More Than Words Challenge - April

Our Main Challenge is based on a word inspiration and a creative challenge.

Word Inspiration - NATURE

Creative Challenge - ANIMAL

What does the word NATURE inspire you to create?

You can choose to use the actual word somewhere on your project 

or simply be inspired by it.  Since words are an integral part of our challenges, we want to know how this month's word stimulated your creative process, so please do explain in your blog post how 
it inspired you if it isn't obvious in your work.

This month, our creative challenge is to use either an ANIMAL IMAGE or an ANIMAL PRINT on your project. You can scrap about your special pet. You can add a sticker or flair depicting a bird or a bear. Or maybe you have a gorgeous zebra print paper in your stash or a paw print punch 
in your punch collection that you've been waiting to use. 
Follow your animal instinct and let your creativity go wild!

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I loved this challenge and wanted to focus on the hidden NATURE in my backyard. This is a beautiful Christmas Beetle and I love the bright iridescent colours. I have started with a stencilled background and added Lindys Magicals to added a mixture of green and brown tones creating a natural palette. I then laid strips of patterned paper and tags making sure to raise then up with chipboard underneath. I also added wonderful strips of paper that had pictures of beetles on them from old pattern paper. To create a natural look to the page, I inserted pieces of webbing. To add the look of raindrops, I painted the bottom of clear pebbles with Finnabair alchemy Lime Peel paint and finally flicked some of the beautiful lime paint over the page. I finished of with a Dusty Attic word painted in more Finnabair alchemy paint - Emerald to add a deeper colour tone. I added some paint flicks of the Emerald over the page to pull the colours together. I stamped and embossed a bee on the page and lightly underneath one of the strips of paper. 

You are welcome to use any of my ideas that I have used on the layout and if you enjoy, please take the time to add a comment below or  start following my blog. 

Dusty Attic March Mood Board Challenge

This mood board wa sall about softness and pretty colours and there is  nothing softer than a beautiful little baby girl. 

I usually do a grungey style page but for this one, I decided to do a lovely baby girl page. I used Lindy Stamp Gang Magicals to add colour to the background. Painted the Dusty Attic chipboard with metalic paints to add richness. I layered the chipboard using foam tape to raise up the layers. To finish off, I used sugar frosting to add texture to the background. 

More Than Words March Challenge - COMFORTABLE

What a beautiful warm COMFORTABLE colour scheme. I love it. For this challenge I chose a gorgeous picture of my little dog Serge. We adopted him through an organisation that rescues dogs from the dog pounds. He was such a gorgeous little thing and our aim was to give him a secure life. This photo is off him lying on our lounge chair on his warm comfortable blanket. 

To make this page, I used clear crackle paste and painted strips along the wood grain pattern. When dry, I used a range of Lindy Stamp Gangs magicals to add colour. To add texture to the background, I stencilled a grungey diamond pattern and added Prima/Finnbair acrylic paints to add colour. Added embellishments included flowers and dry wall tape. Micro beads were sprinkle along the dry wall tape as well as white gesso randomly added to the background and flowers to create a grungey look.

For more inspiration follow the link to the More Than Words blog:

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If you have enjoyed this layout, please leave me a comment :) 

Dusty Attic - March Mood Board Project

This mood board was so lovely with soft colours. I thought I would create a layout that used the colours and theme in a grungy design. Using a DA stencil I created a stonework texture and added watered down colours to bring out the pattern. On top of the stencil, added another layer of texture which featured a steam punk rivet pattern. I added dark brown paint to highlight the lines of the rivets. Once dry, I stamped randomly around the main stencilled area with a range of stamps using sepia archival inks. On the outer edges, I stamped large diamonds with black archival ink. This all added to the grungy look of the page.

Using a variety of paints mixed with Prima Limestone paste to paint the geometric shapes that would be used as the base chipboard. 49 Market vintage flowers were sprayed with a brown mist and painted with various water colour paints to add the grungy colours. Once dried an extra dab of yellow on the edges to highlight one of the main colours of the mood board.

Finally adding gauze stiffened with Prima Structure Paste, chipboard bees painted and dabbed with watercolour paints, chipboard words all together to complete the page. Glue the bees randomly around the page and just under embellishments. Using bright yellow paint, dab on the edges of the gauze to a hint of colour. 

Tips: To help put all the pieces in place, glue small pieces of discarded chipboard onto the back of the flowers to lift them up to sit on top of the base embellishments.

For more inspiration, follow the link to the Dusty Attic Blog: 

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If you have enjoyed my layout and instructions, please take the time to add a comment to my blog. 

More Than Words - February Challenge - FOREVER

February, the month of LOVE... This challenge sent me straight to a wonderful photo I had of my husband and me when we were out. I loved the bright rich colours of the photos and also the feeling of FOREVER with the way we were sitting together. I have added small hearts in among the flowers. 

Here is our February Main Challenge:

For a chance to play along and win a prize, click on the following link:

http://morethanwordschallenge.blogspot.com.au/2018/02/february-2018-main-challenge-forever