When I first saw this month's Mood Board, I was inspired straight away with the gorgeous colour palette. The tools, muddy boots, timber, the beautiful denim blues and the rusticness of it had me thinking of little boys wearing blue, riding their bikes and getting their trousers caught in their chains and cogs. My son's would often raid my dad's tool shed, in search of rusty nails, screws and bits of timber to hammer their nails into and of course this would always take place in the dirt.
The photo I have used, is of my youngest son, my little buddy taken a few years back on his 4th birthday. He is now 16 years old, 6 foot 4inches tall, but still very much my little buddy.
I had so much fun creating this LO. Acrylic paints, rusting powder, rust paste, inks, waxes and embossing powder were all used on the Dusty Attic chippies to alter them and to create different textures. I fussy cut some bricks out of paper to create a brick wall behind my photo, as seen in my picture behind my son, is a brick path and wall. I used the DA filmstrip small chippie to poke out from behind my photo to hopefully give the look of a ladder, as we all know little boys love to climb. I also added a little ruler I made, using cardboard, texture paste and a stencil, to go along with the nuts, bolts and screw chippies I used. To finish off my project, I used denim acrylic paint to create some splatters.
Here are a few close ups of my LO and different textures.
Dusty Attic products used:
DA Chippies:
Chains
Zippers
Cogs #1
Mini Cogs
Jumbo Cogs
Nuts & Bolts
Treasure the little
Industrial Scrolls
Filmstrips small
DA Texture Paste
DA Rusting Powder
DA Acrylic Paints
Raisin
Denim
Gingernut
Hot chocolate
Sunburnt orange
Until next time, happy scrapping.
Hugs Leanne x
Hugs Leanne x
