Alison CT - Circles

Hi everyone today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating these mdf artist trading coins as inspiration for Sally's Circle challenge in the Facebook group. The coins themselves are curcles and I've used a circles dinkable as well.

To begin,  I covered the three mdf coins with some left over pieces of A6 greyscale #2 catalyst card. I used a sanding block to neaten the edges.

Then, I placed a part of the circles dinkable, from set 3, on to the coin and used a thin black posca to draw the circles on to the coins. I coloured them with watercolour pencils and a paintbrush. I left them to dry.

Next, using Versafine Clair nocturne ink,  I stamped several of thr flowers from the Doodle Art Blooming Blooms stamp set. I coloured them with the same watercolour pencils and then cut them out. 

I glued them to my coins.

I, then, decided they needed some leaves, so I stamped the small leaf from Journaling Essentials 2, coloured them and cut them out.

I added them to the coins.

Finally, I added a sentiment from Wordy Stickers sheets 1 and 3 black.

Products used:

MDF Artist Trading Coins 

A6 Greyscale Catalyst Cards 2

Dinkables 3

Doodle Art Blooming Blooms 

Journaling Essentials 2

Wordy Stickers 1B and 3B

Black Posca pen 

Watercolour Pencils 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

Calee CT - Cone Flower Canvas

Hi ,this week I have small canvas  to share with you using a  catalyst collage paper from the A5 Squares and Hearts pack .

This canvas measures 10 x 20 cm , so is quite similar in size to a DL card and this design could easily be used as a card front . I chose this paper from the A5 pack and tore to size leaving some of the canvas to show around the edges .

After gluing the paper on to my canvas I added some stencilling with distress oxides Blueprint sketch and Pine needles using dinkables from sets 12 and 15 .

This paper reminded me a little of patchwork , so using a white gel pen I added some faux Stitching and some heart  doodles . I then broke up the background with some white texture paste using the Big one’s Bakewell Inkable .

Next I stamped out the large cone flower from the Doodle Art Cone flower set and coloured with my Ecoline water colour pens .

My canvas was finished quite simply by gluing on the cone flower and adding a sentiment which I borrowed from the Doodle Art Lillius stamp set .

Thank you for taking a look this week.  Although this looks like quite a complicated design when you first see it , the catalyst collage paper does most of the hard work. The catalyst collage papers work so well on different substrates it is so easy to achieve great results .

Happy crafting 

Calee 

These are the products I used this week :

Papers - catalyst collage A 5 Squares and Hearts 

Inks - distress oxide  Blue print sketch 

                           Pine needles

Inkables - Dinkables sets 12 and 15 

Stamps - Doodle Art Cone flower 

      Doodle Art Lillius 

A small  Art canvas , various coloured paint pens, texture paste  and white gel pen .

Sally CT - Oodles of Circles

 

Hi There! We have a new challenge over on the Bee Crafty Stamps Facebook group with a theme of circles. Here's how my circles journal page came together. 

I began by sponging some Broken China distress oxide ink down the centre of the pages. 

Next, I sprayed a circle dinkable with water, laid it onto the oxide ink and then mopped up the excess water with kitchen towel. 

Once this was dry, I added some Rainbow Bubbles catalyst collage paper on each side with matte medium. I left a gap on the right hand page for the next step. 

I cut out some circles from a sheet of the Circles and Butterflies Catalyst Collage paper and added them to the page, including in the gap I left on the right page.

I cut around the edge of the circles on the edge of the page. 

Using a posca pen and the dinkable from earlier, I added some more circles to the page. 

I used some of the circle stamps from Journaling essentials set 1, along with coordinating Distress Oxide inks to add some subtle stamping to the page.

On a separate sheet of card, I stamped half of the large gerbera and 3 small ones in black versafine clair ink. I coloured them using Dina Wakley gloss drops and cut them out. 

Finally, I added these and a wordy sticker sentiment to the pages using matte medium. 

Here are the finished pages once more. 

I used:

Dinkable set #3

Catalyst Collage papers - I used Rainbow Bubbles and Circles and Butterflies in A5 

Journaling essentials #1 stamp set Available as a part of this bundle

Doodle Art Gerbera stamp set

Distress oxide inks - I used Broken China, Crackling Campfire, Picked Raspberry and fossilized amber.

Black versafine Clair ink

Mister spray

Dina Wakley Gloss Drops

Matte Medium

5x5" journal

I will be doing a Facebook live for Bee Crafty at 8pm this evening so I hope you can join me! 

Thanks for looking! 

Alison CT - Special Time of Year

Hi everyone today I'm sharing one last piece of inspiration for the hot colours challenge. 

To begin, I tore a piece of background paper, I had created using acrylic paints on my gelli plate, in to three strips. I used matte medium to adhere them to the page.

Then I blended spiced marmalade distress ink through the circles dinkable from set 3.

Next, I added picked raspberry distress ink directly on to the circle lattice dinkable from set 2 and sprayed it lightly with water. I then pressed this down on the page.

