I liberally spritzer the page with water then added a purple and green from my Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolour paints. I left this to dry naturally.
Sunday, October 12, 2025
Alison CT - Cone Flowers
I liberally spritzer the page with water then added a purple and green from my Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolour paints. I left this to dry naturally.
Thursday, October 09, 2025
Calee CT - Then take pictures.
Hi , this week I have been playing in my journal and have a double page spread for you ,as my step by step guide .
The first step was to choose a catalyst collage paper , this one from the Painted Gaze pack appealed to me . There is lots of “empty” space to create on in the centre .
Next I trimmed the white edge off and cut the paper down slightly to leave a border of my page showing . The paper was then glued down over lapping the centre of the page .
My next step was to add more interest to my background with stamps from the Journaling Essentials #9 using distress ink Barn Door and Black Soot . Looking at my page I was unhappy with the straight edge of the catalyst paper against the journal page , so with a black pen I scribbled a doodled line over the join and in various place on my page . Then added a bold stitched border.
After this I stamps out some leaves from the Journaling Essentials #7 stamp set , for this I used distress ink Mermaid Lagoon, laying down some ink on the white card before stamping the leaf over the top , this gave me a tone on tone leaf .Using the cover sheet from the Painted Gaze catalyst collage papers I choose this design and mounted it on to black card and added a stitched boarder frame, creating a small photo style topper .
Wednesday, October 08, 2025
Sally CT - Smile Sunshine Painty Journal page
Hi There! I am here with a Journal page for my blog post this week. More painting inspiration for the Bee Crafty Stamps facebook group challenge. I began by painting a page with black gesso then adding a white gesso 'star' over it.
Once this was dry, I used the latest Dinkables to add some spots and dashes with dylusions paint in mushy peas and peony Blush.
Next I added a piece of catalyst Collage paperand edged round it with a black paint marker.
When it was dry I added faux stitching using a bright pink gelly roll Moonlight pen.
Around the page I added some stamping using Peeled Paint and Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink with some of the worker stamps from Journaling Essentials 9.
Finally I added a wordy Sticker sentiment, adding a bit more faux stitching and a black border
Here is the finished page again.
Sunday, October 05, 2025
Alison CT - Rainbow Thoughts
Wednesday, October 01, 2025
Sally CT - Paint Challenge inspiration
Hi There! I am here with a little inspiration for the new challenge over in the Bee Crafty Stamps Facebook group, where the challenge is 'Paint'. I began by painting the background of my coaster with Dylusions paints.
When this was dry I added some white gesso through the Bakewell Big one inkable.
Using the worker stamps from the doodle Art Cone Flower stamp set, I added a little stamping in black Versafine Clair ink.
On a separate piece of card, I stamped the smaller cone Flower in the same ink and cut it out. I coloured it using distress inks.
Finally I added it to the background along with some wordy stickers, adding some faux stitching with a gel pen and a fine liner.
Here it is once more.