You make me SMILE - Dusty Attic - January Mood Board 2023

 

Hello Dusty FANattics and welcome to the very first Mood Board challenge for the year! 

Hope you had a magnificent Christmas/Holiday season and are looking forward to an amazing creative year ahead starting with your chance to win one of two $50 (AUD) credits to the Dusty Attic Online Store.

"You make me SMILE" 

I chose this gorgeous paper that had all of the colourings from the new board and this photo of my beautiful grand daughter when she was littler.

First I cut a rectangle from the middle of the green backing paper to use a photo mat as well as an apricot piece that matches the paper.

Then cut the main patterned paper down to 11.5 x 11.5 to have a border around the edges which I have distressed and inked.

The Dress form and some of the Botanical mix I have sprayed white. The remaining Botanical mixes and Foliage clusters have been painted green with a darker green sponged on small portions to add depth.

The Flowers (#2) have been lightly painted with a pale peach colour then I have added some deeper orange in the centres and sponged edges.

The title has been painted with a pale peach colour then white sponged over the top.

It is super easy to enter the challenge, just add your take of the board into the comments section on the Dusty FANattics Facebook Page

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1949690068580466

Dusty Attic Chipboard used

Flowers #2

Botanic Mix #3

Foliage Clusters #2

Wire Dress Form #4

You make me SMILE 
Impact title 

Simply Perfect- Dusty Attic mood board challenge

 

Hello everyone, today I am sharing my take on the Dusty Attic Mood Board challenge for August, it is super sweet pinks and browns.

This photo of my gorgeous little grand daughter was taken at a park where she kept bobbing her head down and saying "Peek-A-Boo".  This is just one of the many things that photographs do, evoke memories attached to them.

I started by spray painting all of my chipboard except the frame and title white. While it was drying I have covered the Distress Frame with the patterned paper and machine stitched around the edges of the pink background.

I have painted an ombre effect onto the Simply Perfect title with browns and pinks, and the pink of the little frames. I have added black card behind the mini hearts to make them "pop" and some of the patterned paper inside.

The Cherry Blossom tree and the cute little Songbird have been painted using the same brown for the branches and pink for the blossoms adding white, dark pink and light brown dots.

The flowers, leaves and bird are fussy cut from the Forest tea party paper. The chippy toadstools layered in between where a must along with the awesome dandelions, you can't see them and not want to make a wish. 

The Forrest Friends Llamas are simply just too super gorgeous together with the cute little Forrest Friends Reindeer.  I have left them mainly white and just coloured their wool and scarves with fine tipped markers.

Dusty Attic products used

Distressed Frames Large

Forest Friends - Llama #3

Forest Friends- Llama #1

Forest Friends - Reindeers Small

Songbirds #2

Toadstools #1

Cherry Blossom 

Butterflies #3

Simply Perfect Impact title 
(complete with mini polaroid frames)

Dandelions

Thank you for joining me today. 

For your chance to win one of two $50 (AUD) credits to the amazing 

DUSTY ATTIC ONLINE STORE 

Just put your take of the challenge into the comments section on the Dusty FANattics page here.

Paper used P13 Forest Tea Party

XXX J XXX 

My Happy Place - Dusty Attic February Mood Board

 Hello Dusty FANattics 

Jen here today with a layout as inspiration for you to join in the Dusty Attic Mood Board monthly challenge where you could win one of two $50 AUD Credits to the DUSTY ATTIC ONLINE STORE   

This is the gorgeous board with it's cool and calming greens and creams. 

"My Happy Place"

Just before Christmas one of my most amazingly beautiful friends whom I love dearly came and helped me make my very own "ZEN" place to sit and just be present in the moment. 
I find just sitting out here with my plants, statues and a coffee is so relaxing and recharging, so of course I had to take photos and scrapbook a page. Dusty Attic garden gnomes, foliage and garden chippy is perfect.

I started with colouring the Garden Tool #2 set with different shades of green, brown, metallic grey and rust.

Next I have used an array of different greens to use on the Succulents Mixed chippy with highlights of white, yellow and magenta. 

The garden gnomes, title and (ZEN) from the Impact ABC set I have spray painted white then distressed the title a little bit. 
Did you know that the Impact letters are also sold separately ? Which comes in handy if you need extra vowels or common letters in names like "R" "S" etc.

After that I have used Tri Blend (Spectum noir) pens in Dull Green and Ice Blue Blends to colour the cute little garden Gnomes.

My papers, flowers and laser cut pieces are from the 49 and Market Vintage Artistry Naturalist collection and I have used this mixed inbetween my chipboard pieces.

To finish off my page I have added some rub ons to the ZEN word and popped it into some brackets

Thanks for joining me today and I would love to see your very own creations on the 

Dusty FANattics page maybe with your ZEN place.

DUSTY ATTIC PRODUCTS USED

My Happy Place - Title 

Garden Tools #2

Garden Gnomes #2

Succulents Mixed 

Foliage #17

Foliage #5

Impact ABC Set