Michellejbg

CSI #8 - Laugh Kookaburra Laugh + Tutorial-Textured Chicken Wire

2012-02-26T06:23:00.000-08:00

Hi there again, I hope this post finds you all well! Things have been quiet busy around here, and the next few months are going to be even busier! I am getting excited with the things I have in the works! Hopefully all will be revealed very soon!

I had a break in deadlines over the weekend, so I got to have another play with CSI Case File #8.
These are so my colours, so how could I not!

This layout is of one of the Kookaburra's that visit my hubbies parents place in Cooroy QLD. His dad feeds them, he has quite a few dropping in most days! It is nice to sit there and listen to them laugh and squabble amongst each other. I got sooo many pics of them. It was a great opportunity to get up close and personal with them and play with my new camera.

Materials:

Dusty Attic - Chicken Wire Panel DA0177
Dusty Attic - Fountains 3pk (New Release)

Papers:
7 Dot Studio - Dreamer - Nights Fever, Drive all Night

Embellishments:
Prima - Sugar Plum Roses Carribean, Sculpture Flowers, Decorative Border, Hex Net Stamp
Pink Paislee - Sweetness Metal Badges, Sweetness Glitter Sticker Alphabet

Mediums:
Donna Salazar - Mix'd Media Inx - Peridot
Monte Marte - Impasto
Ranger - Glossy Accents
Kaisercolour paint - Coastal Blue
Alison Ellis Design - Glitter Blue Ice
Stazon - Timber Brown
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist - Chalkboard - Peacock & Firefly
Neocolour crayon - Golden Ochre

Tutorial: Textured Chicken Wire

This is a quick and easy way to create texture on your background.

Materials : Impasto or Texture Paste, Paint (Coastal Blue Kaisercolour), Spatula,

Dusty Attic Chicken Wire. Spray inks / Glimmer mists to finish off

(I have used - Chalkboard - Peacock & Firefly)

Step 1: Mix a little paint in with your texture paste then wipe it over your chicken
wire hit and miss in some places and more solid in others.
If you have an idea where your photo is going you don't need to do the whole background.

Step 2: Lift the chicken wire and move to repeat. The dark lines you can see in the
texture paste is the residue from the cut chipboard. As the texture paste is a wet
medium, turn it around to use a different section of the chicken wire as it will
start absorbing the moisture.

Step 3: Once you are happy with the placement of your texture paste leave to dry.
You can lift your page and dry with a heatgun from the back or leave to dry
naturally. When it is almost semi dry I place a plastic bag over it and pop it
under my cutting mat to help flatten the page.

Step 4: To finish off spray glimmer mist over the page to add another
dimension. Then you are done! Easy.

You can get a PDF Printout of this tutorial HERE at Dusty Attic

Thanks for dropping by!

I hope you have enjoyed this Tutorial!
Have a great Day!
Hugs
Michelle x

CSI #4 - Sisters

2012-01-29T22:27:00.000-08:00

Here is my entry for this weeks CSI case file #4
I have really enjoyed working on these case files!
This photo is of two of my cousins, Leanne & Kylie who are sisters.
We are very lucky to have7 girls from two families of who are all very close.
4 girls in thier family and 3 in mine.
This was taken at our beach, it truly is absolute pure bliss! Love this photo too!

I have used from the Evidence:
Frame, Tulle, Rhinestones, Something Shiny & Reflective, Wet Medium.
Tetimony: Journal in a frame, Reflections.
(Here are a few close ups for you:)

Materials:

Prima Flowers - Gillian Coffee, Sculptures
Prima - Say it in Crystals
Prima - Tiny Alphabet Stickers

Kaisercraft -Bling & Pearls, Merci - Ornamental Frames
Pure Juice - Rub ons Sunshine Day
Fab Scraps - Shabby Chic Collection
It Takes Two - Sticky Sentiments, Basic Grey - Metal Flowers
Paper - 7 Dots Studio - Dreamer - Daydreaming, Elements 12x12
Black Cardstock, Corrugated Cardboard

Basic Grey - Rub ons, Delish - Rub Ons
Paint - Adirondack - Pitch Black
Jo Sonja - Aqua, Burnished Copper, Silver, jade
Kaiser colour paint - Eggshell, StazOn - Black
Decorative Tape, Collections - Butterfly, MM - Metal Word
Crochet Flowers, Charms, Jewelry. Sewing Snaps, Lace
Ingvild - Prima Distress Tool

Dusty Attic:
Mini Dragonflies DA0518
Mini Words #1 DA0386
Grass Cluster #1 DA0660
Chicken Wire PAnel DA0177

CSI #3 - Beautiful Young Lady

2012-01-20T19:00:00.000-08:00

I love a good colour challenge, if you don't know how to aproach putting different colours
together try using the decorators rule for 60, 40, 10.
60% of the main colour/s, 40% of your feature colour/s and 10% of your accent colour/s.
I have used 60% of the grey colours, 40% of the cream and tea brown and 10% of the pink and purple. It makes it easier to approach when you decide what percentage of the colours you are going to use. I hope that helps some of those who are scared to play with different colours.

Here is my take on this weeks colour palette!

I was lucky to get this one done, I was on holidays and didn't take any scrap supplies with me at all! But it got the better of me, I had to go and find a scrap shop so I could create this layout. I had a great excuse my beautiful neice Amaya who is in this photo wanted to learn how to Scrap, so who am I to disappoint! We had fun scrapping together! Amaya is definitely creatively talented too!

The leaves the to bottom right of the layout were created by using the inked DA leaves as a stamp to stamp off the excess ink.

Materials:

Zva Creative - Pearl

Petaloo - Flowers Canterbury Rose

Prima Flowers - Sherwood Rose Truffle

Kaisercraft - Bonjpur - Alpha Sticker Sheet

Paper Blooms - Misty

Mini Paper Blooms - Dusty Pink

Hambly Screen Prints - Mini Brocade gold

Foiled Buts 04 - Sooz Made It

Doily, Tags, Ribbon

Dew Drop Brilliance - Chocolate, Beige

Papers - Delish - Dulwich Collection

Ruby Rocket - Avalon

Bazzill Bling

Dusty Attic - Feathers DA0651

Leafy Stem #3 small DA0581

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CSI #2 - Believe in your Dreams

2012-01-14T21:47:00.000-08:00

Here is what I did with this weeks colour palette!

Another photo of Leonii from our holiday photo shoot.
We had so much fun playing with the flashes.

The criteria used on this layout is

flowers
architectural elements (e.g., gates, fence, windows, bricks, etc.)
sheer elements (Lace)
swirls/flourishes (Bling)

Journaling:
Inspiration Words: dream, journey, subconscious

Materials:

Crackle Accents

Adirondack Dabber Paints - Snow Cap, Sailboat Blue

Glimmer Mist - Delphinium, Wheat Beer, Cranberry Zing

Paint - Studio - Classic Teal, Josonja - Colony Blue
Liquid Pearls - Wjite Opal

StazeOn - Teal Blue, Versa Colour ink - Atlantic

Kaisercraft Stamps Bonjour, Bling & Pearls
K&C Stitches stickers to go, Lace

White & Rasberry Cardstock

Mulberry Paper, Adorn it Alphas - Radiant

Prima - Sulpture flowers,Petticoat flowers, Paper Roses, Resin Treasures

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Check out what the other Dusty Girls have done on HERE!

Thanks for Dropping By!
Love What you Do!
Hugs
Michelle xxx

CSI #1 - Colour, Stories, Inspiration & Dusty

2012-01-07T06:38:00.000-08:00

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

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!!

JennyB, Mistra & I were this weeks guest designers as well, Here is our interpretation of the colour palette and challenge:

Pop on over to see the rest of the wonderful layouts created by the CSI Team, there is fabulous inspiration to be found!!

Here is a close up of what I created for this challenge:
The first pic of the layout was taken above in natural light, the pic below here was taken in my new light tent! It is awesome, no more waiting for the right light to get the layout photos!!

The required elements I used on this layout were, A Hat Pin , Stamped Numbers on the Background, Repeated stamp on the background, Lacy element and Distressing.
Journaling Hidden: The Dark and Stormy Skies, Looming over Mackay, in its path we wonder if we lie. Rumbling Grumbling sounds all around, the sweet scent of rain can be found!
I created this layout when my friend Debbie K was visiting and we used the same photo with the same Colour palette, it was great to see how different they still turned out! You can see Deb's Layout on this HERE

Materials:

Paints: Adirondack Dabber Paints - Lettuce
Jo Sonya - Yellow Green, Flouro Yellow

Glimmer Mist - Black Magic, Raven, Apple

Glimmer Mist Chalkboard - Sprout

Perfect Pearls Mist - Blue Patina

StazeOn - Black

White, Green & Greenish grey cardstock

Pink Paislee - Lear Cards

Prima - Flocked Rub Ons, Flowers
Alpha's - Jenny Bowlin Reverse red stickers, Adorn it Red Hot
Stamps - Prima Hex Net, Delish Number Crunch Zest Numbers
Butterflies - A touch of Nature, Tags - Tim Holtz,
Hat Pin - "Pretty Little Pins" by Tina Dalton
Beads, Lace, Fibres

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Thanks for dropping By!!!
Hugs
Michelle xx

2012 Dusty Attic Design Team

2012-01-03T17:43:00.000-08:00

I am very proud to be on this amazing team for another year!
Not only is the talent on this team totally inspiring and amazing, the support and friendships that goes with it from these special ladies makes for being a part of this team something really special!

Now for the news everyone is waiting for...

We are thrilled to announce the Dusty Attic Design Team and Sponsored Designers for 2012!

Not only has the whole team from 2011 have remained with us, but we have grown to include some amazing fresh new talent to inspire you.

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

You can find more introductions on the New Designers on the New Dusty Attic Blog
Be sure to check it out! More exciting news is on the horizon too! :)

Thanks for dropping by!
Smiles & Hugs
Michelle x

Donna Salazar DT Finalist

2012-01-03T16:32:00.000-08:00

I am super excited to have made the finalist for Donna Salazar's DT Call you can check out the other Finalists on Natasha's Blog.

Here is my entry I submitted for the DT call, it was a last minute decision, that I am really glad I did, I had soo much fun playing with these!
! I will upload the materials list and some how too's later as well! :)

Layout - Free to Be

Materials:

Glossy Accents & Crackle Accents

Adirondack Dabber Paints - Pink Sherbet, Snow Cap, Espresso

Glimmer Mist - Crushed Shells, Cadillac Pink, Tattered Leather

Glimmer Mist Chalkboard - Cotton Candy

Perfect Pearls Mist - Biscotti, Interference Red

Craftworks Acrylis Paint - Antique White

StazeOn - Timber Brown, Versa Colour ink - Pinecone

Alison Ellis Design - Glitter - Pink Sands

White & Brown Cardstock

Creative Imaginations PP - IOD, 7 Gypsies - Tissue Paper

Prima Alphabet Stickers - Brown

Feathers, Crochet Flowers, Baby Wipes, Pearl Brads, Lace

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Layout - Cool Kid

Materials:

Paints - Jo Sonja - Silver

Embossing Powders - Stamp in Style - Butterscotch

Perfect Pearls Mist - Pewter

Inks: Versa Colour ink - Topaz
Glimmer Glam - Rustic
Papers- DSD Antquities & Kiss the Cook, Pink Paislee

Prima Alphabet Stickers - Brown
Transparency - Little Yellow Bicycle
Denim, tags, Clay Screws & Bolts (made from my own hand made molds)

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Card: Happy Birthday

Materials:

Glimmer Mist - Cosmos, Cadillac Pink

Glimmer Mist Chalkboard - Cotton Candy, Sprout

Perfect Pearls Mist - Interference Red

Adirondack Dabber Paints - Snow Cap, Lettuce

Inks: Versa Colour ink - Burgandy, StazOn -Black

Papers - DSD Antquities , Cardstock

Prima Flowers & Say It in Crystals
Stamps- Kaiser Craft Mini Stamps
Collections Butterfly, Hand Stitching, Lace & Skeleton Leaves

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Reverse Canvas - Look Within

Materials:

Glossy Accents & Crackle Accents

Adirondack Dabber Paints - Snow Cap

Glimmer Mist - Silver Sugar, Electric Blue, Trunk Bay, Dazzling Diamonds,
Marmalade, Tattered Leather, Apple, Black Magic, Olive Vine, Route 66

Glimmer Mist Chalkboard - Mint Chocolate, Sprout

Perfect Pearls Mist - Pewter
Paper - Donna Salazar
Embossing powder - Eucalypt

Gesso, Mod Podge, Texture Paste

Gauze, Paper Roses, Egg Shells

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Thanks for dropping by!!

I still have lots more uploading to do, so stay tuned! :)

Smiles & Hugs
Michelle x

A Little Dusty

2011-12-19T04:12:00.000-08:00

Back again! I hope you have found me ok from my old blog. I am still in the setting up stages over here! But already feel right at home! I had so much fun designing this Background and Header!

Christmas is fast approaching, I can't believe how quickly the years go by as you get older! I am looking forward to a jam packed 2012! I have a few new exciting prospects in the works! So stay tuned!

Anyway back to some Dusty Attic Goodness! Here is another layout using some of the New Nov 2011 Release Chippies! They just keep getting better and better!!!

Here is my gorgeous Neice Gracie! She is such a cutie!!

I have used the new Lacing Tash on this layout! This piece was inspired by the Gorgeous Natasha from the Dusty Attic Design Team.
I have painted this piece white then stamped it with a lace stamp with the Pumice Stone Distress Ink.
The laces were just coloured in with a brown pen.

The new Typewriter Font is just the perfect size! They will be a fave for me for sure!
I think I roughly painted these with the white dabber paint then sprayed them with the Pink glimmer mist.

Materials:

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Welcome to my new Blog on Blogger!

2011-12-06T04:54:00.000-08:00

I am still creating and setting up! I hope to have everything up and running very soon!!
Thank you for stopping by! :)
Cheers
Michelle

Michellejbg

CSI #8 - Laugh Kookaburra Laugh + *Tutorial-Textured Chicken Wire*

CSI #4 - Sisters

CSI #3 - Beautiful Young Lady

CSI #2 - Believe in your Dreams

CSI #1 - Colour, Stories, Inspiration & Dusty

2012 Dusty Attic Design Team

Donna Salazar DT Finalist

A Little Dusty

Welcome to my new Blog on Blogger!

CSI #8 - Laugh Kookaburra Laugh + Tutorial-Textured Chicken Wire