Alison CT - Rainbow Bird Tag

Hi everyone today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating this tag using the rainbow bird and journaling essentials stamp sets with one of the new catalyst collage papers. 

I began by covering a square tag with the catalyst collage paper and then mounting it on black. I re-punched the hole.

On a super skinny slim, I smooshed picked raspberry, carved pumpkin, twisted citron and mermaid lagoon distress ink.

I spritzed this with water. 

I pressed a piece of white card over the ink; applying light pressure to encourage the colours to spread and mix.

I stamped the larger rainbow bird on to this using Versafine Clair nocturne, then cut it out before adding white pen work. I also coloured the beak and feet and orange colour.

Using the smaller firework like stamp and picked raspberry,  carved pumpkin and mermaid lagoon distress ink I added to the catalyst collage paper background. 

Using the rainbow style border and Versafine Clair nocturne, I added some border to parts of the tag.

I added the row of circles stamp to add a pirch for the bird.

I added more stamping to the background using the small circles from journaling essentials 9 with mermaid lagoon; the crosses from journaling essentials 9 with carved pumpkin and the grid from journaling essentials 9 with picked raspberry. 

After gluing the bird in place, I added a sentiment from the Wordy Stickers 3B set.

Products used:

A5 Catalyst Collage Spring Paint

Black card

Journaling Essentials 8

Journaling Essentials 9

Doodle Art Rainbow Birds stamp set 

Wordy Stickers 3B

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

Calee CT -Spring blooms and butterflies

Hi everyone ,this week for my step by step I have a special occasion card . Using the Spring Blooms catalyst collage papers 

My first step was to choose my paper, I settled on this one , mainly due to the colours and large clear flowers .

I then cut my paper to fit a  7x7 in card blank ,this gave a good border for adding a matted layer .

Using a Dinkable  from set 2  and some white texture paste I added three areas of stencilling and  3 more with the distress ink Villainous Potion 

Next using a white gel pen and pink Posca paint pen I  added a stitched border and stitched  detail to some of the flowers  . I also added some pink doodled hearts and dots to complete my back ground .

Three Doodle Art Butterflies were then stamped and coloured using Ecoline water colour pens ,with white highlights added with gel pen .

Choosing a contrasting coloured card for matting ,my card was constructed and another white stitched border added .

Using a sentiment from the Everyday Sentiments 1 stamp set, it was stamped and mounted on same card. Then it and my butterflies were glued on .

My go to for matting and layering is usual black card ,but I’m trying to use more colours for layering my cards and I think the teal colour really works with the combination of colours in this catalyst collage paper, I hope you agree.

Thank you for taking a look this week 

Happy crafting 

 Calee

A list of products used is below :

Catalyst collage papers - Spring Blooms 

Inks -Distress ink Villainous Potion 

Dinkables -set 2

Stamps -Doodle Art Butterfly 

                 Everyday Sentiments 1

Some white texture paste , white gel pen ,pink Posca pen and coloured card .

Sally CT - Spring Zing!

  

Hi There! It's 1st April and time for a new Challenge theme in the Bee Crafty Facebook group. I chose Spring Zing for the theme this month. Think citrus colours and spring themed images for this one. I created this journal page to inspire you. 

I began by blending 3 shades of Distress oxide ink across the pages - I used spiced Marmalade, Twisted Citron and Mustard Seed. 

Next, I lifted off some of the colour, by spraying the Bakewell Big one inkable with water, laying it over the page and blotting with a clean cloth. I then dried it completely with a heat tool. 

In other areas on the page, I used the tag inkable to add some more spiced marmalade and Twisted Citron inks using a blending brush. 

I added stamping using the same inks and the worker stamps from the Daisy stamp set. 

On a separate piece of smooth card, I stamped the daisy in memento ink and coloured it using alcohol markers before cutting it out. I cut the daisy head from the stem as it was too tall for the page. This also allowed me to angle it differently. 

I added this daisy to the background using Matte Medium. 

next I followed the same steps for the larger daisy from the sketchy flowers set. 

on a thin strip of card I stamped the sentiment and cut to separate each word. 

I splattered the page with Spiced Marmalade distress spritz and added the sentiment and the small daisy using Matte Medium.

Finally I added faux stitching and a few highlights using Gelly Roll Moonlight pens.

Here are the finished pages once more. 

I used:

Bee Crafty Doodle Art Daisy stamp set

Sketchy Flowers Stamp set

Big ones inkable - I used Bakewell

Tag inkables - I used set #1

5x5" sketchbook

Distress oxide inks - I used Mustard seed, Twisted Citron and Spiced Marmalade

Black Memento ink

Alcohol markers

Matte Medium

Gelly Roll Moonlight pens 

I do hope you can join in the challenge this month. 

Thanks for looking!