CSI Case Study #3

Loving these colour challenges... I didn't get mine done in time for the reveal this week, but am enjoying these so much I still wanted to play!!

This weeks colours were soft and delicious... I adored them!

So I scrapped myself and E... isn't she just gorgeous, inside and out.

I used Donna Salazar's Spring in Bloom and Antiquities papers for this palette, they were perfect, but I only have some 8x8 pads left so needed a background.  While trying to find the 'right' background I decided to create one using some resist Bazzill... but I didn't have the right mists to create such a soft colour palette, however I found something that I feel works even better - Mix'd Media Inx Refillers.  It's a pigment ink so dries slow and doesn't sink right in straight away... which means it gives plenty of time to blend and smoosh them all together to get everything just the way you want them.  I LOVE them!

I finally used Dusty's Lacing Tash, how sweet is this piece?  

It was painted white and then I used Mix'd Media Inx again to get that wonderful colour.  It was sealed with a fine coat of Crackle Accents... nice and simple finish.

Another shot of the Lacing Tash... the gingham ribbon was so sweet and I liked the look of it draped down, so left it that way!

Products used:

Dusty Attic Lacing Tash
Dusty Attic Typewriter Font Alphabet Set
Donna Salazar Spring in Bloom 8x8 Paper Pad for GCD Studios
Donna Salazar Antiquities 8x8 Paper Pad for GCD Studios
Bazzill Resist
Paper Doily
7 Gypsies Tags
Prima Flowers, Paper RosesBrass Charms from Lindy's Stamp Gang
Gingham Ribbon
DMC Thread

Mediums used:
Donna Salazar Mix'd Media Inx Re-Inkers {Denim, Honey, Chiffon} for Clearsnap
Inkssentials Crackle Accents
Jo Sonya Acrylic Paint {Titanium White}


Tools used:
Donna Salazar Shadow Flowers Die for Spellbinders
Martha Stewart Punches



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CSI Case Study #2

Here is our scene from CSI this week... such bright fresh colours!

and my layout... which I have to admit having fun with.  Not my usual colours, but that's the point of the challenge... to push, to grow!   I love the happiness these colours portrayed.

and some yummy details...

a sheer butterfly from Kay's Kreative flittering around the flowers...

Dusty Attic gates and fence... simply treated with white paint, Tim Holtz Stains and Fairy Dust Glitter

Green Tara Flowers, Kaiser Resin, Prima Resin Birdhouse and yummy hand made flowers using Donna Salazar Spring in Bloom PP and Donna Salazar's Rose Creations Die

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 another flittering butterfly... and a yummy hand crocheted doily from Michelle.

Products used:
Dusty Attic Wrought Iron Fence Border
Dusty Attic Ornate Gates, Mini
Green Tara 6.5cm Aster Batik - Sunset FDS029BatSS4
Greet  Tara 4cm Aster Batik - Sunset FDS026BatSS4
Green Tara 2cm Roses - White FDR006Wh
Green Tara 1cm Roses - White FDR001Wh
GCD Studios Donna Salazar Spring in Bloom 8x8 Paper Pad

White Cardstock
Prima Flower
Stencil from Rouge de Garance Diecut PP
Rouge de Garance PP
Bo Bunny Diecuts
AC Thickers
Kaiser Transparent Diecuts
Maya Road Trim
Buttons
Hand Crocheted Doily
Tim Holtz Tissue Tape
DMC Thread

Mediums used:

Clearsnap Donna Salazar Fairy Dust Glitter - Mixed Berries
Clearsnap Glue Gloss
Jo Sonya Acrylic Paint - Titanium White
Tim Holtz Stains
Tattered Angels Glimmermist - Mallard, Sky Blue

Tools used:
Spellbinders Donna Salazar Rose Creations Die
Martha Stewart Punch - Cherish




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CSI Case Study #1

There's a new colour challenge site in town and it's pretty cool!  It's CSI - Colour, Stories, Inspiration - and the whole idea is fabulous!  There is the "Scene" which is the colour palette... with 5 colours!  Then there is "Evidence" which are a list of items to include on your layout and finally the "Testimony" which is the journaling base/ideas to go with it all!!

This is the Scene for Case Study #1: chartreuse green / dark moss green / goldish-yellow / red / greenish-gray

And here is my layout - I got to play Guest Designer!!
{yeah, in the CSI Frame because I think it's pretty cool}

Now what's better than a new Colour Challenge site... the fact that Dusty Attic is sponsoring them for their first month and there will be a yummy Dusty Prize Pack up for grabs, so go check them out, have a play and join in and you could get Dusty with us!!

So some closeups:

One of my new faves from Dusty, the Corner Flourish #1... here I have trimmed it to fit the flower cluster.  It was painted cream, then dabbed with LSG Starburst Stain {Cajun Carnelian Red}, dried and them embossed randomly with LSG Terracotta Rust, Ranger Liquid Platinum & Tarnished Gold, and then sprinkled with Metal Skin Glitter by Alison Ellis.

A mix of flowers here with some Green Tara Roses finishing them all off perfectly {they always have just the right sizes to make a cluster 'work'}

Some Prima Bling... and also a Resin Flower from Handmade Halo, the grey/green of it was PERFECT for this colour palette!

And lastly a sweet PinkPaislee Butterfly flittering away around some die-cut Shadow Flowers by Donna Salazar for Spellbinders.

Products used:

Dusty Attic Corner Flourish #1

Green Tara Roses, 3cm, 2cm & 1.5cm

KandCo Ancestry Papers

7 Gypsies Gypsy Market, Moe

DCWV Mariposa PP

Basic Grey Designer Cardstock

Handmade Halo Resin Flowers

Prima Flower, Trinkets, Trim, Pebble and Bling

Kaiser Flower, Tag and Card

Maya Road Hat Pin

Tim Holtz Tag

7 Gypsies Label

Vintage Lace

Pink Paislee Butterfly Garden Butterfly

Hemp Thread

Mediums used:

Lindy's Stamp Gang Starburst Stain {Cajun Carnelian Red}

Lindy's Stamp Gang TwoToned Embossing Powder {Terracotta Rust}

Ranger Embossing Powder {Liquid Platinum and Tarnished Gold}

Alison Ellis Glitter {Metal Skin}

Tools used:

Spellbinders Die by Donna Salazar, Shadow Flowers

Martha Stewart Punch, Doily Border

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I made the final 8!!

So so so excited for this chance to be on the team at Donna Salazar Designs!  I have been hanging for the call for a year, ever since I fell in love {lust} with the Antiquities line... so now I get some goodies to play with and hope I make the very final cut!!

From Donna's Blog:

I'm VERY excited to announce the Amazing designers who have made it to the Finalist round for the DSD 2012 Design Team Call!  But first, I want to thank EVERYONE who applied for the team. We had some really beautiful applications sent in and we had a really hard time choosing the Final 8.

Everyone on the list below will either be 1) a Guest Design Team Member for one month in 2012 or 2) a full time Design Team Member for the entire year. These 8 finalists will be getting a sampling of Donna Salazar Designs product from Spellbinders Paper Arts, Clearsnap, Inc., GCD Studios, Zutter and Want2Scrap to use for their projects during this final round. We will be announcing the new Design Team Members and who will be returning from our current Design Team in February.

So without Further Ado... Here are the

8 Finalists

in Alphabetical order:

(Click on their names to check out their blogs)

Amy Lynn Lassiter - USA

Ksenia Romantshenko - Ireland

Lisa Blastick - USA

Mandy Harrell - USA

Michelle Grant - Australia

Mistra Hoolahan - Australia

Solange Marques - Brazil

 

Suzanne Austin - USA 

CONGRATULATIONS LADIES! 

We are excited to see what you create with the Donna Salazar Designs products!

Thanks for stopping by! Smooches ~D~

I'm also RAPT that Michelle and Mandy are there as well, HOW very cool!!


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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




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Dusty Attic Design Team 2012

I am so excited to be with The Dusty Attic for another year... I love the girls who are the team, love our illustrious leader Jen with her quirky sense of humour and her amazing sense of design, and naturally I love the product, live and breathe it, for me this is what being an ambassador for a company is all about... you've got to LOVE it totally!!     

