Sally CT - Journaling with this week's Bee Crafty Palette

 

Hi There! This week I thought I would have a little play with the Bee Crafty Palette in my journal. Every week Bev is providing some inspiration on the Bee Crafty Facebook page for the new colours. Some folk might find 5 shades of brown a bit tricky, but to me it gave off vintage vibes, so here's what I did. 
 

I began by smooshing some Rusty Hinge distress oxide ink over a double page in my journal. 

I also smooshed some Vintage photo distress oxide ink. 

Using the same ink I used a tag inkable from set one and blended through it around the pages. 

Next I used the script stamp (not on a stamping block) to add patches of script in Ground espresso Distress oxide ink.  

To finish off the background, I added a few splatters of the Ground Espresso and some white splatters too. 

I chose one of the small images from the front A4 sheet of Autumn portraits Catalyst collage papers. I cut it out and blended a little ink around the edges. 

On a scrap of paper, I stamped the large flower from Journaling essentials set 8, cut it out and coloured it using rusty hinge Distress oxide ink. 

I added both of these to the pages with matte medium, adding a few highlights with a gold pen. On the background, I also added a little stamping using a smaller stamp from the journaling essentials set already mentioned. 

On a piece of rust coloured paper, I stamped and heat embossed a ticker tape sentiment in white. 

I cut this out and added it to the pages with matte medium. 

Here are the finished pages once more. 

I used:

Bee Crafty Catalyst Collage papers - Autumn Portraits A4

Bee Crafty Journaling Essentials Stamp Set #8

Bee Crafty Wordage Ticker Tape set #1

Bee Crafty Background Script stamp

Bee Crafty Tag inkables set #1

Distress Oxide inks in Rusty Hinge, Vintage Photo and Ground Espresso

Versafine Clair Pinecone ink

Versamark ink

White embossing powder

White ink/ paint or posca pen for splatters

I will be live at 8pm this evening on the Bee Crafty Facebook page. I hope you can join me. 

Thanks for looking! 

Alison CT - Spring Zing ATCs

Hi everyone. Today I am sharing some inspiration for Sally's challenge in the Bee Crafty Facebook group I have used spring Zing colours to produce this set of ATC's.

To begin, I cut three pieces of white card to two and a quarter by three and a quarter inches.And three pieces of black card to two and a half by three and a half inches.

Then, I chose and cut out three of the small pictures on the cover sheet of the A5 spring bloom catalyst collage pack.

Next, I inked around the edges of the white card. Two with mustard seed and one with kitsch flamingo distress oxide.

I then glued the catalyst collage pieces to the white card.

I used acrylic paint markers in yellow and pink to add a faux stitch border before glueing them to the black card.

On separate card, I stamped six of the small circular stamp and the top two leaves of the largest branch three times. I coloured these and cut them out. I also stamped three of the smallest birds from the Journaling Essentials stamp set using vertifyingVersafine Claire purple delight and then cut these out.

I glued the birds, flowers and leaves to the ATCs.

Finally, I added, cut down worthy stickers from sheet 1.

Products used:

White/Black Card

A5 Catalyst Collage Spring Blooms

Yellow/Pink Acrylic Paint Pens 

Journaling Essentials 6

Wordy Stickers set 1

Distress Oxides: kitsch flamingo,  mustard seed,  twisted citron 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

Calee CT - Zingy Dragonfly

Hi everyone, l’m here this week with some inspiration for this months challenge theme from Sally - Spring Zing

Taking my small 6x6 inch journal and two inks ,Distress ink Spiced Marmalade and Distress oxide Twisted Citron. A smooshed background was created .

Next to my dried background I added some stencilling with Dinkables from set 15 . Two more Distress inks were used - Mowed Lawn and Cracked Pistachio.

Taking some of the smaller stamps from the Doodle Art Dragonfly stamp set,I added to my page with a pop of red hearts and some green stamping . Using  a yellow Posca pen some splats of paint finished my background .

Then for the main  feature of my page I stamped and coloured , using a selection of Ecoline pens , the Doodle Art Dragonfly .

Before adding the dragonfly a stitched border in black finer liner pen framed my page and a few clusters of white paint pen spots gave the colours a lift .

To finish my page I added a sentiment from the Small Words stamp set , edged with black pen .

I hope I have given you a little inspiration to create some Spring Zing projects , please share them to the Facebook group and enter the challenge as we love to see your creations .

Thank you for taking a look 

Happy crafting 

Calee

A list of products I use are below :

Inks : Distress ink - Spiced Marmalade 

                        Mowed Lawn 

                               Cracked Pistachio 

Distress Oxide - Twisted Citron

Inkables - Dinkables set 15 

Stamps -Doodle Art Dragonfly 

     Small Word set 1

Ecoline water colour pens , Posca paint pens and my 6x6 journal .

Sally CT - Where flowers bloom card

 

Hi There! For my blog post today I thought I would use mostly the Lilius set of stamps and create a simple card. Here's how I did it.

I began by blending distress inks through the Bakewell big one inkable onto the front of a 6x6" card blank. 

Next I used the Border from the Doodle Art Daisy stamp set and stamped it in wilted violet Distress ink along the side of the stencilling. 

Onto the card front I stamped the larger lillius stamp in black ink.

I also stamped the same image onto a scrap of white card, colouring it with Ecoline pens and cutting out the leaves and flower head. I coloured the stem on the base card using the same pens. 

Using Matte Medium, I added the coloured parts to the flower and also used liquid pearls to add to the stamens

On another scrap of card, I stamped the sentiment and the corner stamp from the same set. 

Finally I added the sentiment to the card using 3d foam. 

I used:

6x6" card blank

Inkable Big one - Bakewell

Doodle Art Daisy Stamp set

Doodle Art Lillius Stamp set

Distress inks (Distress oxide inks would be equally suitable) - I used Wilted Violet, Twisted Citron, Fossilized Amber and Abandoned Coral

Black Versafine Clair ink

Ecoline pens

Liquid Pearls - I used Buttercup

3d foam

Matte Medium

This card was made using this week's Bee Crafty Palette but it also fit the Challenge theme for this month too, where we have a theme of Spring Zing (Bright colours and spring images)

Thanks for looking! 

Alison CT - Rainbow Bird Tag

Hi everyone today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating this tag using the rainbow bird and journaling essentials stamp sets with one of the new catalyst collage papers. 

I began by covering a square tag with the catalyst collage paper and then mounting it on black. I re-punched the hole.

On a super skinny slim, I smooshed picked raspberry, carved pumpkin, twisted citron and mermaid lagoon distress ink.

I spritzed this with water. 

I pressed a piece of white card over the ink; applying light pressure to encourage the colours to spread and mix.

I stamped the larger rainbow bird on to this using Versafine Clair nocturne, then cut it out before adding white pen work. I also coloured the beak and feet and orange colour.

Using the smaller firework like stamp and picked raspberry,  carved pumpkin and mermaid lagoon distress ink I added to the catalyst collage paper background. 

Using the rainbow style border and Versafine Clair nocturne, I added some border to parts of the tag.

I added the row of circles stamp to add a pirch for the bird.

I added more stamping to the background using the small circles from journaling essentials 9 with mermaid lagoon; the crosses from journaling essentials 9 with carved pumpkin and the grid from journaling essentials 9 with picked raspberry. 

After gluing the bird in place, I added a sentiment from the Wordy Stickers 3B set.

Products used:

A5 Catalyst Collage Spring Paint

Black card

Journaling Essentials 8

Journaling Essentials 9

Doodle Art Rainbow Birds stamp set 

Wordy Stickers 3B

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

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 .