Best Friends - Kerstin Filou

Hello creative friends!

Today a new layout which reminds me on a wonderful summer time at the beach.

We were often at the dog beach and all darlings were there totally enthusiastic and fully in their element.

  

some close up's

 I have used some gorgeous new release dog chippies  to complete my natural embellishing of the layout.

One of my favourite techniques to painting chipboards is  to use the ombre effect.

I begun with a dark blue acrylic paint, then a middle blue and a very softly blue shades

The colours should be similar in strength to achieve the ombre look, apply the colours one after the other and blur with a wet brush.

A base coat with white acrylic paint to keep colors bold is always recommended

I also did a little dry brushing of white gesso over the top.

The Dusty Attic products used

Sunburst Stencil

Woof Woof

Get Framed - Rectangle

Best Friends Furever

Fish Net Panel

Paw Prints - Dog

 

With a simple frame the layout gets a face and can be used as a new home decoration on the wall

Many thanks for your visit!

Happy crafting!

Balade en foret (Forrest walk) - Jenny Jacques

Hello Dusty FANattics

A few weeks ago, I was at a photoshoot with my fiance and this pic is my favorite one.

I thought that the colors goes pretty well with those paper from LemonCraft and that was I was inspired by...

It was quite quick this layout: clear gesso on the background paper, then, 3D paste with the Leaves#3 stencil and heat dryed everything.  A little bit of colors with 2 different sprays, added some drops and I was ready to build my focal point.  We can't see the stencil much on the final result but you will have a small idea on the next pic, left of the green foliage.

My picture was on layers of papers and cardboard to add some dimension.  My fancy frame #7 was heat embossed with embossing enamel and displayed over my picture.

I added some Prima's flowers and put my title from French mini caption #5 on top of them.

Completed my idea with some French wordplay and French wordplay #2: they are simply lightly painted with white ink.

Hope you'll like it as much as I do.

You can click on the name of the products in the post: they will directly lead you to the store.

Few days left to play with us on the blog with the gorgeous moodboard inspiration.

Mine will be showed here shortly.

Have a nice day xx

You stole my Heart - Julia Ost - Mood Board Inspiration

Hello dear friends!

I have a new moodboard layout of month today.  

I used beautiful paper from AB.Studio and beautiful chipboard from Dusty Attic. 

This big frame became the foundation of my multilayered composition. 

I toned it with  crackle paint and it looks more vintage now.

 Then I took another frame for my photo.I placed it in the middle of the composition where it looks perfectly!

After this I worked with different materials and composed my multilayered layout. 

Chipboard from Dusty Attic perfectly matched my layout!

I hope you enjoy my new inspiration.

Vintage Frame #2

Ornate Frame Set

You Stole My Heart

Flutterbies #3

Damask Stencil

Damask #2 Stencil

Cheers,

Julia Ost

Bird Houses - Anat Weksler - VIDEO TUTORIAL

Hello gorgeous gang!

Today I would like to show you how I've created Dovecote Cards set using lots of gorgeous  Dusty attic's chipboards and fantastic Lindy´s Gang paints.  

 I hope you will find my techniques and tips interesting, whether you are a beginner or an advanced artist.

So let's start...

Basic Process

• I designed and cut 3 Dovecote out of cardboard and primed them with White Heavy Gesso
• Next I covered each with a different Tissue Paper using soft gel
• When dry I spread Plaster Paste using a stencil and quickly, before drying, I added on top and Heat Embossed one of this 3 Lindy's Embossing Powders: Midnight Copper, Cleopatra's Copper, Bling-y Blonde
• Now time to add gorgeous sprays to each card:
  1. Buccaneer Bay Blue Moon Shadow Spray
  2. California Poppy Gold and Mission Bells Brown Starburst Sprays
  3. Jazzy Jivin Purple and Milk Chocolate Brown Starburst Sprays
• After drying I rubed a bit of Metalique waxes on the cards 
•  Next I colored Dusty Attic's  chipboards, I will be on my cards:
  - The Doodads #6, Ornate Corner #4 and Elegant Swirls #9 with Beaver Tail Brown squirt- The Ginkgo Biloba with Loonie Toonie Teal Squirt-  The  Jewelry Drops #5 and Bulb (Industrial Globes#3) with Ponderosa Pines Olive
  - The Barometer with Antique Gold, Glittering Gold- The Broken Bits #1- Numbers with Aged Copper- The Marigod Yellow Orange Starburst Spray was added to the Elegant Swirls #9

• Last steps were:
  1. Adding Glass Glitter and Micro Beads
  2. Splatter White Acyrilic paint  

The video tutorial shows the process of the cards creation and you can watch it here:

Dusty Attic’s Chipboards

• Doodads #6
• Ornate Corner #4
• Elegant Swirls #9
• Jewelry Drops #5
• Barometer
• Industrial Globes#3
• Ginkgo Biloba
• Broken Bits #1- Numbers

Lindy’s Products

• Embossing Powders: Midnight Copper, Cleopatra's Copper, Bling-y Blonde
• Vintage Moon Shadow Spray: Buccaneer Bay Blue
• Starburst Sprays: California Poppy Gold,  Mission Bells Brown, Jazzy Jivin Purple, Ponderosa Pines Olive, Marigod Yellow Orange, Milk Chocolate Brown
• Squirts: Beaver Tail Brown, Loonie Toonie Teal
• Shakers: Aged Copper, Antique Gold, Glittering Gold

Finnabair’s Products

• Finnabair-Prima Plaster Paste,  Finnabair-Prima Flutter and Musica Tissue Paper, Finnabair-Prima Stencil, Finnabair-Prima White Heavy Gesso,  Finnabair-Prima Clear Gesso, Finnabair-Prima Glass Glitter and Micro Beads, Finnabair-Prima Soft Gel,  

Other products

• Card board ,  Tim Holtz Botanical Tissue paper, 

Thanks for Stopping by!

xoxo