Dusty Attic Lamp!

Most of you who are familiar with my work know that I am mainly a layout girl and I rarely stray into the world of cardmaking and altered art. Well, here my friends is my first try at making an altered piece! I had this beautiful piece from Dusty Attic Designs, a intricately cut stained glass window design. As soon as I saw it I knew this would be something I would like to use on an altered artwork project rather than a layout.

When my girls were babies I had bought this inexpensive lamp at a garage sale. I simply covered it in some cardstock and added a flower fairy picture to it for their bedroom. Well, now that they are a little older I thought it was high time to do a make-over on this lamp (aside from the fact that it was starting to look pretty shabby, and not in a good way! LOL!) Last year I painted their room in green/purple so I went with these colors for their lamp. Here is a full shot of the finished lamp.....

I began the job by giving the whole lamp a coat of DecorArt Americana Stucco in the colour 'Pale Willow'.....Then I lightly brushed the dry stucco with a little bit of Chestnut Brown chalk ink by Colorbox. I then glued on the Dusty Attic Stained Glass window piece and the brick pieces (which I painted with some brown, orange and white paint. .....the brick design can also be found at the Dusty Attic site)

To get a stained glass look I used some Lavender Stickles to fill in the grapes and some Eucalyptus Stickles for the leaves. I used some soft watercolor paints in the diamond panes and then coated the design with some gloss medium to get a glass effect. I then used some bronze 3D metalic paint on the design itself to get the leaded look that stained glass panels have. Here are some close-up peeks at the finished piece so you can better see the details....

Thanks for having a peek!!

~Gabrielle xxx