Dusty Attic June Mood Board Challenge - #Adorable

Hi everyone,
Cathy here today sharing my take on this month's beautiful Dusty Attic Mood Board Challenge.  One of the many things I love about chipboard is that it's a fabulous way to create a relatively quick and easy layout.  Most of the creative time spent on this layout was in altering the chipboard pieces, the rest was tearing my papers, layering my elements and finishing off with a touch of glitter glass/microbead mix and a few flowers.

"#Adorable"

 I was inspired by the metallic items, scroll accents, lace and colour palette.


To alter my chipboard pieces, I coated them with Little Birdie Tinted Metallic Paints.

The #Sayings word and Love You Arrow chipboard pieces were then sprinkled with Emerald Creek Rocky Road Baked Texture Embossing Powder, heat set, then highlighted with touches of Little Birdie Silver Oak metallic paint

 I also used the Emerald Creek Embossing Powder, on the Decorative Scroll #1 under pieces to add a touch of texture.

Dusty Attic Product Used

 Decorative Scroll #1 - DA0213

Heart Attack Panel #2 - DA1204

Lacey Heart Frames - DA1211

Love You Arrows - DA1070

Hashtag Sayings #2 - DA1597

Dusty in Colour Clear Gloss Varnish - DA0901

Other Product Used:

Prima and Kaisercraft pp's

Prima die cuts

Petaloo Flowers

Little Birdie Tinted Metallic Paint - Silver Charm, Silver Oak

Emerald Creek Baked Textures Embossing Powder - Rocky Road

Glitter Glass Microbead Mix

Lace Flowers

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Happy Crafting

Cathy :)

The Dusty Attic April Mood Board/Sketch Challenge - A Little Bit of Country

Hi everyone,

Today I am sharing my take on this month's Mood Board/Sketch Challenge and perhaps inspire you to take part for your chance to win a $100 Dusty Attic Gift voucher to the Dusty Attic Website.  To enter all you need to do is use the Moodboard/Sketch for inspiration, which can be interpreted any way you like.  The only requirement is that you use Dusty Attic chipboard on your creation.  Once completed, simply add your link to the right hand side of the bar on the Dusty Attic Blog.   

This month's Mood Board has a gorgeous rustic/country theme, which I used as my inspiration. but you can be inspired in any way you like by the Mood Board - it could be the colours or even the textures or you could just use the gorgeous sketch from Page Drafts.

A Little Bit of Country is Good for the Soul

I have such lovely memories of spending time on my Sister-in-Law's farm in Forster, New South Wales.  As a family we had the most wonderful and relaxing holidays out in the country and loved getting a little taste of the farm life, which included helping move the cows from paddock to paddock.  This particular time I had my camera and snapped these adorable twin calves that seemed to take a very keen interest in Luke and Brittany.

To create this layout I used a few of the rustic themed chipboard pieces, which I altered by coating with various layers of ink, from light to dark to create a weathered look, then lightly dabbing with Inka Gold metallic paste in copper to create a rusty effect.  I used microbeads and metal accents on the Windmill, Chicken Wire and Wagon Wheel chipboard pieces to create additional texture.

I love using stencils on my backgrounds and there are so many fabulous Dusty Attic designs to choose from!!  To keep in theme with the rustic feel of my layout I used the Woodgrain Stencil and ink, then randomly stamped over the stenciled design with a weathered background stamp to create a bit more depth.  To adhere the microbeads to my background I used the Clear Gloss Varnish with a brush.  Lastly I randomly flicked over my background with Lindys gold mist to soften the overall effect.

Framing your photo is a great way to draw the eye and make it pop.  I created a frame for my photo using the Barb Wire chipboard, which I altered by first inking with Jumbo Java Versamagic ink, then randomly dabbing with Gingerbread ink and copper Inka Gold metallic paste.

