Sally CT - Inky backgrounds

Hi There! I had lots of offcuts of white card on my desk so thought I would make use of one for this card. 

I began by blending Distress ink across the card. I used Wild Honey, Abandoned Coral and Seedless Preserves. 

Next I placed over the Tag inkable from set 3 and blended black ink through it. 

Using the crackle stamp, not on a block, I randomly stamped patches of crackle in Versafine Clair ink.

I added stamping using journaling essentials #1 in Abandoned Coral, Seedless Preserves and Versafine Clair black ink. 

I added a splatter of Dina Wakley White gloss spray and left to dry. 

On a scrap of black card I stamped and heat embossed a ticker tape sentiment in white.

I stamped a sketchy flower in black, coloured with pencils and cut out

Finally I matted the panel onto a 6x6 inch card, adding the sentiment and the flower on foam pads.

I used:

6x6 inch white base card

14 x 7cm piece of smooth white card

Distress inks in Wild Honey, Abandoned Coral, Seedless Preserves and Black Soot

Tag inkables set 3

Black versafine Clair ink

Crackle Background stamp

Journaling Essentials set 1 stamp set

Ticker Tape 1 stamp set

Sketchy Flowers stamp set

White embossing powder

White Dina Wakley Gloss Spray

Embossing ink

Coloured pencils 

foam pads

I will be live at 8pm this evening over on the Bee Crafty Facebook page. I hope you can join me! 

Thanks for looking! 

Alison CT - Least favourite colour

Today I decided to make myself use my least favourite colour (brown) to create a card. I wanted to push myself out of my comfort zone. 

To begin, I sprayed a piece of mixed media card with Spiced Marmalade,  Scorched Timber and Walnut Stain distress oxide sprays. I spritzed it lightly with water and left it to dry naturally.

When it was dry, I cut it into three two and a half inch squares.

On one of the squares, use scorched timber distress ink to stamp the grid and splats stamp; spiced marmalade distress ink to stamp the numbers and walnut stain distress ink to stamp the hearts.

On the second one, stamp the circles with spiced marmalade and the crosses with walnut stain.

On the last one, stamp the leaves with scorched timber and the small crosses with walnut stain. 

On seperate cream card, blend the three distress inks through the leaf dinkable from set 6. Use mostly spiced marmalade. Cut the leaf out leaving a small cream border.

On a six and a half inch square piece of card, stick the three squares, so they overlap, in the bottom right corner.

Using foam pads stick this piece to a seven inch square card.

Add the leaf over the squares.

Using scorched timber stamp the word courage, from mixed message 4, three times around the squares.

Add small orange gems around the squares.

Products used:

Distress Oxide Spray - spiced marmalade, scorched timber, walnut stain 

Distress Ink Pads - spiced marmalade, scorched timber, walnut stain 

Journal Art Elements 3

Journaling Essentials 1

Journaling Essentials 2

Dinkables set 6

Mixed Messages 4

Gems

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

Sally CT - A quick card

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

I began by using the Skylines Horizon 1 inkable to add peacock feathers ink to the foreground of a 5x5inch piece of smooth card.

Next I stamped and cut out Sky Terrace before giving it a light spray with Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide spray and left it to dry.

I used the stars from Journaling essentials #1 to stamp the sky in Peacock Feathers oxide ink.

Next I stamped the sentiment in Versafine Clair Twilight before assembling the card

Here is the finished card again.

I used:

Inkables Skylines Horizon 1

Doodle Art Sky Terrace stamp set

Journaling Essentials 1 stamp set

Ticker Tape 3 stamp set

Peacock feathers Distress oxide ink

Peacock Feathers Distress oxide spray

Versafine Clair Ink in Twilight

Thanks for looking! 

Alison CT - If nothing changes.

Hi everyone today I'm sharing an art journal page created using a selection of worker stamps from different sets.

To begin I blended tumbled glass distress oxide over the left hand side of the page.

Next I blended salvaged petina distress oxide through the off set dots 6" inkable. 

Using versafine clair nocturne, I inked up about three quarters of the width of the script background stamp and then stamped it more to the right of the page. I didn't worry that it was not perfect.

I then, added numbers to the page using nocturne ink. To ensure all the numbers were straight I put them all on the smallest rectangular super skinny slim and stamped them all at the same time.

Next I stamped the clock, ledger circle and art word from the Dragonfly Art stamp set, still using versafine clair nocturne. 

Then I stamped the splatty border, from the stitched borders stamp set, three times at different heights on to the page. 

Then I added the small single coffee stain to the page.

Next I added the hope and love small words stamps.

On seperate card I stamped 3 of the medium and 2 of the smallest butterflies from the birds and butterflies stamp set. I coloured them with peacock feathers distress oxide and cut them out. I used distress collage medium to glue them to the page.

Next I stamped the sentiment from the mixed messages 4 on to a piece of card that I had blended peacock feathers distress oxide over. I then cut it out and edged with a black pen. I added it to the page.

Finally I added white splatz using the pipe from the Dina Wakley white gloss spray.

Products used 

Distress Oxide  - tumbled glass,  salvaged petina, peacock feathers 

Inkables - 6" off set dots

Versafine Clair nocturne 

Super skinny slims

Stamp sets

Script background 

Birds and Butterflies regular 

Dragonfly Art

Stitched Borders

Numbers 1

Coffee stains

Small Words

Mixed Messages 4

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

Sally CT - A couple of ATCs

 

Hi There! It is lovely that Artist Trading Cards are still popular in the Crafting community. For this who don't already know, They are little creations measuring 2.5 x 3.5 inches. I thought I would show you how I made these ATCs today.

I began by spraying two ATCs using Distress oxide sprays in Peacock Feathers and Crackling Campfire, and left them to dry.

I used Versafine Clair ink in Warm Breeze and Acorn to stamp some of the mandalas on to them.

Once these were dry, I rubbed over them with an anti static cloth and stamped a few patches of the crackle stamp in Versamark ink, Embossing with Gold detail embossing powder. 

On a scrap of white card I stamped the butterfly several times. I inked the centre of the stamp again and stamped directly onto the ATCs where the butterflies were to be positioned. I then coloured them and cut them out, cutting off the antennae.

I shaped the wings a little with a bone folder and stuck them on with Collage Medium. 

Next I selected some words from the small word stamp set, stamped in Versamark ink onto some teal-coloured card and heat embossed in white. I cut these out and attached to the ATCs.

here are a couple more photos with the light catching the gold embossing

I used:

Mixed media card cut into ATCs

Distress oxide sprays in Peacock Feathers and Crackling Campfire

Doodle Art Mandala Stamps Set 2

Crackle stamp

Birds and Butterflies XL stamps

Coloured pencils

Versafine Clair inks in Nocturne, Warm Breeze and Acorn

Versamark ink

Embossing powders in detail gold and detail white

Collage Medium

Small Words stamp set

I will be live on the Bee Crafty Facebook page at 8pm this evening if you fancy joining me.

Thanks for looking! 

Alison CT - Do Something Today

Hi everyone,  today I'm sharing how I created this butterfly card.

To begin I cut a piece of watercolour card so that it would make a topper for a 5 x 7 inch card.

I blended Rusty Hinge and Peacock Feathers distress oxide ink over the card. I then spritzed this with water and shook some water off my fingervtips to create larger drops. I patted this dry with kitchen towel, then left it to dry.

Whilst it was drying, I stamped the largest butterfly. I coloured it with Rusty Hinge, Peacock Feathers and Spiced Marmalade distress oxide. Next I cut it out using the corresponding die.

To add to the background, I used the Honeycomb D'inkable with Peacock Feathers distress oxide over the corresponding area.

Next I used the Metalwork Alpha D'inkable with rusty hinge distress oxide over the rusty hinge areas of the background. 

Then I stamped the large and small double coffee stain stamps with versafine clair nocturne ink. 

Next I stamped the numbers from the coffee stains stamp set, using the nocturne ink. 

Then I added some crosses using the d'inkable from set 12 and black soot distress oxide. 

I glued the background to a 5 x 7 card blank and added the butterfly using distress collage medium.

Finally I stamped, cut out and added a sentiment to the card. 

Products used:

Distress Oxides - rusty hinge, black soot, peacock feathers, spiced marmalade 

Mini Mister

D'inkables - sets 1, 5, 12

Birds and Butterflies XL stamp and die set

Versafine Clair nocturne ink 

Wordage Ticker Tape 1 stamp set

Distress Collage Medium 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison