The Dusty Attic DT - Love Forever Always

Hello Dusty Attic fans!

Today I have a couple of layouts to share featuring the most stunning Dusty Attic chipboard designs. 

There's a bit of a love theme running through my post today with two very mushy layouts. Not like me at all!

'Forever Always' Layout

Believe it or not, that background paper is actually from a Christmas range but I just loved it for this layout. The floral design really matches our wedding which was held in a beautiful garden in a national park. And this led me to use some gorgeous botanical chipboard pieces as well as some lovely Dusty in Bloom Flowers.

I just adore the String Frames so I have added one on top of my paper layers and kept it in its natural raw state to keep with the 'natural' setting of our wedding. I also kept the Feather Charm raw too.

The Foliage # 8 chipboard has been painted white using a paint pen and then I have added some soft Peeled Paint Distress Ink very delicately with an ink blending tool. You need to be super gentle with this technique so as not to lose any of those sweet leaves.

I created a couple of pretty clusters with the chippie leaves and Dusty In Bloom flowers.

The title and page pebble were just coloured with the white paint pen again to contrast with the dark background.

Now I had planned to heat emboss those sweet little hearts with my favourite Princess Gold embossing powder but couldn't find it. I am not willing to share a photo of the state of my desk right now but if you saw it you would completely understand how easy it was for that embossing powder to hide from me! I scanned my desk area and found a roll of gold stickers that I had been hoarding for a while. They just happened to be the perfect colour so I stuck the chipboard onto the sticky side of the sticker and then cut the excess away. I used an emery board just to sand the sharp edges away. It left me wondering why I hadn't thought to use stickers before!!

Here's what I used:

DA1382 Feather Charms # 3

DA1839 You Will Forever Be My Always

DA1185 String Frames sml

DA1106 Page Pebbles # 2

DA1870 Foliage # 8

DA0990 Mini Hearts # 2

DA0809 DIB Grassy Knoll

DA0805 DIB Bridal Veil

'Love' Layout

Another wedding photo on this layout which is a bit of a different design for me. The idea was to use the large sheet of paper with the 'All You Need is Love' quote on it and fit my photo and embellishments on the side. I'm not going to lie. It was tricky. It was fun to do something a bit out of the ordinary for me though. 

I have stuck to a black, white and gold theme for this layout and coloured my chipboard accordingly. The foliage was coloured with a white paint pen, the title, mini hearts and iron garnish painted with a black paint pen and the flower stamens were sprayed with Perfect Pearls Heirloom Gold.

Here's what I used:

DA1866 Iron Garnish # 1

DA0990 Mini Hearts # 2

DA1834 Mini Captions # 11

DA1874 Foliage # 12

DA1876 Flower Stamens

DA1106 Page Pebbles # 2

Well that's all from me today. I hope you are inspired to create your own 'love' layout. Make sure you share it in the Dusty FANattics Facebook Group HERE if you do. I would love to see what you create with Dusty Attic goodies.

Cheers

Belinda

The Scrapbook Store DT - Fairy

Hello!

This month at The Scrapbook Store I am playing with the super cute Graphic 45 Fairie Dust collection. Lots of fairies and flowers.

'Fairy'

I have started by adding some 

lindy's Stamp Gang Cosmopolitan Pink Starburst Spray to my background paper. Once dry, I added some stenciling using Golden Light Molding Paste. 

I fussy cut a cute photo of my daughter when she was little and added some chipboard wings that I backed with patterned paper and coloured white using a Posca Pen.

I arranged some flowers and a fussy cut fairy around the photo and the quote strip cut from the patterned paper. I chopped the word 'fairy' from a chipboard title, coloured it white with a Posca Pen and glued on a cute little metal fairy charm.

Here's what I used:

G45 Fairie Dust:

- Daisy Chain

- Dreamland

- Fairie Dust

- Tiny Toadstools

2 CRAFTY Chipboard My Little Fairy

SCRAP FX Chipboard Fairy Wings A (large)

KAISERCRAFT Kaisercard Kraft

TSS FLOWERS:

- 1.5cm Mini Flowers Mauve

- 2.5cm Mini Lily Peach

GREEN TARA Tea Roses Lavender

DARKROOM DOOR Stamps:

- Carved Flowers

- Carved Leaves Vol. 1

TIM HOLTZ Distress Ink:

- Dried Marigold

- Peeled Paint

- Seedless Preserves

- Worn Lipstick

LINDY'S STAMP GANG Starburst Spray Cosmopolitan Pink

POSCA PEN White

Thanks for stopping by!

Belinda

Dusty Attic DT - # beautiful

Hello Dusty Attic fans!

Today I am super excited to share with you my very first Mood Board Challenge as a Dusty Attic Design Team member.

First of all, have a look at this stunning mood board!

I do love a challenge that is dripping with gold!

And check out the stem of that stunning cake plate in the top left. It's aqua! My favourite colour. So I have created a layout with a gold, white and aqua colour combination.

Here's what I created.

'# beautiful' Layout

I snapped this photo of my daughter while we were visiting a plant nursery. It's just a phone shot but the light was so golden and lovely which matches the gold theme of the mood board perfectly.

I used some Golden Light Molding Paste with the beautiful Creative Script Stencil to add a little more interest to my background. Once it was dry I used my white Posca Paint Pen to colour it a little more.

I love the Hashtag Sayings set so I have used one for my title and given it a couple of coats with my white Posca Pen.

The rest of the gorgeous chipboard pieces have been altered with a gold Posca Pen.

I even added a little gold to the flower stamens.

Dusty Attic products used:

DA1494 Creative Script Stencil

DA1802 Mini Tabs # 5

DA1597 Hashtag Sayings # 2

DA1342 Leaves # 2

DA1569 Paisley # 3

DA0805 Dusty In Bloom Bridal Veil

Thank you so much for stopping by the blog today to check out my take on the mood board. I do hope you get a chance to play along too.

Cheers

Belinda

Flutterby Designs DT - Dec 25 Christmas Cheer

Hello Flutterby Designs fans!!

Belinda here today to share my very first projects for the new year featuring the awesome Fair Dinkum Chrissy collection. I am so very happy to be back for another year of scrappy fun at Flutterby Designs and I am very grateful to Anita for having me back. I am so looking forward to creating alongside the new team of awesomeness.

Anyway, onto the shares!

My little family and I quite often head to the beach on Christmas Day so this is just the perfect range to scrap our family beach Christmas tradition.

'Dec 25' Layout

For this layout I was really drawn to all of the gorgeous silver elements in the Die Cut Bits & Bobs as well as the filler photo cards. I especially couldn't wait to use the stunning silver glitter acrylic 'Dec 25'. I swiped some silver acrylic ink across my white card stock base and let that dry before adding a little stamping. I flicked some of the silver ink as well as black and white Posca Pen paint over the background too.

I kept my colour scheme simple by using neutral black, white and silver. This colour scheme really made my darling daughter's red Christmas dress pop in the photo.

I created lots of layers as always with messy embroidery thread, page tabs, wood veneer and die cut elements.

I coloured the wood veneer with the black and white Posca Pens.

Here's what I used:

FAIR DINKUM CHRISSY:

- Everyday Etc Filler Photo Cards

- Page Tabs

- Wood Veneer

- Die Cut Bits & Bobs

- Acrylic Title

- Frame 49

- Page Tabs Blackboard Notes 3

- Page Tabs Jolly Season

- Snippet Strips Monochrome

- Sticky Quick Quotes

- Speech Bubbles 3 Photo Cut Outs

To keep things fair, I have also scrapped a photo of my sweet son from the same Christmas Day at the beach.

'Christmas Cheer' Layout

For this layout I have reverted to type and used my very favourite Tropicana Teal Flutter Colour Paint diluted to a watercolour consistency on my background. I swiped some texture paste through the Bubble O' Fun Mini Stencil to add some dimension and interest.

I cropped some of the Filler Photo Cards to create the layers under my photo but that beach scene one is my absolute favourite so I just had to use the whole thing.

I finished off with some twine, wood veneer bits, flair button, page tabs and some cute stars that I fussy cut.

Here's what I used:

FAIR DINKUM CHRISSY:

- Everyday Etc Filler Photo Cards

- Page tabs

- Wood Veneer

- Flair Button

- Frame 49

Mini Stencil Bubble O' Fun

- Flutter Colour Paint Tropicana Teal

- Snippet Strips Monochrome

- Stars Photo Cut Outs

- Tickets Brights

- Bright Directions Tabs 3

- Page Tabs Blackboard Notes 3

Well I hope you have been inspired by my first projects for 2018. Have you had a chance to scrap some Christmas photos yet with this fabo range? Please remember to add your awesome layouts to the Flutterby Inspiration HQ group. I really love to see what you have made.

Thanks for stopping by!

Cheers

Belinda