Calee -CT A trio of butterflies

 Hi , this week I am taking my inspiration from Sallys challenge theme for February :3 . I also decided to stick to a simple card .As I usually throw everything at my projects , this was a challenge in itself !

  I started by cutting a piece of of card to fit my 6x6 card blank and choosing 3 distress ink colours , which I would then use throughout my project , I created a smooshed background . I like to use a piece of acetate with a spray of water for this , as I find I can move it around easily to spread the ink where I want it . 

Looking through my stamps I found this set of birds and butterflies and the stitched boarders , I  stamped the small butterfly out 3 times and the tape measure boarder twice I knew I would cut this into smaller pieces to use , so 2 would be enough . 

Next I coloured the butterflies with the distress ink and choosing ecoline water colour pens in the best shades to match ,added a little more depth .

These were then cut out with a small white boarder and the butterflies were given a little squeeze to give them some dimension . 

It was now time to go back to my background and as I had decided to keep this card simple. l chose to draw on a black boarder , using a ruler and sharpie pen . This was followed by some doodling to complete my frame . 

My 3 butterflies and 3 tape borders were then glued in place and a sentiment stamped straight on to the card , again to keep things simple . As this was a two word sentiment ,I added a cheeky hand drawn kiss to  give it 3 parts .

For this project I used

Distress inks :Blue print sketch 

                        Picked Raspberry 

                       Villainous Potion

Art stamps:Birds and Butterflies regular 

 Stitched boarders

Wordage stamps :Phrases and Sentiments 

A black fine liner pen , a black wide marker pen , white gel pen and white card .

I hope you like my take on this months challenge theme, thank you for looking . 

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Happy crafting 

Calee x

Sally CT - Three Little Flowers

 

Hi There! I am here with a very simple card for you today, but perfect for our theme over in the Bee Crafty Stamps Facebook Group Challenge (where the theme is 3). 

I began by blending 3 shades of distress oxide inks through the mandala inkable, top left and bottom right on a 6x6 white card.  

Next I cut out 3 x 4cm squares of coordinating plain paper and stuck them down the middle of the card with matte medium. 

On a piece of vellum/ parchment paper, I stamped one of the flowers from journaling Essentials #4. I stamped it three times and white embossed them.

I cut out the flowers and shaped a little with a ball tool before attaching to the card using foam pads. 

Next I stamped the dotty line border around the corners top right and bottom left using one of the inks. 

I then stamped the sentiment on a scrap of card using one of the inks. 

Finally I added the sentiment to the card using more foam pads. 

I used:

6x6 white card

Mandala Inkable #1

Distress oxide inks - I used Cracked Pistachio, Peacock Feathers and Wilted Violet

Journaling Essentials #4 stamp set

Small Words stamp set

Vellum/ Parchment paper

Versamark ink pad

White embossing powder

Coordinating paper cut into 4cm squares

foam pads

Matte Medium

Hope you like my Challenge inspiration! I also hope you can join us in the Bee Crafty Stamps Group on facebook. 

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Alison CT - Transparency Prints Art Journal

Hi everyone,  having answered Bev's question about favourite Bee Crafty products, I decided to create an art journal page using mostly transparencies. 

To begin, use distress collage medium to adhere an old book page to the page in a dylusions journal. Leave the glue to dry.

Next, spritz the page with broken china and faded jeans distress oxide sprays. Spritz with water and tip the page to encourage drips. Then using the long edge of a super skinny slim, tap it on to the wet ink and then tap over the page to create lines. Leave to dry.

Whilst the background dries, choose and cut out the transparency prints.

Also choose and cut out a sentiment. 

Add texture to the background by blending cracked pistachio distress oxide through the circles inkable tag from set 4 and faded jeans distress oxide through the circle and lines inkable tag from set 5.

Use distress collage medium to adhere the transparency prints to the page. Add the sentiment. 

The page needed more, so I cut out and added some letters and numbers transparencies. 

Products used:

Bee Crafty Transparency Prints:-

Alpha Numbers

Faces 1

Faces 4

Journal Circles

Walk Your Own Way 

Inkables Tags set 4 and 5

Distress Oxide  - cracked pistachio, faded jeans

Distress Oxide Spray - broken china, faded jeans 

Distress Collage Medium 

Old book page

Thank you for taking a look. If you fancy placing an order for any of the items used just use the code BEEALISON10 for a 10% discount on your order.

Alison 

Calee CT -I’m never bored

 

Hi , I’m really enjoying my journaling at the moment , I love that it’s just creating for myself and being able to just play. So I have another journal page for my step by step this week . 

I had a little go at grid journaling a while ago  and decided to use up some of my catalyst card scraps in a similar way . Sticking them down on my page to start my background . 

My next step was to give them all a frame , which I did with a black fine liner pen , trying to give each a different style frame . Next I added more interest to the page with  this pretty boarder stamp from journaling girls boarders and random stenciling  through this dotty stencil in D’inkables set 2.

I had the idea that I wanted to a a different leave to each coloured panel , this was done initially with some stenciling with blue print sketch distress ink and D’inkables set 14 . 

As I seem to be addicted to doodle little hearts at the moment I also adde added a few with a green Posca pen ! 

To build in more layers I took some black card and using the same leaves stencils , I drew through them with a white gel pen , adding a few dots and highlights.

Cutting out , with a small boarder , I glued these on to my page in the remaining panels . Still feeling that my page needed a little more . I stamped a few small coffee stains from the Art stamps coffee stain set .

Looking through my word stamps and wordy stickers , these on set 3 jumped out at me as this is so true when I’m playing in my journal .

For this page I used 

Catalyst cards sets 1 and  2

Distress inks :Blueprint sketch 

                        Picked Raspberry 

D’inkables sets : 2 and 14

Art stamps coffee stains

Wordy stickers 3

A white gel pen , green posca  , black micron pen and some black card . 

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Thank you for taking a look.

Happy crafty.

Calee

Sally CT - Love Bird Journal Page

 Hi There! As it is February I thought I would have a little play with some hearts in my 5x5 notebook journal.

I began by cutting a piece of catalyst card to fit the page, rounding the corners and sticking it down.

Next, I used the same design of catalyst card but in greyscale to cut a heart from. I matched it up to the design and drew through the 4" easy frame heart inkable.

Once I had cut out the heart, I sponged some uncharted Mariner around the heart and around the edge of the page. 

Using a blue pen from the gellyroll moonlight pen set, I added some hearts through the dinkable at the top of the page. 

I stuck down the greyscale heart, matching up the papers and added some faux stitching and highlights with the blue and white gellyroll pens.  

On a scrap of white card I stamped the words love and you from Mixed Messages #3 in versafine clair inks. I also stamped a small bird from Journaling essentials #6, cutting them all out. 

Finally, I added them to the page using matte medium and shaded a little pencil around love on the greyscale heart. 

Here is a look at the finished page again alongside the one opposite that I completed in my facebook live last week. you can find it here.

I used:

Catalyst Cards set #1 A5 in both Greyscale and full colour

4" heart easy frame

Dinkables set #14

Journaling essentials #6

Wordage Mixed Messages #3

Versafine Clair ink - I used Warm Breeze and Paradise

Coordinating distress oxide ink - I used uncharted Mariner

Gelly Roll Moonlight pens

Pencil for shading. 

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Thanks for looking! 

Alison CT - 3 Inspiration

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing some inspiration for Sally's challenge in the Bee Crafty Stamps Facebook group.

I decided to keep it really simple, using three items. One colour, one stamp set and one sentiment and just 3 steps.

To begin I smooshed wild honey distress oxide onto a piece of acetate, then spritzed it lightly, before dabbing it onto the page of my 4" journal. I left this to dry naturally.

Then I used three of the worker stamps, from the Doodle Art Bee stamp set, with wild honey distress ink, to add detail to the background.

Next, on seperate card, I stamped the large bee using wild honey distress ink and cut it out before gluing it to the page. Finally I added a bee wordy sticker.

Products used:

4" journal

Doodle Art Bee stamp set

Wild Honey distress ink and oxide

Bee Wordy Stickers B

Thank you for taking a look and I hope I've inspired you to have a go at the challenge. 

If you fancy a 10% discount on your purchases from Bee Crafty just quote code BEEALISON10 at checkout.

Alison

Calee CT -Explore and Discover

Hi , this week I would like to show you how I created this journal page . 

Using two distress inks , I created a smooshed background .  For this I used a sheet of acetate, adding a small amount of both Fossilised Amber and Squeezed Lemonade and a couple of spritzes of water .The resulting mix was then added to my page .

When this was dry I added a few torn strips of a bright red catalyst card from the # 2 pack . Then using stamps from Jornal Art Elements 3 ,I started to build more layers , the second layer was made using pearls Big One  inkable and Picked Raspberry distress ink .Finally for a some  texture  the last layer was made with texture paste through the diamond d’inkable from set 2.

Choosing this flower from the Journaling Essentials # 5 and stamping it out 3 times , I enjoyed some time colouring with my Ecoline water colour pens .

While my flowers were drying I decided my background needed some more details in a blue to complement the colours in my flowers ,so added some hand drawn hearts and cross hatching.My background was then finished off with a doodled border.

With a few white details added to my flowers they were ready to be glued down on to the background.

My sentiments was chosen from the Wordage , Small Words 1 set and when mounted on to black card added to my page as small banners . 

I used 

Distress inks :Picked Raspberry 

Distress oxides :Fossilised Amber

                                :Squeezed Lemonade

Catalyst cards # 2

Inkables:big ones - Pearl

     D'inkables :   Set 2            

Stamps sets :

Arts stamps : journaling Essentials # 5

Journal Art Elements 3

Wordage:small words 1

Ecoline water colour pens 

A white gel pen , black fine liner and some texture paste .

I have a little discount code for you , so if you would like 10% off at the Bee Crafty check out . Please use code BEECALEE10

I really enjoyed creating this page and hope it may have given you some inspiration . 

Happy crafting 

Calee