Friday 30 March 2018

"Love this MEMORY" Dusty Attic / Maja Design / Shimmerz Paints / 49andMarket

Hello and welcome back. Today I am back to share with you to share  my Dusty Attic moodboard interpretation for this month.

And this is my project inspired by the board. I saw the square at the bottom left of the moodboard and took it from there. This is "Love this MEMORY"....


The Dusty Attic Moodboard below is the current challenge for March. You still have till the end of the month to enter if you so wish. Just remember to use some Dusty Attic products in your project and take inspiration from the board. You can be in the running to win some beautiful Dusty Attic chipboards.............


I started my project off by priming papers from Maja Designs Vintage Spring Basics collection. I have used the spotted blue piece for my background and did some stencilling using the Lattice stencil and Dusty Attic texture paste.




5th of April






     

I also did a lot of colouring using Pasteez and Spritz's. After I did the stencilling and it dried I mixed some See you in the Mornin' Dazzlerz with a spritzing of water and built up a palette knife with the mix and spread it like butter across the textured stencilling. It is just a divine colour love it!

Dazzlerz - Sea U in the Mornin'

I left it for a bit to dry and then did some spritzing with my fave colour in the Shimmerz Spritz collection of Chance of Rain. I have also coloured some of my flowers and sea shells with this and the Dazzlerz to bring the layout together.

Spritz - Chance of Rain (NEW)

Below you can see that I have also added these colours to my chipboards over the white gesso and crackle. These colours are just beautiful. I wish I could use them every day of the week.



These were used to frame my photo and paper mattings. They were firstly Crackled in a white and then coloured randomly. They were cut to fit around my frame and clusters as you can see below.


I have also used another new release for this project. The title "love this MEMORY". This was dressed in white acrylic and for the larger alphas I coloured them in the green and blue. They were all treated with a touch of Star Dust Stickles to make it pretty!!


Above you can see the coloured title and the textures made using Dusty Attics Texture Paste.


And above and below the chipboards I have used. The Baroque Corners are a huge favourite of mine. I have placed these back to back and then clustered my 49andMarket flowers and shells in the centre.
I have so many different collection of the 49andMarket flowers on this! Below I will try and list them all:









Floral Mixology Pina Colada







Below you can see the chains. I love to layer as you can see. I broke the chains into pieces and glued them in such a way that it looks like the chain is going through the whole project.


I have also used the mini ships wheel in my clusters. These are so cute and a great little chippie for the extra embellishment of clusters.





Well that is all from me today. I hope you have enjoyed visiting and my project. Until next time take care and happy crafting. 

Teen x





Saturday 17 March 2018

"Sun Kissed" Maja Design / Dusty Attic / 49andMarket

Hello and welcome. 
As you are all aware, I am sure, I love anything to do with the beach. My heart skips a beat when I think sunshine and sand. And yesterday while I was clearing away my desk of the Nyhavn collection from a previous Maja creation, I came across 3 pieces that I had not noticed before. The colours of these papers instantaneously sent mind mind thinking ....... aha a beach layout that will be perfect.

"Sun Kissed"

     
And below are the 3 sheets of papers from the Nyhavn Collection that I have used to start my project.





I used Historical Atmosphere as my background piece. I then did some tearing of the Sunnyside. I have to say that this piece is just magical in my eyes. I could not go without using this piece. I adhered pieces of Sunnyside throught the centre of my layout running vertically. I then did some matting of my black and white portrait photo. These pieces of matting were distressed and sanded a little to give that worn look that you often see with things associated with the beach.
Once everything was glued in place including my photo, I primed the papers using some clear gesso.



I also added in some stencilling using the "Cobblestones" stencil from Dusty Attic. I then painted some white gesso over my papers to lighten certain areas and to highlight others. I then went on to give my page more colours using some Dusty Attic Acrylic paints in Bisque and Faded Denim.

       

I then went on to change up the colours of my 49andMarket flowers from some new release collections and an older collection to co-ordinate with my page. Some of these flowers were a bluebell colour which looked beautiful with the faded denim over the top.














I also used some older flower collections from the 49andMarket range that are no longer available. But they are in the same shades as the Vintage Shades above.







I also added in some beautiful Dusty Attic chipboard frames and flourishes and an anchor to help embellish my page. These are as below.....


And lastly I adhered all my coloured embellishments along with some extra seashells found at our last trip to the beach. some of these were quite bulky so I had to cut the backs away to fit them where they needed to sit.

Well that is all from me today. Thank you for taking the time to visit and have a look at my project.
Until next time happy crafting.

Hugs







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