Summer Dreams for Dusty Attic

Welcome everyone!

Spring is just around the corner here in our countries. We are looking forward to more sunshine, warmth and bright colours in nature. 

 When I saw our new March Moodboard, I immediately thought of flowering meadows in summer. The colour red and the natural structures inspired me to design a layout with one of my favourite flowers. The poppy, beautiful, but always far too quickly faded. 

some close up's

a sleeping little girl in a poppy field

 I just folded a corner over and fixed it with a brad.

the background papers are from Maja Design

Firstly I coloured the chippies with Metallic Acrylic Paint from DecoArt 'Dark Patina'. 

For more texture I sprinkled Golden Decosand into the still wet colour.

For this layout I only used two chipboard plates, but I think more isn't necessary for this natural style. On the wildflower plate there are a lot of single parts in all sizes. 

They are beautiful and very filigree and remind me of meadow flowers.

used chippies

 

Wildflower #3

Mini Tabs #3

more details can you find here

My  teamies at Dusty Attic Design DT have come up with many 
inspiring and different versions

on the theme this time.

Please have a look and feel you inspired to create your own idea.

We are looking forward to see your new creations! 

Happy crafting!

Kerstin

Whatever ..

Happy sunday my friends!

I was inspired to create a new spread in my Travelalbum 'Moments'
suitable to this weekly challenge theme at Simon says stamp Monday challenge.

some close up's 

If you want to see more pages from my travelalbum, 

you can find them here.

Simon says stamp Monday challenge - Whatever the weather

Creative hugs!

Kerstin XO

Travelalbum 'Moments'

Welcome creative friends!

I was inspired to create a new mixed media minialbum in vintage industrial style with a touch of steampunk, where I collect not only some memories from past vacations,
but also some awesome wooden steampunk shapes from Calico Craft Parts.
Have you seen the latest additions, absolutely stunning!

 The album was handmade with old calendar sheets, 

leftovers from scrapbook paper, washitapes, stamps, stencils, tags, metal embellishments

 and cutting dies.

more details

and an explanation how I worked with a layer technique

can you find here

Just get inspired!

 

Mini Album Makers Challenge



A Vintage Journey
Celebrate the journey - Happy Birthday 

Thanks for your visit!

Have a beautiful weekend! 

Kerstin xx

Smell of Lavender

Welcome creative friends!

During the first spring clean-up works in my garden I had to cut the lavender 

and was surrounded by wonderful scented clouds. 

This wonderful scent inspired me to design a new mixed media canvas.

I always love the nature feeling in a wheathered look

 and I'm a big fan of the shabby chic style too.

So I combined different elements like a metal sign, wood branch, 

hemp string, snail and shell housing and very important,
 some stems from my garden lavender.

 I loved to work on this canvas and every time I blow dried the colours

 I was surrounded by this wonderful lavender scent. 

That was really the best thing about it, why didn't think of it earlier?

some close up's

 

I want to share this 

Lindys Stamp Gang March Moodboard

love your lavender theme inspiration

in this beautiful colours

Pop Rock Purple Flat Spray 

I'm late I'm late Flat Spray

13@rts Challenge #76 

I was inspired from the nature texture and the delicate colours

I used some paper stripes from the His & Hers collection (Butterflies)
 and a stencil from your shop Des. Olga Heldwein

Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge #47

Anything Mixed Media Goes

Happy crafting!

Kerstin xx

Spring Messengers for Maja Design

Welcome friends!

Spring has started and everywhere you can see snowdrops, crocus and winterlings.

 The first signs of spring have reached us. 

So I was inspired to create a layout in delicate pastel shades.

I have used one of my favorite collections for my layout,

 the  Maja Design 'Vintage Spring' collection. 

more details can you find here

 

I covered Dusty attic chippies with Heavy Gel
and added some small Mini Art Stones.

I hope you will be inspired and enjoyed how I built up the layers
with corrugated cardboard to create the dimension on this piece.

If you do need any further inspiration, then look no further than our blog to see all the wonderful creations from all the very talented Design Team members.

Kerstin xo

Spring is in the air for Maja Design

Welcome!

Today a new layout in delicate colours of spring. I was inspired from our new March Moodboard at Maja Design. Wonderful cherry blossoms and an enchanting smile that welcomes the spring, simply marvellous!

 

 I used some papers from the beautiful spring paper collection 'Vintage Spring Basics' 

as background '1st of May' and some other's '6th + 7th of May'.

 

some close up's

 

My  teamies at Maja Design DT have come up with many 
inspiring and different versions

on the theme this time.

 

Please have a look and feel you inspired to create your own idea.

We are looking forward to see your new creations! 

 

Happy crafting!

Kerstin

Lucky is a star of mind

Welcome everybody!

  I'm back with a new inspiration for you. 

So let's start with our monthly challenge at SASPC

- it is - as usual - an

Anything Goes - Steampunk/Industrial

themed challenge and all kinds of projects (except digitally created ones) are welcome! 

So show us your tags, cards, art journal pages, canvases,

 altered objects, drawings, paintings, sketches....

whatever you're up to as long as it fits our challenge themes 

steampunk or industrial. 

I was inspired to create another mixed media project.

 I was very impressed by the last lunar eclipse, a wonderful inspiration.

I cut a half moon out of corrugated cardboard and then embossed it 

with a Sizzix Embossing folder, that was my basic. 

Then I colored the moon with metalic color, 

the edges of the moon were painted with texture paste,

 over it came black gesso (all products from DecoArt).

Now it was time to decorate, I used  cutting dies, metal embellishments, 

chipboards from Boozybear and paperdolls (T. Holtz). 

Finally the surfaces were treated with Metallic Lustre 'Black Shimmer + 'Silver (DecoArt).

  

used materials from DecoArt

some close up's

We are looking forward to see your new creations! 

I want to share this here
Simon says stamp Monday challenge
Vintage/ Past Time  

A Vintage Journey
Celebrate the journey - Happy Birthday 

Wow!!  5 years it is already, a time full of inspirations and suggestions, which I enjoyed very much. Congratulations and a big thank you for all the detailed instructions.

I love to try out ideas and also like to take myself into the world of fantasy. 
Today my project shows a creative fantasy journey to the moon in industrial grunge style, but it also contains an important saying for me, namely to go other ways when the real one doesn't work. Especially in crafting as well as in real life there is never only one way the right one.
My best wishes for the next years! xx

Happy crafting!

Kerstin