Let it Snow

Hi everyone, I'm back with my second LO that I have done for this months Dust Attic challenge. As I said in my last post I just couldn't decide which one to enter so I have entered both. As soon as I saw the mood board both ideas came to me. It is so cold down here where I live in Tasmania. The mountains are covered in snow and the days are grey and bleak that I wanted to do a Winter LO.  As much as I don't like winter, I do find that it is very pretty. So to refresh everyone's memory here is the mood board for July.

The photo I have chosen to use is of my eldest son and his son Tylar when he was a baby. Geez cannot believe he will be six in a weeks time.  It is taken on top of a mountain near where we I live.

For this project I have used Maja design papers. For the background I did some stenciling using a snowflake stencil with translucent paste. I then went over the snowflakes using nuvo glitter drops white blizzard. The pine sprigs chippies were painted using acrylic paint forrest. For the snowman's body I used prima paper texture paste sprinkled with sparkling dust. The rest of the snowman was painted using acrylic paints. The icicle chippies were gessoed then painted using heavenly white H2o with  snowflake paste and glass glitter. The bird house  was dressed with crackle accents and inklingz chocolate and diamonds, liquid pearls were used for the little bird. The beautiful 49 and market flower centres were altered using pearls and prills ice queen.

Dusty Attic products used:

Mini birds #3

Bird houses

Creative layers

Icicles

Mini icicles

Pine sprigs

Forrest acrylic paint

Until next time, happy scrapping.

Hugs Leanne x

Dare Devil

Hi everyone my LO today is for this months mood board challenge for The Dusty Attic. I was so inspired by this mood board I couldn't decide which one  to do so I have actually made two LOs for this months challenge.

 

For this project I have totally gone for an all out grungy boy LO. The photo I have used is of my second eldest son playing on is motor bike when he was younger.

 I have used 49 and markets captured  adventure papers, electric pieces  and faded memories and rooster row BS in the cottage life 6x6 collection. Prima graphite texture paste was added using a Dusty Attic checkerplate stencil. I then added more texture by  using another Dusty Attic stencil called crosshatch, this time I used  nuvo mousse black ash. I also did some stamping using Gabi's texture set. Most of the Dusty Attic chippies were treated with prima rust pastes in original, camouflage and military sets. Some were firstly painted with prima sparks raven black then randomly rubbed with prima waxes in bronze age, brushed iron and fire ruby. The metal cogs were simply treated with prima waxes in fire ruby and inka gold steelblue. This same blue was used on my title after firstly painting it using the raven black.

A list of Dusty Attic products used:

Bike chains

 

Clockworks small

Clog cluster

Crosshatch stencil

Industrial border #1

Industrial chains

Word pack #6

Checkerplate stencil

Skeleton clock small

 Cog border #1

&

Spark plugs

Until next time, happy scrapping.

Hugs Leanne x

Hermie

Hello and welcome, today I am up on my blog to present to you a LO I have created to enter in this month's more than words challenge. http://morethanwordschallenge.blogspot.com/

When I saw this challenge with the word BEACH and SEASHELLS, I straight away thought of a trip to the beach my children and myself had when they were much younger. I am always inspired by the beach as it is my happy place. I just love the beach and many hours have been spent on long walks collecting shells and running along the sea shore getting our feet and clothes wet. On this particular day it was too cold to swim so we were paddling in the water when we came across a beautiful shell that to our surprise had a little hermit crab inside. The children and myself just fell in love with this little fella, so we named him Hermie.  He was the most sociable little guy and did he put on a show for us.

We spent what seemed like hours just watching him and loving him. To our surprise we came across several more but they were not our Hermie. After much disappointment and whining from my kids as you can guess they wanted to keep him. We finally put him back into the ocean where he belonged but not before I took copious amounts of pictures of him. So when I saw that the creative challenge was to add SEASHELLS to our design I thought of Hermie with his beautiful shell, the fun we had and beautiful memories we made with him.

For this project I have used a variety of gorgeous 49 and market flowers. I have used sea shells and other bits that I have collected on many beach walks. The little star fishes were from my stash that were given to me by a friend. For my back ground I did some stenciling using a kaisercraft stencil called birch with some granite paste cecilia gold. I also used Lindy's magical shaker in Frozen jack frost and some paper texture paste around my photo and where my flowers would go. To finish off I added art stones medium and mini and Stampendous fragments chiffon and powder blue.

Until next time, happy scrapping.
Hugs Leanne x

Love is......

Hi everyone and welcome. Today I have created a LO for this months Dusty Attic mood board challenge. The mood board for June is absolutely exquisite, just divine don't you think?

I have used lots of elements from the mood board such as the lace, doillies, thread, sewing, scissors, most of the magical colours, and the wonderful saying (title). The photo is of my eldest son and his wife on their wedding day.

