Friday, August 21, 2026

Calee CT - Daisy Blue



 
Hi, I have been having a play with the week 33 pallet colours , there are some beautiful blues this week and as blue is one of my go to colours this palette was calling to me .


I chose my A5 journal and collected together the palette of blues I would use .


Using Distress spray Speckled Egg and Distress Spritz Uncharted Mariner I created a base for my background , a few spritz of water was also added to move the colour around .


Next I went in with 3 distress colours and 3 Inkables , I used Uncharted Mariner , Blueprint Sketch and Mermaid Lagoon with Dinkables from sets 2 and 15 .


Continuing to work on my page I added some stamping  using stamps from Journaling Essentials #8 and some doodling with a white gel pen , this was mainly used for dots and faux stitching  Then a blue paint pen was used for some hearts and lines .


For the main  feature of my page I chose  the Doodle Art Daisy. Stamping it out and colouring with a combination of Distress colours and Ecoline water colour pens , highlights were added with a white gel pen.


I finished my page quite simply by glueing down my daisy and adding a little water colour line underneath to give it some grounding. The sentiment used was borrowed from the Doodle Art Daffodil stamp set .
I really enjoyed creating with is colour palette , and love the result you can get with jut a few shades of blue .
Thank you for stopping by this week . 
Happy crafting 
Calee 
Here are the products I used :
A5 art journal , white gel pen and blue paint pen 


Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Sally CT - More hot Colour inspiration

  

Hi There! I have made a journal page using hot colours for todays inspiration for the Bee Crafty Challenge. Here is how it came about. 
I began by stamping the leaves from Journaling Essentials #2 in Carrot Orange and Cheerful Versafine Clair ink onto a scrap of card. I cut them out leaving a small white border.

On another piece of card, I stamped three of the large flowers from Journaling essentials #9 in black Versafine Clair ink and coloured them using Ecoline brush pens in various shades of yellow, orange, red and pink. I cut them out.
Using Gellyroll Moonlight Pens, I added faux stitching and dots to the flowers.  
I trimmed off the white border from a piece of A5 catalyst Collage paper and stuck it into my A5 journal. I used a couple of the smaller worker stamps from Journaling Essentials #9 to add tiny circles in Carrot orrange ink and small crosses in Charming pink ink to the background.
I arranged the flowers and leaves on the page and fixed them in place using Matte medium.
Finally I added a wordy sticker sentiment, faux stitched border and some white pen hearts to finish it off. 

I used:
Catalyst Collage papers - I used Daisy Sunshine A5
Wordy Stickers - I used 1B
Versafine Clair ink - I used Carrot Orange, Cheerful, Charming Pink and Nocturne
Ecoline brush pens/ watercolour markers
White Posca pen
Matte Medium

There are still another 13 days to enter the hot colours challenge in the Bee Crafty Stamps group. I do hope you can join in! 

I will be live at 8pm tonight on the Bee Crafty Facebook page too. come and join us! 

Sunday, August 16, 2026

Alison CT - Hot, but not too hot

Hi everyone today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating this art journal page using off cuts of collage papers, dinkables and the leaves from Journaling Essentials 7.
To begin, I collected together some off cuts of catalyst collage paper, media papers, old book page and catalyst collage card.
I used matte medium to glue them to the page to create a background. (Photos show the step by step building of the background.)
To bring all the different piece together as one background, I used my finger to blend a thin layer of white gesso over it.

I then blended spice marmalade distress oxide through the circles dinkable from set 2. I also spritzed the ink left on the stencil with water and pressed it to the page.
I used a stencil brush to apply black gesso through the lines dinkable from set 15.
I added the crosses from journaling essentials 7 using carrot Versafine Clair ink. 
I then added the line and dots stamp from the same set using strawberry Versafine Clair. 
On n old book page I used strawberry and carrot Versafine Clair to stamp one if each of the leaves from Journaling Essentials 7. I cut these out.
I used matte medium to glue the leaves to the page and added shadow around them using a dark blue watercolour pencil and waterbrush. 
I added white splats using white gesso and a fan brush. I added a scribbled border.
Finally, I stamped the word Incredible and cut it out. I glued it to the page and added a shadow with a blue watercolour pencil and waterbrush. 
Products used:
Distress Oxide - spiced marmalade 
Versafine Clair - strawberry,  carrot 

Thank you for taking a look. Sorry about the orientation of the photos, but no matter what I tried I couldn't change it.

