Dusty Attic DT - May Mood Board/Sketch Challenge

Hi everyone, today I am sharing my take on this month's beautiful Mood Board/Sketch Challenge over at The Dusty Attic.  This month we have a beautiful Beach themed Mood Board and fabulous sketch from "The Nifty Pixel".

Why not enter for your chance to win a $100 gift voucher from the Dusty Attic website. All you need to do is use the Mood Board or Sketch or both for inspiration, add Dusty Attic chipboard to your creation and simply add your link with your name and country to the right hand side of the bar of the Dusty Attic Blog.

Salt in the Air and Sand in my Hair

I was drawn to the colours, textures and beach theme on the Mood Board and used the sketch loosely as inspiration.

I started by masking by background with Dusty Attic Texture Paste and the new Confetti #2 Stencil.  I mixed the a bit of Lindys Creme Brulee Cream into Lindy's Long John Silver to make a soft brown which I misted over the stenciled area, dried off, then misted in soft blue. 

Once dry, I randomly stamped with Kaisercraft crackle texture stamp in soft brown and Carabelle grungy circle stamp in sky blue and finished off by using a brown fineliner pen to highlight the Confetti Stenciling.

The new release Salt in the Air and Sand in my Hair title was the perfect addition for my mixed media beach layout.  Love this title, which has a fab mix of script and block wording.

Dusty Attic have a wonderful range of beach/ocean chipboard designs,  To accent my beach layout, I have used the Anchor, Ship's Wheel, Mini Seagulls and Fish Net Panel.

All my chipboard pieces were altered with various embossing powders, which I applied by priming the chipboard first with gesso, and whilst it was wet, I sprinkled with embossing powder and heat set.

I thought the Foliage #5 would make a great seaweed.  I altered the foliage branches with Stampendous Frantage shabby blue embossing powder, heat set, randomly dabbed with gesso, sprinkled with Tim Holtz Distress broken china embossing powder and heat set a second time.

Dusty Attic Product Used

Salt in the Air - DA1752

Fish Net Panel - DA0754

Foliage #5 - DA1295

Ships Wheel Small - DA1674

Anchors - DA0558

Mini Seagulls - DA1176

Confetti #2 Stencil - DA1764

Dusty Attic Texture Paste - DA1218

Dusty Attic Clear Gloss Varnish - DA0901

Other Product Used

Prima and Basic Grey pp's

7 Gypsies ephemera

Lindy's Stamp Gang Starburst Mist - Creme Brulee Cream

Lindy's Stamp Gang Moonshadow Mist - Long John Silver

Lindy's embossing powder - blue

Imagine Crafts Fireworks Mist - Summer Sky

Viva Inka Gold - Aquarmarine

Flowers

metal charm

Kaisercraft Crackle texture stamp

Carabelle Studio circle stamp

Ranger Archival Ink - Sky Blue

Memories Ink - Sand

Stampendous Frantage embossing powder - shabby blue

Zing embossing powder - copper and brown sugar

Gesso

Brown fineliner pen

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Happy Crafting
Cathy xx