Alison CT - Inkables Texture Tools

Hi everyone, today my blog post is about the Bee Crafty texture tools. Which I have used to create the background on this card.

There are five tools in the sets which can be used in various different ways. My favourite way of using them is with my jelli plate to create backgrounds.

To begin I collected together everything I would need: jelly plate, brayer, texture tools, inkables, stamps, paints (I used Dylusions acrylic and distress oxides), white gesso, and a selection of papers (I usually use mixed media card but most uncoated paper or card will work).

After placing the gelli plate onto my glass mat, I placed a few drops of my chosen paint on to it.

I then used a brayer to spread the paint in a thin layer over the gelli plate. I always have a piece of mixed media paper beside the gelli plate, so that I can clean my brayer between uses.

Next I chose a texture tool and pulled it through the paint, to create a pattern. I repeated this process, with a different tool, and pulled in a different direction.

Next I used a spong to add vanilla custard paint through the Eclipse Trellis Big Ones Inkable. Make sure you put the inkable straight into water so the paint doesn't dry on it.

Next I stamped some of the stamps from the Journal Art Elements 2 stamp set onto the paint using distress oxide inks. Ensure you clean the stamp thoroughly after stamping. Leave this to dry.

Once dry, I used a brayer to spread a thin layer of white gesso over the gelli plate.

Then I placed a piece of mixed media card over the gelli plate and used my hand to smooth it down on to the paint.

After a few seconds I then pulled the card, slowly away from the gelli plate to reveal the print.

When I have the gelli plate out , I can never create just one background, so I continued creating using the tools, and paints I already had out.

After tidying up, i decided to use my first background to create a card. I cut my background down to seven and a half by five and a half inches. The off cuts have been put in my bit box for later use. I used Villainous Potion distress oxide to stamp the slats on to the background.

Next I stamped the ledger and two nibs on to the background.

Then I stamped the tape measure and small circles, to add more detail.

On a seperate piece of card I stamped the largest butterfly, from the XL Birds and Butterflies stamp set, using versafine clair nocturne. I coloured it with a watercolour wash in two shades of orange. I then cut it out.

Next I edged the background piece using a black pen and glued it to an A5 card blank. Finally I added the butterfly and a sentiment.

Products used:

Bee Crafty Inkables Texture Tools 

Gelli Plate

Brayer

Sponges

Dylusions Paint - vanilla custard, crushed grape, postbox red

Distress Oxide - villainous potion, lumberjack plaid 

Versafine Clair - nocturne 

Inkables Big Ones - Eclipse Trellis 

Transparency Prints - Walk Your Own Way 

Art Stamps  - Journal Art Elements 2, Asemic Splats,  Ledger,  Ink and Nibs, Birds and Butterflies XL

Thank you for taking a look.

Alison

Sally CT - New Year, New Journal

  

Hi There! Thought I would share my first completed page in my new journal today. It's a Dylusions mini journal, although this page would work equally well in any A5 notebook or sketchbook

I began by adding random patches of magenta and ocean acrylic paint to a double page. I used some Dina Wakley paints that need using up, but Dylusions paints in Blue Hawaiian and Bubblegum pink would give a similar effect. Where the paints mix they are a fabulous purple colour. I purposefully left the top left corner colour free as a place to put the sentiment.

I taped the chrysanthemum 6x6 inkable in the bottom right corner and added black gesso through it with a stencil brush. I removed the inkable carefully and left the page to dry.

Next I added a stem to the chrysanthemum, using a black sharpie pen and painted the top left corner with white gesso. I extended this gesso very lightly across the pink and blue areas and left to dry. 

Once the paint was completely dry I used wilted violet distress oxide through the circles D'inkable over the paler areas.

I used distress oxide inks to stamp some of the Doodle Art mandalas over the background. 

Whilst the stamping dried I stamped two of the sentiments from mixed messages #1 onto a scrap of thin card using versafine clair inks and cut them out. 

I added these to the page using matte medium and added a little texture paste through the small dots D'inkable. 

