Marleen DT - Hochanda Samples

Hey bloggers and welcome

Todays post is the samples I made for yesterdays BeeCrafty show on Hochanda.
Sam was on the telly box twice sharing some brand new stamps.

Here are the samples I made:

 Distress ink with stamping.

 MDF tag with heat embossed words and distresss crayons

 Distress Oxide and clear heat embossing

 Distress ink and stazon stamping

 Distress Oxide stamping.

 Distress oxide with clear heat embossing and more oxide.

 Paint markers background on 2x ATC's. Distress ink stamping.

And last but not least, Lustre Luxe and stazon stamping.

And that is it for today. Thank you for popping by and for any comments left behind.

Dont forget to come visit me on FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Youtube or my FB page.
 Happy Crafting

Charlee DT - Samples for Texture Boarders

Morning crafters. Today's blog I'll be sharing my samples for today's shows. Make sure you tune into Hochanda at 12pm and 4pm to see the beautiful Sam demoing these amazing new stamps.

 For this one I stamped the word in broken china and lucky clover oxides. I used my stamping platform so I could restamp to get a good amount of ink down. Then I sprayed some water over the word and let it run before blotting and drying it off. Then I mixed some Ocean Blue and Sea Green lustre luxe with water, then I flicked it with my paint brush.

I tore some paper to use as a mask. I then blended different shades of green distress inks. I used the chainlink and splatter dinkable.

The background for this on was done with aquapens scribbled onto my blending matt and spritzed with water. Then placing the card down and swirling it round. Also spritzing some water droplets.

I used distress inks to make a sunset type background. Using Skyline 3 with different shades of black. I then heat embossed one of the circles to use as a moon and then heat embossed the word.

This one was also done with aquapens in the background. I also used the aquapens to stamp with, by scribbling them directly onto the stamps.

  This is probably one of my favourites. I used masking tape that you can pick up cheaply. I took as much tack of the back as I could and placed them 1inches apart. I then used cracked pistachio and worn lipstick oxides. I stamped the boards in peeled paint and picked raspberry oxides.

For this one I used distress inks. I inked up the stamp one colour at a time using my stamp platform. I made sure I overlapped the colours a little bit to get more of a blend.

I used pebeo sand paste through the cracked glass dinkable. I then blended picked raspberry oxides over. Then on the cracked glass I went over with a silver guilding mousse.

I hope you enjoy these samples and it gives you lot's of inspiration when you get your stamps home.
Make sure you get in quick so you don't miss out. Especially with the new dinkables and inkables which are stunning !

Until next week
Crafty hugs
Charlee x

Lorre-Anne DT - Memories

Hi everyone, it's Monday so it's time for me to share another Bee Crafty DT project with you all, and I'm still playing with my Steampunk stamps that I bought in the fabulous bundle Bee Crafty had on offer last year.  I wanted to use the camera this time, and thought the Memories stamp would go really well with this, and as it's a camera I wanted to make it look like it was being viewed through a lens!

Materials

• 6" x 6" white card blank
• brown & white card
• Retro dash & dots stamp
• Steampunk stories Camera stamp
• Best thing about memories stamp
• Circle Inkables template
• Distress Inks ( Walnut Stain & Spiced Marmalade)
• Walnut Stain Distress Oxide

What to do

• Cut brown card slightly smaller than the card blank, and white card slightly smaller again.
• Take the Distress Inks and smoosh them on to a blending mat and spritz with water, drag the white card through it and dry with a heat tool.
• Next randomly stamp the Retro Dash & Dots over the card, then place the Inkables template in the centre and blend through some Walnut Stain ink to create the illusion of a lens.
• Stamp the camera in the centre of the circle using Walnut Stain Oxide.
• Finish by inking up the word Memories from the Best thing about memories stamp, and stamp this under the camera.
• Mat this card to the brown card, and glue both to the card blank.

I'm really enjoying playing with these Steampunk Stories stamps and you're bound to see lots more cards from me using them.  

