May 10, 2020

Love Always - Dusty Attic

Hello friends and welcome to my blog today as i share a project designed for Dusty Attic

I love the papers from 49 and Market and used the Sky Mini collection for the background of my project blending in some stitched frames and fabulous Dusty Attic Chipboard.

I had used this photo on a recent project and wanted to create with it again.

Using the Mystic frame as my focal starting piece, i used gesso and texture paste; along with mists and alcohol ink to achieve a coordinating color i liked.

I love how this one turned out using lots of flowers from 49 and Market and the Mini Sky Collection

i used texture paste and chalk paint on the title i wanted it to somewhat coordinate with the stitching in the frames. I also used watered down chalk paint on the background to match the colors in the flowers and art stones.

I did the same with the corner scroll but i didnt add as much chalk paint to it as i did the title. I wanted it to look like part of the cluster of flowers

the corner scroll is very detailed

I hope you have enjoyed my project share today and i look forward to inspiring you again soon.

Other Products:

49 and Market Flowers; Sky Collection; Sky stitched Frames; Gesso; snow paste; chalk paint; alcohol ink; Art Anthology Mist; Prima Mists and Art Stones.

May 05, 2020

Together Forever - Dusty Attic

HI Friends and welcome to the Mood board Challenge for May for Dusty Attic and my take on the Challenge.

Last month i did a project on a large record album and i really enjoyed creating on a circle layout instead of the normal square 12 x 12, so i thought i would try something similar for another project.

The mood board this month is filled with pinks and darker greens

and i have a layout to share with you.

I started by making the large skeleton clock frame the base for my layout, tracing it out on heavy chipboard and then cutting a circle out of chipboard and pattern paper

I cut out some pieces of numbers from the large number panel and gessoed them then used some paints from my water color palette to add a bit of color to work with the mood board colors

you can see one of the groups of numbers i have cut out of the large panel, i added one group at the 3 and another at the 7, no specific reason, just seemed to be the best fit to enhance all the paper layers i had and leave enough white space.

I have run out of leaves and had the large floral frame set, so i cut apart the leaves on the large panel and used them to go in as a layer around the flowers. I love dimension and thought the photo would look better on a reverse shadow frame so i created one and strengthened it with chipboard

the title, i started it out with being white, but it seemed to get lost on the photo so i gessoed it over with black gesso and love that it pops for me.

I hope i have inspired you to create something for this months challenge.