Hi everyone! I love the foliage available
from Dusty Attic and the best part is you can customise it to any colour
combination you want.
I have made this layout of an older photo
of my husband and I wanted it to include floral elements, but not be too girly
so I used a beautiful Dusty Attic chipboard title, the mystic frame, holiday
spray foliage clusters and butterflies. I will take you through what I have
used and what techniques I applied.
For this layout, I decided that I wanted to
make some of this foliage look like it included some golden wattle as that
would work well with the colours I had chosen. So, I painted the berries up
yellow and I think it shows that you can make foliage whatever you want – even
though these foliage items are meant to be Christmas themed! The leaves have
been finished with a variety of inks. I have built up the foliage clusters by
laying the finished chipboard over laser cut and acetate foliage from 49 and
Market.
I painted the mystic frame with gold mica
ink, and I love how this works with it laid over the foliage so it looks like
the swirls and the foliage are integrated together.
For the title, I painted it blue and then touched the edges up lightly with a bronze wax. For the main word I finished it with dimensional magic so that it stood out more. I then layered the title over the “arms” of the mystic frame so it really stands out.
I then coloured the butterflies with blue
paint (the same as the title) and then sponged white paint over the blue. I
then finished the butterflies with some sparkle.
I hope you have a chance to get some
creative time in soon.
Dusty attic products:
https://dustyattic.com.au/product/mystic-frame-1/
https://dustyattic.com.au/product/holiday-spray/
https://dustyattic.com.au/product/this-makes-my-soul-happy/
https://dustyattic.com.au/product/butterflies-3-small/
