Alison CT - Sassy

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page, inspired by Bev, in a notebook using a few inkables and the Journaling Girl Sassy.

To begin I dry brushed a strip of red and black dylusions paint across the notebook page. I left this to dry fully.

Next, I sponged blue dylusions paint through the circles big one to the top left of the page. Again I left this to fully dry.

Then I sponged green dylusions paint through the Bakewell big one on to the bottom of the page. I left this to fully dry.

Next, I added areas of mustard seed distress oxide through the dot and line texture disc.

On a seperate piece of cream card, I drew through the 4 inch star easy frame and then cut it out. I then used a black sharpie to draw an outline just in from the edge and then I drew lines across it.

I glued the star to the left of the page, on the red and black paint. I glued it so that the lines on the star were perpendicular to the lines on the page.

On the same cream card I stamped Sassy using Versafine Clair Nocturne ink. I coloured her with my Ecoline pens and a damp paintbrush. When she was dry I cut her out and glued her to the page, so that she overlapped the star.

On the same cream card, I stamped my chosen sentiment. I cut it out and edged with a black pen, before gluing it to the page. 

Finally I added a scribbled black border to the page using a micron pen.

Products used:

Dylusions paint - postbix red, island parrot, blue hawaiian, black marble

Inkable big ones - circles 1, bakewell 

Inkables texture discs - set 4

Inkables easy frame - 4" star

Art stamps - journaling girl Sassy (discontinued) other journaling girls are available at this link - journaling girls

Ecoline pens - light rose, beige, light yellow, apricot

Wordage stamps - small words 1

Micron pen

Distress oxide - mustard seed

Cream card

Notebook

Thank you for taking a look.

Alison

Lynne Guest CT - DIY Washi Tape

Hi everyone, here's my second Guest CT post!

I like the effect of using washi tape on my cards, but not that the design/colours of the project have to be matched to the purchased tape, rather than the other way round. The answer is to make my own, and the Bee Crafty Stamping Tape is the perfect substrate for doing so! Here are the main supplies I used for my card.

I began by laying a strip of the stamping tape across my non stick craft sheet and brushing on various colours of Distress Oxide inks through a stencil from the Dinkables Set 11. (I took the photo before adding the green ink!)

I then made a second strip, this time using the same ink colours but stamping the leaves from the Journaling Essentials 2 stamp set.

My intention was to fill the aperture of the Maple Easy Frame (6”) with strips of the washi tape, so the next step was to cut a piece of orange card to the size of the stencil, draw around the aperture lightly in pencil and cut it out. I cut the leaf stem slightly wider than its actual size , ie. outside the pencil line, as it is very fine and I wanted a bit more of the washi tape to show through.

I stuck sections of the washi tape on to a piece of scrap card, alternating the two patterns and making sure to cover an area larger than the maple aperture to give room for adjustment when placing it over the tape.

Once I was happy with the placement of the aperture panel I adhered it to the washi background (using Distress Collage Medium) and cut away the excess white card.

My base card was 7” by 7” and I stamped a border around the edges of it using the small leaf from the Journaling Essentials 2 set and Bundled Sage Distress Oxide ink. I also darkened the edges slightly by brushing them with Rustic Wilderness ink but without reinking the brush I’d used to ink up the washi tape, as I didn’t want them too dark, just enough to define them.

I trimmed about half a centimetre from each edge of my maple panel to allow more of the base card border to show and then embossed around the panel using a Distress Embossing Dabber and gold embossing powder.

Then it was simply a matter of sticking the panel to the base card and adding the sentiment, which is from the Wordage set Ticker Tape 3. I stamped it with Vintage Photo Distress Oxide ink and cut out each line separately, before arranging them on the panel. And here’s the finished card!

To give you an example of another way to use the Stamping Tape, here’s one I made using the wider version of the tape, showcasing it as a decorative panel across the card. In this case, as well as stencilling it as before, I also overstencilled it in a darker colour for added interest.

I hope I have inspired you to have a go at making your own washi tape! If you decide to try it, please share your creations in the Bee Crafty Facebook Group!

Thanks for looking!

Here are the links to the products I used:

Bee Crafty Stamp & Stencil Tape 22mm x 25m

Bee Crafty Non Stick Craft Sheet 15" x 18"

Rustic Wilderness & Crackling Campfire Distress Oxide Inks

Spiced Marmalade, Bundled Sage & Vintage Photo Distress Oxide Inks

Dinkables Set 11

Inkables Easy Frame - Maple 6"

Journaling Essentials 2 Stamp Set

Wordage Ticker Tape Stamp Set 3

Distress Embossing Dabber

Ranger Embossing Powder - Gold

Distress Collage Medium

My second sample included:

A Stitch In Time Stamp Set

Bee Crafty Stamp & Stencil Tape 45mm x 20m

Dinkables Set 11

Inkables 6x6 Metal Work Alpha

Sally CT - Tangled Tinsel Journal Page

Hi There! Are you feeling a bit frazzled at the mention of Christmas? Me too! This journal page is a reminder to me to not get my tinsel in a tangle with the preparations! Here is how it came together.

I began by painting a section of the page with black gesso.

Once this was dry, I used stickles gel through the star Dinkable from set 1 to add to the background. 

On a scrap of white card, I painted lines of the Dina Wakeley gloss drops in blended stripes.

When this was dry, I stamped and clear embossed the Christmas tree on to it, cutting it out carefully.

I attached it to the page using matte medium.

Using a scrap of the painted card, I stamped the tinsel mixed message, then stamped It's Christmas onto a piece of white card. I trimmed both carefully with scissors and added to the page.

Finally, I added some more stickles along some of the tree sections and onto the star. 

Here is the finished page once more. 

I used:

6x6 Kraft journal

Black gesso

Set 1 dinkables

Stickles gel

Dina Wakeley Gloss drops

Doodle Art Christmas tree

Mixed messages- Christmas

Versafine clair black ink

Clear embossing powder

Matte Medium

Thanks for looking and I hope you manage to keep your tinsel untangled in the run up to the festive season! 

Alison CT - Three Butterflies

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created using my favourite butterfly stamp from Bee Crafty.

To begin I created a background by blending mustard seed, stormy sky and tumbled glass distress oxides across a page in my art journal.

Next I used the honeycomb dinkable, from set 1, with stormy sky distress oxide. I also drew through it with a black micron pen.

Then I used the dots and lines texture disc, from set 4, with salvaged petina distress oxide to add more to the background.

Next I used the cross dinkable, from set 12 to add texture paste to the page.

Then I used a selection of stamps from the stitched borders and coffee stains stamp sets, with versafine clair nocturne ink, to create a central panel.

Next I stamped the script stamp, using versafine clair nocturne, over my stamped panel. I did not worry if it did not stamp fully or clearly.

Then I added two of the largest butterfly, from the birds and butterflies regular stamp set, and stamped one at the top left and one at the bottom left, overlapping them with my stamped panel using versafine clair nocturne.

On seperate card, I stamped another of the same butterfly using the same black ink. I coloured it with salvaged petina and mustard seed distress oxides by smooshing a little of each ink on my blending mat and picking up with a wet paintbrush. When this was dry I cut it out and glued it to the centre of the stamped panel.

Finally I added a sentiment from the moon and stars sentiment stamp set.

Products used:

Distress oxides - mustard seed, tumbled glass, stormy sky, salvaged patina

Dinkables - sets 1 and 12

Texture Discs - set 4

Art stamps - script background, coffee stains, stitched borders

Art stamps - birds and butterflies

Wordage stamps - moon and stars sentiments

Micron pen - black

Ranger Distrsss Texture Paste

Thanks for taking a look.

Alison

Lynne Guest CT - Not A Stamp In Sight (well, unless you look very closely!)

 Hi everyone!

I was thrilled to be asked by Bev and Sam to do a few blog posts for them as a guest CT, and here is my first post!

I’ve been stamping and cardmaking for well over 35 years, but never really did much with stencils. My early experiences with stencils were the sort of basic designs made from a type of oiled card or cut from thin flimsy acetate, such as you’d find in a child’s drawing and painting set, and I really couldn’t see where they would fit into my cardmaking.

However, that all changed when I discovered the gorgeous Inkables from Bee Crafty, and all the possibilities they offer! So for this post I decided to see what I could do just using Inkables, the only stamping to be the sentiments.

For my first card I made a background on mixed media paper (Talens Art Creations) with Dina Wakley gloss sprays. I didn’t want the characteristic speckled effect, though, and I don’t (yet!) have the new Gloss Drops, so having first lightly misted the paper with water, I used a paintbrush to apply the paint. When it was dry, I stencilled on top with a dinkable from Set 12, using a fine tip pen to draw round the outlines in one corner, and colouring through it with waterproof brush pens in the other (water based pens won’t dry on top of the gloss paints). The flower, from Inkables Texture Discs Set 4, was outlined with the fine pen, then I added some extra shading around the outside to make it stand out better. The sentiment from Mixed Messages 1, embossed in white, completed the card.

My second card uses the Botanical Gardens Inkables Big One  which I dry embossed on to the purple panel by putting it through my die cutting machine, and then sponged through it with various Distress Oxide inks to make the background for the dragonfly. I drew around the mask part of the Dragonfly Easy Frame (4”) set  on to a scrap of Catalyst Paper  and cut it out. The Dragonfly sentiment is from the Dragonfly stamp set 

My final project is a page from my Grafix Mixed Media Journal. My very first Grafix page, as it happens! I’ve had the journal for quite a long time, and although I loved the idea of it I was quite nervous of actually doing anything with it! The crafter’s advice “have a go, experiment, it’s only a bit of paper” didn’t work here, as the journal pages aren’t paper, they’re plastic! However, I told myself that if I didn’t have a go, I’d have wasted my money buying it anyway, so I bit the bullet and got out my alcohol inks.

I chose the Dura-lar Matte page for my first attempt, as it seemed as though it would be the most forgiving. I dabbed the ink on to the page with felt pieces attached to a blending tool, and found that the colours merged beautifully. Then, having watched a very helpful video by Kate Crane, in which she showed a couple of different techniques, I drew round a few of the motifs from the Botanical Gardens Big One with a Sakura Micron Fineliner pen which is waterproof and writes on plastic. Next (and this was the magic bit!) I removed the ink from the motifs with alcohol ink blending solution (isopropyl alcohol does the same job). I drew sketchily around the flowers with a white Posca pen and added a few details with the Micron pen.

I followed the same method for the two butterflies, which are from the Butterfly Away Inkable and finished with the sentiment from the Doodle Art Dancing Daisy stamp set which I diecut and attached to the page with Distress Collage Medium. 

I was quite happy with the page, but felt it really needed something more. The beauty of the Matte Dura-lar is that it is translucent, so I made a second page by cutting one out of a piece of ordinary card, to which I adhered an old book page, sponging lightly over it with Distress Oxide ink. I placed it behind the Dura-lar page, and the book print shows through the areas where the ink was removed, as hopefully you can see in the photo.

Anyway, having successfully achieved my first Dura-lar page without the disaster I was fearing, I now have more confidence that I can go on to complete the rest of the journal!

I hope that I’ve provided some inspiration for some different ways to use the brilliant Inkables, with (apart from the sentiments) not a stamp in sight!

Thanks for looking!

Here are the links for the products I've used:

Talens Art Creations Mixed Media Paper

Dina Wakley Gloss Drops

Dinkables Set 12

Texture Discs Set 4

Mixed Messages 1

Inkables Big Ones Botanic Garden

Dragonfly Easy Frame

Catalyst Papers 2

Dragonfly Stamp Set

Grafix Mixed Media Journal 6"x6"

Sakura Fine Liner Pen

White Posca Pen

Inkables Butterfly Away

Dancing Daisy Stamp Set

Distress Collage Medium

Lynne

Sally CT - Cool Colours Christmas

  

Hi There! Thought I would show you how I made this simple Christmas card this week. 

I began by blending Salty Ocean and Dusty Concord distress ink in the inkable. Then I splattered it with water and blotted it to get the snowy effect.

I used the small snowflake stamps from winter journaling girls and small words- winter around the frame using memento inks. 

I inked up the doodle art Christmas tree using the memento inks with purple at the top, blue in the middle and teal at the bottom. 

I used the same inks to watercolour some of the pattern and fussy cut around it. 

I matted and layered the panel to a 7x7 card and used sticky pads to attach the tree to the bottom left corner.

Finally I added a sentiment to the bottom right, also on sticky pads. 

I used:

Tree Snow globe Inkable 

Winter Journaling Girls - Warm Stamp set

Small Words -Winter stamp set

Doodle Art Christmas tree

Mixed messages Christmas

Distress inks in Salty Ocean and Dusty Concord

Memento ink in Grape Jelly, Danube blue and Teal Zeal

White card

7x7" card blank

Thanks for looking!