Alison CT - Two Inks, Three Products and Four Pens.

Hi everyone,  I feel that sometimes as a member of a creative team, I forget that everyone else does not always have the same amount of products as I do. So today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating this art journal page using just a few Bee Crafty products and some inks and pens.

To begin, I cut a piece of the catalyst collage paper to fit my A5 journal. I then glued it down using matte medium. I also blended black soot distress oxide around the edges. 

Next, I decided which way I wanted to place the transparency print and coloured the eyes and lips with posca pens. I left this to dry.

I used matte medium to adhere it over the catalyst collage paper.  I trimmed the excess off. I then used a brush to apply a thin layer of matte medium over the transparency print to minimise glare.

Next, I drew a faux black stitched border around the page using a black posca pen.

I stamped the sentiment using Versafine Clair nocturne ink on grey, rather than white, card and added a stitched border, then edged with black soot distress oxide. I glued this to the page.

Products used:

A5 Painted Petals and Portraits Catalyst Collage Papers 

A5 Faces 1 Transparency Prints 

Incredible Words stamp set 

Distress Oxide black soot

Versafine Clair nocturne 

Posca Pens - white, black, light blue, light pink

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison

Calee CT - Doodle Art Daisy

Hi everyone , having received the simply beautiful new catalyst collage papers , couldn’t resist a play with them . I have journal page to show you for my step by step this week .

My first step was to chose a catalyst collage paper , as this weeks palette colours seemed to coordinate so well with the Spring Paint collection I decided on this collection . I chose this A5 one and collected some inks and Ecoline water colour pens together .

Taking Dinkables from sets 2 and 15 and using Distress inks Mermaid Lagoon ,Cracked Pistachio and Distress Oxide kitsch Flamingo , some random stencilling was added.

Next I cut my paper to fit my journal page and added some  Lucky Clover Distress ink all around my page, giving a darker frame then added a white stitched border using a Posca paint  pen . The paper was then glued on to my page .

 

Next taking the small circle stamp from the Doodle Art Daisy set I stamped in a few places using black ink and coloured with my Ecoline pens .

The Doodle Art Daisy was then stamped and coloured with a combination of Distress inks and Ecoline pens .

After gluing down my Daisy and adding some white highlights ,I found this small butterfly from the Birds and Butterfly Art stamps in my bit box and as it was the perfect combination of colours I added it to my page along with one of the sentiments from the stamp set .

This is a fairly simple page with the beautiful catalyst collage papers doing most of the background work !

 Thank you for popping by and taking a look ,I hope you found the step by step guide useful 

Happy crafting 

Calee

Here are the products I used this week :

Distress inks -Mermaid Lagoon 

Lucky Clover 

Cracked Pistachio 

Distress oxide -Kitsch Flamingo

Catalyst Collage papers - Spring Paint 

Inkables  -Dinkables sets 2 & 15

Stamps - Doodle Art Daisy 

Art stamps - Birds and Butterflies 

Ecoline watercolour pens , a white Posca pen and white gel pen and my A4 journal .

Sally CT - More inspiration for the challenge

Hi there! I am here with a quick journal page using some of the new spring release from Bee Crafty. Here's how I made it. 

 

I began  by covering the page with a piece of Catalyst Collage papers from the Spring Paint (A4) set. I attached it with Matte Medium. 

Next, I stamped around the page using the Border from the Daisy set and Versafine Clair Bali Blue ink.

Swapping to Hawthorn Rose ink I stamped the bubbles from the same set. 

Next I added some of the hearts from the Lilius set in golden Meadow ink. 

On a separate piece of paper, I stamped, cut out and coloured the smaller lillius. I also stamped it onto the background, so I didn't need to fussy cut the stamens. 

Using the same black ink, I stamped the sentiment onto a piece of the paper and sponged a little purple ink around the edge

I added some colour to the border on the page using ecoline pens and stuck down the coloured flower over the place where I stamped it. I also added a few white pen highlights to the flower too. 

Finally, I used a yellow Gelly Roll moonlight pen to add in more highlights.

Here is the finished page again....

and here it is opposite last week's in the journal. 

I used:

Lillius stamp set

Daisy Stamp set

Catalyst Collage papers - Spring Pain A4

Versafine Clair ink  - I used Bali Blue, Hawthorn Rose, Golden Meadow and Nocturne (black)

Ecoline pens

Gelly Roll Moonlight pens

Matte Medium

You have until next Tuesday to add your doodle Art Creations to the Challenge album over in the Bee Crafty Facebook group. Thanks for looking!

Alison DT - Doodle Art Mushrooms

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing some more inspiration for Sally's challenge. For this tag I've used the Doodle Art Mushrooms stamp set.

To begin I covered the tag with a piece of old music manuscript. I used a hole punch to put the hole through the music manuscript. 

I cut out one of the front cover panels from the full colour A4 Catalyst Card packs 4.

I also cut out a rectangular piece from the Moths Catalyst Collage Paper. 

I then ripped a larger rectangle from an old book page.

I blended scorched timber distress oxide around the edge of the tag and the three pieces of paper.

I glued the papers to the tag, as shown in the photo.

I stamped the mushroom onto a separate piece of card using portobello Versafine Clair ink. I coloured them with gathered twigs,  scorched timber and aged mahogany distress oxide. I cut them out. 

I glued them to the tag, so the stems rested on the bottom of the book paper.

I then used the portobello ink to stamp the sentiment directly on to the tag.

Finally I added some ribbon and lace using a staple.

Products used:
Old music manuscript and book page.

A4 Full Colour Catalyst Cards pack 4

A5 Catalyst Collage Moths

Doodle Art Mushrooms stamp set 

Wordage Incredible Words stamp set 

Ribbon and Lace

Distress Oxides- gathered twigs,  scorched timber,  aged mahogany 

Versafine Clair  - portobello 

Thank you for taking a look. I hope I've inspired you to have a good at Sally's challenge. 

Alison

Calee CT - Vintage Lillius

Hello all , this week I have card to show you for my step by step , with a vintage feel ,using the new Doodle Art Lillius stamp .

For a change I started by creating my focal image .I did this by stamping the large Lillius on to an old book page .

Next this was coloured using Ecoline water colour pens .

 I then inked around a white piece of card using Vintage Photo distress ink and with a small stamp from this set corner detail was added along with some doodled dots to create a frame .

The edges of my stamped image were then given a distressed feel, again using Vintage Photo distress ink and some background stamping was added with the smaller heart stamp from this set .

To add some more texture to my background some twine was wrapped around the white layer of card it was then glued on to a Kraft card blank.

Next adding to the vintage feel  , I stamped my sentiment in brown ink .

My card was finished by tucking my book page layer under the twine and cutting my sentiment in half and adding it to my card.

Thank you for taking a look this week . If you treated yourself to any of the new Doodle Art Spring stamps , please share your makes on  the Bee crafty Facebook page , we love to see them .

Happy crafting 

Calee 

Below is a list of products I used for my card :

Inks - Distress ink -Vintage Photo 

                                     Picked Raspberry

Versafine Clair -    Pinecone 

Doodle Art Lillius stamp set 

An old book page, Kraft card , Ecoline water colour pens and some twine .

Sally CT - More Challenge inspiration using the new Spring Flowers

 

Hi There! I am here with a super simple journal page for my blog post this week. 

I began by tearing and cutting some pieces of Catalyst Card to fit the page of my 5x5 journal. I attached them using Matte Medium.

Next I stamped the smaller tulip and daffodil onto book pages. I coloured these with colouring pencils and cut them out. 

I added these to the page using matte medium. 

Using Versafine Clair ink I stamped the sentiment onto a scrap of card, sponging a little pink ink around the edge.

Finally I attached the sentiment to the page with more Matte Medium. 

I used:

Bee Crafty Catalyst Card #3 full colour A6

Spring 2026 Doodle Art - I used the Tulip and Daffodil stamp sets

Matte Medium

Pencil Crayons

Black Versafine Clair ink

Book page 

5x5" notebook/ Sketch book

This was super quick and easy and would be suitable for this month's challenge where the theme is to use Doodle Art Stamps.

Thanks for looking! 

Alison CT - Samples for the new Doodle Art Flowers

Hi everyone,  today I'm sharing four of my samples for the new Doodle Art Flowers stamp release. I've really enjoyed playing with the four new flowers.

For my first sample, I have created a tag by blending tumbled glass and wilted violet distress oxide over the blank tag. I then blended salty ocean distress oxide through the Moroccan tile inkables tags from set 1.  Using the dots dinkable from set 2 I added villianous potion distress oxide to it, then spritzed with water and pressed it on to the tag. I added some of the crosses from the new tulip stamp using Versafine Clair nocturne.  I stamped the tulip on to separate card and coloured it with my Kuretake Gansai Tambi Granulating watercolour paints. I, then cut it out and added it to the tag. I tucked two letters and one number, from the Alpha Numbers Transparency Prints, under the flower.

For this simple card I blended twisted citron distress oxide over the edge of the 4" circle easy frame mask. I then blended squeezed lemonade distress oxide through the 6" Perspective Circles inkables. I stamped the large Doodle Art Lillius on to separate card and coloured with my Kuretake Gansai Tambi Granulating watercolour paints.  After cutting it out I glued it to the card. I added the corner stamp and sentiment from the same stamp set. 

For this art journal page I created a background by using Pearl May Green, Pearl Lemon Yellow and Pearl Cobalt Blue paints from the Kuretake Gansai Tambi Pearl Colors paint palette. I then used a black pen to draw a scribbly border around the painted area. I stamped the squares and leaves,  from Journaling Essentials 2, using arctic blue Versafine Clair and the crosses using verdant Versafine Clair. I stamped the Doodle Art Daffodil on separate card and coloured it with watercolour pencils. I added gold glitter gel to the stamen. After cutting it out I used gell medium to glue it to the page. Finally I added the sentiment from the same stamp set.

For this card I created a background by smoothing the card in to picked raspberry and twisted citron distress oxide which I had put on my blending mat and spritzed with water. I added the grid, circles and word using Versafine Clair nocturne ink. I added a stitched border. Then I mounted this on to a piece of pink card. I stamped the border stamp on to the pink card using Charming Pink Versafine Clair. I cut the mat to size and added it to a 5 x7 card blank. After stamping the daisy I painted it with my Kuretake Gansai Tambi Opal pink, yellow and green. I cut it out and added it to the background. Finally I coloured the circles with a white pen.

Products used:

Doodle Art 

.Tulip

. Lillius

. Daffodil

. Daisy

Journaling Essentials 2

Inkables Tags sets 1

Dinkables set 2

4 inch circle easy frame

Inkables perspective circles

Transparency prints alpha numbers

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison