Two butterflies

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created as inspiration for this months challenge in the Bee Crafty Facebook group - Texture.

To begin, I applied three small drops of Dylusions vibrant turquoise paint randomly to the page in my notebook.  I used a brayer to spread the paint, rolling both vertically and horizontally. 

Repeat but using Dylusions mushy peas paint.

Repeat again but use Dylusions calypso teal paint.

Use a blending brush with black soot distress oxide to add six of the letters from the Inkables Grande Alpha.

Next use a white posca pen to outline one side of the letters.

Then add distress grit paste through the off set dots 6" inkable.

Next use black soot distress oxide to stamp areas of the spats stamp from the Asemic Splats stamp set and script using the Script Background stamp. 

Use a black posca pen to add splats to the page. Then add some uncharted mariner Distress spritz to the page.

On seperate card stamp the leaves using uncharted mariner distress ink and two of the butterfly using versafine clair nocturne. Colour the butterflies using pencil crayons and gel pens. Cut everything out. 

Glue the leaves and butterflies to the page using collage medium.

Finally I added a sentiment from the Wordy Stickers 3B, which I glued to card first, because of the texture paste on the page. 

Products used:

Wordy Stickers 3B

Inkables Grande Alpha

Inkables Offset Dots

Asemic Splats stamp set 

Journaling Essentials 7

Doodle Art Butterfly stamp set 

Dylusions paint - vibrant turquoise, mushy peas, calypso teal 

Versafine Clair Nocturne 

Distress Spritz Uncharted Mariner 

White and Black posca pens

Distress Grit Texture Paste 

Distress Oxide Black Soot 

Distress Ink Uncharted Mariner 

Thank you for taking a look. If you want a 10% discount on your order from Bee Crafty just quote code BEEALISON10 at checkout. 

Alison 

Calee CT - Colourful Tag

Hi ,for my blog this week I have a colourful tag to share with you .

My first step was to choose 3 distress oxide colours  I tried to go for colours I haven’t use in a while but that Picked Raspberry just keeps creeping into my crafting ! I then randomly inked up the tag , there wasn’t as much difference in the green and yellow as I thought but I liked the result.  

I then decided on the Inkables I wanted to use , deciding to remove some of the ink to create some lighter areas . I did this with a slightly damps sponge , dabbing lightly through the chrysanthemum inkable until most of the ink was removed .  I added some extra detail with some Blue Print sketch distress ink through the script inkable and again  mowed grass distress ink though the diamond D'inkable .

 

Having decided to use the Journaling Essentials #8 art stamp set . I used some of the smaller stamps in the same colours of distress inks all ready used , to add to my background . 

To complete my background I used a pink and green posca pen to add some small hearts and lines which I further added to with a white gel pen . 

Finally I added a stitched boarder with a black fine liner .

Next , it was time to stamp out 3 of these large flowers from the same  Journaling Essentials stamp set . 

Then using the distress inks  used for the background and a fine brush I coloured the flowers allowing the colours to blend into each other to create different shades / colours and to give a water colour effect.

 

My sentiment was chosen from the Ticker tape 1 stamp set . 

Every thing was then stuck down , as usual after trying out various different combinations, decisions , decisions ! 

I hope you like my tag , I’m really happy with how it turned out . 

I used - Distress oxides : Picked Raspberry

                                         Squeezed Lemonade 

                                         Twisted citron 

               Distress inks :    Mowed Lawn

                                         Picked  Raspberry 

                                         Blue Print Sketch 

               Inkables :          D’inkables set 2

                 6x6 :                Chrysanthemum 

                                         Coffee stain script 

               Stamp sets:       Journaling Essentials #8

                                        Wordage Ticket tape 1 

                                         

A green and pink posca pen , black fine liner and white gel pen 

Thank you for looking . Happy crafting 

Calee x

Sally CT -Texture

  Hi There! We have a brand new theme of Texture for our challenge over on the Bee crafty Stamps group so I thought I would share how I made this textured background. 

I began by covering a 10cm square of card in Matte Medium and scrunched up a piece of stamping tissue over the top before leaving it to dry

Once dry I trimmed the edges and then sprayed with Distress oxide sprays. 

When this was dry I used a darker shade of distress oxide ink direct to the paper to bring out the texture some more. 

I used the Bakewell Big one inkable to add a little coordinating ink to the base card.

On a separate piece of card I stamped the Doodle Art Dragonfly in Black versafine Clair and cut it out.

Using ecoline brush pens I coloured it in. 

I stuck the body of the dragonfly to the textured panel and added some glitter glue.

Here's the card once more...

along with a closeup of that texture. I have left it without a sentiment for now but will add an appropriate one when I use it.

I used:

Doodle Art Dragonfly stamp set

Big ones Inkable - I used Bakewell

6x6" card

10 cm square of card

Versafine Clair ink in black

Ecoline Brush pens

Stamping tissue

Distress oxide sprays - I used Peacock feathers and Squeezed lemonade

Distress oxide ink - I used Peacock Feathers and Uncharted Mariner

Matte Medium

Glitter Glue

I hope this has encouraged you to experiment a little with texture! 

Don't forget, if you find yourself on the Bee Crafty Website from my blog post, you can get yourself an extra 10% off by using my discount code! Just pop BEESALLY10 in at the checkout x

Thanks for looking! 

Alison CT - Photo Opportunity

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created using one  catalyst paper, some transparencies and a white posca pen.

To begin, cut the white edge off the sheet of catalyst card, then use distress collage medium to adhere it to page.

Add the face transparency using matte collage medium. Go over the top of the transparency with matte medium as this reduces the shine. Add some of the journal circles transparencies.

Add white pen to the page in the form of white dots on the words, blue circles and some of the coffee stains not covered by the face. Colour the lips and eye with alcohol markers. 

Choose a sentiment and colour the letters on the back with a white posca pen. Cut out and use matte medium to glue it to the page. 

Products used:
Catalyst Papers 1

Faces 2 Transparency Prints 

Journal Circles Transparency Prints 

Walk Your Own Way Transparency Prints 

Distress Matte Collage Medium 

White Posca Pen 

Alcohol Markers

Thank you for taking a look. If you want a 10% discount on your purchase from Bee Crafty use code BEEALISON10 at checkout.

Alison 

Calee CT -Tiny Bird

Hello , this week for my blog , I am using up a background I made a couple of weeks ago , to make this tiny bird card , so you may recognise it .

Here’s the background , l used two distress inks and two Inkables to make an A4 size background and had this piece left .

To give a little more dimension to the background I used some coloured texture paste , in a deep purple , through this tiny circle D’inkable .Then using the tweet tweet stamp from the Doodle Art Rainbow Birds stamp set . I stamped a wordy boarder all long the right side . 

Next I inked around the edge of the card to give more definition and draw the eye to the centre of the card , where the main image would be going .

To finish the background I used white gel pen to add a stitched border effect and a white Posca pen to add a few clusters of white dots .

Using the Doodle Art Rainbow Birds Birds and the Art Stamps Journaling essentials #7. I stamped out my main images . Colouring my bird with a variety of Ecoline water colour pens . 

My card was finished by layering the rainbow bird on top of the cut out leaves ,  the sentiment from the Rainbow bird stamp set was mounted on to black card and added on a slight angle .

For my card today I used 

Distress inks :Picked Raspberry 

                 Villainous Potion

Inkables: Grand Rainbow Dala 

Mandala 4

        D’inkables set 2

Stamp sets: Doodle Art Rainbow Birds 

      Art stamps journaling essentials # 7

White and black card , white posca and gel pens and some coloured texture paste . 

Thank you for taking a look at my Tiny Bird card and I hope you enjoyed my step by step . 

Happy crafting 

Calee x

Sally CT - Vintage Vibes

Hi There! I am here with a vintage feel journal spread today. Here's how I did it. 

 

I began by brayering a mix of Vintage photo, Victorian Velvet and Bundled sage Distress ink in patches across the page. 

Next I used the Crackle and script background stamps along with the roman Numerals to stamp randomly around the page using the same inks. 

Using the Set 2 Dinkables I added some Diamonds in bundled sage...

and some bricks in Vintage photo.

Next I stamped A Stitch in Time using Versafine Clair Portobello on the right page, adding some stamping of the outer edges around the left page. 

on a separate piece of card I smooshed the Bundled sage and Victorian Velvet ink before stamping it with a Stitch in Time once more, using Versafine Clair. 

I cut out a few elements adding a little more Victorian Velvet ink...

and attached to the pages using Matte Medium. 

I added wordy Stickers for the sentiment...

And added a few splatters of fossilized amber and Picked Raspberry Distress Spritz. 

Here are the finished pages again. 

I used:

A 5x5" notebook

Distress inks -I used Vintage Photo, Bundled Sage and Victorian Velvet

Brayer 

Background Crackle stamp

Background Script Stamp

Roman Numerals (Discontinued)

Bee Crafty Dinkables Set #2

A stitch in Time Stamp

Versafine Clair Portobello ink

Wordy Stickers 1B

Distress Spritz - I used Fossilized Amber and Picked Raspberry

Don't forget, if you find yourself on the Bee Crafty Website from my blog post, you can get yourself an extra 10% off by using my discount code! Just pop BEESALLY10 in at the checkout x

There will be a brand new challenge on the Bee Crafty Facebook Group on Saturday, so please check it out. 

Thanks for looking!