Sally CT - Vivid Dragonflies

Hi There! I am here with a pair of cards to show you today. I've left sentiments for the inside because I fell in love with the background. Let me show you how I made them.

I found a piece of watercolour card that was 10cm x 20cm. I blended peacock feathers, twisted Citron, carved pumpkin and Wilted violet distress oxide inks across it (I know, its a bit dangerous putting purple and orange together. I'd intended putting the peacock feathers next to the wilted violet, but I messed up the order, lol)

Next, I sprayed the big one Bakewell inkable with water and laid it over the top. After about 30 seconds I lifted it off carefully and dried it with the heat tool. I didn't blot it because I wanted the colours to mix a little. This piece was then cut in half, making 2x 10cm square backgrounds.

Using the same colours of oxide inks I used some of the smaller stamps from journaling essentials #2 to add to the background, before placing this on one side.

I stamped the Doodle art dragonfly twice in Memento ink and coloured with alcohol markers before cutting them out. I also painted on a little distress spritz to add sparkle.

I splashed a little more distress spritz to the backgrounds before matting and layering onto 13cm square cards. Finally I added the dragonflies using matte medium 

I love them both! I can see I will be using that background technique lots more lol. 

I used:

Doodle Art Dragonfly #1 stamp set

Journaling Essentials #2 stamp set

Big one inkable - Bakewell 

Distress Oxide inks in Carved Pumpkin, Wilted Violet, Twisted Citron and Peacock Feathers

Distress Spritz in Spiced Marmalade Wilted Violet and Worn Lipstick 

Memento ink - Tuxedo black

Alcohol markers

2x 13cm square cards

2x 10cm square pieces of watercolour card

Black paper for matting and layering.

Matte Medium

I hope you like my project today! Don't forget we have the Bee Crafty stamps facebook group challenge, where the theme is winter/ Christmas. I hope to see your entries there soon! 

Thanks for looking! 

Alison CT - Round card

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating this round card.

To begin create a 4" round card blank by folding a piece of card and slightly overlap the die over the fold, then die cut out. Also cut a mat from the next size down circle die.

Next, using the same die as for the mat, cut a circle from one of the full colour and one from the greyscale A6 catalyst cards.

Cut the circles in half and glue to the layering piece. Glue this to the card blank with the fold at the top.

On seperate card stamp the flower from the Doodle Art Butterfly stamp set. Add the seperate leaf to the stem. Colour the image and cut out.

Glue the flower to the card and add faux stitching around the edge of the layer.

Add a cut down wordy sticker from the 1B sheet. 

Products used:

Nesting Circle Dies

Full Colour Catalyst Cards 1 

Greyscale Catalyst Cards 1

Doodle Art Butterfly stamp set 

Micron Pen

Wordy Stickers 1B

Thank you for taking a look.

Alison

Sally CT - Grungy flower card

 

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

I began by smooshing a piece of watercolour paper with Distress oxide inks.

Next I rubbed a little microglaze through the tag inkable before spraying with Walnut stain Distress Spritz before leaving it to dry.

Using the Background script stamp without putting it onto a block, I added some patches of stamping in Tea Dye Distress oxide. 

On another piece of card I stamped the flower from Journaling essentials #8 3 times and coloured it in, cutting it out to layer it up.

I used more stamps from this set to add to the background, before matting and layering it onto a card base

I also stamped some of the leaves from Journaling essentials #3 onto a scrap of smooshed card.

on a scrap of dark brown card, I stamped the sentiment in Versamark ink and heat embossed it in white, before adding all the elements to the card base using either foam pads or matte medium.

Here is the finished card again. 

I used: 

Tag inkables set 1

Script background stamp

Journaling Essentials #3 and #8 stamp sets

Small words stamp set

Distress oxide inks in dried Marigold, Cracked Pistachio and tea Dye

Distress Micro glaze

Distress Spritz in Walnut stain

Versafine Clair Pinecone ink

Versamark ink

White embossing powder

Cream A5 card

Watercolour card 6x4"

Dark brown card for matting and layering and the sentiment

There are all sorts of fabulous offers on Stamp bundles at the moment so do go and check them out on the website. There is also our winter and Christmas themed challenge over in the Bee Crafty stamps group. Hope you can join in!

Thanks for looking! 

Alison CT - Mixed Leaves

Hi everyone,  today I'm sharing a set of clean and simple cards that I have created using the new Mixed Leaves stamp set.

To begin I added to shades of green distress ink (iced spruce and evergreen bough) to the larger square super skinny slim.

I spritzed this lightly with water and  placed it ink side down onto the centre of a 6 inch card blank. I left it to dry naturally. 

Using the smaller of the two hiorse chestnut style leaves, mask of the square of ink (I used a post-it note) and add to white heat embossed leaves.

Using the larger of the three leaves on a stem, with versafine clair acorn ink, stamp two coming in from the sides of the card.

Using the small round leaf with the same ink pad, add threeeaves to the green area. Vary the orientation of each leaf.

Using the splat dinkable from set 3 add small areas of distress grit paste between the leaves. Leave to dry. Then add five gold sequins.

Finally I added a sentiment from the Everyday Sentiments 1 stamp set using the same brown ink.

Some further ideas are below.

Stamp the leaves using an embossing ink and clear emboss. Mask of an area just wider than the leaves and blend festive berries, ripe persimmon, mowed lawn and mustard seed distress ink over the leaves. Wipe off any excess ink on the embossed leaves. Add the sentiment from the Everyday stamp set using the festive berries ink.

Stamp the larger of the two leaves using versafine clair morning mist and colour with a pumice stone watercolour crayon and a damp paintbrush.  Stamp a second generation version of the splats from the asemic splats stamp set and morning mist ink. On seperate card stamp the same leaf with black ink and colour using tree lot and bubbling cauldron distress crayons. Cut out and glue slughtly off set to the image on the card. Add the sentiment from the Everyday set.

Stamp the leaf using versafine clair acorn. Colour using rusty hinge distress oxidecand a damp paintbrush. Stamp the splats stamp over the leaf using rusty hinge oxide. Add the sentiment using fallen leaves versafine clair ink.

On seperate card stamp three of the leaf using versafine clair portobello ink. Colour the leaves with Kuretake Gansai Tambi graphite colour watercolour paints.  Cut out and glue down the left hand side of the 5x7 card blank. Use a black pen to add a partial rectangle and stamp the sentiment. 

Products used:

Variety of card blanks

Square super skinny slim

Mixed Leaves stamp set.

Asemic Splats stamp set

Everyday Sentiments stamp set 1

Dinkables set 3

Ranger white embossing powder

Ranger Grit texture paste

Sequins 

Variety of Distress Ink pads

Versafine Clair ink pads

Distress Crayons

Graphite Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolour Paints 

Thank you for taking a look.

Alison

Sally CT - Pop-up Pumpkins!

Hi There! I've managed to do a bit more craft wise this week and it was great to get my journal out for a good play. Here's what I did.

I began by blending some distress oxide inks over the innie of the 4" oak easy frame inkable around a double page.

Next I stamped several different mixed leaves using a variety of autumn colours.

Using the script background stamp without a block I added some stamping in vintage photo distress ink. I also added some dots and lines from the pumpkin stamp set. 

I cut the sentiment from the transparency sheet and stuck it to the page using matte medium. 

On  a separate piece of watercolour card I stamped the pumpkins in versafine Clair ink and coloured them using ecoline pens. I cut them out and left to dry.

I folded the biggest pumpkin roughly in half, then equally distant each side of the centre fold, I added two more folds. I used a bone folder to burnish these and made sure the centre fold was a mountain and the two side folds were valley folds. Next I added a little matte medium to the outer edges beyond the outer folds. Making sure the journal page is completely flat, I lined up the centre fold with the centre fold of the journal and stuck that down flat to the page (just with the matte medium already applied) 

Once this was dry, I made sure the pumpkin centre fold popped out as the pages were closed.

Here's the finished page again. 

I used:

4" Oak easy frame inkable

Mixed leaves Art stamps

Doodle Art Pumpkin stamp set

Script Background stamp

Bee Crafty Transparencies - Autumn/Winter words

Distress oxide inks in Mustard Seed, Vintage Photo and Aged Mahogany

Distress inks in Fired Brick, Crushed Olive and Vintage Photo

Ecoline pens 

Versafine Clair Nocturne ink

12x12cm notebook

Watercolour paper

Matte medium

There are also some fabulous bundle offers on the website at the moment that you can find here

The wrist is progressing nicely and my lovely friend Jane has helped me by finishing the design on my cast, using sharpies and one of the mandala inkables. I'm able to do a lot more than I could as you can see from my pages above. All being well it will be cast free before the end of the month. 

Thanks for looking! 

Alison CT - DL card

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing how I created this bright and cheerful DL card.

To begin I created a blended background using worn lipstick, spuced marmalade and mustard seed distress oxide ink pads. I then spritzed it with water and left it to dry naturally. 

Next I used tumbled glass distress oxide with the cracked glass dinkable from set 3.

Then I stamped the small multi petal flower from Journaling Essentials 8 using white gesso. I smeared a small amount of gesso onto my blending mat and lightly tapped the stamp into it.

I then stamped some of the small worker stamps from Journaling Essentials 3 and 4 using Bali Blue and Charming Pink Versafine Clair. 

I added the rainbow border from Journaling Essentials 8 using Versafine Clair nocturne. 

On seperate card I stamped three of the largest flower from Journaling Essentials 8. I coloured them with gel pens, then cut them out.

I glued them to the background puece and cut off any excess.

I glued this piece to a DL card blank and added a sentiment from the wirdy stickers 1b sheet.

Products used:

Journaling Essentials 3

Journaling Essentials 4

Journaling Essentials 8

Wordy stickers 1B 

Versafine Clair  - bali blue, nocturne, charming pink 

Distress oxide - tumbled glass  spiced marmalade, worn lipstick, mustard seed 

Gel pens

White gesso

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison