Alison CT - Create Your Future Self

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a card created using Journaling Essentials stamps as inspiration for Sally's challenge in the Bee Crafty Facebook group. I've also used the colours from the week 4 palette as it was one that particularly inspired me.

To begin, I created a background by smoothing worn lipstick distress oxide on to a blending mat, then spritzing with water.  I dipped my card into this ink three times, drying with a heat gun between dips.

Using an aqua green Posca, I drew through the line and circles inkable tag, from set 5.

I then stamped the dots, from Journaling Essentials 9, using Charming Pink Versafine Clair ink. 

Using Versafine Clair Monarch ink, I stamped the grid from Journaling Essentials 9 four times onto the background. 

On separate card, I stamped four of the flower from Journaling Essentials 8 and three of the leaves from Journaling Essentials 4. I stamped one leaf with Worn Lipstick and two with Spun Sugar distress oxide. 

I coloured one flower with Worn Lipstick and one with Spun Sugar.  The other two I left white. I, then, cut them out. 

Next, I edged the background piece with Spun Sugar distress oxide ink and glued it to a 5 x 7 card blank before decoupaging the flower and adding it and the leaves to the card.

Finally,  I added a sentiment from the The Best Things Take Time transparency prints sheet.

Products used:

Inkables Tags set 5

Journaling Essentials set 4

Journaling Essentials set 8

Journaling Essentials set 9

Transparency Prints - The Best Things Take Time

Thank you for taking a look. Why not have a go and enter the challenge to be in with a chance of winning a £20 voucher to spend at Bee Crafty. 

Alison

Calee CT - Joy & Happiness

Hello , this week I have simple card design for my step by step , combining inspiration for this weeks colour palette and Sally’s challenge theme of using Journaling Essentials stamps .

My first step was to collect some inks , both distress and distress oxide, which fitted within the colour palette and a white piece of card . 

Choosing two of the inks , Evergreen Bough and Cracked Pistachio I created a smooshed background using some acetate and spritz of water . 

After adding a little Villainous Potion in the same way . I choose stamp set Journaling Essentials #9 ,intended to use just one set of stamps to create this card .

Using the smaller stamps and this week’s palette of colours, some random stamping added to my background. 

Taking the large flower stamp from this set I stamped and coloured two flowers , These were coloured with a combination of distress inks and Ecoline water colours pens . White details were added with a gel pen. 

After trying the coloured flowers on my background , I decided to use just one and added a stamped stem and leaves.This was done using Journaling Essentials #3 and stamping directly on to my background . A stitched border was added at this stage with white posca pen.

My card was finished off with a sentiment from the wordage stamp set , Phrases and Sentiments 1 . Then mounted on to a white card blank. 

This is fairly simple card design , and although I did use  two sets of journaling stamps in the end , I hope it shows what you can create with just a few products . 

Thank you for stopping by by this week 

Happy crafting

Calee

Here is a list of the products I used  : 

         Distress inks - Evergreen Bough

                                 Cracked Pistachio 

                                 Villainous Potion

       Distress Oxide- Twisted Citron.     

stamp sets - Journaling Essentials #9 & #3

Wordage stamp set - Phrases and Sentiments 

A sheet of white card , a white card blank and Ecoline water colour pens . 

                                                   

Sally CT - Journaling on index cards

 

Hi There! I am here with a couple of index cards for my blog post today. These are a great way to art journal in miniature without the expense of a purpose made journal. I used the Bee Crafty Palette for this week. I also used Journaling Essentials stamps so these are more inspiration for our challenge in the Bee Crafty Stamps facebook group. 

I began by smooshing the index cards with distress inks. I used a piece of acetate to apply the inks with. 

I used a couple of Dinkables to apply some Villainous Potion distress ink to the inked background.

Using Journaling Essentials sets #5 and #8, I used the prize ribbon and iced spruce to add some stamping to the background. 

I chose focal images from the same stamp sets and stamped these in Black versafine clair onto the backgrounds. 
 

I stamped the flowers again onto some white card, cut them out and coloured them using ecoline markers. 

finally I added these along with some wordy stickers to the backgrounds. Some faux stitching using a gelly roll moonlight pen finished them off.

Here are each of the cards.

I used:

Index cards

Journaling Essentials sets #5 and #8

Dinkables 

Wordy stickers

Distress inks - I used iced spruce, Prize ribbon, Twisted citron, Villainous potion

Versafine Clair black ink
Ecoline markers

Thanks for looking! 

Alison CT - Journaling Essentials Inspiration

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing some inspiration for Sally's challenge using the Journaling Essentials stamp sets.  I have used them to create both the background and as focal point on this set of ATCs.

To begin, I cut three pieces of black card to ATC size.

Then I cut out three of the panels from the cover sheet from the A4 Catalyst Card set 3. I trimmed these so when glued to the black cardvit would leave a small border. 

Because each background was different, I wanted to tie them together by adding some stamping. 

I stamped the crosses, from Journaling Essentials 2, using picked raspberry distress oxide, the grid, from Journaling Essentials 9, using faded jeans distress oxide and the circles, from Journaling Essentials 2, using mustard seed distress ink. I also added some small cogs, from the Clocks: Wasted Time to the pink background using villianous potion distress ink.

On separate card,  I stamped the leaves from Journaling Essentials 2 and the flower from Journaling Essentials 9. I cut these out.

 

I glued the flowers and leaves to the ATCs, each one in a different arrangement. 

Finally I stamped one of the sentiments from the Small Words set on each ATC.

Products used:

Black and White card

A4 Full Colour Catalyst Cards #3

Journaling Essentials 2 stamp set 

Journaling Essentials 9 stamp set 

Clocks: Wasted Time stamp set 

Small Words stamp set 

Thank you for taking a look.  I hope I've inspired you to have a good at the challenge. 

Alison

Calee CT - ATC trio

Hi , this week I am using up some leftover background (mop up page ) to make a trio of ACTs

On this piece of card are Distress ink Seedless Preserve and Distress sprays Worn Lipstick and Peacock Feathers and it is just left over ink and spray from a previous project .

My first step was to cut my card into 3 ATCs , these are sized 2.5 in x 3. 5 inches. 

Next , working on all 3 at the same time, choosing Distress inks Spiced Marmalade and Picked Raspberry and D’inkables set 2 , I added stenciling in various places. The edges were also inked around using Picked Raspberry to give them a little more depth.

Taking one of the small clocks from the Art stamp set Time is Free . Clocks were added randomly to each ATC using Distress ink Dusty Concord .

Next I stamped out a selection moths from the Art stamps Moth set and coloured them with Ecoline water colour pens, blending the colours with a little water . These would have some white gel pen details added when dry .

 

I then stamped out the Art Stamp , Background Script in black ink on to a piece is white card , tearing small strips to add to each ATC .

Here then are my ATCs with the Moths and sentiments from the Wordy Stickers set 3B added . My final step was to mount them on to some black card . 

Thank you for taking a look this week , I hope you liked my step by step . I enjoy making ATC and it always surprises me how much you can fit on these small works of art . 

Happy crafting 

Calee 

These are the products I used for my ATCs.               

Inks - Distress ink :Seedless Preserve 

                                Spiced Marmalade 

                         Dusty Concord

Distress sprays : Worn Lipstick 

                                 Peacock Feathers 

               Inkables -  D’inkables set 2 

                                    Coffee stain script 

   Art stamps.-    Time is Free 

                   Moths 

                                       Background script.

Wordy stickers set 3B.         

Ecoline water colour pens , a white gel pen and some black mounting card . 

Sally CT - A little Hope

 

Hi There! Here's a journal spread, as inspiration to both the new challenge on Bee crafty Stamps Facebook group, and this week's Bee Crafty Palette. Here's how I put it together. 

I began by blending patches of distress oxide inks around the page. I used Chipped Sapphire, Rustic Wilderness, Saltwater Taffy, Bundled sage and Old Paper. 

Next, I sprayed a Dinkable from set 11 with water and laid it onto the inked pages for a few seconds, before mopping up the water using a clean cloth.

Once this was dry, I added some stamping using some of the worker stamps from the Journaling Essentials #9 Stamp Set. The theme for our challenge is to use Journaling Essentials Stamps. 

On a separate piece of paper I stamped the large flower from the same set in Versafine Clair Blue Belle. I used a paintbrush and water to add colour using the same inkpads, and cut them out.  

I also added a few highlights using gelly roll moonlight pens and a white posca. 

I added some extra stamped elements from the same stamp set before positioning the flowers  and some wordy stickers with Matte Medium. Finally I added some white Faux stitching around the page and the sentiment. 

I used: 

Journaling Essentials #9 Stamp set

Dinkables set 11

Wordy Stickers - 3B

Distress Oxide inks in Chipped Sapphire, Rustic Wilderness, Saltwater Taffy, Bundled Sage and Old Paper

Versafine Clair ink in Blue Belle

Ranger Mister bottle 

Gelly Roll Moonlight Pens

Posca Pen

5x5" notebook/ sketchbook/ journal

Our Challenge theme for February is Journaling Essentials and there are plenty of stamps to choose from in the Journaling Essentials range. I do hope you will join in. 

Thanks for looking! 

Alison CT - Let them Stare

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created using Transparency Prints,  Journaling Essentials stamps and Catalyst Card.

To begin, I tore the top right corner and bottom left corner off of a piece of the A4 Full Colour Catalyst Card from set 4, then glued it to the page in my 8 x 8 journal. 

I sprayed the page with distress oxide spray in peeled paint, broken china and twisted citron. I then spritzed this with water to encourage mixing. After a few minutes I used kitchen roll to mop up excess water, then left this to dry.

When the background was dry, I stamped the rounded leaf, from Journaling Essentials 7, several times in the corners with no background paper using Avocado Versafine Clair ink. I also added some of the crosses from the same stamp set using Bali Blue Versafine Clair ink. 

Next I added some of the dots from Journaling Essentials 9 using Shady Lane Versafine Clair ink. 

To finish the background I added some of the grid stamp from Journaling Essentials 9 using Bali Blue ink. 

I added the male face from the Faces 3 Transparency Prints after I had coloured his eyes with a white and blue posca pen. I used clear matte medium to adhere him to the page. 

Finally I added a cut down Wordy Sticker sentiment from set 2. 

Products used:

Transparency Prints Faces 3

A5 Full Colour Catalyst Cards 4

Journaling Essentials 7

Journaling Essentials 9

Wordy Stickers 2

Selection of Versafine Clair ink pads

Distress Oxide Sprays

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison