Alison CT - Rainbow Thoughts

Hi everyone,  today I'm sharing an art journal page created using Catalyst Collage Papers, an Easy Frame inkable and the Journaling Essentials 4 stamp set. 

To begin, I tore the top right and bottom left corners off of one of the Daisy Sunshine A5 Catalyst Collage papers. I used matte medium to glue them to the corresponding corners of a double page in my 5" square art journal.

Next, I blended ripe persimmon,  mustard seed and spiced marmalade distress ink over the page and on to the catalyst collage paper. 

Next, I sprayed water on to my fingers and flicked it on to the page. I used a piece of kitchen roll to mop it dry. Using the 4" dragonfly Easy frame inkable I added dragonflies around the edges of the pages using crackling campfire distress ink.

Then, I cut out the face from the A5 Rainbow Thoughts catalyst collage paper. I glued it to the page with matte medium and used a ball tool to gently push it in to the crease where the two pages join.

Then, I stamped random small flowers, from Journaling Essentials 4, using Versafine Clair carrot and strawberry ink.  I also stamped the border from the same set using Versafine Clair nocturne. 

Finally, I added a sentiment from Wordy Stickers 3B. 

Products used:

A5 Rainbow Thoughts catalyst collage paper 

A5 Daisy Sunshine catalyst collage paper 

4" Dragonfly Easy Frame inkable 

Journaling Essentials 4 stamp set 

Wordy Stickers 3B 

Selection of Distress Inks

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

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 :

Sprays - Distress spray stain Speckled Egg

Distress spritz Uncharted Mariner 

Inks - Distress inks uncharted  mariner 

                           Blueprint sketch 

                            Mermaid lagoon 

Inkables - Dinkables sets 2&15 

Stamps -Doodle Art Daisy 

                  Doodle Art Daffodil 

A5 art journal , white gel pen and blue paint pen 

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:

Journaling Essentials stamp sets #2 and #9

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

Gellyroll Moonlight pens

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! 

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:

Off cuts of Catalyst Collage,  Media papers, Book Page and Catalyst Card 

Dinkables sets 2 and 15

Journaling Essentials 7 stamp set 

Incredible Words stamp set 

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

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 :

Papers - catalyst collage Daisy Rainbow Paint  A5 

Inks- Distress ink Peacock Feathers 

Distress oxide Picked Raspberry 

Wilted Violet 

Inkables - Dinkables set 15

Stamps - Doodle Art Rainbow Birds 

Art stamps Journaling Essentials #7

A blue fine liner pen ,white gel pen and various colours of Posca paint pens all in my 6x6 in journal .

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

Doodle Art Seahorse stamp set

Inkable mandala #1

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!