Alison CT - Special Time of Year

Hi everyone today I'm sharing one last piece of inspiration for the hot colours challenge. 

To begin, I tore a piece of background paper, I had created using acrylic paints on my gelli plate, in to three strips. I used matte medium to adhere them to the page.

Then I blended spiced marmalade distress ink through the circles dinkable from set 3.

Next, I added picked raspberry distress ink directly on to the circle lattice dinkable from set 2 and sprayed it lightly with water. I then pressed this down on the page.

After this was dry, I added black texture paste through the dots dinkable from set 2.

I, then stamped the concentric circles mandala, from the Doodle Art Mandala set 1, on to some stamping tissue. I stamped three using Versafine Clair strawberry ink and three using Versafine Clair carrot ink. I tore the outafter using a wet paintbrush to apply a line of water around them. I stamped them on tissue so they would go over the edges of the card and texture paste without leaving gaps in them. 

I added them to the page using matte medium. 

Using Versafine Clair nocturne ink,  I stamped the mushrooms and pumpkins on a separate piece of card.  I coloured them with my colouring pencils, then cut them out.

I glued them to the page and used a brown watercolour pencil to add a shadow below them.

Finally, I added a sentiment from the Wordy Stickers Autumn B sheet.

Products used:

Pre created background

Dinkables sets 2 and 3

Doodle Art Mandalas set 1

Doodle Art Mushrooms 

Doodle Art Pumpkins 

Autumn B Wordy Stickers 

Stamping Tissue

Black texture paste 

Matte Medium 

Distress Ink - spiced marmalade,  picked raspberry 

Versafine Clair - Nocturne,  Strawberry,  Carrot 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

Calee CT - Ice cream Dragonfly

 Hello , I’m here this week with another page using Palette colours . Week  34 colours are a lovely mix of pastels and brights  , colours my mum would call ice cream colours. This then is my ice cream dragonfly .

The first step was to gather together my inks and decide on big or small journal , as you can see I decided on my small 6x6 journal .

My first step was to layer some colour down on to my page . For this I chose 3 distress inks Picked raspberry ,Scattered straw and Tumbled glass this were applied with blending brushes and allowed to blend together slightly , I then added sone splashes of water and finally bolted.

Then next layer of background  was created using Dinkables from sets 15 and 12 and two more inks , distress oxide Fossilised Amber and distress ink Evergreen bough .

 

 Using the Art stamp A stitch in Time  and the Picked Raspberry ink I stamped on to my page , for this I didn’t use a stamping block , but just held the stamp in my hand , to create a  loose distressed image .

Having decided I would be adding the Doodle Art Dragonfly to my page , I used the small heart stamp from this set to add a chain of hearts down one side of my page which I coloured in with paint pens from the same colour palette .

Using the paint pens some lines and dots were doodled on to my page and my background finished with a stitched border in black fine liner pen .

I then stamped out the Doodle Art Dragonfly and 6 small leaves ,which were then coloured using inks from this weeks colour palette and highlighted with a white Posca pen 

After trying my dragonfly and leaves in various positions I finally decided to on this design and glued them in to position . It took a while  to decide on the sentiment for this page but finally found these on the Wordy sticker sheet 3B ,cutting them down a little I stuck them on and gave them a scribbled border .

Thank you for taking a look at my step by step  , I hope you found it useful and like my “Ice cream dragonfly “

Happy Crafting 

Calee 

Here are the products used on this page :

Inks - distress ink -Picked raspberry 

                            Scattered straw

                           Tumbled glass

                                Evergreen bough

        distress oxide - Fossilised amber 

Inkables - Dinkables sets 12 and 15

Stamps -Art stamps A stitch in Time 

     Doodle Art Dragonfly 

Wordy stickers set 3B 

6x6 journal , black fine liner pen pen ,white gel pen and a Selection of paint pens .

Sally CT - Bee Crafty Palette inspiration

                                  

Hello there! When I saw this week's Bee Crafty Palette I just had to have a play as it is so beautiful! Here's how my journal pages came together. I didn't have distress oxide ink in Evergreen bough so I used Lucky Clover instead as it looks similar. 
 

I began by blending the distress oxide inks across both pages. There were a few marks on the page from the page after this one, but it is amazing how those marks can become a part of the design. 

Next I used the Bakewell inkable to add some of the darker colours to the page. 

I also splattered it with some Picked Raspberry Distress spritz and left it to dry.  

Using the Leaf from Dinkables set 6, I sponged some lucky clover ink to add leaves around the page. 

On a separate piece of card, I stamped two doodle Art Butterflies and coloured them in using coordinating ecoline pens. When these were dry I cut them out.  

using a scrap of black card I stamped the sentiment from the Small Words stamp set in embossing ink and used white embossing powder to heat set it. I cut it out. 

On the background I stamped the butterflies so their antennae didn't need cutting out, then glued the butterflies over the top. I also added the sentiment and a few highlights with gellyroll Moonlight pens.

I used:

Big one Inkable - Bakewell

Dinkables set 6

Doodle Art Butterfly stamp set

Small words stamp set

Distress Oxide inks - I used lucky Clover, Speckled egg, Fosilized Amber, Saltwater Taffy and Picked Raspberry

Distress Spritz - Picked Raspberry

Ecoline Pens

Black versafine Clair ink

Embossing ink

White embossing powder

Gelly Roll Moonlight Pens

It's such a lovely combination of colours  - Hope you get the chance to play too! 

Thanks for looking! 

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