Dusty Attic Product

Barb Wire - DA0154

Chicken Wire 12x12 - DA0457

Wagon Wheels - DA0697

Windmill #3 - DA0639

Woodgrain Stencil - DA1479

Dusty Attic Clear Gloss Varnish - DA0901

Other Product

Prima and Fancy Pants pp's

Petaloo flowers

mulberry paper leaves

Spellbinders D-Lites Die - Cattails

microbeads

Inka Gold metallic paste - Copper

Lindy's Starburst Spray - Wake me up Before You Go Gold

Brilliance inks - Cosmic Copper, Galaxy Gold, Silver, Platinum

Versamagic Ink - Red Brick, Jumbo Java, Gingerbread

Ranger Archival Ink - Sepia

Tim Holtz idealogy metal cogs and brads

Stampendous Andy Skinner Industrial stamp set

Martha Stewart border punch

My Minds Eye rubon alphas

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by.  I am looking forward to seeing how you are inspired by this month's gorgeous Mood Board.

Happy Crafting

Cathy :)

The Scrapbook Store - Graphic 45 Mon Amour Step by Step Tutorial

Hi everyone,

I have my third LO for the month, which is a step by step tutorial, created for The Scrapbook Store using the gorgeous Graphic 45 "Mon Amour" Collection.  I have been inspired by beautiful photos of my nephew's wedding last year. 

 “Kiss” - Graphic 45 Mon Amour Collection

To start off, ink the Kiss word from the Blue Fern Wedding Words pack in black.  Cut down the floral piece from Blue Fern Layering Stems pack into 3 pieces, then coat this as well as the leafy stalk and the Twilight Garden Frame Chipboard pieces with gesso. Once dry spray with Pink Kaisermist first, then randomly spray with Red Kaisermist and Tim Holtz Brushed Pewter Spray Stain.  Allow the mist to absorb into the chipboard, then lightly dab off some of the excess mist with a wet ones, or if you prefer it darker leave as is.  Put aside to dry.

Cut the barcode strips from the Graphic 45 Precious One and Hearts Desire pp’s.  Cut 1cm from the top and 1cm from the right hand side of the Hearts Desire pp, then using the Kaisercraft Sanding Block, sand the edges of the paper, to create a white border.  I love this technique, as it’s a great way to add a touch of softness to your papers.  Adhere the Hearts Desire pp, peach side facing up centrally to the Precious One pp black side facing up.

Using the photo as a guide mask your background with Faber Castell Whipped Spackle and the lattice section of the Kaisercraft Flora Quarters Template.

Flick the Pink and Red Kaisermist over the masked area.  While you have the mist spritz the Petaloo butterfly with Red Kaisermist .  Once your background is dry, randomly stamp the newsprint section of the Prima Royal Menagerie mini stamp with Black Archival Ink over the masking, then inking only the butterfly, stamp a couple of butterflies around the top section of your masking using the photo as a placement guide.

To create a cutting guide so that your photo fits into the Blue Fern chipboard frame, lightly draw a pencil outline onto your photo, using the outer circle, cut inside the line, then adhere your photo to the back of the frame with glue.  I cut off the little lantern, so that I could attach it further down on my page to make sure it wasn’t covered up with flowers.

Cut the Love Notes Label from the My Beloved pp and 2 roses from the Dearest Darling pp.

Using the main photo as a placement guide adhere the frame to the paper doily, then adhere the doily to your background with a bit of glue or tape just in the centre of the back of the photo so that you can then tuck in the bits and pieces around the frame.  You can then go back and adhere the doily section once you are happy the placement of all your embellishments.

Cut 2 of the blossoms from the bottom of the Black Green Tara flower stem to tuck in around your flower cluster. Adhere the flowers, extra chipboard stalk and fussy cut rose to the bottom right side of your frame.  Then adhere one of the Kaisercraft mini blooms, fussy cut rose and little chipboard stalk the left hand side of the Graphic 45 chipboard mini frame.  To soften the look of your flowers, apply a little gesso with your finger to the cherry blossoms and mini roses.  Adhere the lantern under your flower cluster.

Adhere the Kiss Chipboard Title to the top left of your frame and the Scrapmatts chipboard phrase on the bottom left.  Top the Petaloo butterfly with a pearl and adhere where the G45 chippie meets the doily.

Your layout is now complete.  I hope your enjoyed my step by step tutorial. 

Product List

Graphic 45 - Mon Amour - 12"x12" Double Sided Patterned Paper - Precious One

Graphic 45 - Mon Amour - 12"x12" Double Sided Patterned Paper - Hearts Desire

Graphic 45 - Mon Amour - 12"x12" Double Sided Patterned Paper - My Beloved

Graphic 45 - Mon Amour - 12"x12" Double Sided Patterned Paper - Dearest Darling

Graphic 45 - Mon Amour - Chipboard Tags 1

Blue Fern Studios - Chipboard Shapes - Twilight Garden Frame

Blue Fern Studios - Chipboard Shapes - Layering Stems

Blue Fern Studios - Chipboard Wordlet - Wedding Word Set

Prima Marketing - Royal Menagerie - Clear Mini Stamp – 582555

Scrapmatts Chipboard - Scrapwords 21

Petaloo - Darjeeling Teastained Mini Butterflies – Red

Green Tara - Fantasy Blooms – Black

Green Tara - 6.5cm Heirloom Blooms - Single Flower – Black

Green Tara - Cherry Blossoms - Red - 10 Pieces

Green Tara - Flower Stems – Black

Green Tara - 2cm Mini Roses - Pale Pink - 10 Pieces

Kaisercraft - 12" x 12" Templates - Damask Quarters

Kaisercraft - Kaiser Mists – Pink

Kaisercraft - Kaiser Mists – Red

Kaisercraft - Sanding Block 2 pack

Ranger Ink - Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stains - Brushed Pewter

Faber-Castell - Whipped Spackle 100ml

Faber-Castell - Gesso 100ml

Ranger - Archival Ink Pad - Jet Black

Pearl Brad

6” Paper Doily

Thanks so much for stopping by :)

The Scrapbook Store - Blue Fern Frolic Collection

Hi Everyone,

Today I am sharing my fourth DT layout created with the beautiful Blue Fern Studios "Frolic" Collection for The Scrapbook Store,  I have been in heaven working with this gorgeous range of shabby chic papers!!  Check out the links to the product list below

Lovely Moments Layout

This collection has a variety of colour choices, for this LO I paired the pretty blues and sunny yellow pp's for a lovely fresh Spring feel.


The background "Petits Moments" pp was altered by masking the Crafters Workshop Art Is stencil with Prima Modeling Paste.   The edges of the pp's were randomly punched then stamped with the gorgeous IndigoBlu Rugged Edges stamp set.  To add a bit more depth, I flicked  Lindy's Stamp Gang mists randomly over the masked area.

I love to fussy cut elements from the pp's to create my own accents and have cut out some of the pretty floral sections, which I have layered with some of the new Mini Flowers and Petaloo Forget Me Nots which I softened with a touch of gesso.

The Scrapbook Store Product

Blue Fern Studios - Frolic - 12"x12" Double SidedPatterned Paper - Petits Moments

Blue Fern Studios - Frolic - 12"x12" Double SidedPatterned Paper – Secretary

Blue Fern Studios - Frolic - 12"x12" Double SidedPatterned Paper – Verandah

Blue Fern Studios - Chipboard Shapes - Classic Ornaments

Petaloo - Forget Me Nots – Teal

Petaloo - Botanica Mums and Butterflies – Yellow

The Scrapbook Store - 1.5cm Mini Flowers 10pk - Soft Yellow

IndigoBlu Rubber Stamps - Limor Webber Designs - Rugged Edges

Kaisercraft - All That Glitters - Clear Acrylic Stamp Set

The Crafters Workshop - 6x6 Template - Mini Art Is

Ranger - Archival Ink Pad - French Ultramarine

May Arts - 3/8" Grosgrain - Pale Blue

Lindys Stamp Gang - Starburst Mist - Bachelor Button Blue

Lindys Stamp Gang - Starburst Mist - Baby Blue Eyes Aqua

Prima Marketing - Art Basics - Modeling Paste

Dina Wakley Media - White Gesso 4oz 118ml

Other Product:  Martha Stewart Pansy Punch, Prima Crystals, pearl embellishment

Keep a look out for my last project for the month with this beautiful Collection, which will be a couple of cards.
Thanks so much for stopping by :)