Calee CT - Trio of Spring Flowers

Hi, this week I have a trio of tags using the small flowers from the Spring Flowers Doodle Art stamps and bits and pieces from my bit box .

Firstly working on all three tags and using Squeezed Lemonade ,Tumbled Glass and Saltwater Taffy a smooshed background colour was added to each tag .

Next using the background Script stamp and the same three inks each tag was given  a layer of script .

 Over this I added some scraps of catalyst cards, some torn pieces and some more precisely cut .

Then using more distress inks in corresponding colours and the filler stamps from the Spring Flowers Doodle Art stamps more layers were built up on each tag . The colours used were Cracking Campfire , Blueprint Sketch ,Villainous Potion and Picked Raspberry.

The nextstep was to have a little rummage in my bit box , where I found the  three clocks from the Time is Free Art stamps set and  three butterflies from the Birds and Butterflies Art Stamp set .All I needed  to do was cut them out ,as there was all ready lots of colour in my background I chose to leave them mono chrome .

Next l stamped out the smaller version of the Spring  Flowers , the  Daffodil , Tulip  and Lillius .These were then coloured with Ecoline water colour pens .

Here are my finished tags and I’m afraid to say this is where I got a little carried away completing them and didn’t take s many photos as I should . However as you can see I mounted them on to black card and added a white stitched border. Then glued a clock ,butterfly and flower on each one along with a sentiment from each stamp set .

Thank you for taking a look this week . 

Happy crafting 

Calee 

Here a list of the products I used for my tags 

Distress inks : Saltwater Taffy 

Broken Glass 

Squeeze Lemonade 

Wild Honey 

Stormy Sky 

Picked Raspberry 

Crackling Campfire 

Blue print Sketch

Villainous Potion

Catalyst collage paper (various scraps )

Stamps : Art stamp:Background Script 

                                 Clocks Time is free

                                      Birds and Butterflies 

Doodle Art  : Tulip

                           Daffodil 

                         Lillius 

3 white card tags ,a sheet of black card ,Posca paint pens and a black fine liner pen 

Sally CT - A very quick and easy card

 Hi There! Today I am here with a step by step for a very simple card using this week's crafty Palette. Here's how I made it. 

I began by using masking tape to secure Inkable Mandala 4 to the front of an ivory deckle edged 6x6" blank card. I blended Picked Raspberry, Broken china, Cracked Pistachio and Aged Mahogany through the inkable. 

On a scrap of cream card I blended striped of the same inks and then stamped the smaller Lillius onto the blended ink with Versafine Clair black ink.

Next I cut out the flower and attached it to the front of the card using 3d foam tape.

I added gold liquid pearls to the stamens and used the gelly Roll moonlight sparkle pen to go over the flower to make it twinkle.

Finally I added the sentiment from the Lillius set using Black versafine Clair ink. 

Tod you it was quick and easy! 

I used:

Bee Crafty Doodle Art Lillius Stamp set

Bee Crafty Inkable Mandala #4

Distress inks in Broken China, Picked Raspberry, Cracked Pistachio and Aged Mahogany 

Black versafine Clair ink

6x6" ivory deckle edged card blank

There is just over a week left to get your entries in to the Bee Crafty Stamps facebook group challenge where the theme is Spring Zing (Spring images and/or Bright Zingy colours) 

I hope you can join in the fun for a chance to win a prize! 

Thanks for looking! 

Alison CT - Cone Flower Spring Zing

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating this art journal page using Catalyst Collage and Catalyst Card with the Cone Flower stamp as inspiration for Sally's challenge in the Bee Crafty Facebook group. 

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Begin by cutting several strips from one of the Spring Paint Catalyst Collage Papers, cut two different widths. Glue these to a page in an art journal using matte medium. It doesn't matter if they aren't glued in the correct order that they came from the original sheet.

Taking three off cuts of Catalyst Card from pack 3, edge them with white embossing powder by  tapping the edges on to an embossing pad then sprinkle white embossing powder,  tap off any excess then heat set. Do the same on a piece of ripped book page.

Stamp and white heat emboss the Cone Flower. Colour and cut out. I used distress oxide inks and a waterbrush. 

Glue the paper and card pieces and the flower to the page as in the photo.

Finally, add a Wordy Sticker sentiment. 

Products used:

A4 Spring Paint Catalyst Collage 

A4 Catalyst Card pack 3

Doodle Art Cone Flower stamp set 

Embossing ink pad

Ranger White embossing powder 

Old book page

Wordy Stickers 1B

Thank you for taking a look. Please have a good at the challenge,  theme Spring Zing. 

Alison 

Calee CT - Dandedaisy

Hello ,this week I have journal page using the lovely Doodle Art Dandedaisy one of my favourite flower stamps .

Working in my A5 journal and using a catalyst collage paper from the A5 Spring Paint collection . I tore the paper in to strips and glued on to my page .

Next I inked lightly all over the remaining areas with Saltwater Taffy distress ink and added some stencilling through one of the leaf  Dinkables in set 14 . I choose Distress oxides Fossilized amber and Kitsch Flamingo as these pulled in the colours from the catalytic collage paper 

Then again using the catalyst collage paper for my inspiration ,I used Distress ink Broken China to add some dots with a dinkable from set 2 and edged my page with Peacock Feathers Distress ink .

Taking some white texture past  and an other Dinkable from set 14 ,3 areas of texture were added and using the left over paste some random shapes .

While I waited for this to dry , the Doodle Art Dandedaisy was stamped and coloured in complimentary colours using Ecoline water colour pens .I then cut it out ,leaving a small white border , ready to add to my page .

Using one of the  smaller stamps from this set I stamped and coloured 3 sets of triangles adding some white dots and squiggles. Next I framed my page using a black fine liner and a very loose doodled line. While I had the pen in my hand I couldn’t resist adding some small hearts as you can see in next photo .

After positioning my Dandedaisy and again using this stamp set , I stamped 3 of the script coins / circles onto some of the left over  catalyst collage paper and added them to my page using.

 All I then needed was a sentiment and sticking with this set , I stamped the sentiment in black and cut it into flag shape , edged with black pen .

Thank you for stopping by , it is always appreciated , I hope you enjoyed some crafting time this week !

Happy crafting 

Calee .

As usually a list of the products I used this week follows

Catalyst collage papers -Spring Paint A5

Inks - Distress oxide - Fossilised Amber 

                                   Kitsch Flamingo

Distress ink - Peacock Feathers

                 Broken China

Inkables - Dinkables sets 2 and 14 

Stamps - Doodle Art Dandedaisy 

Ecoline watercolour pens 

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