49 and market papers were used for my Lo, which I have machine sewn around some of them. I also did some hand sewing around my title. The 49 and market flowers I used were altered in the centres with mini pearls prills, ice resin glitter shards sterling and pebble rock glass crystal clear. I have dressed the DA chippies in different mediums, the leafy flourish was firstly gessoed, crackle accents applied and once dried I then embossed it using mirror platinum. The medallions which I cut in half were painted with clear gesso with rusting powder applied with white vinegar, once dried I randomly applied inka gold platinum, and prima waxes. The vintage frame was dressed with liquid pearls platinum pearl then wiped over using metalic gliding paste pearl lustre. I dressed the fancy flourish with cosmic shimmer granite paste called gran pearla, I just loved how these turned out and lastly the little black word tag was simply wiped over with some waxes and inka gold. I also did a little stenciling using shimmerz paste-eez which I heat set then rubbed over using the gliding paste. Some lace was coloured  using inklings thunder storm and to finish off I have placed a doily under the photo and scissors from my stash.

DA chippies:

Leafy flourish 

Fancy flourish

 Medallions # 1

Vintage frame # 4

Word tags # 2 black

Baroque frame set circle

Until next time, happy scrapping.

Hugs Leanne x

Salty Kisses

Hi everyone, I am back with my first challenge for Art Playground. There May Play challenge is full of wonderful tips and of course great colour schemes. https://www.artplaygroundblog.com/single-post/2018/04/24/MAY-PLAY---ALL-ABOUT-THE-CENTER

Wow I have made it, the last day of the challenge which is so not like me. So after a hectic month of being sick, leading to stitches in my mouth and weeks of antibiotics, working shift work as a registered nurse and doing extra shifts to make up for time off, I honestly did not think I would be able to do the challenge this month.

I have used the May challenge monthly tip by maintaining the focus on my photo. I have chosen this photo because of its beautiful colours that I thought represented the May Play board. The two colours I have used are the greens and brown. I also happen to absolutely love dolphins and it has always been a dream of mine to swim with them. My eldest son was fortunate enough to swim with them when he was 19, whilst he was holidaying in Hawaii. I was super jealous when he rang and told me. I just adore this picture of the dolphin kissing him hence the title "Salty Kisses".

The monthly tips for May play were very handy and are featured throughout my LO. The biggest element of my LO is my photo. In order to keep this the star of the show, I concentrated on the greens and blues, from the colour of the water in my photo, adding a touch of grey here and there the colour of the Dolphin to compliment and to keep the focus on my photo. I have clustered my elements and  kept them close to the photo to help maintain the focal point on my picture.  I have used different textures, mediums, beach and water elements to help support the main big element. 

I used 49 and market captured adventure papers and flowers for this LO. I did a little stenciling with paste-eez salt of the earth which I heat set to get a raised effect. I did this through a TCW stencil called mini nautical chains. I used the fish netting part of the stencil. I also did a little stamping using archival ink watering can, with a Gabrielle Pollacco stamp set. I dressed some of the chippies using paste-eez salt of the earth which I heat set to give a bubbled uneven look, I rubbed randomly with dazzlerz sea u in the mornin and walnut distress ink which I heat set again. Other chippies were simply gessoed, stained with walnut ink then rubbed over with creameez firm foundation. To finish off my LO I embellished with 49 and market sand and sea die-cut embellishments, shells which I love to collect when ever I go to the beach, art stones and dress my craft mini ice cubes. Here are some close ups.

Until next time, happy scrapping.
Hugs Leanne x

Smile

Hi everyone, I am here to present to you my Lo for this months Dusty Attic mood board challenge. I was inspired by the beautiful blues and yellows of the mood board, the flowers and feeling of summer. Here is the mood board for April.

I have titled my LO" Smile" as a very close family friend who is like a second daughter to me, my daughter and myself visited a lavender farm last summer. We had lots of fun, laughed and smiled all day. This photo came to mind as soon as I saw the mood board.

Here is my LO

For the dusty attic chippies I have used clear gesso on some, then applied crackle accents, shimmerz inklingz chocolate & diamonds and texturez artie choked. For others I have used gesso then applied inks in various colours and used prills in baby its cold outside. I have used 49 and market papers, flowers and dandelion laser cut outs. I have made splatters with acrylic paint denim. To finish it off I coloured some cheese cloth in shimmerz vibez palm reader and bamboo leaf spritz. I truly enjoyed making this Lo.

Here are some close ups.

Dusty Attic products used:

DA chippies:

Flower buds

Word pack #16

Decorative scroll #1

DA acrylic paint:

Denim

Until next time, happy scrapping.
Hugs Leanne x