Beach Life - Adri Du Preez - Mood Board Inspiration

Hello everyone!

Welcome to the blog. Here is my layout inspired by the beautiful August mood board which features beautiful Dusty Attic nautical chipboard pieces. 

This is my daughter and grandson having fun on the beach.

Here is the mood board.

and here is my layout.

All the chippies were primed with white gesso.

I used DecorArt Americana Acrylic Paint on all the chipboard pieces.

The ship wheel and anchor were painted with Americana Acrylic Paint in Traditional Burnt Umber, True Ochre and I dry brushed with white gesso

I painted the edges of the Old Wooden Fence, title, Wordpl@y, seagulls, lighthouse, mini skeleton fish, and driftwood in Slate Grey and Grey Storm. I inked the edges with Traditional Burnt Amber. 

The Mini Seagulls were painted Slate Grey.  The Seahorses were painted Bahama Blue and Traditional Burnt Amber.

I painted the Starfish and Mini Shells Slate Grey and dry brushed it with white acrylic paint.

The urchin shells were painted Plantation Pine, Sour Apple, True Ochre, and white acrylic paint

I painted the mini jellyfish and crabs in True Ochre, Bahama Blue, and Georgia Clay and dry brushed with white acrylic paint.

I painted the Ocean Elements Hauser Light Green and Bahama Blue.

Seaweed #1 was painted True Ochre, Bahama Blue, and Georgia Clay and dry brushed with white acrylic paint, and Seaweed #4 was painted Hauser Light Green and Bahama Blue.

After everything glued down I added art stones and splatters with diluted white gesso.

Dusty Attic products used.

DA2823 - Beach Life #2

DA2778 - Mini Jelly Fish

DA2769 - Ocean Elements #3

DA2563 - Old Wooden Fence #2

DA2193 - Drift Wood #2

DA2196 - Sand Dollars

DA2190 - Mini Skeleton Fish

DA1916 - Seaweed #4

DA1910 - Seaweed #1

DA1674 - Ships Wheels Small

DA0559 - Mini Shells #1

DA1915 - Mini Crabs and Lobsters

DA2543 - Anchor #2

DA1176 - Mini Seagulls #1

DA1042 - Seagulls

DA2288 - Mini Shells #2

DA2393 - Broken Bits #3 – Fishnet

DA1104 - Seagrass #1 Small

DA1175 - Lighthouse #2

DA2197 - Starfish #2

DA1687 - Wordpl@y #7

I hope you find time to play along with this mood board.  Share your projects on 

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to the Dusty Attic online shop so you can choose 

your very own chippies you would like to use.

Thank you for visiting the blog today.

Happy crafting!

Hello Summer - Kerstin Filou - Mood Board Inspiration

 

 Hello everyone!

 

Our monthly Moodboard inspired me to create a mixed media layout  suitable to beginning of summer, best time for holidays on the sea.

 Beautiful memories of sunsets by the sea, walks on the beach, or playing with the dogs.

 

 

 

 

 some close up's

  

used chipboards

 

Hello Summer

Mini Jelly Fish 

 Lighthouse #1 Small

Ocean Elements #1

Sand Dollars

Ocean Elements #5

Coral #2

Mini Shells #2 

 

  Just put your own take of the challenge in the comments section

 of the Dusty FANattics facebook page HERE 

 

  Thanks for your visit!

 

 I hope you find inspiration!

 

 

Wonder of the Sea - Lynette Jacobs

Lynette here, welcome to the blog today. I have the pleasure of sharing some inspiration for October.  My favourite place is the beach.  This photo documents a long walk on the beach and finding a precious pansy shell.  The shell is very delicate and fragile, so this page will be framed to protect the shell.  I used papers from the Penelope Dee Tidal Florals collection. 

Products used:

Baby Word pack #1

Baby Word pack #2

Ocean Elements #2

Sand dollars

Some close up details:

I decided that I wanted to let the photos and the pansy shell take center stage, so I kept the embellishing to the minimum.

I heat embossed the word chipboards.

The sand dollars and the sea grass was painted with acrylic paint.

The Pansy Shell takes center stage and to protect it this page will be framed.

I love the added texture of hand stitching on my pages.

The final touch was added by splattering some gold twinkling H2O in gold and adding a few enamel dots around the page.

Until next time.  Happy crafting.

 

What a View - Kerstin Filou

 

Welcome creative friends!

Today a new inspiration, it's a sea inspired frame. I have used a wooden frame as a base and added in the background some fabric leftovers, also remnants of an old favorite jeans 

 

Suitable Maritime chipboards were primed with white gesso and afterwards coloured with silver acrylic paint. Anchor got an extra texture layer, where I used fine deco sand.

Some details

 

used Dusty Attic chipboards

 

Anchor #2 

 Sand Dollars

Ocean Elements #5

Mini Shells #2 

 

I hope you find inspiration!

Thanks for stopping by...until next time!

 

 

 

Seaside Fun - Kerstin Filou - Mood Board Inspiration

 

Welcome creative friends!

 

Today a new inspiration for you, it's a sea inspired canvas in mixed media style. based on the wonderful moodboard theme this month, 

 Love the monochrome colours, perfectly for vintage style.

 

 

I created on the backside of a canvas, used a maritime paper from La Blanche, a round piece was torn from the centre of the paper, awesome chipboards frame the old photo.

 

 

some details

 

 

 

used Dusty Attic chipboards

 

Sand Dollars 

 Ocean Elements #1

Seagrass #1 Small

Mini Seagulls #1

Broken Bits #3 – Fishnet

String Frame Set

Mini Jelly Fish

 

 

 3d effect

 

We are looking forward to see what you come up with this months challenge.

 Just put your own take of the challenge in the comments section

 of the Dusty FANattics facebook page HERE 

You could win one of two amazing Dusty Attic prize packs, 

...this year we are reverting back to the prize being a $50 (AUD) credit

 to the Dusty Attic website store so you can choose your very own designs.

 

I hope you find inspiration!

Thanks for stopping by...until next time!

 

 

Beach Life - Lynette Jacobs

Hallo there.  Lynette here today, welcome to the blog.  I am sharing my October inspiration with you today.  I used a photo that was taken on our recent vacation in Plettenberg Bay.  Nature and specifically the beach soothes my soul.  Here is my page:

Chipboard used on this project:

Coral #3

Seaweed #2

Sand dollars

Starfish #2

Mini shells #1

Mini shells #2

Drift Wood #2

Mini Jelly Fish

Seagulls

Weather Icons

Weather

Quoted sentiments #2

Beach life

My process and some close up details:

This Heidi Swapp Carefree paper was just the perfect back ground for this photo.

I used some of the weather icons for the top cluster.  I painted the sun and then heat embossed all the icons with clear embossing powder.

I painted all of my chipboard elements with a mix of yellows, whites and blues to compliment the photo and the background.  This clusters are 4 layers deep and chunky...the way I like it.

The layers from the bottom us, is driftwood, coral, sea weed and then the little seahorse...with a sprinkle of shells and starfish.

I painted the "BEACH"word to compliment the back ground and heat embossed the "life"word and layered it over the Beach word.  The quoted sentiment was heat embossed with clear embossing powder and then dry brushed with white gesso.

On this cluster I used the coral at the bottom and then added the seagull and the jellyfish over top...with a sprinkle of starfish and shells below

I love the way the colours of the chipboard compliment the photo and the back ground paper.

I hand stitched around the edges of the patterned paper and finally added some Nuvo Crystal drops, a few definitions and the date.  I love how the foiled elements shines.

Thank you for visiting the blog.  Visit the Dusty Attic online store for more amazing designs.

Happy crafting