Calee CT -Spring blooms and butterflies

Hi everyone ,this week for my step by step I have a special occasion card . Using the Spring Blooms catalyst collage papers 

My first step was to choose my paper, I settled on this one , mainly due to the colours and large clear flowers .

I then cut my paper to fit a  7x7 in card blank ,this gave a good border for adding a matted layer .

Using a Dinkable  from set 2  and some white texture paste I added three areas of stencilling and  3 more with the distress ink Villainous Potion 

Next using a white gel pen and pink Posca paint pen I  added a stitched border and stitched  detail to some of the flowers  . I also added some pink doodled hearts and dots to complete my back ground .

Three Doodle Art Butterflies were then stamped and coloured using Ecoline water colour pens ,with white highlights added with gel pen .

Choosing a contrasting coloured card for matting ,my card was constructed and another white stitched border added .

Using a sentiment from the Everyday Sentiments 1 stamp set, it was stamped and mounted on same card. Then it and my butterflies were glued on .

My go to for matting and layering is usual black card ,but I’m trying to use more colours for layering my cards and I think the teal colour really works with the combination of colours in this catalyst collage paper, I hope you agree.

Thank you for taking a look this week 

Happy crafting 

 Calee

A list of products used is below :

Catalyst collage papers - Spring Blooms 

Inks -Distress ink Villainous Potion 

Dinkables -set 2

Stamps -Doodle Art Butterfly 

                 Everyday Sentiments 1

Some white texture paste , white gel pen ,pink Posca pen and coloured card .

Sally CT - Spring Zing!

  

Hi There! It's 1st April and time for a new Challenge theme in the Bee Crafty Facebook group. I chose Spring Zing for the theme this month. Think citrus colours and spring themed images for this one. I created this journal page to inspire you. 

I began by blending 3 shades of Distress oxide ink across the pages - I used spiced Marmalade, Twisted Citron and Mustard Seed. 

Next, I lifted off some of the colour, by spraying the Bakewell Big one inkable with water, laying it over the page and blotting with a clean cloth. I then dried it completely with a heat tool. 

In other areas on the page, I used the tag inkable to add some more spiced marmalade and Twisted Citron inks using a blending brush. 

I added stamping using the same inks and the worker stamps from the Daisy stamp set. 

On a separate piece of smooth card, I stamped the daisy in memento ink and coloured it using alcohol markers before cutting it out. I cut the daisy head from the stem as it was too tall for the page. This also allowed me to angle it differently. 

I added this daisy to the background using Matte Medium. 

next I followed the same steps for the larger daisy from the sketchy flowers set. 

on a thin strip of card I stamped the sentiment and cut to separate each word. 

I splattered the page with Spiced Marmalade distress spritz and added the sentiment and the small daisy using Matte Medium.

Finally I added faux stitching and a few highlights using Gelly Roll Moonlight pens.

Here are the finished pages once more. 

I used:

Bee Crafty Doodle Art Daisy stamp set

Sketchy Flowers Stamp set

Big ones inkable - I used Bakewell

Tag inkables - I used set #1

5x5" sketchbook

Distress oxide inks - I used Mustard seed, Twisted Citron and Spiced Marmalade

Black Memento ink

Alcohol markers

Matte Medium

Gelly Roll Moonlight pens 

I do hope you can join in the challenge this month. 

Thanks for looking! 

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