreams, 

for if dreams die, 

life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

Thank you for having a look at my work...always appreciate any visits!!!

A Canvas full of Texture...

 Hi Blog friends...

At the end of November we had our Christmas all-nighter at Fruitful Hands in Benoni,where I created 2 pages and this canvas...and then due to some silliness, {black dog of depression and severe nervous eye twitching} nothing was done during December...I am trying very hard to get my self back into the creating mood,  but in the meantime I can show you what I did during the night and early hours crafting with friends. Amazing how the time flies...all dark until suddenly you blink and a new day has broken...

Now, with this canvas my aim was to do less and have some glorious white space...epic fail...LOL!!! Let's blame it on the awesome products I took with me, just HAD to use them all! I am really going to try to work 'cleaner' this year...don't know how far I will get, but let's give it a try at least...

I did however have fun layering different materials, canvas strips, paper strips, lace and fibres and colouring them with my Lindy's Magicals mixed with water. I took only them with as I tend to work with my mist sprays regularly and neglect my mica's and magicals.

I used the following colours on the canvas.

Pumpkin Mist

Rusty Lantern Lime

Steampunk Sepia

On the frame I used Autumn Plum and Terra Cotta. I also brushed some black Art Sugar into the crevices with some Soft Gel Medium.

                                                                 

From Finnabair's Art Ingredients range I used these products...

Copper Glass Glitters

Gold Leaf Mica Flakes

Black Art Sugar

I used Ranger's Texture Paste which held the colours of the Lindy's Magicals beautifully.

The next three shots are just some close-ups of the sides of the canvas.

Thank you for visiting me...I will have the second LO for you tomorrow...Take care...

Make friends with the angels, 

who though invisible are always with you. 

Often invoke them,

 constantly praise them,

 and make good use of their help and assistance 

in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

Saint Francis de Sales