Summery & Whimsical Dusty Attic!

I had some fun playing with a bunch of my Dusty Attic chippies over the weekend!  I used a whole bunch of them both older and brand new ones!  I really wanted to used the new ornate door design so I used the words from a really sweet song "I hope when one door closes another opens"  ...My Wish for You.  I used the NEW Door chipboard design as well as the Door Handle Plates, the brick wall pieces, the topiaries, the vine and the wrought iron fence.

~ Door #3

~Door Handle Plates

~Topiary Trees #1

~Brick Wall Panel

~Vine Border

~Wrought Iron Fence Border 

For all my Dusty Attic pieces I first gave each of them a coat of white Gesso (you could also use white craft paint), this allows the ink colors I used on them to show up better.  To tint my chipboard I simply ran shades of green, brown or terracotta of chalk ink over the edges of the chipboard, allowing the color to fad towards the center....this gives the pieces a more natural effect.  After I glued on my pieces I gave the bricks a little extra dab of dry brushed white Gesso to give them an aged effect. 

I created a cute little 'door knob' (above) for the door handle panel using a large copper brad.

Did you know that Dusty Attic now has BLOOMS??? How cool is that!!  I was so excited to recieve a complete collection of their blooms a couple of weeks ago....here is a pic of some of them....

I used one of the white packets of blooms for my layout.  What I love about the white blooms is that you can tint them up to match the layout you are working on.  For my layout I wanted a two toned effect so I used a paint brush and some green ink to tint the centers of my blooms.... 

The result is this two toned bloom below..... 

I hope everyone had an amazing long weekend!  (ours is still on, the girls have a 4 day weekend here in Canada, so we've got family up visiting today :)