Smiles Win!!!

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating this tag using dies, a wordy sticker, a catalyst card and one stamp set. 

To begin, use the tags and banner dies to create a tag. Cut the largest tag from black card and the next size down from one of the catalyst cards.

Using the small 5 circles stamp from the Dandedaisy stamp set with versafine clair nocturne ink, create a border around the catalyst card tag.

Glue the catalyst card tag to the black tag.

On a piece of black card stamp the larger Dandedaisy using embossing ink and heat emboss using Ranger white embossing powder. Colour with pencil crayons. Cut out leaving a small black border.

Add the Dandedaisy to the tag using foam pads.

Add a sentiment by cutting down one of the wordy stickers from sheet 3 and stick to black card. Cut this out with a small black border and use foam pads to stick it to the tag.

Products used:

Tags and Banners die set

Full Colour A6 Catalyst Cards 2

Doodle Art Dandedaisy stamp set 

Wordy Stickers 3

Pencil crayons

Versafine Clair Nocturne 

Ranger White Embossing Powder 

Embossing ink pad 

Foam pads

Thank you for taking a look. If you want a 10% discount just add code BEEALISON10 at checkout. 

Alison

Calee CT - Sunflowers

Hi , today I have a Doodle Art Sunflower filled journal page to share with you . I grow Sunflowers every year , they are one of my favourite flowers , so this stamp gets lots of outings in my crafting 

Firstly I chose this grey scale catalyst card from # 2 set ,  as my background. I loved the large petal areas that I could add colours to 

Using my go to Ecoline pens in 3 vibrant  colours ,  adding little water and using a small paint brush , I coloured different areas of each flower . 

To define the edge of my page and draw the eye inwards I chose the distress ink in Blue Print Sketch , as it’s a great contrast to all the  colours on this page . Feeling that my background then needed more of this colour , I inked through this D’inkable from set 14

Next it was time to work on my sunflowers , for this I stamped on to another catalyst card , this time using one in a sunflower colour palette from set # 1. This I did 3 times and also stamped the stem separately on some watercolour card , to colour in shades of green . 

Taking another look at my page I decided to add more to my background . You may have noticed I do tend to throw a lot at the backgrounds on my projects , I’m definitely not a less is more kind of crafter ! 

So using this border stamp from the Doodle Sunflower , a black fine liner and white gel pen , I carried on adding details until I was happy with my page . 

I took my sentiment from the Ticket Tape 1 set and after cutting it into 3 pieces , I mounted it on to black card and was ready to stick everything down onto my journal page.

This is the page I ended up with . I hope you like it , below is a list of products I used 

Catalyst cards : #2 Grey scale       

      A6               #1 Full colour.      

   D’inkables set 14.                          

    Distress ink : Blue Print sketch.      

Doodle Art Sunflower stamp set 

Wordage set :Ticker Tape 1         

Ecoline water colour pens           

       A white gel pen and a black fine liner 

                Thank you for taking a look , happy crafting  

Calee 

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Sally CT - A super quick journal page

Hi There! I am here with a super quick and simple journal page today. 

I began by using an A5 catalyst card from set #1 and cutting it to size, attaching to the page with matte medium.

Next I stamped some flowers from the dandydaisy set, along with the doodle art sunflower head and coloured with ecolines. Then I cut them out.

I selected a sentiment from the creative words transparency and cut those out.

Finally I arranged these on the page and and stuck down using matte Medium.

Here is the finished page again, 

I used:

A5 Catalyst cards set #1

Doodle Art Dandydaisy stamp set

Doodle Art Sunflower stamp set

Black versafine Clair

Ecoline pens

Transparency prints - creativity words white on black

Matte Medium

Don't forget, if you find yourself on the Bee Crafty Website from my blog post, you can get yourself an extra 10% off by using my discount code! Just pop BEESALLY10 in at the checkout x

Thanks for looking! 

Two butterflies

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created as inspiration for this months challenge in the Bee Crafty Facebook group - Texture.

To begin, I applied three small drops of Dylusions vibrant turquoise paint randomly to the page in my notebook.  I used a brayer to spread the paint, rolling both vertically and horizontally. 

Repeat but using Dylusions mushy peas paint.

Repeat again but use Dylusions calypso teal paint.

Use a blending brush with black soot distress oxide to add six of the letters from the Inkables Grande Alpha.

Next use a white posca pen to outline one side of the letters.

Then add distress grit paste through the off set dots 6" inkable.

Next use black soot distress oxide to stamp areas of the spats stamp from the Asemic Splats stamp set and script using the Script Background stamp. 

Use a black posca pen to add splats to the page. Then add some uncharted mariner Distress spritz to the page.

On seperate card stamp the leaves using uncharted mariner distress ink and two of the butterfly using versafine clair nocturne. Colour the butterflies using pencil crayons and gel pens. Cut everything out. 

Glue the leaves and butterflies to the page using collage medium.

Finally I added a sentiment from the Wordy Stickers 3B, which I glued to card first, because of the texture paste on the page. 

Products used:

Wordy Stickers 3B

Inkables Grande Alpha

Inkables Offset Dots

Asemic Splats stamp set 

Journaling Essentials 7

Doodle Art Butterfly stamp set 

Dylusions paint - vibrant turquoise, mushy peas, calypso teal 

Versafine Clair Nocturne 

Distress Spritz Uncharted Mariner 

White and Black posca pens

Distress Grit Texture Paste 

Distress Oxide Black Soot 

Distress Ink Uncharted Mariner 

Thank you for taking a look. If you want a 10% discount on your order from Bee Crafty just quote code BEEALISON10 at checkout. 

Alison 

Calee CT - Colourful Tag

Hi ,for my blog this week I have a colourful tag to share with you .

My first step was to choose 3 distress oxide colours  I tried to go for colours I haven’t use in a while but that Picked Raspberry just keeps creeping into my crafting ! I then randomly inked up the tag , there wasn’t as much difference in the green and yellow as I thought but I liked the result.  

I then decided on the Inkables I wanted to use , deciding to remove some of the ink to create some lighter areas . I did this with a slightly damps sponge , dabbing lightly through the chrysanthemum inkable until most of the ink was removed .  I added some extra detail with some Blue Print sketch distress ink through the script inkable and again  mowed grass distress ink though the diamond D'inkable .

 

Having decided to use the Journaling Essentials #8 art stamp set . I used some of the smaller stamps in the same colours of distress inks all ready used , to add to my background . 

To complete my background I used a pink and green posca pen to add some small hearts and lines which I further added to with a white gel pen . 

Finally I added a stitched boarder with a black fine liner .

Next , it was time to stamp out 3 of these large flowers from the same  Journaling Essentials stamp set . 

Then using the distress inks  used for the background and a fine brush I coloured the flowers allowing the colours to blend into each other to create different shades / colours and to give a water colour effect.

 

My sentiment was chosen from the Ticker tape 1 stamp set . 

Every thing was then stuck down , as usual after trying out various different combinations, decisions , decisions ! 

I hope you like my tag , I’m really happy with how it turned out . 

I used - Distress oxides : Picked Raspberry

                                         Squeezed Lemonade 

                                         Twisted citron 

               Distress inks :    Mowed Lawn

                                         Picked  Raspberry 

                                         Blue Print Sketch 

               Inkables :          D’inkables set 2

                 6x6 :                Chrysanthemum 

                                         Coffee stain script 

               Stamp sets:       Journaling Essentials #8

                                        Wordage Ticket tape 1 

                                         

A green and pink posca pen , black fine liner and white gel pen 

Thank you for looking . Happy crafting 

Calee x

Sally CT -Texture

  Hi There! We have a brand new theme of Texture for our challenge over on the Bee crafty Stamps group so I thought I would share how I made this textured background. 

I began by covering a 10cm square of card in Matte Medium and scrunched up a piece of stamping tissue over the top before leaving it to dry

Once dry I trimmed the edges and then sprayed with Distress oxide sprays. 

When this was dry I used a darker shade of distress oxide ink direct to the paper to bring out the texture some more. 

I used the Bakewell Big one inkable to add a little coordinating ink to the base card.

On a separate piece of card I stamped the Doodle Art Dragonfly in Black versafine Clair and cut it out.

Using ecoline brush pens I coloured it in. 

I stuck the body of the dragonfly to the textured panel and added some glitter glue.

Here's the card once more...

along with a closeup of that texture. I have left it without a sentiment for now but will add an appropriate one when I use it.

I used:

Doodle Art Dragonfly stamp set

Big ones Inkable - I used Bakewell

6x6" card

10 cm square of card

Versafine Clair ink in black

Ecoline Brush pens

Stamping tissue

Distress oxide sprays - I used Peacock feathers and Squeezed lemonade

Distress oxide ink - I used Peacock Feathers and Uncharted Mariner

Matte Medium

Glitter Glue

I hope this has encouraged you to experiment a little with texture! 

Don't forget, if you find yourself on the Bee Crafty Website from my blog post, you can get yourself an extra 10% off by using my discount code! Just pop BEESALLY10 in at the checkout x

Thanks for looking!