Here is the finished page once more...

and here is a close up to show the stamping and texture. 

I used:

Dylusions mini journal

Acrylic paint 

6x6 inkable - Chrysanthemum

Black gesso

White gesso

Dinkables sets 2 and 3

Doodle Art Mandalas sets 1 and 2

Distress oxide inks in Tumbled Glass. Salty Ocean, Shaded Lilac and Wilted violet

Mixed messages set 1

Versafine clair ink in Monarch and Fantasia

Matte Medium

Texture paste

Black Sharpie pen

It was really lovely to just play in my journal and make a good start on this new one that has been lying here since I finished the previous one back in September. I will be live on the Bee Crafty facebook page tonight at 8pm. Hope you can join me!

Thanks for looking! 

Alison CT - Mandala Bundle January Saver

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created using the Mandala stamp bundle, which is today's January saver. After the step by step guide I have added some photos of other projects I have used them on. 

To begin, I spritzed Distress Resist Spray on to a page in my Dina Wakley blue journal. I also used the pipe in the bottle to draw vertical and horizontal lines.  (Not a good photo, its white on white)

While the resist spray was drying, I stamped out some of the mandalas from sets 1 and 2 using versafine clair nocturne ink. I always stamp more than I will need; those left over will go in my fodder box for later. Once the ink was dry I cut them out.

Now the resist spray is dry, I used a large very wet flat paintbrush to spread blue hawaiian and crushed grape Dylusions paint across the page.  I patted it dry with kitchen towel to remove the paint from the resist spray. Leave the page to dry.

Next I used versafine clair nocturne ink to stamp the dansing daisy and 2 of the triangles from the dancing daisy stamp set. I cut these out and coloured them with watercolour paints. (Sorry forgot to take a photo.)

Next I spritzed a piece of media paper water, then I applied distress collage medium and stuck it across the middle of the page, applying more collage medium over it.

Then I chose the three largest mandalas and used collage medium to glue them diagonally across the page.

Then I cut two of the smaller mandalas in half. These I glued around the edge of the page.

Next I added the daisy and triangles to the page.

Next I added a sentiment,  I used one from the transparency prints speak your truth. I coloured the back of the transparency with white posca pen, to make the wirds stand out more against the page. I used collage medium to glue it to the page.

Products used: 

Doodle Art Stamps - Mandala Bundle, Dancing Daisy

Ranger Distress Resist Spray 

Versafine Clair - nocturne 

Dylusions Paint - crushed grape, blue hawaiian

Bee Crafty Media Papers

Distress Collage Medium

Transparency Prints - speak your truth

Thank you for taking a look.

Alison

Sally CT - Do what you love Challenge inspiration

 

Hi there! Here is a card I made recently using the Doodle art Rainbow Birds, following the theme of our monthly challenge (to use 3 things beginning with B). Here is how I made it.

I began by masking the edges of a piece of mixed media card using washi tape. 

I used three colours of Versafine Clair to stamp three of the border stamps from freehand borders #2

Once this ink was dry I lightly blended distress oxide across the panel, before splattering with a little water. 

I cut a 6cm square of black card and added a border of faux stitching using a gelly Roll white pen

Next I stamped the smaller bird onto mixed media card using versafine clair black ink and coloured it with ecoline markers. Once dry I cut it out. 

on another scrap of black card I stamped and embossed a sentiment from small words. 

Finally I added the background panel to an A6 card, layering the elements onto the background using foam pads. 

I used:

Royal Talens Mixed media card 

Freehand Borders #2 stamp set

Versafine Clair Inks in Blue Belle, Glamorous, Monarch and Nocturne

Distress Oxide inks in Picked Raspberry, Prize ribbon and Wilted Violet

White gelly roll pen

Doodle Art Rainbow birds stamp set

Ecoline pens

Small words stamp set

Sticky pads

Black card 

white embossing powder

Versamark ink 

I hope you like this inspiration for the Bee Crafty Stamps Facebook group January challenge and I hope you can join in with this and the altered playing card challenge too. Thanks for looking!