Sally CT - Home note card

  

Hi There! Thought I would show you how I made this card today. 

I began by stamping sky terrace on to an A6 piece of greyscale catalyst card. 

Next I tore some strips of coloured catalyst card to make the hills. I chose 3 which contrasted in colour, playing with them until I was happy with the arrangement. 

on another piece of coloured catalyst card I painted a thin layer of gesso to make the colours a bit less vibrant. 

I blended a little mermaid lagoon ink onto the gessoed card too. 

After sponging a little walnut stain Distress oxide around the edges of each layer, I began to stick them together using matte medium. I tucked the edge of the house into the last layer.  

I attached the papers to the front of a 6x4" white card and added the Home sticker from the Winter wordy stickers. 

Here is the finished card again. 

I used: 

A6 Catalyst cards #1 Greyscale and full colour

Doodle art Houses  - Sky Terrace

Wordy Stickers Winter 

Versafine clair ink - Nocturne

Distress Oxide ink - Mermaid lagoon and Walnut Stain

Matte Medium

Thank you so much for looking! Wishing you a wonderful festive season!

Alison CT - Quick and easy Christmas card

Hi everyone,  we all receive those unexpected Christmas cards, so today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating this simple quick make that means you can ensure you don't miss anyone out.

Using a black pen, I used a sharpie, draw a line, about a quarter of the way down, across a piece of five and a half inch square of kraft card.

Next stamp five of the two smallest snowflakes, from the Snow Border,  Flakes and Words stamp set, using an embossing ink pad. 

Add Snowflake Tinsel distress embossing powder and heat emboss.

With a thinner black pen add strings and bows to the snowflakes, so they become baubles. 

Stamp the Nice Baubles sentiment from the Christmas Mixed Messages stamp set. 

Mount this onto cream card then add to a six inch square kraft card card blank.

Products used:

Snow border, flakes and words stamp set

Christmas Mixed Messages stamp set 

Ranger Snowflake Tinsel embossing powder 

Black pens

Embossing ink pad 

Kraft card 

Cream card

Kraft card card blank 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

CT Alison - Incredible Bird

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created using the Sketchy Birds stamp set and worker stamps from some other sets too.

To begin I blended crushed olive distress ink through the Fernando big one, keeping to the left of the page.

I then spritzed the page very lightly with peeled paint distress spritz.

Next I cut three 2 inch squares from a piece of talens watercolour paper and stamped a different border on each using versafineclair acorn ink. The borders are from Journaling Girl Sam, Over the Moon and Stitched Borders stamp sets. I edged the squares with the brown ink left on my blending foam from its last use.

Next I stamped the sketchy bird and the leafy branch from the Journaling Girls Sam using the acorn ink. I coloured these with pencil crayons and cut out.

Then I stamped the smaller of the branches from the Journaling Essentials 6 set using versafine clair verdant. I coloured them and cut them out.

Next I stamped the flower from Journaling Essentials 3 using warm breeze versafine clair ink. I cut the flower out without colouring.

Finally I stamped the two sentiments, one from the Incredible Words set and yhe other from the Mixed Messages 3, using the acorn ink. I cut them out and edged them in brown.

Next I stamped a small portion of the script background stamp on the bottom left of the page.

Next I glued the three squares to the page as in the photo below.

Then I added the brown leaves to the bottom square. 

I then glued the green leaves to the top right square.

I then added the bird and flower.

Finally I added the two sentiments.

Products used:

Fernando big one

Sketchy Birds 

Journaling Girl Sam

Journaling Essentials 3

Journaling Essentials 6

Script Background 

Stitched Borders 

Over the Moon

Incredible Words 

Mixed Messages 3

Distress Spritz peeled paint

Distress Ink crushed olive

Versafine Clair - Acorn, Verdant, Warm Breeze

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

Sally CT - Another Christmas card

Hi There! I am here with another step by step for this cute Christmas card. Here is how I made it.

