A Dusty Photo Shoot

Hello! I hope you're having a wonderful holiday break.Today I want to show you how you can make cool backgrounds with Dusty Attic stencils and chippies plus I have a few other tips and tricks to share.

Here's the layout I made:

I love those poppies!

To make the background, I first swiped behind the photo with gesso then dabbed Dusty Attic paint through a feathers stencil, changing to a green ink every now and then. I then took a leaf chippie, held it with jewellery pliers and dabbed it in black paint. I then stamped the leaf above and beneath my photo, re-applying the paint each time. Using chippies as stamps is a great way to extend the use of your products.

Did you see the heart below the photo? That's actually a waste piece from the Fancy Flourish #2 set. Always look at the pieces you remove from chippies and see if there's anything useful in the waste!

I also used some Metallic Melts on the second word of the title, half of the large heart and the heart on the arrow. This adds a bit of funky glam to the page. Try adding it to just half or a part of a shape for a unique feature.

That Heart Attack panel is great. By popping out the inner hearts you can get three different heart designs from the one panel.

Here are the Dusty Attic products I used:

Leaves #2 DA1342              Poppies DA1289          Mini Captions #7 DA1386   

                      

Heart Attack Panel small #1    Feathers and Arrows Stencil     Fancy Flourish #2
DA1203                                     DA1327                                       DA0415

                

   

Heart Arrows #1 DA1016       Foliage #3   Dusty in Colour Paints in Oceania, Jungle green and Soot

                                                  

Happy scrappin'!

Heather