Marleen DT - Butterflies and oxides

Hey Bloggers..

Once again wednesday and my turn to share inspiration for
BeeCrafty

For today I've had a play with a couple of stamps and my Oxides.
I used the "Birds and Butterflies set 1" and "Splatter Swirl Elongated rectangle"

The background is made using the mop up tecnique. I simply just added some oxide to my mat and sprayed a bit of water over the ink. Then simply just mopped up the ink with my card stock.

I then stamped my rectangle and made a lustre luxe spray by mixing a bit of lustre luxe and water into a mini mister and sprayed over my background.

 

 My butterflies are stamped, fuzzy cut and then smothered with Oxides.
I finished by matting and layering my background and arranging my my butterflies.

And that is all from me today. Thank you for popping by and for any comments left behind.

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 Happy Crafting

 

Charlee DT - Balloon Girl

Morning everyone. Hope you've all had a good week. Here's my blog for today. Hope you enjoy. As ever if you have any questions, leave a comment below and I'll do my best to answer.

What you'll need:

• White card, black card and a card blank.
• XL Balloon Girl
• Moon Stamp
• Shoot for the moon WORDage
• Dinkable Stars
• Black soot distress 
• Versafine onyx black
• Sparkle pens in a pink and purple

Step 1:

Cut some white card down to the size you wish. Scribble the pink and purple sparkle pens onto the card. Taking a large flat wet brush, do a wash over the card moving the colour all over the card.

Step 2:

Once you're happy with how your background looks. Lightly spritz the moon stamp with water and stamp onto the card. Don't put too much pressure onto the stamp. Leave for about 30 seconds remove and then blot with a paper towel.

Step 3:

Ink up the balloon girl stamp in versafine and stamp her in the position you want her on the card. Stamp the shoot for the moon sentiment in the bottom right corner, also using versafine.

Step 4:

Using just the smaller stars on the dinkable, blend some black soot distress ink through the dinkable in random places all over the the background. Then once your happy, simply matt onto some black card and the adhere to your card blank.


Hope you like this week inspiration. If you don't have any sparkle pens, you could get a similar look with whatever ink,pens etc you may have that react with water.

Until next week
Crafty Hugs
Charlee
x

Lorre-Anne DT - Hochanda samples

Hi everyone, for this weeks Bee Crafty blog post I'm sharing the samples I made for Sam's recent shows on Hochanda.  

Materials - 

• BEAUtanicals Wildflower 1 stamp
• Arts & Stamps: Birds & Butterflies Set 1
• Art stamps: Moon
• Inkables template: Easy frame heart
• Inkables template: Easy frame maple
• WORDage Sets: Ticker Tape Stamp set 1
• Distress Inks (Chipped Sapphire, Dusty Concord, Black Soot, Seedless Preserves, Squeezed Lemonade, Vintage Photo, Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, Twisted Citron, Bundled Sage, Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint, Crushed Olive)
• Distress Oxides (Candied Apple, Black Soot, Vintage Photo, Spiced Marmalade, Salty Ocean, Twisted Citron, Frayed Burlap, Walnut Stain)
• Onyx Black Versafine ink
• white gesso
• card blanks
• cardstock
• gems
• glue & foam pads

I cut white card slightly smaller than the card blank, and blended a circle of Squeezed Lemonade DI in the centre of the card.  I then used Versafine ink to stamp the moon on this yellow circle, masked it off then carefully blended Chipped Sapphire and Dusty Concord distress inks all over the rest of the card - heavier at the edges and lighter towards the centre.  I then used Versafine to stamp some wildflowers along the bottom, then blended Black Soot DI around the edges of the card.  I finished by adding some ticker tape sentiments, and some white gesso paint flicks.

I cut various mats and layers from white and black card stock.  I took the smallest white square and blended Candied Apple Distress Oxide through the heart easy frame, I then flicked water droplets on this and dabbed with some kitchen roll.  I placed the inkable heart over, then flicked some Black Soot Distress Oxide over the card.  I finished by adding some faux stitching with a black pen, some ticker tape sentiments and a few butterflies.  I matted and layered and glued to the card blank.

I cut various mats and layers from white and coloured card.  On the smallest white square I blended some Spiced Marmalade through the maple leaf, I then placed the actual leaf over the blended leaf and blended some Vintage Photo around the edges... this gave the 3D effect seen above.  I stamped a bird using Vintage Photo, used a water brush to add some colour, and added a few ticker tape sentiments.  I finished by adding some gems, matted and layered and glued to the card blank.

I masked off an area of the card and blended some Salty Ocean and Twisted Citron in it, I kept the masking tape in place and then using Versafine ink to stamp the wildflowers.  I carefully removed the masking tape, added a few stamped butterflies and a ticker tape sentiment.  I finished by adding some gems, before matting to some black card and attaching to the card blank.

I cut black card slightly smaller than the card blank, and white card slightly smaller again.  On the white square of card I blended some Seedless Preserves and Dusty Concord through the circle easy frame.  Keeping the circle template in place, I used Versafine ink to stamp the wildflowers.  I finished by adding some ticker tape sentiments and a few gems before matting to the black card, and attaching to the card blank.

I cut brown card slightly smaller than the card, and white card slightly smaller again.  I used a scoreboard to score lines across the white card, then blended some Vintage Photo around the edges before matting it to the brown card and gluing to the card blank. On spare white card I blended various colours of Distress Ink through the maple leaf template, and cut each leaf out.  I arranged these around the card, and finished by adding a sentiment and some stamped butterflies.

I really enjoyed playing with these stamps, and I hope you like what I designed using them.  Please pop over to the Buzzy Goings on at Bee Crafty blog and you can see the fabulous creations my team mates have came up with.  I'll be back next week to share another project with you all.

Hugs, Lorre-Anne x

Paula DT - Hope

Shopping List

Inspired by Banksy ~ Hope
Art Stamps: Large Birds & Butterflies ~ Butterfly Trio
WORDage ~ TIME
Inkables Template ~ Metal Work Alpha
Inkables Template ~ Circles 
Versafine - Onyx Black
Alcohol Markers
Fine Waterproof Pen

*Take the Circles Template and lay it on the card and draw round some large and small circles. Repeat this on to a piece of copier paper and then cut out the centres.
*Colour the circles with shades of grey alcohol pens.
*Place the copier paper mask over the corresponding circles on the card - ink the girl and stamp through one of the holes.
*Using the Metal Work Alpha ink through another 2 circles. Remove the mask.
*Ink the word 'Time' and stamp on to card, as shown.
*Ink the small butterfly and stamp on to some card and fussy cut out. Colour with some shades of grey alcohol pens. Glue the centre of the butterfly and adhere to card front.
*Add a few random squiggles to the circles.

 

Jane DT - A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies

Hello!

Once again it is my turn to share a project on the Buzzy Goings on at Bee Crafty Blog and this week I have chosen my favourite design team sample from last weeks HOCHANDA shows...

There may be a bit of a pattern emerging with my posts in that it is becoming very obvious that I love butterflies!!  Here are the products that I used...

* Circle MDF Art Board
* Moon - Art Stamp
* Birds and Butterflies - Art Stamps
* Wildflower 2  - Beautanicals Stamp
* Ticker Tape Sentiments - Wordage Stamps
* Regular Dots - D'Inkables Stencil
* Acrylic Paint
* Crackle Paint
* White Embossing Powder
* Silver Gilding Wax

1) After priming the art board with gesso I put texture paste through the regular dots stencil, then added some blue acrylic paint to crackle paint and painted the whole piece.
2) Once dry I stamped on the moon and wildflowers using versamark ink then heat embossed with white powder.
3) To highlight the stencilling I added some silver gilding wax.
4) Then the time consuming part!! I stamped lots of the 3 smallest butterflies in black Versafine ink and clear embossed with powder over the top.
5) After cutting them out I coloured them using different shades of blue alcohol markers and then used clear sparkle pen to add a gentle shimmer.

6) I planned out where I wanted the butterflies to be, then attached them using glue gel.
7) I chose the sentiment I wanted from the ticker tape set and stamped using versamark onto black card, then heat embossed again in white.
8) I cut the words and phrases out then placed them where I wanted them to go.

I hope you were able to catch the shows last week.  If not they do remain on the HOCHANDA website to rewind for about 2 weeks so there is still time to watch them!