Hugs

Lorre-Anne x

Paula DT - The same but different

Shopping List

Art Stamps: Birds & Butterflies Set 1
WORDage Sets: Everyday Sentiments 2
Dinkable Spatter
Inkables Template ~ Metal Work Alpha
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Oxide ~ Wilted Violet
Distress Ink Peacock Feathers
Versafine Black Ink
Black Fine Liner Pen


Since I started card making in 2004; I taught myself how to ink and stamp by using limited products and making batches of cards in one sitting. I ended up with a lot that looked similar but I learnt how to use the products to their best and found out the best way to layout designs. So, today I'm sharing 3 cards using the same items but hopefully giving you ideas to inspire you to give it a go yourself.

CARD 1

*This card measures 4x4.
*I stamped the butterfly in black onto the card blank. I stamped again on to a piece of copier/scrap paper and fussy cut out. This is now used as a mask over the original stamped image.
*I took some Distress Oxide Wilted Violet on to some foam and wiped it around the image.
*I then inked the DO Wilted Violet through the Dinkable Splatter. I used the stencil again but used DI Peacock Feathers through it.
*I inked through the Metal Work Alpha stencil with Peacock Feathers.
*I drew a couple of lines using a fine liner pen down one side of the butterfly. Used the pen to draw through the Dinkable splatter.
*Finally, I stamped the sentiment, removed the mask from the butterfly and drew round the butterfly with a lilac alcohol pen.

CARD 2

*I started by pressing some Distress Oxide Wilted Violet on to a glass mat and then spritzed it with water. I took a plastic bag (a 12x12 clear one I had) and dipped the bag in to the ink and then pressed it on to a DL card front. Dabbed it dry with a piece of paper towel.
*I used the Dinkable Splatter once with DO Wilted Violet and DI Peacock Feathers.
*Took the Metal Work Alpha stencil and used DI Peacock Feathers.
*Stamp the large and small butterflies in black.
*Drew some lines using a fine liner. Also used the fine liner to draw through the Dinkable Splatter.
*Finally, stamp the sentiment.

CARD 3

*I took a 6x6 card blank and used low tack artists tape to mask off the center.
*Used DO Wilted Violet across the top right hand side and then on the bottom opposite side I used DI Peacock Feathers.
*I then used the Dinkable Splatter with the blue ink over the violet. And used the violet over the blue.
*Stamped the small and large butterflies in black plus the sentiment.
*Finally, I used the fine liner to edge around the inked center.

Jane DT - Vintage ATC

Hello!

I am back today with another project for the Buzzy Goings on at Bee Crafty Blog and decided to create another ATC to add to my Bee Crafty set...

This time I went for a more vintage theme and started by coating the ATC with white gesso then used my distress crayons to create the background.  I placed the metalwork alpha inkable over the top and took some of the colour away using a baby wipe...

To add some extra detail to the background I used the ledger stamp with sepia archival ink...

Next I added some acrylic paint through the regular dots d'inkable...

I wanted to make the whole thing more vintage looking so added a layer of Tim Holtz vintage collage medium over the top...

For the main focal points I stamped out the nibs using Versafine and clear embossing powder before cutting them out.  I then added a bit of extra colour to them and stuck them onto the ATC...

Using one of the everyday sentiments I stamped out the words in the same way then used distress inks to colour the card.  Next this was also added to the ATC.  At this point I felt that the bottom corner looked a bit empty so added some extra stamping of the ledger but this time in the darker brown and embossed it...

To complete this project I used...

* Art Stamps - Ledger
* Art Stamps - Inkwell & Nibs
* Wordage - Everyday Sentiments 1
* Inkables - Metalwork Alpha
* D'Inkables - Regular Dots
* Distress Crayons - Set 3

Thank you for taking the time to have a look and happy crafting,

Jane xx

Karen DT- Love is priceless...

Hello everyone 😊😊

I'm back with my weekly blog post for
Bee Crafty  and today I've been playing with the beautiful
WildFlower 1 & 2
Birds On A Wire 
Can't buy love WORDage

Also used:
Inkable : LOVE
Dinkable : Brick wall  
Mica Powders
DO: Fossilized Amber, Cracked Pistachio, Worn Lipstick
Versafine : Olympia Green
White gel pen
Grey Kuretake clean colour pen

• Spritz the card with water and brush with Mica Powders to create a background 
• Blend Fossilized Amber through the LOVE Inkable and then Cracked Pistachio through the Brick Wall Dinkable.  Remove template 
• Stamp Birds On A Wire, sentiment and Wildflower 1 in Olympia Green versafine. Stamp Wildflower 2 in Worn Lipstick 
• Use a white gel pen to add highlights to the LOVE and a grey pen to add shadow
• Matt on to black card and then on to card blank 

Many thanks for popping by today's post and I'll be back next Thursday with another Bee Crafty make 

Crafty hugs xx 

DT Marleen - Art board

Hello again Bloggers

Wednesday once again and my turn to take over the blog over on

BeeCrafty.

For today I have made an Art Board. I still find the MDF harder to work on the a piece of card but this time I was determined to make it play nice lol.
For my project today I also used the MDF cogs, the Life & Rain sentiment stamp, the Music Background stamp and the Da vinci Script stamp.

Im not gonna lie to you. This one took me quite some time to make. I started by glueing on some scraps of card stock. I intended for them to be partly showing through but as I painted.. and painted.. aaannnddddd painted, the paper just kind a got lost.. The egdes do show up however and it gives the artboard a feel of painted wood. I used a selection of acrylic paints that I have in my stash and as I said, I really just kept painting till I was happy with the background. I used Oxide ink to stamp the script stamp and the music stamp, but I didnt stick the stamps on to an acrylic block, I just stuck them on to my hand and dabbed stamp into the ink and then to the art board.|

My cogs are also painted with acrylic paint. I started with a copper colour and then used my finger to dab on a few other colours to make them older and rustier looking.
I finished my art board by stamping my sentiment strait on to the board with archival ink.

And that is it for today. Thank you for popping by and for any comments left behind.

Dont forget to come visit me on FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Youtube or my FB page.
 Happy Crafting

Charlee DT - Valentines Card

Hey Crafters. For this week's blog I thought I'd get a start on some valentines cards, and hopefully give you some ideas for card for you to send to the special person in your life.

What you'll need:

• White Card and Black Card
• Soapy Bubbles Positive
• Barbed Wire Style Wire Boarder
• Fleur & Freddie Entwined
  
• Glad I Did It Large
• Dinkables Hearts
• Dinkables Splatter
• Distress Inks - Tumbles Glass and Iced Spruce
• Black Ink
• Red Pen

Step 1:

Cut your white card down to the size you want. Stamp Fleur and Freddie in your blank ink. Mask them off, you can either use masking fluid or cut them out from some paper. Ink up the bubbles stamp in the tumbled glass distress ink. I didn't mount my stamp I just rolled it on it different places so I didn't get any harsh lines where the stamped ended.

Step 2:

Once your happy with the bubbles stamp, take your heart dinkable and blend through some tumbled glass. Use different pressure so you get different shades of colour. Then blend Iced Spruced through the splatters dinkable.

Step 3:

Remove the mask from Fluer and Freddie and colour the hearts in red. Ink up the Glad I Did It stamp in your black ink and stamp in the position you want it. I opted for the top and bottom at an angle.

Step 4:

Lastly ink up the barbed wire boarded with iced spruce distress ink and stamp round the edges. Then simply layer onto some black card and then adhere to your card blank.

That's all from me for this week. Tune into hochanda on Friday to see our Sam with some stunning stamps

Until next week
Crafty Hugs
Charlee
xx

Lorre-Anne DT - Distress Oxide Ground Elder

Hi bloggers, for my Bee Crafty DT project this week I got to play with some new stamps I recently purchased, and of course my gorgeous Distress Oxides... I honestly have so much fun playing with these and trying to come up with beautiful backgrounds.  I really like the look I achieved using the 2 colours below, and think it really works well with the black wildflowers.

What you will need - 

• 6" x 6" white card
• black & white card
• BEAUtanicals Ground Elder
• WORDage - Wake wonderful
• Style Wire Borders stamp set
• Distress Oxides ( Wilted Violet & Broken China)
• Onyx Black Versafine ink
• Clear embossing powder

What to do -

• Cut black card slightly smaller than the card blank, and white card slightly smaller again.
• Take the oxides and smoosh them on a blending mat, spritz with water and drag the white card through it.  Dry with a heat tool, then repeat - occasionally flicking water droplets until you achieve the look you want.
• Stamp the ground elder using Versafine ink, then heat emboss using clear embossing powder.
• Repeat this with the sentiment.
• Use Wilted Violet oxide ink to stamp the style wire border.
• Mat this on to the black card, and glue to the card blank.

That's it for this week crafters, I'll be back next week with a new card to share with you all.

Hugs, Lorre-Anne x

Jane DT - Butterfly Journey: An Art Journal Page

Hello!

I am back on the Buzzy Goings on at Bee Crafty Blog today with some more art journaling, this time in my little journal that I decorated the cover of...

I have been wanting to create some pages with a bit more white space so first I stamped the positive bark backdrop in a triangle shape on each side using black archival ink.
Then I used spray inks and some water to create the colour. I started with my lightest shade then built up the colours, tipping the pages and dabbing with kitchen roll to get the effect I wanted.
Using some purple archival ink and the XL script backdrop I added some more stamping...

Next I spritzed some of the darkest purple ink onto my glass mat and used my finger to add it through the circle d'inkable.  I then used a purple watercolour pencil and a white pen to add detail to my circles...

 

Using the same inks I sprayed a piece of card and then stamped out some butterflies from the bird and butterfly set.  These were then cut out and after sticking them down on the page I added some dark pen around the edges...

 



I stamped out the word border 1 and cut out the words I wanted to use, these were then also stuck down and highlighted with a dark pen.  Finally I added some extra darkness to the edge of the pages using a purple gelato and also some glitter glue in areas, although it is a bit tricky to see in the photos!

Here are the products I used...

* Backdrops - Bark Positive
* Backdrops - XL Script
* Art Stamps - Words Border 1
* Art Stamps - Birds and Butterflies Set 1
* D'Inkables - Circle

Thank you for reading and happy crafting,

Jane xx

Emily DT - Beautiful Backgrounds

Hi everyone,

This week I have made a couple of cards using the same background sheet,

Here are the cards I have made...

I started with an A4 piece of white card. I coloured it using Distress Oxide inks and then added layers of colour using inkables. I stuck to four colours of ink then added highlights in white ink. 

When I was happy with it, I cut it into a few pieces to turn into cards. Here are the results;

I hope you like them!

Emily x

Marleen DT - Lustre Luxe cards..

Hello Bloggers

Once again my turn to share a bit of inspiration for
BeeCrafty.

For today I have been playing with my Lustre Luxe. They are a constant fixture on my crafty table along side my inks. They are so versatile. They can be used for so many things. For today I have used them on 2 cards. I used them with the Easy Frames Inkable stencils. I love these basic shapes.

Both cards has been made the same way.

My backgrounds has been made by simply adding my stencil and adding lustre luxe through. I left each shape to dry for a few seconds before adding the next but Lustre Luxe drys very fast so it wasnt a problem.

I added my sentiments to a strip of black card stock and heatset it with silver embossing powder. I finished by matting and layering on black cardstock and a few gems on each and Voila..

And that is it for today. Thank you for popping by and for any comments left behind.

Dont forget to come visit me on FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Youtube or my FB page.
 Happy Crafting

Charlee DT - Lustre Luxe Background

Morning crafters. Hope you've all had a good week. This week I decided to get the lustres out to play. They're just so versatile. Our Marleen from the DT has a made youtube video with different things you can do with them. You can find it Here

What you'll need:

• 5.5x5.5 card blank
• 4.5x4.5 card
• Black card
• Lustre luxe Ocean Blue and Moonstone
• Oval lattice inkable
• Never regret stamp
• Archival Black 

 All you need to do to create this card is blend the ocean blue all over the card and also on a small scrap piece of card. Leave about a minute or so to completely dry. Place the inkable and using different pressure blend through with the moonstone. I used different pressure to get different texture. Repeat on the small scrap piece. Take the card and matt onto some black card and adhere onto the card blank. On the scrap piece, ink up the stamp with archival and stamp. If some places missed you can either restamp or go over with a black permanent pen. Then matt that with some black card and put on the card with a little bit of foam tape.

I just love the shimmer the lustres give you. They're unlike anything I have worked with before. Definitely a must have for your craft stash and they're sooo reasonably priced. You don't have to break the bank with them.

Don't forget to show us your crafty makes using the lustres in the bee crafty stamps facebook group.

Until next week
Crafty hugs
Charlee
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