Tina Marie - Forever and Always: "Days like these........" - Dusty Attic Moodboard Inspiration / 49andMarket DT

Saturday, 13 May 2017

"Days like these........" - Dusty Attic Moodboard Inspiration / 49andMarket DT

A huge warm welcome and thank you for joining me here.
This project was made for both my Design Team work at 49andMarket and the Dusty Attic. I have to say I feel like the luckiest girl in the world being able to create with such wonderfully gorgeous quality products. Thank you to these great ladies for always believing in me!
So this project was inspired by the most beautiful of moodboards over at the Dusty Attic this month. The instant I saw it I knew exactly just what I was going to create. Can you guess.............? Yes of course a beachside layout, my most favourite things of all to create. I so enjoyed every single moment of this creative process. This has been titled............

"Days like these................."

I have used 49andMarket's beautiful Scents of Nature to capture the beauty of a seaside adventure, my son and our dogs experienced a couple of years ago at our favourite holiday getaway.

The bonus sheet you will find on the reverse of the cover sheet of Scents of Nature was my background piece used for this project. And below Beauty Abound was used for tearing and matting sections of my project.

I also used lots and lots of beautiful 49andMarket Shimmer and Shine handmade flowers. They were a perfect match for my seaside project. I used these along with seashells and some seasponge and also a little driftwood that were discovered on our holiday trip. I love to add these little bits and pieces. It for me makes it all that more authentic.

Shimmer and Shine Amber Jardin

Shimmer and Shine Amber Melange

I have used lots and lots of Dusty Attic chipboard goodies to embellish my layout with as you can see above. I took inspiration from the moodboard and used a seahorse from the mini Seashells chipboard pack. This was dressed in Distress Ink and Distress Crackle. The large chains were simply inked with Distress Ink Walnut Stain and the chipboard strip quote was primed with gesso inked with Rusty Hinge and Walnut Stain and whilst they were still wet I generously covered it with Distress Crackle to enhance the colours.

The Ship Steering Wheel which you see below was coloured with a mixture of Distress Inks again enchance with the addition of Distress Crackle. The edges were inked over with a little more Walnut Stain Ink.

My background page was created using the new release Fleur De Lis Dusty Attic stencil. I created textures using Crackle Paint. I also did some colouring of the background using watered down Rusty Hinge Distress Ink with a paintbrush. To create a little more texture I also added in small and large Art Stones with some 3D gloss gel.

The chipboard Dodads were dressed up with White Crackle Paint. Once it was fully dried I wiped it over with a little Walnut Stain around the edges to highlight it.