Calee CT -Vivid Leaves

 Hi everyone , its lovely to be creating my first blog post here at Bee Crafty . I have gone with this month's challenge theme ,vivid and created a tag . 

First I took a look through the catalysts papers in pack # 2 and chose this lovely one in grey scale .

Then I cut and mounted a tag on to black card adding a stitched border .

Next it was time to add some more interest to the back ground . Using my dylusions shimmer paint , I painted a couple of bubblegum pink and fresh lime stripes and added a few calypso teal splatters , just for good measure!

Some stamping with this great boarder from journal art elements # 2 and some free hand doodles completed the background .        

                                                                                                  

                    

My next step was to stamp and colour the leaves from the Mixed leaves set , This I did with my Ecoline water colour pens , in similar colours .            

                                  

These were then glued on to my tag and a sentiment from the Autumn wordy stickers added , a bit of pink ribbon and my tag was finished . 

Products I use for this tag were :

Catalyst cards A5 #2 Grey Scale 

Art stamps: Journal  Art Elements  # 2

                    Mixed Leaves 

Some black card , a white gel pen  and black fine liner  for detail .

Dylusions shimmer paints : Bubble gum pink 

                                            Calypso Teal 

                                             Fresh Lime 

Some coordinating ribbon from my stash 

I hope you like it , thank you . 

Calee 

                                              

Sally CT - Go For it!

 

Hi there! Thought I would show you how I made this card for my blog post today. 

I began by covering a tag inkable in distress oxide ink, giving it a spritz of water then laying it ink side down on a piece of mixed media or watercolour card. I did this three times with the three different colours then dried with a heat tool. 

Once this was dry I added some more colour using the same inks and blending brushes. 

Next I took the innie from the 4" star easy frame and blended black soot distress oxide over it. I did this 3 times too. I also sponged a little black ink around the edges

using the Background Script stamp I added some patches of script randomly around the card using the black soot Distress Oxide ink

Next I added a few patches of Distress Spritz over the panel.

I cut the 3 words from the transparency sheet and added them to the stars using matte medium. 

Finally I attached the whole panel to a DL sized card. I did contemplate adding more to it, like white pen or butterflies but decided it was fine as it was. 

I used:

Mixed media card 9.5 x 20.5cm

DL card

Tag inkables - I used set 2 - Check out the offer on these at the moment

4" star easy frame 

Background Script stamp

Distress oxide inks - I used Black Soot, Abandoned Coral, Mustard Seed and Lucky Clover

Mister bottle

Distress Spritz - I used Worn Lipstick

Transparency Prints - I used Spontaneous words black on clear

Matte Medium

There is just over a week left to get your entries into the Vivid challenge over on the Bee Crafty Stamps facebook group. I Hope you can join in and also take advantage of the tag inkables offer!

Thanks for looking! 

Faces: Look

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created on a background, which initially I hated, but now think really works for image I have used.

The background was created a while ago using ocean gloss spray to paint the page. Then spiced marmalade and spun sugar distress oxide was applied through the Cotswold Stone big one.

Stamp the grid stamp, from Journaling Essentials 3, several times down the right hand side of the page. 

Next stamp areas of the script background using the same black ink.

Stamp the Look stamp onto a piece of Bee Crafty's stamping tissue using Versafine Clair nocturne. 

Use a wet paintbrush to go around the image and then carefully tear out the image.

Use distress collage medium to add it to the page.

Next use a colouring medium to add colour to the eyes and lips.

Finally add a sentiment from the Creative Words Transparency Prints. Colour the back with a white posca pen, so the words stand out against the page. Glue to the page using collage medium. 

Products used:

Dina Wakley Gloss Spray - Ocean

Text Background stamp

Cotswold Stone Inkables Big One 

Faces: Look stamp set 

Stamping tissue

Transparency Prints Creative Words 

Versafine Clair Nocturne 

Distress Oxide  - spun sugar, spiced marmalade 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

Sally CT - Beautiful Butterflies!

 Hi There! I am here today with a step by step tutorial for this journal page. 

I began by spreading matte medium over the page and adding scraps of map, music paper and book pages. I also added some tissue that had been used to mop up some distress oxide sprays (Wild Honey and Salvaged patina)

Next I smooshed some cracked pistachio over the whole page. 

Using the Dinkable from set 13, I added some uncharted Mariner Distress Oxide and inked around the edge of the page.

I also added some texture paste through the dinkable from set 2

Once the texture paste was dry I gave it a little spray with uncharted Mariner Distress spritz, tilting the page to make it run, before setting aside to dry.

On a separate piece of card I stamped the doodle art butterfly twice in Memento ink and coloured with alcohol markers. I cut these out.

using the stamp without an acetate block I added the antennae and body of the butterfly to the page twice. I also stamped a couple of one of the small worker stamps by the page edge.

Finally I added the butterflies, some white splatters, a wordy sticker and some gelly roll moonlight pen highlights to the page. 

Here is the page once more...

...and here is a close up of one of the butterflies.

I used:

5x5" notebook

Matte Medium

Scraps of book paper, music, map, tissue or catalyst card

Distress Oxide inks - I used Cracked Pistachio and Uncharted Mariner

Bee Crafty Dinkables sets 2 and 13

Texture paste

Distress Spritz - I used Uncharted Mariner

Doodle Art Butterfly stamp set

Memento black ink

Alcohol markers

Gelly Roll Moonlight pens

Posca pen for white splats

Wordy stickers - I used 2B

I think this fits the the theme on our bee Crafty Stamps group challenge at the moment, which is Vivid. Hope you can join in! 

Thanks for looking! 

Alison CT - Vivid

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a card made as inspiration for Sally's Vivid challenge in the facebook group.

To create the background, blend mustard seed, spiced marmalade and candied apple distress oxide through the basket weave 6" inkable. Only covered the top two thirds of my 6.75 x 4.75 inch piece of card. This provides the vivid part of my make. Leave this to dry thoroughly. 

 

Next, rub an anti-static bag over the ink, then stamp the lace border, from the Dragonfly Art stamp set, using an embossing ink pad along the bottom edge of the stenciling. Cover with gold embossing powder, tap off any excess then heat set.

Place a post-it or a piece of paper, so that the top edge just covers the embossing and the blank part of the card. This was easiest to do in a stamping platform as the magnets kept everything in place.

Ink the top part of the image stamp, from the Dragonfly Art stamp set, using a black ink and stamp directly onto the background.

Use a damp paintbrush to add spiced marmalade distress oxide to the wings of the dragonfly, then when dry add deatil using a red gel pen.