The Dusty Attic DT - Boobook Owl

 Hello Dusty Attic fans!!

It's Belinda here with you today to share my layout inspired by the beautiful September Mood Board.

Here's a reminder of the stunning neutrals of the Mood Board:

I love how soft and restful for the eyes these colours are. I decided to create a NON Halloween layout using the new Halloween chippies and the natural colours of the mood board.

'Boobook Owl'

I am lucky enough to have a gorgeous Southern Boobook Owl living in my hayshed at the moment which just happened to be perfect timing to use the new Owl chippies.

I used some Heidi Swapp Blush Colour Shine on my background cardstock to start my layout. Once dry, I added some stencilling using the Starry Night Stencil which is a favourite of mine and some Snow White Colour Blast Colour Paste. I flicked some of the Colour Shine over the page too. Once everything was completely dry, I added some beautiful rub-ons by 49 and Market.

Next I added a LOT of layers using mostly 49 and Market papers, ephemera and frames. I stapled my layers together and layered them on top of a torn piece of Corrugated Card. I added all of this to the page along with my photo.

Next I painted all of the chipboard pieces with about three coats of heavy white gesso. Once dry, I added some ink to the edges of the chipboard using a brown ink. The ink turned out to be too much of a contrast against the white so I coloured over the top with a white Posca Paint Pen. This made the inking much more subtle which was the look I was after.

Finally, I added all of my embellishments to my layout including the chipboard pieces and some flowers. I added some stamping too.

I love mixing up the various alphabets available at The Dusty Attic. I wanted to place the emphasis on the 'Boo' so I used the Impact ABC Set for that as it was larger.

The Dusty Attic products used:

DA3102 Halloweenies # 2

DA3084 Owls # 3

DA3083 Owls # 2

DA2696 Impact ABC Set

DA1763 Starry Night Stencil

DA1686 Wordpl@y # 6

DA0861 Mini ABC Set Upper

DA0859 Mini Script ABC Set

DA0830 Corrugated Card

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. I hope you will play along with the challenge this month too.

Cheers

Belinda

Bee Arty DT - Fierce Mind Brave Spirit

 Hello Arty Bees!!

It's Belinda here today to share my latest layout created for Bee Arty featuring the awesome Graffiti Grunge collection.

I cropped a sheet of the fabulous 350gsm White Cardstock and mounted on a sheet of heavy weight black cardstock from my stash. I then spritzed the focal area quite heavily with water and sprinkled some Midnight Colour Shimmer Dust over it. I used a soft paintbrush to move the colour around and to 'mix' the Shimmer Dust and water together. I used the same paintbrush to pick up the colour from the really wet parts and flick it over the page.

Next I cut out the tags I wanted to use from the Perfect Tag Sheet. There were still plenty of tags left over to make another layout or some cards. I inked the edges of the tags with some Cobalt Archival Ink.

Next I added some stencilling using the Gridlock A6 Stencil and White Heavy Gesso. I love how when the gesso dried it had picked up some of the individual colours that make up the Midnight Shimmer Dust. It gave it even more of a grungy look.

I added a little more stencilling. This time I mixed up a little of the Midnight Shimmer Dust with water in a palette and painted it through the stencil on the page. It gave a really messy watercolour effect pattern which just added to the grunginess. 

Once the layout was dry, I layered on the tags and added some cogs and the light bulb using the Cog Globe Metal Die Set with the white cardstock.

I added my photo and a cool chevron from Charm's Creations. I finished by fussy cutting some appropriate words from the Be Yourself  Word Sheet, inking the edges with Jet Black Archival Ink and adding to the page. I used a black journaling pen to add some doodling to the die cuts as well as scribbly borders around the words to make them stand out more.

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. Make sure you keep an eye out as this layout will soon be available as a kit so you can create your own version of this layout.

Cheers

Belinda

Scrapping Clearly DT - Current Mood

 Hello Scrapping Clearly fans!

It's Belinda here with you today to share my latest art journal spread inspired by the September Mood Board. I love working in black and white so I couldn't resist making a second project!

'Current Mood' Art Journal Pages

I started by adding this fabulous Scrap FX Rice Paper using Ranger Multi Medium Matte. I scraped a little heavy white gesso over parts of it using a palette knife once it was dry.

I swiped some black and white gesso over the surface again using the palette knife. Once that was dry I added another layer of collage. I was lucky enough to grab myself the stunning Botanical Collage Paper by Tim Holtz when it was in stock and I am using it very sparingly because I love it so much. These pages just needed some of it though. I tore some pieces of it and added with the same Multi Medium Matte. 

Next I went crazy with stencilling, stamping and a bit of doodling with a white Posca Pen.

I stamped my fairy using the Aall & Create Take Flight Clear Stamp Set. I stamped the girl on smooth white cardstock and the wings on tracing paper/vellum. I used the Vicki Boutin Colour Study Stamp Set to add 'tattoos' to my girl and doodled around them with a black journalling pen. I drew some antennae, fussy cut everything and stuck all the pieces together.

I cut some of the quotes from a sheet of patterned paper from the Heidi Swapp Art Walk 12 x 12 Paper Pad and also used a sticker from the Jenine's Mindful Art Collection Sticker Book.

STUDIO LIGHT Art Journal

STUDIO LIGHT Jenine's Mindful Art Collection Sticker Book

VICKI BOUTIN Colour Study Stamps

ART BY MARLENE Stencils

AALL & CREATE Clear Stamps Take Flight

HEIDI SWAPP Art Walk 12x12 Paper Pad

SCRAP FX Rice Paper Grunge Circles

TIM HOLTZ Idea-ology Botanical Collage Paper

RANGER Multi Medium Matte

RANGER Archival Ink Jet Black

STABILO Aquarellable Black Pencil

COLOUR BLAST Black Heavy Gesso

COLOUR BLAST White Heavy Gesso

UNI Posca Pen White

Thanks for stopping by the blog today. I hope you will play along with the mood board this month too.

Cheers

Belinda

The Dusty Attic DT - Hocus Pocus

 Hello Dusty Attic fans!!

It's Belinda here with you today to share a layout I created for The Dusty Attic featuring some of the NEW Halloween inspired chippies.

'Hocus Pocus'

For this layout I started with a Halloween inspired patterned paper as my base. I then spritzed some Dylusions Crushed Grape Ink Spray over the page and let it drip down. Once the layout was totally dry I added some stencilling with the NEW Bats Stencil and black gesso mixed with a little texture paste.

Once the stencilling was dry, I added some stamping using a cool little stamp from Stampotique and Jet Black Ranger Archival Ink.

I layered up some co-ordinating patterned papers and tags and added those to the page. I painted all of the chipboard, except for the Zombie Hands and Mini Stars, with heavy black gesso. I added white detail to the title and the Skulls & Bats chipboard piece using white gesso and a Posca Pen.

The Zombie Hands and Mini Stars were given about three coats of heavy white gesso. Once all of the chipboard was dry, I added it to the page along with the photo and a torn piece of Corrugated Card that I painted with the black gesso.

Dusty Attic products used:

DA0830 Corrugated Card

DA1040 Mini Stars

DA1855 It's Just A Bunch of Hocus Pocus

DA1869 Iron Garnish # 4

DA3060 Bats Stencil

DA3093 Skulls & Bats

DA3112 Zombie Hands Small

Thanks for stopping by the blog today. I hope you are loving the new Halloween release as much as I am.

Cheers

Belinda

Darkroom Door DT - Who, What, Where, When & Mark The Date

 Hello Darkroom Door fans!!

Today I am sharing my project featuring the BRAND NEW Small Stamps; Who What Where When and Mark The Date. These stamps are so perfect for travellers notebook journaling, project life, party invitations and more. I decided to create a project life spread to show how they can be incorporated into the pages.

I started by creating the base cards for each pocket. This was my first time playing with the Dina Wakley Gloss Sprays and I love them. I spritzed the spray onto the Polka Dots Small Stencil and 'stamped' it onto the card. I added some stamping with the Numbers Medley Stamp Set too. I LOVE this stamp set for adding awesome detail to backgrounds.

To prevent the backgrounds from overpowering my photos, I cut to size some tracing paper/vellum and laid that over some of the background cards. I used the NEW Journal Blocks Medium Stencil to add text lines to these.

Here are the full pages:

I used a whole heap of different stamps from various Darkroom Door Stamp Sets to create embellishments for my pages. You can see the full list of products at the bottom of this post.

I stamped the Mark The Date Stamp onto smooth white cardstock using Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink. I cut it out, inked around the edges with Cobalt Archival Ink and layered it on the card. I used a highlighter to show the month and the dates relevant to the phoyos contained in the Project Life spread. I stamped the the Mark The Date stamp again using a green ink, cut out the numbers for the year and added those to the card.

I used the same process to decorate a card with the Who, What, Where, When Stamp.

Here's a few close-ups of some of the other cards:

Products used:

DDSM016 Mark The Date Small Stamp

DDSM015 Who What Where When Small Stamp

DDMS012 Journal Blocks Medium Stencil

DDSS011 Polka Dots Small Stencil

DDPC101 Viva La Flora Postcards

DDRS217 You Are Everything Rubber Stamp Set

DDRS212 Number Medley Rubber Stamp Set

DDRS211 Lots of Labels Rubber Stamp Set

DDRS205 Buzzing Bees Rubber Stamp Set

DDRS191 Diary Dates Rubber Stamp Set

DDRS190 Garden Birds Rubber Stamp Set

DDRS179 Fine Leaves Rubber Stamp Set

DDRS156 Stars Rubber Stamp Set

DDRS114 Everyday Life Rubber Stamp Set

DDRS082 Tags Rubber Stamp Set

RANGER Archival Ink:

- Cobalt

- Jet Black

- Tree Branch

TIM HOLTZ Distress Ink Brushed Corduroy

WENDY VECCHI Make Art Ink:

- Fern Green

- Prickly Pear

DINA WAKLEY MEDIA Gloss Spray:

- Marine

- Sand

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. Make sure you head over to the Darkroom Door website HERE to check out all of the new releases.

Cheers

Belinda