~How does your Garden grow~Oct 2015 Dusty Attic DT Project

Hello dear Blogfriends...

Spring has made it to our front door and it has the promise of being a very warm and dry summer season this year. I have many plants that have either not flowered at all, or flowered at the wrong time...One of them being my Azaleas...They should have flowered early August, but are only starting to flower now. 

I created this page for my Oct Design Team post for Dusty Attic, using the Garden Frame as the main chipboard piece...

I used BoBunny Papers from the Gabrielle Collection.

I painted my chipboard with paints from the Dusty in Colour collection. As you can see, I did some gradual shading using Mountain Meadow and Oceania on the foliage and Dusty Pink and Sugar Plum on the frame. I also embossed using Lindy's Stampgang Embossing Powders Desert Moon Turquoise, Tilt-O-Wheel-Teal, Pop Rock Purple and Raspberry Lemonade. 

The leaves from Foliage #3 tucked in between the flowers were painted with Navajo White and embossed with Deserts Moon Turquoise...

I recently bought some Mega gilding flakes and enjoy using them whenever I can, as you can see here on the stamped images on the paper!

The following photos will show you the paintwork on the frame...

I layered a piece of the Sweet Pea frame set to add a little interest...

These are the items used on the page...all of which are found in the Dusty Attic shop.

Garden Frame Set

DA0606

Sweet Pea Frame Set 

DA 0573

Foliage #3

DA1293

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The glory of gardening,

 hands in the dirt,

 head in the sun,

 heart with nature.

 To nurture a garden

 is to feed not just on the body,

 but the soul.

Alfred Austin

Thank you for your visit...wishing bright and glorious days to you all...

Picture PerfectSeptember 2015 Dusty Attic DT Project

My daughter Chantelle had her very own and unique idea of how her dress for the Matric Farewell Dance should look like...And unique she surely was...so much so that one of her teachers did not even recognise her, even though she was in his class earlier the day. She designed the dress and the Phoenix herself. We had the dress made and after the Dressmaker painted the Phoenix...I spend many an hours working sequins onto the dress...I am using this photo...again...for this month Design Team project for Dusty Attic.

I wanted my Dusty Attic chipboard pieces to be as rich and lustrous as the paint work is on the dress. Also used Art Ingredients to add sparkle to the page. 

Using Kaisercraft's Be-You-tiful Collection, Delightful and Glamorous. Did some stamping on the background and decorated with Zinc Glass Beads, Gold Leaf Mica Flakes, Charcoal Art Sugar and A Penny Saved Prills...

I dressed the ATC Gothic Window and Scroll Border by painting them with Lindy's Stampgang Moon Shadow Mist, Buccaneer Bay Blue...it gave a brown base-coat colour with blueish sparkle. I also randomly embossed with Lindy's Embossing Powder, Hyacinth Blue Jade. 

I painted the Decorative Frame with some white crackle Paint, and coloured it with Pesto and Ginger Alcohol Inks. I love the look I got by layering the two pieces on top of each other...

The title was painted with the Lindy's and the top also painted with the Crackle Paint and Alcohol Inks.

To purchase these and many more Dusty Attic Chipboards, please visit the 

Dusty Attic Store.

ATC Gothic Windows

DA0795

Decorative Frame #1

DA0207

Mini Captions #1

DA1279

Scroll Border #1

DA0219

For Chantelle

The thing to do, it seems to me,

 is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. 

Somebody who may not look like you. 

May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. 

I may not dance your dances or speak your language. 

But be a blessing to somebody. 

That's what I think.

~Maya Angelou~

MemoriesJuly 2015 Scraps of Elegance Kit

Good Day my Scrappy friends.

What a wonderful feeling to have one of the Scraps of Elegance kits bearing my name...It is called "Patricia's Memoirs" and is filled with amazing papers from the BoBunny Juliet Collection, Prima's Debutante Collection, and the usual array of beautiful flowers, stamps, a Prima Stencil and various interesting Mixed Media mediums...

Seeing as the paper is so beautiful on it's own, I did not add too much to the background. I did some simple layering under my photo and used the gorgeous Esperanza Querida flower spray from Prima that is part of the Floral Add-on.

I used the Marion Smith Designs Color Lap pigments with some Matt Gel to add a little shine and colour to the Flowers and Butterfly. And are the Iced Enamels German Glitter Glass from Ice Resin not just so sparkly and elegant? These are all part of the Creativity Add-on.

I added a touch of lace to the banners that I cut from the Juliet Nostalgia sheet. The Rose looking embellishments are Prima Debutante Say it in Crystals from the Elements Add-on.

On the chipboard window I used ink and California Stucco Antiquities Embossing Powder from Ranger. I stamped with the different stamps from the kit using the Faber Castell Double Scoop Gelatos Guava and Red Cherry.

Just see how clever Melinda is in co-ordinating colours for her Kits...The big splats on the top and right are part of the paper...as for the rest I used the Gelatos, Embossing Powder and the Lindy's Stampgang Orange Creamsickle Flat Fabio mist to create matching colour and texture to the page...

Melinda's Kits are best sellers, therefore I would suggest subscribing to the Kit Club in order to receive a wonderful Kit each month...

Here is a link to the Scraps of Elegance/Darkness Shop.

And for more inspiration visit our Blog to see my fellow Design Team members work...

A smile

 is the light in your window

 that tells others

 that there is a caring, 

sharing person inside.

~Denis Waitley~

Thank you for taking the time to visit...

SnapshotAug 2015 Dusty Attic Inspiration Board Challenge

Hello once again...

For this months Inspiration Board challenge from Dusty Attic, I was inspired by the Yellow and Purple colours...not colours that I usually use, but I felt like making a fun and playful page for once...I was inspired by these photos from Michelle taken at least 7 years ago...my how time flies!!!

It is so easy to take part in our monthly Inspiration Board Challenge. The only "rule" is that you use some Dusty Attic chipboard on your masterpiece. Just add your link, name and country to the side bar on the Dusty Attic website to win a $100 Gift Voucher.

I gesso'd the Elegant Frames and Painted them with Dusty Colour Lavender Blush and Sunshine. To get the shades I was looking for, I mixed a drop of Berries Mixed Media Inx refill into the Lavender Paint and a tiny drop of Mustard Seed Distress Ink refill into the Sunshine Paint. They mix beautifully and thus one can achieve the precise shade you want...

I also stamped on the Yellow for some added interest.

I painted the Snapshot title and xoxoxo with Sunshine Yellow and embossed randomly with Lapis Lazuli Blue Gold Embossing Powder from Lindy's Stampgang.

No flowers on this page except for some fussy cut ones, I did some inking and stencilling on the background.

From the Dusty Shop I used the following...

Elegant Frames

DA0869

Word Pack #19

DA1275

Mini Captions #1

DA 1279

Dusty in Colour

Lavender Blush

DA 0911

Dusty in Colour 

Sunshine

DA 0905

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Do you know that Dusty Attic is now carrying awesome Stencil Designs and Texture Paste as well???

And we are having a give away on our Facebook Page ...

"Introducing DUSTY ATTIC STENCILS AND TEXTURE PASTE. 

To celebrate our AWESOME new products we are having a Competition to win this very pack (worth over $70) - just SHARE this post on your own timeline and write "shared" in the comments section and we will choose a random winner on Friday 21st August 2015. (Open to all countries and you can share everyday and enter and many times as you like!) You can see all of the stencils and paste on the Website (remember our Free shipping offer as well) http://dustyattic.com.au "

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A good snapshot 

stops a moment 

from running away. 

~Eudora Welty~

Thank you for your visit and much appreciated comments...Big Hugs

Patricia

Dark DeanJuly/Aug 2015: 7 Dotsstudio Challenge

I can not believe that I am nearly too late to enter this page for the 7 Dot Studio challenge...Had the page made weeks ago and just never got to bloging it...

Seeing as the challenge is to scrap Animals, I just had to use this photo of me and Dark Dean taken many years ago. He was a Nooitgedacht gelding that I bought as a very young and green horse. Together the two of us learned to do Dressage, building a deep trust and love for each other. 

  

I only have a few sheets of 7 Dots Studio papers, being Cotton and Songbird from the Nature Walk Collection. I cut the Chevrons and layered them on my background paper and also used them as layers behind my photo.

I used Ranger Texture Paste through my stencil knowing that it would show the colours from Lindy's Stampgang Sprays the best. The colours I used are Frolic in the Forest Black and Steampunk Sepia Starbursts and Ethernal Emerald Moonshadow Mist.

The flower spray is from Petaloo...

I have a few pieces of French Flourish Chipboards from Dusty Attic on this page. They were treated with Dusty Rust Powder to achieve the aged look. 

I also used Stampendous 'Spoonful of Rust' Embossing Powder and Elements to give added interest to my background. And splatters of  'Bamboo Leaves' Irresistibly inks.

There is nothing so good for the inside of a man 

as the outside of a horse. 

~ John Lubbock ~