Alison CT - Circles

Hi everyone today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating these mdf artist trading coins as inspiration for Sally's Circle challenge in the Facebook group. The coins themselves are curcles and I've used a circles dinkable as well.

To begin,  I covered the three mdf coins with some left over pieces of A6 greyscale #2 catalyst card. I used a sanding block to neaten the edges.

Then, I placed a part of the circles dinkable, from set 3, on to the coin and used a thin black posca to draw the circles on to the coins. I coloured them with watercolour pencils and a paintbrush. I left them to dry.

Next, using Versafine Clair nocturne ink,  I stamped several of thr flowers from the Doodle Art Blooming Blooms stamp set. I coloured them with the same watercolour pencils and then cut them out. 

I glued them to my coins.

I, then, decided they needed some leaves, so I stamped the small leaf from Journaling Essentials 2, coloured them and cut them out.

I added them to the coins.

Finally, I added a sentiment from Wordy Stickers sheets 1 and 3 black.

Products used:

MDF Artist Trading Coins 

A6 Greyscale Catalyst Cards 2

Dinkables 3

Doodle Art Blooming Blooms 

Journaling Essentials 2

Wordy Stickers 1B and 3B

Black Posca pen 

Watercolour Pencils 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

Calee CT - Cone Flower Canvas

Hi ,this week I have small canvas  to share with you using a  catalyst collage paper from the A5 Squares and Hearts pack .

This canvas measures 10 x 20 cm , so is quite similar in size to a DL card and this design could easily be used as a card front . I chose this paper from the A5 pack and tore to size leaving some of the canvas to show around the edges .

After gluing the paper on to my canvas I added some stencilling with distress oxides Blueprint sketch and Pine needles using dinkables from sets 12 and 15 .

This paper reminded me a little of patchwork , so using a white gel pen I added some faux Stitching and some heart  doodles . I then broke up the background with some white texture paste using the Big one’s Bakewell Inkable .

Next I stamped out the large cone flower from the Doodle Art Cone flower set and coloured with my Ecoline water colour pens .

My canvas was finished quite simply by gluing on the cone flower and adding a sentiment which I borrowed from the Doodle Art Lillius stamp set .

Thank you for taking a look this week.  Although this looks like quite a complicated design when you first see it , the catalyst collage paper does most of the hard work. The catalyst collage papers work so well on different substrates it is so easy to achieve great results .

Happy crafting 

Calee 

These are the products I used this week :

Papers - catalyst collage A 5 Squares and Hearts 

Inks - distress oxide  Blue print sketch 

                           Pine needles

Inkables - Dinkables sets 12 and 15 

Stamps - Doodle Art Cone flower 

      Doodle Art Lillius 

A small  Art canvas , various coloured paint pens, texture paste  and white gel pen .

Sally CT - Oodles of Circles

 

Hi There! We have a new challenge over on the Bee Crafty Stamps Facebook group with a theme of circles. Here's how my circles journal page came together. 

I began by sponging some Broken China distress oxide ink down the centre of the pages. 

Next, I sprayed a circle dinkable with water, laid it onto the oxide ink and then mopped up the excess water with kitchen towel. 

Once this was dry, I added some Rainbow Bubbles catalyst collage paper on each side with matte medium. I left a gap on the right hand page for the next step. 

I cut out some circles from a sheet of the Circles and Butterflies Catalyst Collage paper and added them to the page, including in the gap I left on the right page.

I cut around the edge of the circles on the edge of the page. 

Using a posca pen and the dinkable from earlier, I added some more circles to the page. 

I used some of the circle stamps from Journaling essentials set 1, along with coordinating Distress Oxide inks to add some subtle stamping to the page.

On a separate sheet of card, I stamped half of the large gerbera and 3 small ones in black versafine clair ink. I coloured them using Dina Wakley gloss drops and cut them out. 

Finally, I added these and a wordy sticker sentiment to the pages using matte medium. 

Here are the finished pages once more. 

I used:

Dinkable set #3

Catalyst Collage papers - I used Rainbow Bubbles and Circles and Butterflies in A5 

Journaling essentials #1 stamp set Available as a part of this bundle

Doodle Art Gerbera stamp set

Distress oxide inks - I used Broken China, Crackling Campfire, Picked Raspberry and fossilized amber.

Black versafine Clair ink

Mister spray

Dina Wakley Gloss Drops

Matte Medium

5x5" journal

I will be doing a Facebook live for Bee Crafty at 8pm this evening so I hope you can join me! 

Thanks for looking!