Alison CT - Hey Sunshine

Hi everyone,  today I'm sharing this fairly simple card, which I created using three stamps and a super skinny slim.

To begin, I cut a piece of watercolour card in to a 14cm square. Then I added two colours (evergreen bough and prize ribbon) distress ink to the larger square super skinny slim.

I spritzed this lightly with water and then pressed it, ink side down, in the centre of my piece of card.  I lightly pressed down on it, then removed it. I left the ink to dry naturally. 

On a piece of seperate watercolour card, I stamped and heat embossed with clear embossing powder the flower head of the doodle art sunflower stamp. I used versafine clair nocturne ink and ranger clear embossing powder. I coloured the flower with tea dye, mustard seed and brushed corduroy distress ink. I added shadows and shading with my polychromos pencil crayons. I then cut it out.

Next I stamped the heart border, from the sunflower stamp set, around the edge of the inky square background. I used versafine clair nocturne and ensured as I turned the card all the points of the heart faced inwards. 

As the border was too long for the square I used post-it notes to mask off where I didn't want it.

If the borders don't quite meet, you can use a micron pen to fill the gaps.

Next I blended prize ribbon distress ink around the edge of the background piece.

I, then, glued this background piece to a 6" square card blank and add the sunflower centrally to the background.

Using versafine clair nocturne ink stamp the hey sunshine sentiment, from Mixed Messages 4, around the flower. 

Products used

Larger square supper skinny slim

Distress Ink - prize ribbon, evergreen bough, mustard seed, brushed corduroy, tea dye

Doodle Art Sunflower stamp set

Wordage Mixed Messages 4

Versafine Clair nocturne 

Ranger Clear Embossing Powder 

Black micron pen

Pencil crayons

Thank you for taking a look.

Alison 

Sally CT - A simple card in Pastel Colours

Hi There! I am here with a quick and simple card for you today. 

I began by adding masking tape about a third of the way across a 5x5" card blank, then blending speckled egg distress ink through the inkable big one, but not up to the edge of the card.

Next I used the mandala inkable and blended kitsch flamingo Distress Oxide ink through it 

on a separate scrap of card I stamped the smaller dandedaisy in memento ink and coloured with alcohol markers. 

I stuck this to the card along the area where the tape was.

I stamped the sentiment using second generation Fantasia Versafine Clair ink.

Finally I added some more stamping using the worker stamps from Journaling Essentials #4 and Speckled egg distress ink. I also added spots of gold liquid pearls around the mandala.

Here is the finished card again. 

I used:

5x5" white card blank

Masking tape

Bee Crafty Inkable - Big one Fernando

Bee Crafty Inkable 6x6" mandala #2

Distress ink - Speckled Egg

Distress oxide ink - Kitsch Flamingo

Doodle Art Dandedaisy stamp set

Memento Black ink

Journaling Essentials #4 Stamp Set

Matte Medium

Wordage: Everyday Sentiments #1 Stamp set

 Versafine Clair Fantasia Ink

Thanks for looking! I will be live at 8pm this evening over on the Bee Crafty Facebook Page. I would love to see you there! 

Alison CT - Smile it's Free!!!

Hi everyone today I'm sharing an art journal page created using a range of inkables and some of the journaling essentials stamp sets.

To begin, place the 6" circle easy frame over the basket weave stencil (you can tape them to the page if you wish) and blend salty ocean and faded jeans distress oxide ink through them. Spritz the ink on the basket weave stencil with water and press onto the top left and bottom right of the page. Leave to dry.

Next, I replaced the circle easy frame over the stenciled area and drew a black line around the edge. I then drew a freehand wobbly line over the first.

I then added areas of the alternate circles inkable over the basket weave and around the edge of the circle using tumbled glass distress oxide.

Next I freehand stamped the script background using faded jeans distress oxide.

Next I added three of the rounded leaves from journaling essentials 2 using versafine clair nocturne.

On seperate card, I stamped three of the flower from journaling essentials 3 and 9 of the small leaf from journaling essentials 2 using the nocturne ink. I used my pencil crayons and a white gel pen to colour the images, then I cut them out. I cut down between the petals and used a ball tool and foam mat to shape the flowers and leaves.

I used distress collage medium to adhere the flowers and leaves to the page.

I then added a sentiment from the beautiful and brave transparency sheet.

Products used:

Basket Weave inkable

Easy Frame Circle 

Alternative Circles inkable

Script Background stamp 

Journaling Essentials 2 stamp set

Journaling Essentials 3 stamp set

Transparency Prints Beautiful and Brave black on clear

Distress Oxide ink- salty ocean, faded jeans, tumbled glass 

Thank you for taking a look.

Alison 

Sally CT - More Collage Inspiration

Hi there! The theme for our Bee Crafty Facebook challenge this month is Collage, so I made another card with a collage background. This one is more precisely cut with strips of paper the same width but different colours.

I began by arranging the strips diagonally over a 4.5 inch square of card. I stuck them down using matte medium. 

When this was dry I trimmed the ends to make it square again. 

I used black soot distress oxide ink to add some circles through the inkable big one. 

I also added some texture paste through the dots dinkable. 

Next I stamped the largest mandala from Doodle art Mandalas set #1 in Black Versafine Clair Ink.

I cut out the centre and coloured it using ecoline pens

on a scrap of black card I stamped the sentiment from small words in Versamark ink and embossed it using fine detail white embossing powder. I cut this into a banner shape.

Finally, I added the mandalas to the centre of the background using 3d glue gel. I mounted this onto a 5inch square card, adding the sentiment and some gold liquid pearls to finish.

Here's a close up of the centre. 

I used:

5inch square white card

4.5inch square of card

Strips of card in coordinating colours

Matte medium

Distress oxide ink in black soot

Big ones inkable - Circles for circles

Dinkables set 2

Texture paste - opaque matte

Doodle Art Mandalas set 1 stamp set

Ecoline pens

Versafine Clair Nocturne

3d glue gel

Wordage  - small words stamp set

Versamark ink

Black card 

Detail white embossing powder

Gold Pearl liquid Pearls

 

Thanks for looking and I hope you get chance to enter the challenge! 

Alison CT - Collage Inspiration

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created as inspirations for Sally's collage challenge in the Bee Crafty Stamps Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1511225329105390/?ref=share).

To begin, let's define collage. Collage is a piece of art made by sticking pieces of paper, images, cloth or photographs onto a surface.

I began by using distress collage medium to glue three strips of catalyst paper to the page, leavjng a white border around each piece. I left this to dry naturally. 

Next I used versafine clair nocturne ink to stamp the numbers from Journa Art Elements 3 onto two of the strips of catalyst paper. 

Then I stamped the script background onto the catalyst paper strips. I used versafine nocturne ink.

Again using versafine clair nocturne, I added the crosses and dots from Journaling Essentials 1; the zig zag line and two small circles from Journaling Essentials 5 to the strips of catalyst paper. 

On seperate card, I stamped the two larger flower heads from Journaling Essentials 4, adding a stem and leaves to them. I also stamped 21 of the small flower from the same stamp set. Also I stamped the Doodle Art Butterfly. I coloured all the images with Ecoline pens and a damp paintbrush. I cut them all out. Then I stuck them to the strips of catalyst paper.

Finally I stamped a sentiment from the Ticker Tape 1 stamp set, cut it out and glued it to the page.

Products used:

Catalyst Papers

Journal Art Elements 3

Journaling Essentials 3

Journaling Essentials 4

Journaling Essentials 5

Ticker Tape 1

Doodle Art Butterfly 

Versafine Clair Nocturne 

Ecoline Pens - light rose, fushia, light yellow, saffron yellow, deep orange, forest green, grass green, scarlet, turquoise blue, sky blue light 

Distress Collage Medium 

I hope I've inspired you to have a go at the challenge. 

Alison

Sally CT - imagine something wonderful Journal page

Hi There! I have enjoyed a little play in my kraft journal using a variety of Bee Crafty stamps, inkables and catalyst papers. Here's how I did it. 

I began by adding some catalyst paper to the right hand side of the page with matte medium. 

Next I used the 4x4 easy frame star to add some white ink stars to the kraft part of the page. 

I also added some partial stars in Black soot Distress oxide ink.

using the star D'inkable from set 1, I added some small stars using texture paste. 

I stamped the stars in white ink around the page.

using versafine clair black ink I stamped the squares around the page. 

On a separate scrap of card I stamped, cut out and coloured the flower and leaves. 

I also stamped a sentiment and cut it out. 

Finally I added all elements to the page with Matte medium and splattered a little Radical Gloss Drops to finish it. 

I used:

Dina Wakely 6x6 Kraft Journal

Catalyst papers set 2

Matte Medium 

4x4 star easy frame

White  ink

Distress oxide ink in black soot

D'inkables set 1 

Texture paste

Journaling Essentials #5 stamp set

Journaling essentials #2 stamp set

Versafine Clair black ink (Nocturne)

Ecoline pens

Dina Wakley gloss drops - Radical

Thanks for looking!