All the 2011 team is back again... you know you have the best of the best when you can't bear to lose anyone, and we've added a few more fresh faces who are amazing and will inspire you no end!!

 

2012 Design Team:

Belinda Spencer - SA, Australia
Emeline Seet - Singapore
Evana Willis - WA, Australia
Gabrielle Pollacco - Canada
Helena Johansson - Sweden
Ingrid Gooyer - Netherlands
Irene Tan – Malaysia
Iris Babao Uy – Philippines
Jen Burns  WA, Australia
Julie Winks - QLD, Australia
Maiko Kosugi - Tokyo, Japan
Mandy Harrell  - USA
Michelle Grant - QLD, Australia
Mistra Hoolahan - WA, Australia
Nancy Winter - WA, Australia
Natasha Naranjo Aguirre - USA
Tina Rutledge - Florida, USA


2012 Sponsored Designers:
Anna Dabrowska-Pekocka (Finnabair) - Poland
Bev Rochester - England
Ingvild Bolme – Norway
Karola Witzak - Poland

And Dusty also have a new blog to go with it all!  HERE is the link, pop over and become a follower to receive all the updates!   There are also links to all the DT Blogs there now, saves me adding them all into this post!

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Farewell 2011...

So, I was asked about my Top 10 for 2011... Top 10 what?  Layouts, projects it seems, how hard is it to choose from your own work!  But I am going to give it a whirl!

Clicking on the pics will take you to the original posts {with luck}.

This one... because, hello - Twilight, does it need anything more LOL!  I love my Twilight themed layouts, but this one with the grey, black and red, love it!

Yes... another Twilight one, but I love this for a different reason.  A few actually.  It was the first time I tried something different, I had Michelle 'holding my hand' via Whatsapp while I did it and it was published... but mostly it was trying something very new to me, that spraying of a perfectly good Layout was a hard step, and it set me free!!

This one is of my niece Lily, quiet for once!  I love the soft prettiness of this one... and the memories of the day... a girls day out just myself, my sister and my niece.  Was fun!!

This one is an old photo of Darren and I, way way back... just before we were married, it was so nice to scrap it with such beautiful products!

Penelope my Art Doll I created for a swap... she now lives in England.  I was so proud of her, really need to create another just for me, but it's not the same!!

I love my Shadow Boxes I have created... this is my favourite of them all!  It took me ages, just waiting for the right elements to come along, it was the toadstools and fairies that just finished it off!

My hubby... yep he gets in there as well.  I love the calmness to this one, the photo, the colours and the simple uncluttered style.

More OTP... I adore this, mum has in now, she claimed it before it had even finished drying!   But it suits her house more than mine, so I must have made it for her!

My boy... love this kid so much!  He's just turned 15 and I still can't believe I have a 15 yo!!   I love all his photos, and I love this LO... the textures and depth, and the fun I had creating it!

And this one... 2 beautiful people I have in my life right now!   Memories of the fun we had while away, the time I got to spend with Michelle, the hours I poured into making this one... and again, the fun I had while creating!!

OK... so that's them, I could add another 15 more I am sure, and I think that's 11 there anyway {was never great at maths}.  

Looking back, I need more photos of my hubby and son, but I also notice that a lot of my faves also are created 'with' someone, be it at a crop or at home with friends chatting via some social network.  

Thanks to my girlfriends, I treasure the time you have shared with me.  Time is precious for us all and with a heavy weekday workload and loving my family time as well as my creative time it's not always easy to be the social butterfly I used to be, I do miss that - all the crops and late nights out, but I feel more balanced now... much more balanced actually.  Thanks to Whatsapp and my iPhone, I'm only a message/video/audio away and can keep in contact with whoever is up for a natter!  To all my friends, thanks for being 'there' for me in some shape or form. Some through some rough times, always inspiring me and supporting me, others just to say "Hi, how are you?".  It's been a good year in all, even with some grey months thrown in there... I'm flat out busy, or I'm comatose on the couch, but all in all, it's been ok... hoping 2012 is GREAT though, I think it will be - I think there a more than a few of us who deserve it to be!!

Oh... BTW - HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

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