Calee CT - Smile Sunshine

Hi , this week I have fairly simple card design to share with you . I nearly always create on a white base , but this week I have chosen black . 

I decided to to stick with the circular theme for the back ground . Firstly I chose these two D’inkables from set 2 and some dylusions paints 

I used a small sponge and paints Fresh Lime and Bubble Gum through the stencils randomly on my black card . 

Next some White Linen was used with some of the smaller Art stamps coffee stains and group of circles from Journal art elements 1 . 

While this was drying my next step was to stamp out the large Doodle Art Dandedaisy. 

I coloured this with Ecoline water colour pens and cut it out , with a fine border of white card around . 

Next going back to my background , I cut it to  size , to fit a 6x6in card blank and added a few flicks of Calypso Teal paint . 

My background was finished with a doodled border using a white gel pen and some dots and crosses in white and pink Posca pen. 

I finished my card simply by gluing on the Dandedaisy and a sentiment from the Wordy stickers set 3B  and mounting on to my white card blank . 

Thank for taking a look , it was good to break away from the norm and use different medium and colours . 

Happy crafting 

Calee

Here are the products  I used :                                       

Inkables : D’inkables set 2 

Dylusions paints : Calypso Teal 

                            Fresh Lime 

                                    Bubblegum Pink

                                White Linen 

Stamps :Doodle Art Dandedaisy 

                Art stamps-Coffee stains 

                                                 Journal Art Elements 1

Some black card , white and pink Posca pens and a white 6x6in card blank .

Sally CT - Dragonfly ripples

  

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

On a 6x4" plain white card blank I added some ink blended dots through a Dinkable from set 2 using Picked Raspberry Distress oxide ink. 

I stamped a doodle Art mandala in Versafine Clair bali Blue ink in the opposite corners. 

On a scrap of white card I stamped the Doodle Art Dragonfly in Memento ink and coloured it with Alcohol markers before cutting it out. 

Next I added some of the yellow and green pen to the stamped mandalas. 

I also added a few pink and white highlights to the Dragonfly with gellyroll moonlight pens. 

on a separate piece of card I stamped the sentiment, cut it out and matted it onto a scrap of turquoise paper. 

Finally I added both the sentiment and the Dragonfly to the front of the card using 3d foam pads. 

I used:

Dinkables set 2

Doodle Art Mandalas set #1

Doodle Art Dragonfly stamp set

Small Words stamp set

Versafine Clair Bali Blue ink 

Distress oxide ink in Picked Raspberry

Black Memento ink

6x4 base card

Gelly Roll moonlight pens

Alcohol markers

Those mandalas make it ideal for entry into our Circles challenge over in the Bee Crafty Stamps Facebook Group so I do hope it has inspired you to have a go and enter! 

Thanks for looking! 

Alison CT - Dancing Daisy

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created using the dancing daisy stamp set, inkables and some journal circle transparencies. 

To begin, spritz a page in an 8 inch pink pig journal with picked raspberry distress oxide spray.

Use the double circle inkable tag, from inkables tag set 4, with picked raspberry distress ink to add circles to the page.

Next, blend peacock feathers distress ink through the dots d'inkable from set 2.

Cut out 1 large and 12 smaller circles from the Transparency Prints Journal Circles 1.

On seperate card, stamp the Dancing Daisy using a black ink and colour using distress oxide and pencil crayons. Cut it out.

Cut 2 of the smaller circles in half. Glue all circles to the page using matte medium.

Glue the daisy to the page, so the head overlaps the large transparency circle.

Finally add a wordy sticker sentiment from sheet 2B. 

Products used:

Doodle Art Dancing Daisy stamp set

Transparency Prints Journal Cicles 1

Inkables Tags 4

Dinkables set 2

Wordy Stickers 2B

Distress Ink - picked raspberry,  peacock feathers 

Distress Oxide Spray - picked raspberry 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison

Calee CT - Enchanted Forest

Hi , this week I have a journal  page for my step by step . A little more circle inspiration, lots of circles and some not so circular circles! .

Firstly I laid down some colour on my page , using two distress inks -Peacocks Feathers and Vintage Photo and my blending brushes . Over the top of this using the same inks I added more stenciling through various circular Inkables .  Then added a few sprays of water . 

Next I used the Art stamps set -Coffee stains randomly using distress inks Peacock Feathers, Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seeds and Villainous Potion .

My next step was to ink around the 4 inch circle easy frame to create a highlighted area as my focal point . 

Then a little texture was added with some texture paste through a  D’inkable from set 2

Next I chose a catalyst collage paper from the Wing  Whispers A5 pack . I cut out the bird on a branch and tore some strips from the remaining sheet . Then taking these circle stamps from Journal Art Elements #2 and using white ink I stamped on to the catalyst collage paper and also cut these out . All of these elements were then glued in to place on my page .

Using a black fine liner pen I added a stitched border around my page and using a while posca pen I added the same border around the focal circle. Taking a pink Posca I doodled various arrangements of circles / dots on to my page .

Thinking I had finished my page I added a sentiment from the wordy stickers 3 was added .  

However some thing wasn’t quite right , my page definitely needed something more , while trying to to decide what that was I found the perfect leaf from Journaling Essentials #7 in my bit box . 

Here is my finished page , with the addition of the leaf . I hope you like it . Thank you for taking a look , I have added a list of products I used below 

Happy crafting 

Calee

Distress inks:                                               

Vintage Photo 

Peacock Feathers

Picked Raspberry 

Mustard seed 

Villainous Potion 

Inkables :D’inkables set 2

Catalyst Collage papers :Painted Gaze A5

Stamps.          : Art stamps Coffee Stains 

                        Journal Art Elements #2

                   Journal Essentials #7

Wordy Stickers 3B                                    

Alison CT - Circles Inspiration

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a card created as inspiration for Sally's challenge in the Bee Crafty Stamps facebook group. The prompt for August is Circles.

To begin, I cut a piece of super smooth card to 6x6 inches square. I placed the 6" circle easy frame over the card and blended shabby shutters and tumbled glass distress oxide through it.

I then placed the branches inkable tag, from set 4, under the easy frame so that the branches were almost horizontal. 

I carefully blended peeled paint through the leaves and brushed corduroy along the branches. I found this easier to do with a small stencil brush, rather than a blending brush.

I drew a stitch and circle border around the edge of the card using a black micron pen.

On seperate card, I stamped the bluetit and bullfinch sketchy burds and coloured them in. I then cut them out.

I glued the background piece to a 7x7 inch card blank and added the birds.

Finally I stamped the two sentiments from the Everyday Sentiments 1 stamp set directly onto the card. 

Products used:

6 inch Inkables Circle Easy Frame

Inkables Tags set 4

Sketchy Birds stamp set 

Everyday Sentiments 1 stamp set 

Versafine Clair nocturne 

Distress Oxide - shabby shutters, tumbled glass, brushed corduroy, peeled paint

Black micron pen

Thank you for taking a look and I hope I've inspired you to have a go. 

Alison 

Sally CT - Circles Galore!

  

Hi there! For the month of August, over on the Be Crafty Stamps facebook group we have a challenge theme of Circles. Here's how I made the card above which has oodles of them. 

I began by blending ink from my blending brushes in a rainbow around the 6x6 inkable, Swirling circles. There was enough left over ink on my brushes to not need to ink them up again. 

Next I used the doodle Art mandala stamps to stamp over the inked background in Versafine Clair Desert sand ink.

 I also used some small circular stamps from Journaling essentials #3 to fill in the gaps amongst the mandala stamps. 

On a separate piece of card I stamped the Doodle art Dandedaisy in Black versafine Clair ink. 

I coloured it using ecoline pens and cut it out. 

Using 3d foam pads I attached it to the background panel, along with a sentiment and added the whole thing to the front of a 6x6 white card blank. 

Here is the finished card again.

I used:

Swirling Circles inkable

Doodle Art mandala stamp sets

Journaling Essentials #3 stamp set

Dandedaisy stamp set

Everyday words stamp set

Versafine Clair ink in Desert sand and Black

Ecoline pens

6x6 white card

5.5x5.5 card panel

Distress oxide inks (already on my brushes, but most likely Lumberjack Plaid, Spiced marmalade, mustard seed, Twisted Citron, Peacock feathers, blueprint sketch and wilted violet)

I hope this has given you the inspiration to look through your stamps and inkables for circles and have a go at entering the challenge! 

Thanks for looking!