Alison CT - Vintage Painted Gaze

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a vintage page in my art journal using one of the Painted Gaze face images. I felt that the distressed look of the paint would add to the vintage look.

To begin I blended vintage photo distress oxide around the edges of the page. I sprayed water onto my fingers and shook it off onto the inked area and then patted this dry with kitchen roll.

I sponged shapphire Dina Wakley acrylic through the distressed diamonds inkable. I washed my stencil before the paint could dry on it.

When the paint was dry, I cut the collage paper to size and used matte medium to adhere it to the page.

Using just the ink in my blending brush, I blended vintage photo around the edges of the image. As most of the distressed diamonds were hidden, I added some over the image using uncharted mariner distress oxide. 

Next, I used rusty hinge distress oxide to add some perspective dots to the page.

On seperate card I stamped the gerberas and the leaves. I used second generation stamping- stamping, then stamping again without reinking. I coloured the images with distress oxide in mustard seed, rusty hinge and uncharted mariner. I then cut them out.

I added some hessian ribbon to the bottom left corner of the page.

I used matte medium to add the fliwers and leaves over this.

I chose the sentiment from the Wordy Stickers 3 and blended vintage photo distress over them and added a sketchy bordere with a fineliner. 

I added them to the bottom right of the page. 

Heres the finished page again.

Products used:

A4 Catalyst Collage - Painted Gaze

6 inch Inkables - Distressed Diamonds, Perspective Dots 

Doodle Art  - Gerbera stamp set 

Journaling Essentials 3 stamp set

Wordy Stickers 3

Versafine Clair nocturne 

Dina Wakley Acrylic Paint - sapphire

Distress Oxide - rusty hinge,  vintage photo, mustard seed, uncharted mariner 

Thank you for taking a look.

Alison 

Calee CT- Vintage Dragonfly

Hi, this week I have a journal page to share with you for my step by step . This month’s challenge theme is Vintage,so I have given my page a vintage feel .

  

My first step was to choose my catalyst collage paper and add it to my journal page , tearing some of the edges for that vintage look . This paper is from the Wing Whispers set . 

Next I added a little Blue Print sketch distressing though this D’inkable from set 12 to echo the blues in the collage paper . I also inked around the edges of my page with  Distress ink Spiced Marmalade to bring all of the colours together . 

To add more of a vintage feel I then went in with some stamping with this Art stamp -Script Background, using Versafine clair in Pinecone .

Then I made two tags one from white card and one from craft card , These I stamped with the same script stamp  . Inking them all over with the Pine Cone ink . To one of them I added some coffee stain stamping , with the small stamps from the Art Stamp coffee stains set . The other I added a small clock from my bit box , This is part of the Art stamps set :Wasted Time . 

Taking a page from an old book ,  I stamped two tape measures from the Art stamps : Stitched Boarders set and cut them out . 

My next step was to add all of these elements to my page.

 

I still needed a focal point for my page , so for this I chose the large dragonfly from the Art Stamps : Dragonfly Set , which I stamped on to the same book page again using the Pine Cone ink pad .Adding a little colour with some water colour paint.

 

With my page nearly complete it was time to add a sentiment, this one is from the Ticker Tape 4 Wordage set.

This I left quite pain and simple , cutting it into 3 pieces to add to my page . Finally I completed my page with a white stitched boarder and a few splatters using a white Posca pen . 

Here is my finished page ,maybe not overly vintage but with a vintage feel . I hope you like my page and it has given you some  inspiration to create some vintage style art work , don’t forget this is our this months challenge theme . 

Happy crafting 

Calee 

Here is a list of the products I use this week  :        

Catalyst collage papers : Wing whispers 

Distress ink : Blue Print Sketch 

Versafine clair : Pine cone 

D’inkables set 11

Art stamps : Script Background 

Stitched Boarders 

Dragonfly Set 

Clocks - Wasted Time 

I also use some white and craft card for the tags and a white Posca pen for adding  details and splatters .

Sally CT - Vintage Vibes

 

Hi there! It's time for a new challenge over in the Bee Crafty Stamps Facebook group so here is a little inspiration to get you started on our theme, which is Vintage

I began by smooshing Vintage Photo and Speckled Egg Distress oxide onto a coaster sized piece of Mixed media card. 

Next I used the crackle background stamp to add some more vintage photo ink. 

Using matte medium I added a few pieces of book page, then used a tag inkable to add a little more speckled egg ink. 

I also added some stamping in vintage photo ink 

Once I was happy I added a spray or two of Distress spritz in Weathered wood. 

I used a small strip of Ledger Catalyst card, edged with brown ink to create a border across the centre. 

On a separate piece of paper I stamped the smaller Dandedaisy 3 times in Portobello ink. 

I used distress ink to paint in the colour before cutting them out. 

Finally I stuck them to the coaster, along with a lightly inked wordy sticker, and finished off by adding a little shadow around the flowers with Black ink and a wet brush. 

I used:

Dandedaisy stamp set

Crackle Background stamp

Journal Art Elements 3 stamp set

Tag inkables set 1

Bee Crafty Catalyst Cards #4 A6

Wordy Stickers 1

Distress oxide inks in Vintage Photo, Speckled egg and Black soot

Distress inks in Victorian velvet, Bundled sage, Squeezed Lemonade and Speckled egg

Versafine Clair Portobello ink

Weathered Wood Distress Spritz

Book page

Matte Medium

I hope this has inspired you to enter the challenge. It is a great opportunity to use old stamps, scraps of lace and old photos too. 

Thanks for looking!

Alison CT - Beautiful

Hi everyone,  today I'm sharing an art journal page created using the A5 Catalyst Collage papers with some of the Transparency Prints. 

I began by painting my page with Kuretake Gansai Tambi granulating watercolours. I left this to dry.

Whilst waiting I cut out the image from the Catalyst Collage paper that I wanted to use.

When the background was dry, I added the alternate circles inkable using spiced marmalade and mustard seed distress oxide and some of the splats inkable using mermaid lagoon distress oxide. I wanted to add colours from her hair to the page.

Next, I chose the transparencies I wanted to use and cut them out.

I used matte medium to attach the intertwined circles strips to either side of the page.

Then I added the face.

I added the numbers and the circles to the centre of the largest five flowers.

Next I used matte medium to glue the three words to white card. I did this because they got lost in the background on their own. I cut them out.

Finally I glued the words to the page.

Products used:

Kuretake Gansai Tambi granulating watercolour paint 

Alternate Circles inkable

Splats inkable

A5 Catalyst Collage Rainbow Thoughts

Transparency Prints - alpha numbers, beautiful and brave, faces 4, sketchy birds and journaling essentials 

Distress oxide - mustard seed, spiced marmalade, mermaid lagoon 

Thanks for taking a look.

Alison

Calee CT -Flower Girl

Hi , this week my step by step guide is a journal page on a denim page in my journal. I have found this type of page more difficult to create on ,but thought these catalyst collage papers would work well on the darker background.

Firstly I chose the A4 Rainbow Thoughts pack as the vibrant yellows were a contrast to the denim.

 Next I tore around the main image ready to add to my page . 

 

Once I had glued it down , the next step was to stencil through both of the leaf designs in the D’inkables set 14 . This was done with sone acrylic paint in a very pale green and white. This added some background foliage to my page . I also added a stitched boarder with a white posca pen . 

Next I stamped out a selection of flowers from the Art stamp set , Sketchy Flowers . These water coloured using Ecoline watercolour pens . 

Next I took a look through my catalyst card and found this one from pack #1 and using a contrasting ink ( Spiced Marmalade) to the colours in my flowers . I stamped a couple of leaves  from Journaling essentials #4 and #6 stamp sets , on white card and a couple on the catalyst card . 

Putting all of these bits aside I , stamped out my sentiment from the Ticket Tape 4 Wordage stamp set and edged in black . 

My next  step was to lay all of my stamped flowers and leaves on to my page creating a floral collage in each corner . Feeling my background was alittle plane I  then added some dots and hashtags using posca pens . 

Next I stamped out a few of the smaller butterflies from the Art stamp set Birds  and Butterflies, again colouring them with Ecoline pens. These were add to my page mainly in the girls hair , giving my page a more balance .

This is my finish page ,I’m really happy with how it turned out on the denim material, particularly as I have found these pages in my journal a really challenge .

Thank you for stopping by , I hope you found my step by step useful 

Happy crafting 

Calee 

Here is the list of products I used this week :     

Collage catalyst papers -A4 Rainbow Thoughts

Catalyst cards : #1pack                                      

 Inkables-D’inkables set 14.                                 

Stamps -Journaling Essentials #4 and #6.          

Art stamps -Sketchy Flowers #1.                       

Art stamps -Birds and Butterflies                      

Wordage- Ticket Tape 4.                                    

I also used some acrylic paint for stencilling and posca pens to add background details .