Alison

Friday, August 14, 2026

Calee CT - Free as a Bird

 

H, this week for my step by step guide I have a 6x6in journal page for you. I have been itching to play with these gorgeous Daisy Rainbow Paint calalyst collage papers since they arrived and what better to combine them with than the rainbow birds .
 
    
They are all stunning but the big daisies on this one were to calling me . So firstly I cut  it down to fit my journal page , just small enough to leave a small  border when I eventually glued it down .I added some stencilling  using Peacock feathers Distress ink and a Dinkable from set 15 .Then some stitched accents to the daisies with a blue fine liner pen . 
 

As this was a very colourful busy page I decided that minimal work was needed on my background so using my Posca pens I added some doodled hearts, lines and white and pink splatters . 


Next , happy with my background I glued it into my journal and added two stitched borders  One with black fine liner and one with white gel pen .


The next step was to create my topping elements, one of the Doodle Art Rainbow birds was stamped out and coloured with Ecoline water colour pens , using the colours from my background as inspiration .Two leaves from Art stamp Journaling Essentials #7 were stamped in  Picked Raspberry and Wilted. Violet distress oxide ink .These were then all cut out leaving a small white edge .


My page was finished by gluing the leaves behind the rainbow bird and adding the free as a bird sentiment
 from the same stamps set , cut into a banner style .
 Thank you for taking a look this week , don’t forget to share your projects into the Bee Crafty Facebook group , we love to see them !
Happy crafting 
Calee 
Products used for this page were :
A blue fine liner pen ,white gel pen and various colours of Posca paint pens all in my 6x6 in journal .


Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Sally CT - Seahorse Blues

 


Hi There! I am still playing with the beautiful Doodle Art Seahorse. Here is a card I made in shades of blue. 

I began by lightly blending a 4.5" square of card with Blueprint sketch and Mermaid lagoon Distress inks. 
I used mandala #1inkable and blended ,ore of the same ink over it
on a seperate piece of card I blended the same inks much more heavily and dried it off. 
I stamped the seahorse in embossing ink onto this panel and heat embossed in white, before cutting it out. 
I matted and layered the 4.5inch square to the front of a 5" square card and added the seahorse using 3d foam pads. I also stamped some bubbles near the seahorse's head.
I used the Versafine clair ink to also stamp some little fishes randomly around the page. 
Here is the finished card with room for a sentiment if needed later

I used
Distress inks - I used Blueprint Sketch and Mermaid Lagoon
Embossing ink
White Embossing powder
Versafine clair ink - I used Bali Blue
5x5" card blank
4.5" square super smooth card panel

Thanks for looking! 

Sunday, August 09, 2026

Alison CT - Hot, Hot, Hot Daisy

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created using Hot colours as inspiration for Sally's challenge in the Bee Crafty Stamps Facebook group. 
To begin, I trimmed one of the Daisy Sunshine A5 catalyst collage papers to fit my page leaving a small border.
I blended spiced marmalade and lumberjack plaid distress oxide through the text part of the coffee stains text inkable. 
Next I blended candied apple distress oxides through the perspective circles inkable and I stamped the line with circles stamp, from the Doodle Art Daisy stamp set,  using ripe persimmon distress oxide.

Next, I used a red posca to add a stitched border to the page. 

I, then, glued this into my art journal and added a red stitched border to the white area of the page.
On separate card I stamped the Daisy using Versafine Clair nocturne.  I coloured it with mustard seed,  dried marigold and twisted citron distress oxides and added apricot posca pen dots and red fineliner pen. I then cut it out. I also stamped and cut out the sentiment. 

Finally I added the flower and sentiment to the page.
Products used:
Red Fineliner 
Apricot and Red Posca
Distress Oxides - lumberjack plaid, spiced marmalade,  candied apple,  ripe persimmon,  mustard seed,  dried marigold,  twisted citron 

Thank you for taking a look. 
Alison 

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