Buzzy Goings on at Bee Crafty Bidford: Alison CT

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a guide to creating this art journal page.

To begin I ripped an old book page to fit a page in my A5 journal. After gluing it to the page with distress collage medium, I dry brushed it with white gesso.

Next I used my finger to apply island parrot, mushy peas and crushed grape Dylusions paint to the left hand side of the page. I heat dried each colour, after applying, as I didn't want them to blend.

Then I applied a swipe of white gesso over the paint, again using my finger. I then left this to dry.

Next I ripped off, approximately, a 4cm strip of the tea stained français washi tape and used collage medium to stick it to the page.

Using versafine clair nocturne ink, I stamped one and a half times the length of the squares strip, from the Journaling Essentials 2 stamp set, down the right hand side of the page.

Next I inked a small portion of the ledger stamp, with versafine clair nocturne, and stamped it over the paint and washi area.

I then added the circle freehand border, using versafine clair nocturne, next to the squares.

Next I stamped the flower, stem and leaves, from the journaling essentials 3 stamp set, directly onto the page. I straightened the stem stamp on my acrylic slim before stamping. I then coloured it with Ecoline pens.

Finally, I cut out my chosen sentiment from the Transparency Prints A5 Walk Your Own Way and coloured the back with white pisca pen before gluing it to the page with collage medium.