Friends, Family - The Dusty Attic

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I loved these new beautiful Ornate Gate #2 Jen has designed, and when I got this lovely Pion paper it was the first piece I thought of to use with it.

I've given it a rough coat of gesso as a base and to add some slight texture, and while still wet sprayed it with some denim and charcoal coloured glimmer mists, dabbing the colour to blend with the gesso.

The Butterflies #3 and Mini ABC Set Lower were also treated to the same finish... and then touched with some glitter for a little sparkle.

I used some flowers I created for iMagineD creations, the colour was perfect for the Pion papers, and then created a ruffle with some of the Pion offcuts.  You can find a tutorial on how to create these here, or pop into my Etsy here to buy some already made!

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High Tea Card - Handmade Halo

Hi everyone... today I have just a little share for you.  It's a sweet little card I made just for the fun of it. I was rummaging through my Handmade Halo Charms and found this sweet teapot and teacup, and after having just sorted all my papers out I remembered the sweet teacup images on Pion's "For Mother" range, so created a cute little High Tea card.  I love High Tea, would love to go with some girlfriends one day to one of the fancy places... but there's nothing wrong with having sweet little treats and teacups at home on a girly day in!

I have trimmed the card with these gorgeous flowers and ribbons and laces from Green Tara.  I have used a Pincushion flowers and layered it with a Lace Pearl flower in matching tones.  Then I've tied a big floofy bow using Polka Dot Organza ribbon.   This ribbon really is the ultimate in girly sweetness... it's just one of those perfect ribbons! 

Thanks for popping in today... hope you are all well, if not, why not treat yourself to a little High Tea to cheer yourself up!

Products used:

Handmade Halo Antique Brass Charms

Pion Design For Mother Patterned Papers

Green Tara Lace Pearl 3cm Lace Pearl Flowers - Dusky Pink - XF9332DP

Green Tara Pincushion 6cm Soft Fabric Flower - Dusky Pink - XF9320DP

Green Tara 38mm Polka Dot Organza - Pink - RBB221P

Green Tara 2cm Lace -  Off White - L2895OW

Beautiful - Dusty Attic

Hi everyone!  Today I have a layout to share with you of my beautiful ma... she's a special one this one.  Beautiful inside and out, always there for all of us with her logic and unselfish giving.  When I grow up I want to be just like her!  

I have used some of the new release Dusty on this, one of my favourites from the release, the small Elegant Flourish.  I couldn't wait to use it and while creating this layout I knew it would be perfect!  Jen has also release mini Script ABC Set which matches her mini words, so now we can make our own words or add to the exisiting ones!  

I've also used some of the sweet new Dusty Roses.  These are available in so many wonderful vintage colours and 2 sizes - 1cm and 1.5cm

The chippy was simply painted white and then accented with some Luminarte Silks in Opal, it gives it a delicate soft shimmer.

I've added layers and layers of ruffles and lace, some of my handmade flowers, some resin flowers and also a lovely Green Tara Primula and Diamante Trim.

Thanks for visiting, until next time - take care of you!

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Tiffany's

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Hiya lovelies!!

How perfectly lovely are these new papers from Pion Design, they are from the Alma's Sewing Room Collection.  Blissful.  Need More... LOL!

Trust me to decide I HAD to use it to scrap our visit to Tiffany's flagship store on 5th Avenue, NY... when it's grey/blue and Tiffany's signature colour is that fabulous aqua {no wonder I love aqua}.  But I got around it by reducing the colour saturation of the photo - love Photoshop!

Tiffany's was wonderful... a little piece of paradise.  Unfortunately by the time I got there I was hot, tired and just wanted to sit down... and since there were wonderful lounges in there to do just that, I did... sigh, perfection!

This layout was FUN... girly girl fun with the lovely soft pastels, and naturally I had to add all kinds of bling tucked in here and there.  I've used some beautiful soft trim underneath the ruffle to add even more softness to the page.

I nabbed one of the blue/grey flowers I've made for Natasha {sorry darl, but you still have plenty} because the colour was just right, then rummaged through my stash for more flowers.  The cherry blossoms were originally white and I coloured them with Faded Denim paint watered down to make a mist. 

Some more angles of my cluster of yummies... the blingy accent in the right below was from Tomorrow's Memories.  Just one of their gorgeous trinkets they always have.  I bought it ages ago and saved it for just the right layout.

Oh you may be wondering what I got from Tiffany's... you'll have to wait until I open it.  I saved it for my birthday, I have just a few more days!

Thanks for visiting!  Until next time, be sure to take care of you!

Meeting my BFF - Green Tara

Meeting my BFF

I'm such a lucky girl... I finally got to meet one of my BFF's {beautiful fabulous friends}!  I talk to Natasha every single day, thank goodness for modern technology... but living a world apart means we'd never actually met, now we have and it just makes me love her all the more.

One thing we stupidly didn't do was get millions of photos together, but we did get a few and this is one of my favourites. 

I used some lovely soft papers from Pion Design and found a wondrous assortment of matching Green Tara flowers for it.

I have used the beautiful Velvet Rose, sweet Sakura and my favourite, Heirloom, which also now comes in a 4cm size!!

Added some lovely scrolly Dusty Attic chipboard...

I used some of the new tulle to tie some bows to soften the clusters.  This tulle is so soft and fine, perfect for bow making!

One of the new 4cm Heirloom flowers, they are so cute!!

I love the Green Tara Lace range... I have tucked some in under the paper edge and used this fabuous one below as a feature strip.

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Green Tara goodies used:

Heirloom 6.5cm Silk and Organza Flower - Pale Pink XF9213PPH
Heirloom 4cm Silk and Organza Flower - Pale Pink XF9317PP 
Heirloom 4cm Silk and Organza Flower - White XF9317Wh
Sakura 5cm Silk and Pearl Flower - Lilac XF9221L
Velvet Rose 8cm Velvet Flower - Dusky Pink XF9217DP
White 3.8cm Lace - L2868W
White 2.4cm Lace - L2912W
100mm White Tulle - RB163Wh

Other products:

Patterned Paper:
Pion Design Studio of Memories

Chipboard:
Dusty Attic Decorative Flourish Set
Dusty Attic Vintage Frame
Dusty Attic Bookman ABC Set

Bling:
ZVA Creative Swirls

Ink:
Clearsnap Mix'd Media Inx - Wisteria, Pewter

Punches:
Martha Stewart - Lace Flourish, Embroidery

Other:
Clearsnap Fairy Dust Glitter - Sugar Shimmer
Clearsnap Glue Gloss
Metal Embellishments
Dymo Label Maker

  

True - Dusty Attic

Another Dusty creation... this time using one of the new Hearts, the Heart Flourish... however I gave it a wee trim to create this stunning corner flourish to suit my photo!

This is myself and the hubby, taken at Evana's 40th last year.  It was one of those bad 'taken in the dark with a flash' photos and I struggled to get it to look half decent, but I finally got there.  Not perfect but still a rare pic of both of us on a lovely night out!

Love these ABC sets, so perfect!  I've just inked these with Pewter MMI and then glittered them, too easy!!

Mmmm look at that heart flourish!  These were painted and then parts covered with glitter {LOVE glitter}.

Dusty in Bloom... divine.

And a cute Pion butterfly!

Thanks for visiting, take care and

Dusty Attic Products used:

Heart Flourish

Vintage Tags

Bookman ABC Font

Dusty in Bloom - Celestial White, Grassy Knoll, Smokey Blue

Other Products:

Paper:

Pion Design - For Father {Borders}

Pion Design - From My Heart {Valentines Angels, Forget Me Not}

Echo Park - Melody of Life {Words}

American Crafts - POW Glitter Paper {Powder}

Other:

Paper Doily

DMC Thread {Brown #840, White}

Green Tara Lace

Paint/Mediums:

Jo Sonya - Acrylic Paint {Unbleached Titanium, Opal}

Clearsnap - Mix'd Media Inx {Pewter}

Glitter:

Clearsnap - Fairy Dusty Glitter {Pralines & Cream}

Alison Ellis - Blue Ice

Punches:

Martha Stewart - Swirling Lace, Cherish

Adhesives:

Helmar - Tiger Grip

Scrapbook Adhesives - E-Z Squares

Allison Ellis - Hot Set Powder

Dustettes

Last year Jen asked if we could make layouts of the 2011 Dusty Attic Design Team all together, just for fun... I'm a bit slow but I finally did mine... it was such fun with the girlie colours!!

 The "Dustettes" word was cut ages ago by Jen for me, we had a photo with the "Perth Girls' but I wanted to save it to use for us all.  The chippy was painted white then dabbed with Tim Holtz Stains {Victorian Velvet, Dusty Concorde and Spun Sugar}, sprayed with water and then dried off, lastly finished with Crackle Accents and some with Fairy Dust Glitter.    How beautiful are these silk flowers from Green Tara, they have Swarovski crystals as the flower centres, mmmm bling!!

 The little coat hangers are so cute! I have used them to hold some of the subtitles. 

The background uses Pink Paislee Mistables, I love resist papers, love that we can change them to suit just what we are working with.  On this one I used a mix of Chiffon and Truffle Mix'd Media Inx refills, it's so easy!  Just place a few drips here and there and then using a baby wipe just blend it in!

Thanks for visiting, take care and










Chipboard:
Dusty Attic Decorative Trim Set
Dusty Attic Wire Dress Form
Dusty Attic Mini Words
Dusty Attic Mini Coat Hangers
Dusty Attic Custom Cut


Flowers:

Green Tara 3cm Silk Flowers with Swarovski Crystals
Green Tara 2cm Silk Flowers with Swarovski Crystals
Green Tara Silver Stem, 7 Leaves

Papers:
Donna Salazar Designs 8x8 Paper Pad Spring In Bloom for GCD Studios

Pink Paislee Mist.a.bles
Pion Design Fairytales of Spring "Violet"
Pion Design Studio of Memories "Cut Out Sheet"

Other:
Carolee's Tiny Alpha Stickers
Embroidered/Sequined Tulle & Lace Trim {from Fabulous Fabrics, Perth}

Tools:
Martha Stewart Punch "Cherish"
Donna Salazar Creative Page Tabs Die by Spellbinders

Mediums:
Donna Salazar Mix'd Media Inx Refill by Clearsnap - Chiffon, Truffle

Jo Sonya Acrylic Paint - Titanium White
Tim Holtz Distress Stains - Victorian Velvet, Dusty Concorde, Spun Sugar
Donna Salazar Fairy Dust Glitter by Clearsnap - Mixed Berries

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