I began by blending 3 colours of distress oxide ink across a 4" square of watercolour card. 

Next I sprayed Fossilized Amber Distress Spritz through the Circles 1 big ones inkable. 

When this was dry I stamped over the background using Distress oxide ink. 

On a scrap of card, I stamped the gingerbread man 3 times and coloured with a combination of oxide ink and coloured pencils, before cutting them out. 

I matted and layered the background to a 5x5" card and added the gingerbread men using foam pads.  

Finally I added the sentiment using Versafine Clair ink.

Here is the finished card again....

and you can see the sheen from the distress spritz here.

I used:

Distress Oxide inks in Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint, Fired Brick, Lumberjack Plaid and Tea Dye

Big ones Inkable - Circles 1

Distress Spritz - Fossilized Amber

Doodle Art Christmas Pud stamp set

Wordage Mixed Messages - Christmas stamp set

Versafine Clair Nocturne ink

5x5" card

4x4" watercolour card plus extra for the gingerbread men

Card for matting and layering

Foam pads

Thanks for looking and please don't forget to enter the challenge over in the Bee crafty stamps group

Alison CT - Faces Tags

Hi everyone today I'm sharing two tags made in the same way but using different images and colours.

To begin blend picked raspberry distress oxide through the centre of the butterfly side of the butterfly away 6" inkable, then blend spunsugar distress oxide over the wings of the butterflies.

Cut three rectangles of white card that are3 x 2.5 inches. Round the corners with a punch. Using versafine clair nocturne ink stamp the small face from the Whatever Works stamp set.

Use a sponge applicator, blend picked raspberry distress oxide around the edge of the tag and the three faces rectangles.

Using the asemic writing stamp, from the Whatever Works stamp set, add more layers to the background using first and second generation stamping using spun sugar distress oxide.  Reapeat using picked raspberry distress oxide. 

Use foam pads to glue the three faces diagonally down the tag.

Add the You are a Star sentiment, from the Mixed Messages 2 stamp set, using versafine clair nocturne. 

For the male version repeat the above steps but use salty ocean and tumbled glass distress oxides and the dragonfly part of the Butterfly Away inkable. The rectangles of card need to be 3 x 1.5 inches to fit the small face from the See Me stamp set.

Products used:

Tags

Butterfly Away Inkable

Whatever Works stamp set

See Me stamp set

Mixed Messages 2 stamp set

Distress Oxide ink pads - picked raspberry, spun sugar, salty ocean, tumbled glass 

Foam tape

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

Sally CT - A bright and cheerful journal page

Hi There! I'm here with a step by step tutorial for this journal page in my 6x6 kraft journal today. 

 

I began by brushing white gesso across the page, leaving a small border of kraft around the edge.

Next I painted blocks of colour onto the page. I used Dylusions paints in Periwinkle, Blue Lagoon and Bubblegum pink. Once this was dry I used the Circles 1 big one inkable, and a set 5 dinkable to add some more white and some black gesso over the colours. (Sorry, I forgot to take a photo for this stage!)

I used an antistatic bag before stamping patches of the Script in Versamark ink and heat embossing in gold. 

On a scrap of black card I heat embossed the sentiment in White. 

I tore some strips of greyscale Catalyst card to add to the page. 

next I cut out the largest leaf from the transparency sheet, before adding these elements to the page with Matte Medium.

Here is the finished page again...

... and next to it's partner in the journal.

I used:

6x6 kraft journal

White gesso

Black gesso

Dylusions paints in Blue Lagoon, Periwinkle and Bubblegum pink

Big one inkable -Circles one

Dinkables set 5

Script background stamp

Mixed messages #2 stamp set

Versamark ink

White and gold embossing powder

Mixed leaves transparencies

Greyscale Catalyst cards #1 A6 

Matte Medium

It was lovely to sit and play in my journal. Hope you like the results.

Thanks for looking!