Buzzy Goings on at Bee Crafty Bidford: Ali CT

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Ali CT - Dragonfly Journal

Well I have finally started art journaling yay - been procrastinating for a while but I have now completed my first page 😎.

I sprayed the back of the Circles Inkable with stencil adhesive (Stick & Spray), chose a blank page on my 6" x 6" journal, all of mine were blank 😉 so started at the beginning.

I picked three distress oxides, mustard seed, picked raspberry and peacock feathers and inked through the stencil using brushes to blend the colours. I might gesso the page first next time to help the inks blend.

I removed the stencil.

Then outlined the coloured sections with a black fine liner pen.
I added a few zig zags and dash doodles.

I faux bleached by flicking some drops of water over the page, waiting for a bit and picking up the the water with kitchen roll.

I added a few highlights to the inked circles with Dr PH Martin's white bleed proof ink and a damp paint brush. I could have used a white gel pen instead but this stuff is bleed proof and stays bright.

I stamped the large dragonfly, 2 of the middle size and the word dragonfly from the Art Stamps Dragonfly Set with clear versamark ink then heat embossed with white embossing powder

I stamped the round postage mark with black versafine ink, linking the coloured circles and stamping off the page in places then dried with a heat gun.

The circles were a little too black so I used white gesso and a damp paint brush to knock them back.

I applied green and blue Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Sparkles to a strip of white card, stamped the dragonflies and heat embossed with black embossing powder.

I cut out all the dragonflies and the sentiment and spent the next 20 minutes trying to choose whether to use the sparkly dark ones or the white ones.