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2015 Dusty Attic Design Team

It is with great excitement that I can announce that I will be a Dusty girl next year!!!! Great shout out to Jennifer Hedger, Jenny Burns and all the old and new DT members...Awesome Scrappers and amazing product...Bring on 2015!

To celebrate I combined my love for Chipboard and Lindy's Stampgang Sprays on this canvas that I created to take part in the Lindy's October colour challenge.

To achieve texture I applied coarse Texture Gel and drywall tape. I did some stamping and misted with Clam Bake Beige Spray.

All my flowers and the cotton-ball buds were white. They were coloured with Clam Bake Beige and Orange Creamsickle. The lace flowers were also coloured with Clam Bake Beige and Bodacious Blush.

The Dusty Attic pieces were Gesso'd and inked with Evergreen Bough Distress Stain, Dandilion Archival Ink and a little UTEE.

I did some misting with LSG Azure Sea Asters, Black Orchid Silver, Bodasious Blush and Orange Creamsickle.

I embossed the butterfly with LSG embossing powders, Cosmic Pink Blue and Desert Moon Turquoise.

More texture with stencils and Translucent Embossing Paste and LSG Peacock Angel Wings embossing powder...

The Tim Holtz Bookplate was also Gesso'd and painted with LSG Azure Sea Asters, Black Orchid Silver and Orange Creamsickle Sprays.

The Dusty Lavender Blooms were sprayed with Clam Bake Beige and some Dandelion Ink.

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I used the following Dusty Attic pieces.

             Birds Nest #2-DA 0721

    Corner Flourish #1-DA 0628

             Flutterbies #3-DA 0766

                    Lavender-DA 1001

        Mini Birdhouses -DA 0706

Wrough Iron Trim Set-DA 0547

It is now super easy to order direct from the Dusty Attic Website. 

Please visit the Dusty Attic Blog for inspiration from the DT...

From Lindy's Stampgang I used...

                                                             FlatFabio; Orange Creamsickle

                                                             Starburst: Azure Sea Aster

                                                                               Black Orchid Silver

                                                                               Bodacious Blush

                                                                               Clam Bake Beige

                                          Embossing Powders: Angel Wings,Peacock

                                                                               Cosmic Pink Blue

                                                                               Desert Moon Turquoise

Available from the Lindy's Stampgang Shop

Some more inspiration on the Lindy's Stampgang Blog...

October Colour Challenge and Limited Mega Set...

 Love is like a butterfly,

  It goes where it pleases 

and it pleases wherever it goes.  

~Author Unknown~

13@rts Give-away

This is a shout out post to 13@arts wishing them a Happy Second Birthday and hoping to see them in business for many more years!!!!

Having been a Guest Designer for them this year, I got to use Ayeeda's products and must say that her papers are of the best to use for Mixed Media work!!! They are thick and sturdy, and now Ayeeda has added two new ranges to her collection! The first, and my personal favourite is Cozy Evening and the second is Color Basics...Head on over to her 13@rts Blog to view the collections...I have picket a few images from the Cozy Evening Collection to wet your appetite!

{ I am so happy to have been chosen as one of the winners of this give-away!!! 

Thank you Ayeeda and 13@rts }

These are some of the Masks

The Sticker Sheet

And two new colour Mists!!!!

Sugar & Spice

This is my page done for the October Sketch challenge hosted by Once Upon a Sketch...Our journalling theme this month is "The Woman/Girl in our Lives". Therefore I scrapped these photos of the two most important and gorgeous girls in my life...my two Daughters!

As the title suggests, they truly are Sugar and Spice..two very different personalities, I won't say who is which though...lol...I just hope they both realise how important they are to me, and how terribly proud I am of both of them...Oh yes, they both have their difficulties and can be full of nonsense, but I have never had to be ashamed of them and can only say, I am Proud to be your Mother!!! 

I have used papers from the Prima Songbird collection, a Pima 12x12 stencil, Resin embellishments and various Prima flowers!

I punched and layered several strips of paper to mimic the notepad design on the paper.

The stencilling was done with Translucent Paste and Stampendous Aged Ivory Embossing Enamel. I added colour to the page using Steampunk Sepia Magicals and Pegleg Pete's Purple Moonshadow Mist, both from Lindy's Stampgang.

Some hand stitching with a few added Pearl Beads. They were white and I coloured them with a few drops of Alcohol Ink.

(I flipped the sketch and used two photos instead of one)

Thank you for your visit, leaving you with these words that I am very sure runs true in many households....

Sisters annoy,  

interfere, 

criticize.

 Indulge in monumental sulks,

 in huffs,

 in snide remarks. 

Borrow.

 Break. 

Monopolize the bathroom. 

Are always underfoot. 

But if catastrophe should strike,

 sisters are there.

 Defending you against all comers. 

~Pam Brown~

Chantelle

Hello to all of you!

Today I am sharing a page I made using the awesome October Inspiration Board from Scraps of Elegance...Please have a look at it and do play along with us...it is filled with gorgeous colour and textures!

I am so in love with the gorgeous Madeleine Collection from BoBunny, especially the Tiles...I think it's because I love the old steel ceilings used in the old homesteads from years gone by. I myself have these ceilings in my house, even though it was only build 25 years ago, I was fortunate enough to buy a trailer full of these ceiling boards from a salvaged old farm house whilst we were building our house, along with a beautiful fireplace mantel...It is a standing joke that I chased away our carpenter when I arrived with these,for they were all bent and rusted and in need of a serious clean up that he was certainly not keen of doing...lol!

I cut separate squares from a second sheet of paper and tore and distressed pieces that I glued back in place to achieve the look of worn out tiles.

I treated the background with two stencils...The first was a square stencil with white crackle paint...of which most got hidden once I added my papers and embellishments...duh! I also used a Damask stencil with Metallic Gold Paste from Studio 490, some Orange paint and a little Charcoal glitter.

I have taken the colours and of course the Handles as inspiration from the Inspiration Board. These were gifted to me by my dear friend Ingrid Gooyer from the Netherlands...I coloured them with several colours of Distress Inks.

This photo gives one a better idea of the textures from the stencilling.

Thank you for visiting my post and page...I hope to see some work using our Inspiration Board as a starting point....please come and play along!!!

  

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye,

 to restore it, 

and to render it the more fit 

for its prime function 

of looking forward. 

~Margaret Fairless Barber~

A True Love Story Never Ends

Hello Friends...

This page came about after trying a technique I saw on Pinterest that did not work so good for me, but seeing as it was a brand new sheet of BoBonny Madeleine collection, I did not want to discard it and decided to try and use it any-ways...The feel of the paper and especially the Madeleine Tiles paper is very distressed and old fashioned like, making it ideal for this photo that Georg and I took during a recent week-end breakaway... 

The technique is to transfere book paper with Gesso onto your paper...Well lol...mine did not transfer, it just got stuck and I had to rip the pieces of book paper off. I did however end up with some lovely texture and that is why I did not throw it away. Some Lindy's Stampgang mists and embossed texture paste saved the day!

I used the following Sprays,

Bodacious Blush and Chateau Rose

And Orange Creamsicle and Reindeer Moss Green Embossing Powder.

The Prima Clock-face and Keys were aged with Dusty Attic Rust Powder, a little Distress Paint and Crackle Paint and sealed with Glue and Seal. The flowers and Spring Berry cluster are from Petaloo's Botanica collection.

These are some photos to try and give you an idea of the textures...

Thank you for visiting my post...

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Once you find someone to share your ups and downs,

downs are almost as good as ups. 

~Robert Brault~

~ A 'Happiness' Canvas ~

Today I am sharing a canvas I made using some String Glue for texture, Prima Color Bloom Spray's and Dusty Attic Chipboard pieces....

I knew what I wanted to do with the chipboard pieces, but the rest of the canvas had me puzzled for a day or two...I wanted it to be all soft and girly like, but alas, it did not end the way I had envisioned it...lol!

In the end it is a bit more grunge'd than I wanted...but....I am actually Happy with it...it was FUN, and it looks good and, now I have a reason to attempted another one soon...maybe getting the girly thing right this time....

After gesso'ing the canvas I played with the String Glue, I wanted the inks to puddle more which sadly did not happen this time. On this piece I used the following Prima Color Bloom's Spray Mists

Gold Foil

Peony

Tea Stain

Vintage Coal

To get this look on the Dusty Attic Rose Cluster chippie, I embossed it with three layers of white UTEE. Once cooled, I stamp with various colours of ink and heat again with a Heat-gun. It is the most fun to see the UTEE and ink mix and be able to move the ink around with the UTEE. On the leaves and flowers I also used a little spray that was heated as well.

The film strip and the paper flowers are from Bo Bunny.

The Prima resin Frame and Angel are coloured with  Gold Foil, Storm Cloud and Vintage Coal Sprays.

I did some masking with texture paste and embossed it with Lindy's Stampgang EP, Raspberry Lemonade.

These photos show the pieces before and after heating...The photo left is after heating...

That's it for now...short and sweet!

wishing you a Happy Scrapping weekend...

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Those who can laugh without cause 

have either found the true meaning of happiness 

or have gone stark raving mad. 

~ Norm Papernick  ~