After this was dry, I added black texture paste through the dots dinkable from set 2.

I, then stamped the concentric circles mandala, from the Doodle Art Mandala set 1, on to some stamping tissue. I stamped three using Versafine Clair strawberry ink and three using Versafine Clair carrot ink. I tore the outafter using a wet paintbrush to apply a line of water around them. I stamped them on tissue so they would go over the edges of the card and texture paste without leaving gaps in them. 

I added them to the page using matte medium. 

Using Versafine Clair nocturne ink,  I stamped the mushrooms and pumpkins on a separate piece of card.  I coloured them with my colouring pencils, then cut them out.

I glued them to the page and used a brown watercolour pencil to add a shadow below them.

Finally, I added a sentiment from the Wordy Stickers Autumn B sheet.

Products used:

Pre created background

Dinkables sets 2 and 3

Doodle Art Mandalas set 1

Doodle Art Mushrooms 

Doodle Art Pumpkins 

Autumn B Wordy Stickers 

Stamping Tissue

Black texture paste 

Matte Medium 

Distress Ink - spiced marmalade,  picked raspberry 

Versafine Clair - Nocturne,  Strawberry,  Carrot 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

Calee CT - Ice cream Dragonfly

 Hello , I’m here this week with another page using Palette colours . Week  34 colours are a lovely mix of pastels and brights  , colours my mum would call ice cream colours. This then is my ice cream dragonfly .

The first step was to gather together my inks and decide on big or small journal , as you can see I decided on my small 6x6 journal .

My first step was to layer some colour down on to my page . For this I chose 3 distress inks Picked raspberry ,Scattered straw and Tumbled glass this were applied with blending brushes and allowed to blend together slightly , I then added sone splashes of water and finally bolted.

Then next layer of background  was created using Dinkables from sets 15 and 12 and two more inks , distress oxide Fossilised Amber and distress ink Evergreen bough .

 

 Using the Art stamp A stitch in Time  and the Picked Raspberry ink I stamped on to my page , for this I didn’t use a stamping block , but just held the stamp in my hand , to create a  loose distressed image .

Having decided I would be adding the Doodle Art Dragonfly to my page , I used the small heart stamp from this set to add a chain of hearts down one side of my page which I coloured in with paint pens from the same colour palette .

Using the paint pens some lines and dots were doodled on to my page and my background finished with a stitched border in black fine liner pen .

I then stamped out the Doodle Art Dragonfly and 6 small leaves ,which were then coloured using inks from this weeks colour palette and highlighted with a white Posca pen 

After trying my dragonfly and leaves in various positions I finally decided to on this design and glued them in to position . It took a while  to decide on the sentiment for this page but finally found these on the Wordy sticker sheet 3B ,cutting them down a little I stuck them on and gave them a scribbled border .

Thank you for taking a look at my step by step  , I hope you found it useful and like my “Ice cream dragonfly “

Happy Crafting 

Calee 

Here are the products used on this page :

Inks - distress ink -Picked raspberry 

                            Scattered straw

                           Tumbled glass

                                Evergreen bough

        distress oxide - Fossilised amber 

Inkables - Dinkables sets 12 and 15

Stamps -Art stamps A stitch in Time 

     Doodle Art Dragonfly 

Wordy stickers set 3B 

6x6 journal , black fine liner pen pen ,white gel pen and a Selection of paint pens .

Sally CT - Bee Crafty Palette inspiration

                                  

Hello there! When I saw this week's Bee Crafty Palette I just had to have a play as it is so beautiful! Here's how my journal pages came together. I didn't have distress oxide ink in Evergreen bough so I used Lucky Clover instead as it looks similar. 
 

I began by blending the distress oxide inks across both pages. There were a few marks on the page from the page after this one, but it is amazing how those marks can become a part of the design. 

Next I used the Bakewell inkable to add some of the darker colours to the page. 

I also splattered it with some Picked Raspberry Distress spritz and left it to dry.  

Using the Leaf from Dinkables set 6, I sponged some lucky clover ink to add leaves around the page. 

On a separate piece of card, I stamped two doodle Art Butterflies and coloured them in using coordinating ecoline pens. When these were dry I cut them out.  

using a scrap of black card I stamped the sentiment from the Small Words stamp set in embossing ink and used white embossing powder to heat set it. I cut it out. 

On the background I stamped the butterflies so their antennae didn't need cutting out, then glued the butterflies over the top. I also added the sentiment and a few highlights with gellyroll Moonlight pens.

I used:

Big one Inkable - Bakewell

Dinkables set 6

Doodle Art Butterfly stamp set

Small words stamp set

Distress Oxide inks - I used lucky Clover, Speckled egg, Fosilized Amber, Saltwater Taffy and Picked Raspberry

Distress Spritz - Picked Raspberry

Ecoline Pens

Black versafine Clair ink

Embossing ink

White embossing powder

Gelly Roll Moonlight Pens

It's such a lovely combination of colours  - Hope you get the chance to play too! 

Thanks for looking!