Alison CT - Sketchy Flowers

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a card made using the ledger, crackle background and sketchy flowers stamps. 

To begin, I created a watercolour background by spritzing the card with water and adding areas of paint. I allowed the paints to run together for a while then, because I was not using watercolour card, I dried the background with a heat gun.

Next I inked the center of the crackle background stamp with versafine clair morning mist and stamped it over to the left of the watercoloured area.

Then, I inked part of the left-hand side of the ledger stamp, with black ink,  and stamped it centrally onto the watercoloured area. I added ink to two of the nibs and stamp them at the bottom left of the Ledger

I, then, used a black posca pen to add black splats to the background.

On separate card I stamped two of the daisies from the sketchy flower stamp set. I had to cut into the acrylic of the stamp, between the leaf and flower, so that I could stamp one standing straight. I then coloured them using biros and gel pens. Finally I cut them out.

I used PVA glue to glue the flowers to the background piece.

I edged the background piece with a black pen, then glued it to the card blank.

Finally I stamped the sentiment from ticker tape 3, cut it out and glued it to the card.

Products used:

Watercolour paints 

Mini Mister 

Paintbrush 

Versafine Clair - Morning Mist,  Nocturne 

Crackle Background stamp 

Ledger, Inkwell and Nibs stamp set 

Sketchy Flowers stamp set 

Ticker Tape 3 stamp set 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

Sally CT - Another Autumnal Journal page

 

Hi There! I am here with another simple journal page inspired by Autumn, which is the theme of our challenge this month in the Bee Crafty Stamps Facebook Group.

I began by cutting a piece of greyscale catalyst card to fit my page in my 5x5" notebook. 

I blended Distress ink in autumn colours across the page and sponged walnut stain around the edges.

Using Spiced Marmalade Distress Oxide I stamped the small gerbera and some of the words randomly around the page

Using Versafine Clair Acorn ink I added the corner stamp at each corner to the background

Next I inked up the large leaf stamp from Journaling Essentials # in Black Versafine Clair and stamped it across the page. 

Finally I added the sentiment using Wordy stickers and used a white gel pen to add some faux stitching around the edges.

I used:

Bee Crafty Catalyst Cards #2 - A5 Greyscale

Bee Crafty Doodle Art Gerbera stamp set

Bee Crafty Journaling essentials #7 stamp set

Bee Crafty Wordy Stickers: 3 B

Distress ink in Peeled Paint, Crackling Campfire, Mustard Seed and Walnut stain

Distress oxide ink in Spiced Marmalade

Versafine Clair ink in Acorn and Nocturne

small square notebook (5x5")

Thanks for looking! 

Alison CT - Floral page

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created using a clean up page.

To begin, I chose a page where I had cleaned my Bakewell Big One.

Next I added torn strips of a text washi to the page. I used distress collage medium to ensure they were stuck to the page. 

Next I used Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolour paints to add some colour to the background. 

Next I added some distress spritz to the page. I used picked raspberry and wilted violet.

I stamped the border from the Journaling Essentials 4 using versafine clair nocturne.

Then I added the hearts and stars stamp from the Moon Fliwer stamp set using Villainous Potion distress oxide. 

I also added three hearts using the dinkable from set 14 using Black Soot distress oxide. 

On seperate card stamp 5 flowers from the Journaling Essentials 4 stamp set, 2 leaves from the Journaling Essentials 7, 5 leaves from the Journaling Essentials 3 and the moon part of the Moon Flower stamp sets using versafine clair nocturne. I coloured the images with distress pencils and moonlight pens. I then cut them out.

Next glue the images to the page.

Finally add Transparency Prints sentiment from the Creative Words set.

Products used:

Inkables Big Ones  - Bakewell 

Script washi tape

Watercolour paints 

Distress Spritz - Picked Raspberry,  Wilted Violet 

Dinkables set 14

Journaling Essentials 3

Journaling Essentials 4

Journaling Essentials 7

Moon Flower stamp set

Creative Words Transparency set

Distress Oxide - Wilted Violet 

Versafine Clair  - Nocturne

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

Sally CT - My Favourite Season

 Hi There! I'm here with a double page journal spread today to welcome in my favourite season, Autumn. 

I began by stamping the page with random patches of the Background script and crackle stamps using Desert Sand Versafine Clair ink. 

Next I used the Dinkables set 14 leaves, sponging Distress oxide ink over them and also spritzing the inky leaves with water and laying on top.  

I added a few sprays of Distress Spritz on to the inked background and dried using a heat tool. 

Once it was completely dry I added the wordy sticker sentiment. I often leave the sentiment till last and don't leave enough room, so I thought it would be good to try it the other way around this time! 

Next I stamped some doodle Art Mushroom on to some watercolour card.

I cut them out and coloured using Ecoline markers and a wet brush. I coloured the spots on the mushrooms using Gelly roll Moonlight pens.

Finally I attached the mushrooms to the page using a little matte medium, grounding the smaller ones using a little brown ink. 

I used:

Small square sketchbook

Background Script Stamp

Background Crackle stamp

Dinkables Set 14

Wordy Stickers- Autumn B

Doodle Art Mushroom Stamps

Versafine Clair ink in Desert Sand and Nocturne

Distress Oxide ink in Crackling Campfire, Spiced Marmalade, Vintage Photo, Mustard seed and Shabby Shutters

Distress Spritz in Barn Door, Fossilized Amber and Spiced Marmalade

Matte Medium

Watercolour paper

Ecoline Pens

Gelly Roll Moonlight Pens

Thanks for looking! 

#beecraftydeck2024 week 38 diamonds

Hi everyone,  I'm running a little behind on the Bee Crafty Deck challenge so for today's blog post I'm sharing my week 38 make.

Because my cards are shiny, they need to be primed with some sort of paper. I decided to use catalyst papers for this one, and as there are no diamonds on any of the papers, I went for the plain one from pack 2. I made the paper wet before adding the collage medium, as this makes it more transparent than just with medium, then covered my card. I used an emeryboard to remove the excess paper from around the edges.

Next I used the diamond plate six inch inkable with candied apple distress oxide to start the background. 

Then I added texture paste through the distressed diamond dinkable from set 2.

Next I used versafine clair nocturne to stamp the small diamond/square stamp from the journaling essentials 4 stamp set.

On seperate card, I stamped two of the leaves, from Journaling Essentials 2, using versafine clair verdant ink and one of the flowers, from Journaling Essentials 4, with versafine clair strawberry. I coloured the flowers using the remaining ink on my blending brush from using the stencil before. I then cut them out.

I then glued them to the card using collage medium. 

Finally I added a sentiment from the Small Words stamp set, which I stamped with the strawberry inkthen cut out and edged with a black pen.

Products used:

Playing card

Catalyst Paper pack 2

Diamond Plate 6 inch Inkable 

Dinkables set 2

Journaling Essentials 2

Journaling Essentials 4

Small Words 1

Ranger Distress Grit Paste 

Ranger Distress Collage Medium 

Distress Oxide - Candied Apple 

Versafine Clair - Nocturne, Verdant, Strawberry 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

Sally CT - Gerbera garland

 Hi There! Thought I would show you how I made this card today. 

I began by stamping the smaller gerbera in Black versafine Clair multiple times and cutting them out

On a 5.5" square of white card, I drew a wavy line using the tag inkable from set 5 with pencil.

I stamped 3 different freehand borders up to the wavy line using 3 different colours of versafine clair ink. 

Next I blended 3 coordinating distress oxide inks onto the gerberas and stuck them on to the wavy line with matte medium, overlapping them slightly. I also sponged a little ink around the edge. 

I chose a sentiment form the Wordage Everyday Sentiments 1 set and stamped it in black versafine ink.

Finally I matted and layered the panel onto a 7x7" card blank.

I used;

Doodle Art Gerbera stamp set

Freehand borders stamp set

Everyday sentiments #1 stamp set

Inkables Tags set 5

Versafine Clair ink in Nocturne, Bali Blue, Lilac Bloom and Avocado

Distress Oxide ink in Wilted Violet, Peacock Feathers and Twisted Citron 

Matte Medium

7" square card blank

5.5" square of white card

Thanks for looking! 

Alison CT - Using up small scraps of catalyst paper

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created using up all the small off cuts of catalyst papers to create a background. As you can see in the photo I have quite a lot of small bits left over from previous projects.

Using distress collage medium add the small pieces of catalyst paper so that they cover the page then leave to dry naturally. 

Using a dry brush add white gesso to the central area of the page.

Use the script background stamp with versafine clair hawthorne rose ink to add to the background.

Apply seedless preserve distress oxide directly to the oval lace six inch inkable by rubbing the ink pad directly on to it. Sprits lightly with water and press it onto areas of the page.

Using the border super skinny thin acrylic block stamp the scribbled border, from the dancing daisy stamp set, using versafine clair nocturne ink about 5mm in from the edge of the page.

Using the printed acetate from the dancing daisy stamp set as a guide stamp three coffee stains and three of the numbers from the coffee stains stamp set. 

Stamp the dancing daisy image onto a separate piece of card using versafine clair nocturne. Watercolour using rustic wilderness, twisted citron, mustard seed, seedless preserve and picked raspberry distress oxide ink. Then cut it out.

Glue the daisy to the page so that it touches parts of the coffee stains and numbers.

Finally add the sentiment from the walk your own way transparency prints using collage medium. 

Products used:

Catalyst papers off cuts

Distress collage medium 

White gesso

Oval lace 6 inch inkable

Doodle art dancing daisy

Super skinny slim blocks

Coffee stains stamp set 

Script background stamp set

Transparency prints walk your own way

Distress oxide ink pads - rustic wilderness, seedless preserve, picked raspberry, twisted citron, mustard seed 

Versafine clair - hawthorne rose, nocturne 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison