CSI - Case Study #4

Week 4 of the CSI Challenges, and the last for us Dusty Girls as sponsors... but it won't be the last for me, I loved playing along and will continue to challenge myself with them!

This weeks palette was ME, love love love these colours!

Here is my layout... our little kitty cat again!  

The lovely Dusty Attic Vine Swirl was just the piece for this LO, long and elegant!  I've painted this one with a creamy toned paint and then sprayed them with Smooch Spritz and dried them off, once dried it was touched with crackle accents.  The crackle seals the colours in, and if spread very thinly dries with the finest little cracks, love it!!

Pretty flowers... I don't have very many Prima ones left anymore {because I have the most wonderful selection of Green Tara ones, so I'm a bit spoiled flower wise}, but I love that I had just the perfect colour in my stash!   

Do you like those Calla Lillies from Green Tara, aren't they sweet!?  It's refreshing to have something a bit different and the shape was just what i needed for this little cluster.

Mmmm I haven't used German Scrap for ages, I found this piece below when I had my big clean out, such a gorgeous shape!

Thanks for visiting, take care and



Chipboard:
Dusty Attic Swirl Vine #2

Flowers:
Green Tara Calla Lillies - Ivory with Brown Stamens
Green Tara Maple Leaves
Assorted Prima Flowers
Kaiser Blooms

Paper:
Core'dinations Cardstock
Prima Printery
BoBunny Enchanted
Fancy Pants Oct 31st

Other:
BoBunny Enchanted Noteworthy
German Scrap
American Crafts Thickers
Kay's Kreative Butterflies
Melissa Frances Vintage Resin
Kaiser Rhinestones
K&Co Brads
Maya Road Pins
Trinkets from Tomorrow's Memories



Tools:
Ingvild Bolme Distress Tool by Prima
Artisan Template
Martha Stewart Punch - Cherish


Mediums:
Jo Sonya Acrylic Paint - Titanium White
Clearsnap Smooch Spritz - River Mossy {for Donna Salazar} & Ice Rink
Inkssentials Crackle Accents

Stay true...

I started this before Christmas... and then Christmas came, and moving my scrap room {still in progress} and then New Years and Kel's 15th b'day, so it sat there looking sad and unloved for over a week.  But last night after a nice long nanna nap in the arvo I stayed up and played and then it was finished!  And it was FUN!

So this is a pic of me taken at Evana's 40th back in October.  Michelle had straightened my hair and did my makeup and made me all beautiful!

The Dusty Attic Corner Flourish was painted with cream acrylic paint, then inked and blended, then sprayed with smooch spritz and finally given a glaze of crackle accents and sprinkled with Fairy Dusty Glitter!

Handmade flower using a Spellbinders Die by Donna Salazar... I used to love making my 'dodgy' flowers, but these dies make it so much easier!!  They were inked with some mix'd media inx and then touched with glue gloss and sprinkled with fairy dust glitter.

Hand stitching... loving this now as well.  

Products used:
Dusty Attic Corner Flourish #1
Authentique PP
Creative Imaginations PP
Kaiser Sweet Nothings PP
Prima Printery PP
Pion Design PP {Butterfly CutOut}
Creative Imaginations Paper Frames
Green Tara Roses
Prima Flowers, Trinkets, Buttons & Trim

Pink Paislee Tickets

Tattered Angels Mistables Canvas Shapes
Tim Holtz Key
Melissa Frances Resin

Mediums used:
Jo Sonya Acrylic Paint - Titanium Buff
Colorbox Mix'd Media Inx by Donna Salazar - Peridot & Leather
Colorbox Mix'd Media Inx Refill by Donna Salazar - Peridot & Honey
Ranger Inkssentials Crackle Accents
Fairy Dust Glitter by Donna Salazar - Pralines and Cream
Clearsnap Glue Gloss
Tattered Leather Glimmermist

Tools used:
Spellbinders Die by Donna Salazar - Rose Creations




Thanks for visiting, take care and

Little Mis

This is ME when I was a toddler... love this pic of me sitting on dad's little Datsun with our beautiful cat Laius, he was with us right into my very late teens!

 My beautiful friend Natasha will be proud with all that stitching I did... I am loving the look of it!

Loving that new Prima Crystals with Trim, most impressed with this new design from them.

Mmmmm look at that finish on the Dusty Attic - this had so many layers of mediums, was fun to create!

Cute little Ingvild Bolme Resin Treasure Birdhouse for Prima... love these!! I also made a cute boofy flower using flat Green Tara Flowers.

All topped of with beautiful Green Tara Flowers!!

I have used:

Dusty Attic Decorative Frame #1 DA0207

Green Tara Cherry Blossoms, 

Green Tara Roses 

Green Tara Roses

Green Tara 2cm Bow, Brown

Prima Shabby Chic Treasure by Ingvild Bolme

Prima Crystal & Trim Border

Prima Pebble

Pink Paislee Artisan Elements

Melissa Frances Resin Frame

Maya Road & Jenni Bowlin Pins

Flower:

Green Tara

Martha Stewart Cherish Punch

Donna Salazar Mix'd Media Inx {Peridot} by Clearsnap

Tattered Angels Glimmermists {Mallard & Nougat}

Chipboard:

Jo Sonya Unbleached Titanium Acrylic Paint

Adirondack Paint Dabber, Gold

Lindy's Stamp Gang Two Toned Embossing Powder, Angel Wings Peacock

Ranger Antiquities Embossing Powder, Verdigris

UTEE

Chipboard Techniques:

Paint with the Unbleached Titanium {Buff colour}, dab with some Gold Paint randomly, dry and then emobss with UTEE.   While UTEE is still hot sprinkle on the other embossing powders randomly and emboss again, adding another coat of UTEE once all cool.

Thanks for visiting, take care and

Beauty

Just trying some new things... I think this might be about my 2nd or 3rd 8.5"x11" LO - I like... I know I certainly LOVED the papers!!

This is a photo I took of one of our climbing roses and edited in Photoshop, would be amazing to have a turquoise sky IRL!!

The Sweet Pea Border is just so delicate and lovely! I have painted it white and inked it with versacube inks {those cute little square ones} and then covered it with Tiara Stickles.

I have used:
Sweet Pea Border DA0593, My Minds Eye Lost and Found2 Papers, Paper Doily, Hand Crocheted Doilys {from Michelle and Heather}, Prima and Green Tara Roses, Websters & Jenni Bowlin Stick Pins and a gorgeous Melissa Frances Resin piece.

Thanks for visiting, take care and

Sisters: Friends - Inspired by Emeline

Over at Dusty Attic we are having an "Inspired by" challenge each fortnight... just to get us all out of our comfort zones and try new things!  It's great fun and already I have gained so much out of it.  Our first challenge was Emeline Seet's stunning style!

I wandered through her gallery many times carefully looking at what she does that makes them unmistakeably hers, it was great fun and a fabulous learning experience!

I loved the quote Emeline used on her JE Layout so have lifted that as well... it's so true of my sister, so glad she is also a friend to me, someone I can always rely on to get me back on track.

 

I have used Dusty Attic's Scroll #5 {DA0218} here, simply painted with a green acrylic paint to match.

Papers by Websters, Flowers by Prima, Bling by Delish Designs, Button Centre by Tim Holtz, and there's Melissa Frances Vintage Resin Shapes as well, and satin ribbon.

I love Emeline's use of ribbon, and her punchwork... these are elements I think I'll be using more of in my future layouts!

Take care of you.

What happens when...

you combine Dusty Attic with Pagemaps?

An uber AWESOME August Pagemaps feature!! Seriously... us Dustettes rock!

Here's some of the closeups... pop on over to Pagemaps and have a look at what the rest of the Dusty Attic team created... it's a visual feast for the eyes!

I had an absolute ball creating this... it's one of my pride and joys. Working with the 8.5x11 Double was also fabulous... might do a few more at this size now.

Take care of you.

Dusty Sketch Challenge

At the moment Dusty have a wicked prize up for grabs, click on the sketch to have a see!


I've got some mojo flowing this weekend {finally} so I had a play as well... here's mine!


The only small photos in the house, me at 3 with mum and dad. Probably a good thing I did this, poor things were stuck down with icky sticky tape!

I had lots of fun with this! More faves on there... beaded trim, crocheted bits and the lovely Dusty Attic Wrought Iron Frame I've had for ages, finally it found the perfect home.


The cute button is from Lil Red Rocket; Crochet Trim from Simply Cards, a couple of cute little Etsy Stores I love. The delicious paper in the background is from KCo's Ancestry Range, available at Inspired Crafts, and of course the Dusty, CI IOD Papers, Lace Trim and those cute paper roses are from Tomorrow's Memories.

Sketch by: Trina McClune

Take care of you.