Have a lovely weekend and happy crafting!

Jane xx

Karen -DT samples for Wildflowers, Birds and Butterflies

Good morning everyone.
Hope you're all having a lovely week.

I'm back with my weekly blog for Bee Crafty, also over on their Buzzy Goings On At Bee Crafty blog 

Today's post showcases my samples for the products from the recent Hochanda show. I hope you got yours because they are all really beautiful

BEAUtanicals Wildflower 1
BEAUtanicals  Wildflower 2
Moon
Birds and Butterflies 
Ticker tape sentiments 
Birds on a Wire
Easy Frames- maple

Also used:
Distress Inks 
Distress Oxides 
Black onyx versafine
Kuretake clean colour pens
Dinkables : Honeycomb, distressed diamonds

• Mask off a panel across front and back of your card blank 
• Blend background using Squeezed Lemonade, Worn Lipstick and Spiced Marmalade Distress Inks. Splatter water droplets and dry off
• Ink through honeycomb stencil
• Stamp moon in Spiced Marmalade and Wildflower 2 in Fired Brick DI,  first and second generation 

• Background is created by blending Distress inks onto white card - Peacock Feathers, Mowed Lawn, Wilted Violet, Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade, Squeezed Lemonade 
• Stamp the Wildflower 1 & 2 and bird, in black onyx versafine 
• The ticker tape sentiment was stamped in the black versafine 

• Mask off panel and a half moon, then blend Squeezed Lemonade and Worn Lipstick Distress Inks. Remove moon mask only.
• Stamp Wildflower 1 & 2 in Worn Lipstick DI, first and second generation. Also stamp the dragonfly in the same ink
• Remove masking tape
• Stamp Ticker tape sentiments in Spiced Marmalade DI and the Wildflower 1 and dragonfly in Worn Lipstick DI  

• Mask off a square panel on front of card blank and stamp Moon in Iced Spruce Distress Oxide. Mask off Moon
• Blend Tumbled Glass,  Salty Ocean and Chipped Sapphire Distress Inks 
• Create rays using a water brush and drying off with a paper towel,  to blot out the inks
• Remove mask and stamp Birds On A Wire in black onyx versafine 
• Stamp Ticker tape sentiments in black onyx versafine,  cut out and adhere

• Mask off a wavy panel and ink with Tumbled Glass and Cracked Pistachio Distress Inks 
• Stamp Wildflower 1 in Cracked Pistachio and Faded Jeans Distress Oxides and in Iced Spruce DO coming down from the top
• Stamp bird in Iced Spruce DO and colour in with your inks and a water brush 
• Stamp Ticker tape sentiments in Faded Jeans DO and the butterflies in the Cracked Pistachio DO 

• Mask off a panel on front and back of card blank and blend Distress Oxides - worn Lipstick, Peacock Feathers and Wilted Violet. Stamp Retro dash and dots randomly, in Iced Spruce DO 
• Stamp Wildflower 2 in black onyx versafine, first and second generation. Stamp Wildflower 1 in Iced Spruce DO and the butterflies and Ticker tape sentiment in black onyx versafine. 

• Ink through Easy Frame in Peeled Paint and Spiced Marmalade Distress Oxides 
• Stamp Wildflower 1 in Peeled Paint and Twisted Citron DO and the Butterfly in Spiced Marmalade DO
• The Ticker tape sentiment were stamped in Peeled Paint 
• Splatter ink drops all over 

• Mask off a panel on card front and blend Faded Jeans,  Twisted Citron and Fossilized Amber DO 
• Blend through distressed diamonds Dinkable
• Ink through Easy Frame in same 3 inks
• Ink through Easy Frame on left side of card blank in same colours. Bleach out a moon and stamp Wildflower 1 in Faded Jeans DO.  Stamp Ticker tape sentiment in Faded Jeans DO 

• Moons were stamped in Versmark ink and heat embossed in white embossing powder 
• Tear a piece of vellum, stamp and heat emboss ticker tape sentiment in white embossing powder and adhere round back of kraft card then adhere to card blank

• Use Pixie Powders to create a panel background  which is adhered to gold mirri 
• Stamp butterflies. Colour in with pens and cut out. 
• Adhere to card, adding butterfly trail dots with black pen
• Stamp Ticker tape sentiments in black onyx,  cut up and adhere 

I hope you've enjoyed seeing all my samples for these beautiful products.  Check out their website to get yours. Xx

Many thanks for popping by 

Crafty hugs xx 

Charlee DT - Hochanda Samples

Morning everyone. This week I'll be sharing my samples from yesterdays shows. Hope you all managed to tune in and watch.

Hope everyone managed to get these amazing stamps, if not you can find them on the bee crafty website
That's all from me for this week.

Until next time
Crafty hugs
Charlee
x

Marleen DT - Rainbow scull

Hey bloggers

and welcome to my blog.

Today is my turn to share a bit of inspiration for

BeeCrafty.

Todays card was actually my daughters idea.. Long story short, I was stuck for an idea for my digital design team, and my girl suggested making a rainbow.. The background I used today was my first play and just didnt look for the intended card, but I then teamed it with my tophat scull stamp and bingo, we had a winner.. I also used one of the cog stamps. Find them all in the STORE.

Its a very simple card, but guess that is what I do best lol
I used distress inks but I guess you can use what ever inks you want.
I used the following colours:
Fired Brick, Spiced Marmalade, Mustard seed, twisted citron and mermaid lagoon.

I started in the middle with the yellow, and then worked my way out on either side letting the colours overlap a little bit.

I then stamped my scull stamp and heat embossed in black. I also made a mask of the scull on post-it notes while I had the stamp out.

I then masked of the scull and stamped my cogs around it. I didnt heat emboss the cogs as I didnt want them as bright as my scull.

And that is it really. A very simple card, but very colourful.
Thank you for popping by and for any comments left behind.

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 Happy Crafting

Lorre-Anne DT - Wonderful in every way

Hi bloggers, I'm back up on the Buzzy Goings on at Bee Crafty blog with my weekly Bee Crafty DT project, and this week I'm using my Distress Inks.  I decided to ink through the lace template this time round to get this nice bright effect.

What you will need -

• 6" x 6" white card blank
• Black & white card
• Inkables template - oval lace
• flowers stamp
• Wordage Everyday sentiments 1
• Distress Inks (Ripe Persimmon, Seedless Preserves & Cracked Pistachio)
• Onyx Black Versafine ink

What to do -

• Cut black card slightly smaller than the card blank, and white card slightly smaller again.
• Take the white card, place the template over the top,, then randomly blend Ripe Persimmon and Seedless Preserves through it.  Remove the template, and mat the card on to the black card, then glue to the card black.
• Using Versafine ink, stamp the flowers out, and add some colour using a water brush and the inks.  Attach to the upper left hand side of the card using glue.
• Finish off the card by stamping the sentiment using Versafine, cut out and mat on to black card.  Attach to the card using glue.

If you're looking for some more inspiration then remember to check out the Buzzy Goings on at Bee Crafty blog where you'll find lots of projects from the Design Team.  If you have any questions then please do leave me a comment and I'll get back to you.

Be back soon with another card to share with you all.

Hugs, Lorre-Anne x

Paula DT - Value of a Moment

Shopping List 

WORDage ~ Value of a Moment (Sm)
Steampunk Stories: Pocketwatch
BEAUtanicals: Wildflower 2
Inkables Template ~ Chainlink Fencing
Inkables Template ~ Easy Frame: Square
Inkables Template ~ Metal Work Alpha
Inkables Template ~ Offset Dots
Distress Ink Peacock Feathers
Versafine - Onyx Black


*Lay the Easy Frame Square on to your card blank making sure its central.
*Take some DI Peacock Feathers and work in opposite corners (I've gone top left and bottom right). Make these quite dark by applying more ink and rubbing in the ink harder. Work around the rest of the frame being light and only using the ink you have (no re inking).
*Take the Chainlink Fencing and lightly go over this just within the central part of the square.
*Randomly do some dots using the Offset Dots. Use the Metal Work Alpha within the top right and bottom left corners.
*Ink the central part of the Pocket Watch and stamp.
*Remove the Easy Frame Square. Ink the Wildflower 2 with black ink and stamp along the left hand edge.
*Finally, ink the sentiment and stamp.