June 27, 2020

Always find the Time - Dusty Attic

Good Morning Friends and welcome to inspiration today for Dusty Attic.

Its Karan Gerber here to host a project share for you today and i have a layout designed to share with you based on Junes Mood Board Challenge.

I am sad to say that i will be stepping down as a Design Team Member for Dusty Attic at the end of the month. I am doing this so that i can assist my family in building our forever home, 9 hrs north of where we currently are.
Our forever home will be built on beautiful Lake Huron, here in Ontario, Canada.

It has been such a pleasure being here for the past six months inspiring you and sharing my projects, i hope to be back once all the dust settles.

My Inspiration for today:

Here is my take on the Mood board Challenge

I love the color Orange and pulled the orange and blues out of this challenge and designed this layout

this photo was taken in the south rim of the Grand Canyon of hubby and I in 2018!

I decided to make it black and white. I made the title and foliage branches white by embossing them with white embossing powder

the fancy border i set at the top and bottom of the corrugated cardboard and used red rust paste on them dabbing a bit of white snow paste on top

the second Fancy Border #13 i used on the side of the photo and again dabbed rust paste on.

The title here, is perfect for what we are all going through right now; to find time for the things that make us happy.

Hubby and I love to travel, and although our travel plans were cut short, our cruise cancelled; we still find time to do the things we love, like canoeing, and kayaking, we love being on the water.

I hope you are able to find time to do the things that make you happy too.

The foliage i cut apart all three branches and tucked them in and out of the 49 and Market flowers which i toned down with snow paste and gesso.

I hope you have enjoyed my project share with you today!

June 26, 2020

Family Memories: Crafters Therapy Cruise

Hi Friends and welcome to a bit of a sneak peek.

This is a class that i will be teaching onboard Symphony of the Seas,

Oct 24-31 with Crafters Therapy Cruise and Retreats

Here are the ports we will be visiting during the cruise!

We will have two sea days, one day i will be teaching this class,

the second day, well stay tuned, more news to come

Miami, Fl * Labadee, Haiti * San Juan, Puerto Rico * Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas* Plus a Perfect day at Coco Cay * Miami, Fl

I am happy to share that i have designed an Insta-Album class using the beautiful Victorian Home Paper collection from #Scrapboys.

The flowers are handmade and I will be showing you how to create these gorgeous blooms using the Wild Rose set from Heartfelt Creations. The 8x8 Album is also from Heartfelt.

using gold mirri paper to enhance those beautiful papers

If you have any questions or would like to join me aboard the Symphony,

you can find more details HERE

June 20, 2020

Memories Insta Album Class - Paper Lane Studio

Hi friends; i wanted to share with you a class that i designed for Paper Lane Studio. This class was originally scheduled for April, and with the lockdown and numbers for gatherings, we rescheduled until June 27th,

Well, the gathering numbers are still not where we wanted them to be for this class as this class is SOLD OUT, so we decided to host a VIRTUAL class. I am pleased to say that was a back up plan in case in person class was not able to be a go.

This is one of my favorite classes i have designed this year, and the only class, out of 9 classes from my Spring schedule that was a go. Here are some images from this class, the album is a 8x8 Insta Album from Heartfelt Creations and the paper is from the Flowers Story collection from ScrapBoys.

this album boosts lots of Rust Paste from Prima; Flowers from 49 and Market

it took 33 sheets of pattern paper for each album and 10 sheets of carsdtock, tis a gorgeous album

there are three accordion flips in this album allowing more photos

i just wanted to share it with you and am so honoured it SOLD out

Huge thank you to Lee Anne from Paper Lane Studio for all her efforts in booking this class, the added stress with all the changes currently going on.

Materials

Heartfelt 8x8 Insta Album; Dies on belly bands also from Heartfelt.

Flowers Story Paper collection from Scrapboys

49 and Market Flowers; Tim Holtz time keeper die; Prima rust pastes

June 09, 2020

Use Your Wings - Dusty Attic

Hello Friends and welcome back to a project share today with Dusty Attic. You must know by now ho much i love the Prima Rust Pastes and i have incorporated the orange one along with some fussy cuts from Scrapboys and fabulous chipboard from Dusty Attic.

I created an altered project last month using this photo of my grandparents and wanted to do one more on this 7x 9 mini clipboard.

I began by adding black gesso to the chipboard pieces, the Skeleton clock face, the mini gears; the stars, numbers and border. I fussy cut the wings; gears and clocks from the element sheet in the Industrial Romance collection from Scrapboys. Here are a few more detail images

the photo box was discarded from a previous project and i thought i could use it here, painting it black and covering the outside with paper from the Scrapboys Industrial Romance collection.