Alison CT - Journaling Essentials Inspiration

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing some inspiration for Sally's challenge using the Journaling Essentials stamp sets.  I have used them to create both the background and as focal point on this set of ATCs.

To begin, I cut three pieces of black card to ATC size.

Then I cut out three of the panels from the cover sheet from the A4 Catalyst Card set 3. I trimmed these so when glued to the black cardvit would leave a small border. 

Because each background was different, I wanted to tie them together by adding some stamping. 

I stamped the crosses, from Journaling Essentials 2, using picked raspberry distress oxide, the grid, from Journaling Essentials 9, using faded jeans distress oxide and the circles, from Journaling Essentials 2, using mustard seed distress ink. I also added some small cogs, from the Clocks: Wasted Time to the pink background using villianous potion distress ink.

On separate card,  I stamped the leaves from Journaling Essentials 2 and the flower from Journaling Essentials 9. I cut these out.

 

I glued the flowers and leaves to the ATCs, each one in a different arrangement. 

Finally I stamped one of the sentiments from the Small Words set on each ATC.

Products used:

Black and White card

A4 Full Colour Catalyst Cards #3

Journaling Essentials 2 stamp set 

Journaling Essentials 9 stamp set 

Clocks: Wasted Time stamp set 

Small Words stamp set 

Thank you for taking a look.  I hope I've inspired you to have a good at the challenge. 

Alison

Calee CT - ATC trio

Hi , this week I am using up some leftover background (mop up page ) to make a trio of ACTs

On this piece of card are Distress ink Seedless Preserve and Distress sprays Worn Lipstick and Peacock Feathers and it is just left over ink and spray from a previous project .

My first step was to cut my card into 3 ATCs , these are sized 2.5 in x 3. 5 inches. 

Next , working on all 3 at the same time, choosing Distress inks Spiced Marmalade and Picked Raspberry and D’inkables set 2 , I added stenciling in various places. The edges were also inked around using Picked Raspberry to give them a little more depth.

Taking one of the small clocks from the Art stamp set Time is Free . Clocks were added randomly to each ATC using Distress ink Dusty Concord .

Next I stamped out a selection moths from the Art stamps Moth set and coloured them with Ecoline water colour pens, blending the colours with a little water . These would have some white gel pen details added when dry .

 

I then stamped out the Art Stamp , Background Script in black ink on to a piece is white card , tearing small strips to add to each ATC .

Here then are my ATCs with the Moths and sentiments from the Wordy Stickers set 3B added . My final step was to mount them on to some black card . 

Thank you for taking a look this week , I hope you liked my step by step . I enjoy making ATC and it always surprises me how much you can fit on these small works of art . 

Happy crafting 

Calee 

These are the products I used for my ATCs.               

Inks - Distress ink :Seedless Preserve 

                                Spiced Marmalade 

                         Dusty Concord

Distress sprays : Worn Lipstick 

                                 Peacock Feathers 

               Inkables -  D’inkables set 2 

                                    Coffee stain script 

   Art stamps.-    Time is Free 

                   Moths 

                                       Background script.

Wordy stickers set 3B.         

Ecoline water colour pens , a white gel pen and some black mounting card . 

Sally CT - A little Hope

 

Hi There! Here's a journal spread, as inspiration to both the new challenge on Bee crafty Stamps Facebook group, and this week's Bee Crafty Palette. Here's how I put it together. 

I began by blending patches of distress oxide inks around the page. I used Chipped Sapphire, Rustic Wilderness, Saltwater Taffy, Bundled sage and Old Paper. 

Next, I sprayed a Dinkable from set 11 with water and laid it onto the inked pages for a few seconds, before mopping up the water using a clean cloth.

Once this was dry, I added some stamping using some of the worker stamps from the Journaling Essentials #9 Stamp Set. The theme for our challenge is to use Journaling Essentials Stamps. 

On a separate piece of paper I stamped the large flower from the same set in Versafine Clair Blue Belle. I used a paintbrush and water to add colour using the same inkpads, and cut them out.  

I also added a few highlights using gelly roll moonlight pens and a white posca. 

I added some extra stamped elements from the same stamp set before positioning the flowers  and some wordy stickers with Matte Medium. Finally I added some white Faux stitching around the page and the sentiment. 

I used: 

Journaling Essentials #9 Stamp set

Dinkables set 11

Wordy Stickers - 3B

Distress Oxide inks in Chipped Sapphire, Rustic Wilderness, Saltwater Taffy, Bundled Sage and Old Paper

Versafine Clair ink in Blue Belle

Ranger Mister bottle 

Gelly Roll Moonlight Pens

Posca Pen

5x5" notebook/ sketchbook/ journal

Our Challenge theme for February is Journaling Essentials and there are plenty of stamps to choose from in the Journaling Essentials range. I do hope you will join in. 

Thanks for looking! 

Alison CT - Let them Stare

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created using Transparency Prints,  Journaling Essentials stamps and Catalyst Card.

To begin, I tore the top right corner and bottom left corner off of a piece of the A4 Full Colour Catalyst Card from set 4, then glued it to the page in my 8 x 8 journal. 

I sprayed the page with distress oxide spray in peeled paint, broken china and twisted citron. I then spritzed this with water to encourage mixing. After a few minutes I used kitchen roll to mop up excess water, then left this to dry.

When the background was dry, I stamped the rounded leaf, from Journaling Essentials 7, several times in the corners with no background paper using Avocado Versafine Clair ink. I also added some of the crosses from the same stamp set using Bali Blue Versafine Clair ink. 

Next I added some of the dots from Journaling Essentials 9 using Shady Lane Versafine Clair ink. 

To finish the background I added some of the grid stamp from Journaling Essentials 9 using Bali Blue ink. 

I added the male face from the Faces 3 Transparency Prints after I had coloured his eyes with a white and blue posca pen. I used clear matte medium to adhere him to the page. 

Finally I added a cut down Wordy Sticker sentiment from set 2. 

Products used:

Transparency Prints Faces 3

A5 Full Colour Catalyst Cards 4

Journaling Essentials 7

Journaling Essentials 9

Wordy Stickers 2

Selection of Versafine Clair ink pads

Distress Oxide Sprays

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

Calee CT - Wild and Free

Hi all , this week I have a card to share with you , using the colours from the Bee Crafty palette week 4. Pinks and purple are some of my favourite colours so I loved having a play with them  . I chose Speckled Egg as my blue shade ,which on reflection is maybe a little pale but it’s all a learning curve . 

First I chose this catalyst card from pack #3 as the base of my background . 

This was torn in strips and glued down on to a piece of white card . 

Taking two colours from the colour palette , Distress inks Picked Raspberry and Seedless Preserve . I inked around the edge and using the Coffee Stain Script inkable added some random stencilling 

The next step was to add some more stamping . For this I used stamps from the Journal Art Elements 3 set and introducing the distress ink Worn lipstick , along with my previous colours , the background was added to . 

Using a white gel pen I added a white stitched border and some dots. A little difficult to see in the photo a couple of splatters of Speckled Egg Distress pray were also used .

Next I stamped and coloured the Doodle Art Dragonfly , using the same inks as water colours and added some accents and details with my white gel pen . 

My background was  given a black matting layer then added to a white card base 

Next the addition of a sentiment , from the Wordage -Small Words  stamp set, which I stamped out twice ,  cutting one phrase in half and adding separately to my card . A few more white border stitches and my card was  finished . 

Thank you for taking a look , I will list the products I used below 

Happy crafting 

Calee 

Products used this week -

Catalyst cards #3

Distress inks :Seedless Preserve 

                       Picked Raspberry 

                      Worn lipstick      

Distress spray -Speckled Egg.      

Stamps : Doodle Art Dragonfly 

Wordage sets -small words

Journal Art Elements 3 

Inkables - coffee stain script 

Sally CT - Another Floral Journal page

 Hi There! I am here with an art journal spread today. Here's how it came together. 

I began by adding some catalyst collage papers to the two sides using matte medium. 

Next, I added some torn book pages to the gaps in between. 

Once this was dry, I blended Distress oxide inks around the page to colour the base layer. 

I also blended some Distress Oxide ink through a tag inkable in a couple of pages. 

Using the same colours of ink, I added some stamping using the Bee Crafty Journaling essentials #9 stamp set.

On a separate piece of paper I stamped the flowers from Journaling Essentials #5, coloured them with ecoline pens and cut them out. 

I added these to the pages using matte medium, along with a couple of wordy stickers

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

Here are the finished pages again.

I used:

Catalyst Collage Birds and Sunflowers A5

Journaling Essentials stamp sets #5 and #9

Wordy Stickers - I used 3B

Book pages

Distress Oxide inks - I used Vintage photo, Antique Linen and Fossilized Amber

Ecoline pens

Black Versafine Clair ink

Gelly Roll Moonlight Pens 

This is my last chance to remind you that you have until Saturday to enter the Floral challenge over on the Bee Crafty Stamps Group on Facebook, so I hope you will enter! 

Thanks for looking! 

Alison CT - A trio of Dandedaisies

Hi everyone today I'm sharing a guide to creating this art journal page as inspiration for Sally's challenge in the Bee Crafty Stamps Facebook group. 

To begin I trimmed off the white edges from one of the media catalyst papers from set 3. I then used matte medium to adhere it to the page in my journal. I then trimmed off the excess.

I edged the page with salty ocean distress oxide. I also blended the same ink through the metal alpha dinkable from set 5.

Next I added grit paste to the page through the dots dinkable from set 2. I left this to dry naturally. 

On separate card I stamped three dandedaisies using Versafine Clair nocturne ink. I coloured them using distress watercolour pencils. I then cut them out.

I cut out a selection of the journal circles transparency prints.

Next I glued everything to the page.

Finally I added one of the Wordy Stickers from set 3 to the page and added a black border around the outside of thr sticker.

Products used:

Media Papers- Catalyst Papers 3

Dinkables set 2

Dinkables set 5

Doodle Art Dandedaisy stamp set

Transparency Prints Journal Circles 

Wordy Stickers 3

Distress oxide - salty ocean

Distress grit paste

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison