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

Cherish Forever

Hello, I am here once again to share with you a LO I have created for this months mood board challenge for Maja Design. Here where I live it is Autum and the days are starting to get colder and shorter. The beautiful mood board with all of its bright colours and flowers, lifted my spirits and had me dreaming of the day when Spring would be here again. Here is the gorgeous mood board for this month.  Head on over to Maja design blog and have a look at all the wonderful creations by their Design Team. http://majadesign.nu/blog/

For my LO I have chosen to use another photo that was taken at my eldest son's wedding. The photo is of my parents and myself. I absolutely adore this picture of us. I actually have it enlarged and framed on my lounge room wall. It certainly is one that I will cherish forever. The photo was taken on a glorious spring day, in the beautiful surrounds of nature at the river where I live. The colours my parents were wearing to me captured the mood board although the colour of my mothers top is a pretty lilac and black colour, but it doesn't seem to show up here in the pictures of my LO. Here is my take on it.

I decided to use papers from two different collections for this LO. They are Coffee in the Arbour collection papers and Enjoying Outdoors collection. Maja design papers are just so beautiful to work with. I did some stamping using a Gabrielle Pollacco stamp, added some prills in I cannot tell a lilac to my flower chipboard piece and the other chipboard pieces were coloured using inks in dusty concord and bundled sage. I also used shimmerz creameez purple rain to colour the little flowers on the chipboard. The flowers I used were from different collections that I had in my stash. I love doing these challenges as it gives me reason to raid my stash and use up stuff that I have been hoarding for years. Here are a few close ups.

Until next time, happy scrapping.

Hugs Leanne x