Cathy Can't Help Herself: Mediums

Thursday, June 15, 2017

The Dusty Attic - Discover - New Release chipboard

Hi everyone, today I am sharing a layout created with some of the new release chipboard designs from The Dusty Attic.

Upon spying the new world map chipboard design, I knew I would use it on a travel page from my son Luke's recent trip to Japan. I teamed it with some travel wordpl@y and disk chippies

Discover

To create my background I roughly tore the edges of the red pp and tore smaller sections of navy and red pp's to layer underneath, then adhered to a creamy white background.

I stamped randomly over the background first with a distress stamp in Carnation Red archival ink, then in Cobalt archival using the bubble stamps.

I decided to use the other half of the Mystic Frame #2 chipboard, which I had cut in half to use on another project. The frame was altered by inking in cobalt, then coating with Dusty Attic Clear Crackle Medium.

The larger World Map chipboard was cut into 2 sections, then one of them was cut in half, which I used to layer on top of the Mystic Frame and in my small cluster on the bottom right. To alter the world maps I inked them in white, then used a Tim Holtz chipped sapphire distress marker around the edges to make them pop.

The hello world Word Disk chipboard was backed with red paper, inked in cobalt and coated with Dusty Attic Clear Gloss Medium, and the Wordpl@y chipboard pieces were inked in carnation red, then coated with Clear Gloss Medium.

To finish off I flicked some watered down Izink in Jasmine, which has a lovely glossy metallic sheen.

Dusty Attic Product Used
Mystic Frame #2 - DA1745

World Map - DA1735

Wordpl@y #1 - DA1644

Word Disks #1 - DA1195

Blueprint Discover - DA1426

Dusty Attic Clear Gloss Varnish - DA0901

Dusty Attic Clear Crackle Medium - DA0900

Other Product Used

Basic Grey and MME pp's

Kaisercraft Distress texture stamp
Kaisercraft Pack Your Bags Stamp Set

IndigoBlu Bubble stamp
Prima Finnabair Stamp

Ranger Archival Ink - Cobalt, Carnation Red
Versamagic Chalk Ink - Cloud White
Izink - Jasmine
Tim Holtz Distress Marker - Chipped Sapphire

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Happy Crafting

Monday, November 28, 2016

Dusty Attic DT - Live Beautifully Layout

Hi everyone, today I am up on The Dusty Attic blog today, and I have a layout to share created with a selection of beautiful Dusty Attic chipboard and mediums.

"Live Beautifully"

I have the most massive stash of pattern papers which I have accumulated over the last 10 years, as I find it very difficult to part with them. Recently I came across some old shabby chic Daisy D's papers which I adore, and I knew I had just the right photo and beautiful Dusty Attic product to make the most of these gorgeous pp's.

I really love the Dusty Attic stencils. There are so many beautiful designs to choose from to create your mixed media backgrounds. For my background I decided to keep it simple using the pretty Flower Power stencil with Dusty Attic Texture Paste. I then stamped over with a Prima script stamp in Archival Ink and flicked over with Lindy's Queen of Hearts Red Magicals for a little contrast.

The Dusty Attic chippies were altered by coating with Forrest mixed in with a touch of white paint to soften the colour and Faded Denim Dusty in Colour acrylic paint. Whilst wet I sprinkled with Lindy's embossing powder in Madonna Robe Blue Gold and Spring Green to add a bit more colour and give the chippies a glossy rippled texture. Then for a little contrast and a pop of colour I used Berry Nice Prills for the daisy centres.

As you may know, I love to fussy cut to create layers and depth to my creations, so here I have fussy cut little daisies from my pp and highlighted their centres with Dusty Attic Clear Gloss Medium. It doesn't show up very well in the photos, but it's a lovely way to add a bit of dimension to your fussy cut elements.

The Ticket and Quoted Sentiments chippies were lightly coated with Color Box mixed media ink in Patina. Make sure you build up the colour by dabbing lightly so the imprinted words stay visible.

The Flutterbies #3 are one of my favs chippies... so pretty and the perfect addition to your feminine layouts. I altered one of the smaller butterflies from the pack with Patina ink and layered it up with a butterfly diecut and topped it with a cute button and Kaisercraft pearl.

Dusty Attic Product Used

Ornate Circle Frames small