Jane DT - 'Grungy Butterflies' Card

Hello!

As we head towards the new year I thought that I would take the opportunity to start creating a collection of cards for different occasions that would then be ready for when they are needed.  As birthdays seem to be the main kind of card required I decided to start there...

* First I chose a selection of different butterfly stamps (all of which are linked below) and stamped them onto a piece of watercolour card using versamark ink.  Then I heat embossed them using white powder.

* Next I used some watercolour paints to colour the card, adding extra colour inside the butterflies.

* To create extra interest in the background I used the Script, Texture Borders and Texture Circles stamp sets with distress inks (Picked Raspberry & Wild Honey) and then used Archival Watering Can for extra depth.  I also used the grey around the edges to frame the card...

* After that I stamped the Large Butterfly onto white vellum and embossed with white powder.  These were then cut out and layered up.  They now looked a bit too white against the grungier background so I added a touch of the grey archival to blend them more.

* Finally I added a sentiment and matted and layered the card up.

Here are the products I used:

* Art Stamps - Large Butterfly
* Art Stamps - Dragonfly and Butterfly Set
* Art Stamps - Birds and Butterflies Set 1
* Background, Textures & Borders - Script 
* Background, Textures & Borders - Texture Borders
* Background, Textures & Borders - Texture Circles
* Wordage - Everyday Sentiments 2 (regular)
* Distress Ink Pads
* White Embossing Powder

Hopefully this is the start of more cards for my collection!

Thank you for looking and happy crafting.

Jane xx

Karen DT- Getting Christmassy with Doodle Art

Morning and a very happy Boxing Day xx

Hope you all had a fabulous Christmas Day? I was lucky to spend it with my beautiful family xx

I've been getting a bit festive with my Doodle Art sets. These make such fun and festive Christmas cards and here are a selection of cards for today's weekly Bee Crafty blog post xx

Products used:
Doodle Art sets: most of them!! 🤣
Distress Oxides
Versafine

I first used my acrylic block as a guide, then stamped my Robin, and masked it off, before applying my background.

To create my backgrounds on today's cards, i applied Distress Oxides to an acrylic block. I then spritzed it with water and stamped the block direct to the card blank. Once dry I removed my Robin mask.

All my images were stamped in Black Onyx Versafine as I like the bold, contemporary feel of this look. I decided not to colour the images in as I felt it fitted in with this style.

I hope you enjoyed looking through today's post. I'll see you again soon.

Crafty hugs xx

Jane DT - Happy Christmas!

Hello!

I hope you have all been enjoying the 20 days of Christmas projects that Bee Crafty have been sharing over on the Facebook group, if you are not a member do please have a look on Facebook, search for Bee Crafty and the page and group should come up.

As this is my final blog post before Christmas I thought I would share a Christmas card to wish you all the best for the season...

The background was created using distress inks in Festive Berries and Crushed Olive.   I used a blending tool to add the colour straight onto the card then through the distressed harlequin d'inkable.

To create some text for the background I collected the words and sentiments from a variety of the Yuletide Doodle stamps and arranged them onto an acrylic block.  These were then stamped together onto the card with Versamark ink and heat embossed in gold...

Using both the regular and XL Doodle Poinsettia stamps I inked them with black versafine then embossed with clear powder, this was repeated twice for each flower I wanted.  These were then cut out so they could be layered up and coloured using Faber-Castell Pitt pens...

Finally I stamped one of the sentiments onto black card and embossed with gold powder before cutting out with a banner die.

Here are the products I used:

* Doodle Poinsettia Stamps - Regular and XL
* Yuletide Doodle Stamps
* Distressed Harlequin D'inkable
* Distress Ink Pads

The Yuletide Doodle stamps are currently on sale so a great time to get hold of them!!

I wish everyone the best Christmas you can hope for and see you on the other side!

Happy crafting,

Jane xx