Jane DT - Just Bloom ATC's

Hello!

Today on the Bee Crafty blog I am sharing a very quick make where I created a couple of artist trading cards...

The cards are 2 and a half by 3 and a half inches in size and were cut from watercolour card.  The backgrounds were created using watercolour paints which I blended using lots of water...

Next once the paint was totally dry I applied clear embossing ink through the honeycomb d'inkable then heated gold embossing powder.

The Just Bloom flowers were stamped onto separate card using archival ink then coloured using sparkle watercolour pens.  Once they were applied to the cards I cut off the excess and coloured the edges of the cards with the archival black ink pad...

Finally I stamped out the sentiment from the set and cut the individual words out. 

Once these were stuck down I used a black posca pen to add doodling around the words and edges of the cards.

Here are the products that I used...

* Art Stamps by Jane Royston - Just Bloom
* D'Inkables - Honeycomb

Thank you for looking and happy crafting!

Jane xx

Karen DT - Bloom

Morning everyone. 

I'm over on the Bee Crafty blog today with my latest Art Journal pages, using the fabulous Journaling Girls. Love the freedom my Art Journal gives, anything goes, just let your creativity flow xx 

Products used: 

Journaling Girls: Cheer, Sassy

Journaling Blocks 

Just Bloom stamps

Versafine 

Distress Oxide

Inks 

Sparkle pens 

To create the background I put some drops of coloured ink on a glass mat, picked them up with a wet piece of cloth and dragged them across the pages. I did this several times, in different directions to create this effect. 

I stamped the embellishments randomly across the pages using Black Onyx Versafine and Faded Jean's Distress  Oxides.

I stamped some of the Just Bloom flowers randomly across the bottom. 

The Journaling Girls and a Block were stamped on card, coloured in, cut out and adhered to the page. (The Sentiment was stamped in Black Onyx Versafine on the Block, before adhering it).

I also stamped some of the flowers on a piece of card, coloured them in with my sparkle pens, cut them out and adhered them on top of the stamped images, to create more dimension. 

I hope you enjoyed today's post and I'll see you again soon 

Crafty hugs xx 

Caz DT - butterfly crinkle card

PRODUCTS USED:

Bee Crafty dragonfly and butterfly stamps

https://www.beecrafty.net/art-stamps-large-birds-butterflies-dragonfly-butterfly-set.ir

Bee Crafty ledger stamp 

https://www.beecrafty.net/bee-crafty-art-stamps-ledger.ir

Bee Crafty small words stamps

https://www.beecrafty.net/wordage-sets-small-words.ir

4x6" card panel

Tea dye distress ink

Versafine black onyx ink

Tissue paper

Peacock feathers distress oxide

Gold gilding wax

HOW TO MAKE:

Crinkle up the tissue...

Glue onto your card panel.

Ink up the ledger stamp and partially stamp it about the page

Ink blend the edges with the tea dye distress and stamp out the dragonfly

Stamp out two butterflies, fussy cut and colour with peacock feather oxide

Glue them onto the card and add gold gilding wax highlights over the crinkles to accentuate. 

Stick the sentiment on, and it's complete. 

Hope you like

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Thanks for looking.

Jane DT - Perennial Tree Mini Journal Spread

Hello!

This week on the Bee Crafty blog I thought that I would continue using the book that I showed last week by decorating some of the inside pages...

I started by using acrylic sprays with some masks and stencils, the circle mask from the small circle easy frame plus the leafy branch and circles d'inkables...

Then I used some of the texture circles with archival ink...

I wanted to make the circles more of a feature so coloured them and did some black and white doodling.  I also edged the pages with black archival and added some white splashes...

Next I wanted to include quite a striking focal image so decided to go for a silhouette tree.  I stamped it onto white tissue paper then added it to the page using collage medium...

Once this was in place I decided to add some stamping using grey ink for a more subtle look, then added my main sentiment...

Here are the products I used:

* Easy Frames - Circle 4"

* D'Inkables - Leafy Branch

* D'Inkables - Circles

* Background, Textures & Borders - Texture Circles

* Beautanicals - Silhouette Tree: Perennial 

* Wordage - Live, Laugh, Dream

* Wordage - Small Words

* Distress Collage Medium

Thank you for looking and happy crafting!

Jane xx

Karen DT - A Masterpiece Tag

Hello everyone xx

Its Thursday so I'm up on the Bee Crafty blog and today's make is an MDF tag, using stamps from the Bee Script and Bee Monarchy collection.  Xx

Also used:
Dinkables
Distress Oxides 
Gilding Wax
White gel pen
Ticker Tape Sentiments 

To begin I applied Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide over the tag then blended Picked Raspberry randomly,  through the Honeycomb Dinkable 

I stamped one of the Honeycomb stamps randomly in Black Onyx Versafine 

Holding the Bee Script stamp in the palm of my hand, I applied Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide and stamped random parts over the tag.

I used a white gel pen to add highlights and dots. This creates some depth, light and shade to your design.

I stamped the Bee and coloured it in with Sparkks Pens then adhered that, and the Ticker Tape Sentiment  with 3d glue gel. 

I hope you enjoyed todays post and I'll be back again soon 

Crafty hugs xx 

Caz DT - Light bulb card

PRODUCTS USED:

Bee Crafty light tomorrow stamp set

https://www.beecrafty.net/bee-crafty-art-stamps-light-tomorrow.ir 

Bee Crafty film, texture and circles stamp set

https://www.beecrafty.net/bee-crafty-art-stamps-texture-film-strip-circles.ir

Card blank 6x6

Distress oxide/ink blueprint sketch and twisted citron

Versafine black ink

Versamark

Clear embossing powder

Foam pads

Inktense blocks (any water colour is fine)

HOW TO MAKE:

Stamp straight onto the card blank front with the blueprint sketch distress ink pad, staggered squares at random for the background

Then stamp the lightbulb partially off the card front in versafine black ink, I like to work in 3s

Next use the twisted citron oxide ink to stamp out the texture stamp which almost looks like a watercolour effect, adding interest to the background

Then stamp one of the circles in the same twisted citron...

And another circle in the blueprint sketch ink

Next stamp and fussy cut the light bulb, and water colour it yellow

Cover in versamark and clear embossing, heat set for a glossy finish. 

Stick the bulb on using foam pads for more demention, stamp out the light today sentiment and also mount on foam pads. 

You're done! 

Hope you like 

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Thanks for looking.

Jane DT - Doodle Flower Book Cover

Hello!

As the weather here at the moment is very spring like I was in the mood for a bright and happy project this week!

I have been watching lots of crafty videos in the past few weeks, and the other day was reminded during one by Dina Wakley of a book you can make using one sheet of paper (there will be videos/tutorials available in various places online if you want further details).  This made me want to create my own, but I didn't want a tiny book so used a sheet of A3 mixed media card.

Once I had folded it into the correct shape I used media tape to seal up some of the sides but left some tops open for tags to fit into and added smaller tags inside to create pockets. 

Then I created my bright and happy cover...

I started by spraying the cover with turquoise gloss spray from Dina Wakley, then with lime green through the Fernando big inkable.  Once this was dry I used the same stencil again but this time with white crackle paste...

Then I stamped out images from some of the doodle art stamps: Regular Sunflower; Regular Butterfly; Regular Bee.  These were cut out and coloured using watercolour pens.  I covered the flowers with glossy accents and added a few gold micro beads whilst the glaze was still tacky...

I left them to thoroughly dry overnight then the next day added them to the cover using glue gel.

Finally I stamped out one of the phrases on the Small Words stamp set and inked around the edges before adding to the cover as well...

Here are links to the products I used:

* Doodle Art Stamps - Sunflower Regular
* Doodle Art Stamps - Butterfly Regular
* Doodle Art Stamps - Bee Regular
* Wordage - Small Words
* Inkables Big Ones - Fernando

I am looking forward to filling up my little book!

Thank you for looking and happy crafting!

Jane xx

Karen DT - Why?..Art Journal

Morning everyone xx

I'm over on the Bee Crafty blog today with a spread from my Art Journal. 

I wanted to use my Doodle Art stamps, but had no specific idea in mind, so I just went for it, and this was the end result lol. That's what I love about my Art Journal, the freedom to just create...

Products used:

Doodle Art stamp sets

Big One - Inkable - Chrysanthemum 

Distress Oxides 

Ticker Tape 2 Sentiments 

Sparkle pens from my Crafty stash 

Having gessoed my pages first, I blended Distress Oxides randomly through the Chrysanthemums Big One Inkable. I wasnt careful and I applied different pressures, to create depth and dimension.

I stamped all the Doodle flowers, from all the different sets I had, randomly across the bottom of the pages. 

The Butterfly was then stamped twice, going off the edge of the page, again to add dimension and perspective. 

I used a couple of the small embellishment stamps, from some of the sets, randomly across the spread, including the splatter of dots one, around the flowers. 

I then coloured in using my sparkle pens. I wanted a watercolour effect to this spread, so I coloured in very loosely, leaving white spaces, going over the edges, and blending colours together. I love how this technique gives a completely different look to a more precise, neat colouring technique.  

The Ticker Tape sentiment was stamped on white card, cut out and adhered, to complete my spread.

I hope you liked it, it was a lot of fun to create.

Until next time, 

Crafty hugs xx 

Caz DT - Dragonfly grunge tag

PRODUCTS USED:

Bee Crafty dragonfly stamp

https://www.beecrafty.net/art-stamps-large-birds-butterflies-dragonfly-butterfly-set.ir

Bee Crafty ledger stamp

https://www.beecrafty.net/bee-crafty-art-stamps-ledger.ir

Bee Crafty distressed harlequin D'inkable

https://www.beecrafty.net/dinkable-distressed-harlequin.ir

Ticker tape sentiment set 3 stamps

https://www.beecrafty.net/wordage-sets-ticker-tape-stamp-set-3.ir

Tag die cut

Gold embossing powder

Versamark ink

Archival black and grey ink

Vellum

Tattered rose distress oxide

Nuvo acorn brown ink

Book page

White gesso

Posca pens

HOW TO MAKE:

Swipe the versamark ink down the tag randomly and sprinkle with gold embossing powder - heat it. It's a great easy grunge look background!

Ink over the rest of the tag with tattered rose oxide ink...

Stamp randomly with the ledger stamp inked in acorn brown nuvo (or other permanent brown ink)...

Stencil some gesso through the harlequin D'inkable - I like to do 3 patches...

Let it dry!

Take a piece of book page and stamp the ledger onto it, then rip it and glue it across the tag for more interest...

Stamp the dragonfly onto card with versamark and emboss in gold - also stamp onto vellum using black archival (fussy cut both) then colour on the back of the vellum dragonfly using posca pens, the colour with show through...! 

Glue the gold embossed dragonfly down and then stick the vellum one on top slightly off set so you see a hint of gold. 

Add ticker tape sentiment  and you're done. 

Hope you like 

❤️

Thanks for looking.

Jane DT - Jellyfish Memorydex Card

Hello!

This week I am sharing a sea themed card that I have made to go on my Memorydex spinner...

I started on a a mixed media card base and used the alternate circles stencil with crackle paint...

Then I used liquid watercolour inks in blue, turquoise and green to add colour...

Using one of the sentiments from the regular jellyfish stamp set, I stamped along both the sides using blue archival ink and also added some around the edges...

Next I used the bubbles from the same set with clear ink and gold embossing powder, then decided to add gold around the edges of the card instead of the blue ink...

Then I used black versafine clair to stamp the jellyfish on and coated it in clear embossing powder...

                                           

Finally I re stamped the top of the jellyfish and coloured it with sparkle pens, before adding the same sentiment on another piece of card...

Here are the products that I used...

* Inkables - Alternate Circles
* Art Stamps by Sam - Jellyfish (regular)

Thank you for looking and happy crafting!

Jane xx