Calee CT - Artistry

Hi this week I have a quick journal page to share with you. The idea was to use up some scraps and pre-coloured images, Before launching into my Christmas projects

My first step was to choose one of my pre-coloured images from my box and then look through my Scraps of catalyst cards, However when looking I found this Catalyst card from pack #1 ,which  had the perfect colours to go with the flower I had chosen from the Art stamp set Autumn  Florals . I did promise myself I would also use some scraps.

The next step then was to add a little extra colour. I did this with distress  ink mowed  lawn and a dinkable  From set 11. I also used a white Poska pen to add lots of dots and detail.

My next step was to add some texture to my page using a second Dinkable From set 7  and some white texture paste.

As I promised myself, using quite large scrap of catalyst card also from set #1 .  I created  a leaf by drawing through a third  Dinkable , from set 14, with a black fine liner pen .

I  finished my page by glueing down the leaf and flower , added a bold sentiment from the wordage stamp set Creativity Words and bordering my page with a black stitching .

 This was a fairly simple page to create, with the catalyst card doing most of the of the background work , and some times  I think that’s what you need in your crafting just an uncomplicated relaxing play .

Thank you for taking a look this week ,don’t forget this moths challenge theme is to use catalyst cards and catalyst collage papers .

Happy crafting 

Calee 

Here is a list of the products I used this week 

Papers - catalyst cards #1 

Inks -distress ink mowed lawn 

Inkables - Dinkables sets 7,11& 14 

Stamps - Art stamps Autumn Florals 

           Wordage Creatvity Words 

 6x6 inch journal , black fine liner , white Posca pen and white texture paste 

Sally CT - Autumn Coneflower DL card

Hi there! Thought I would share a little more inspiration for our challenge wit you for my blog post today. 

I began by cutting a piece of A4 Autumn Art Journal Catalyst collage paper to fit the front of a DL sized card. I sponged a little Uncharted Mariner Disress oxide ink around the edge.

Using the Bakewell Big one Inkable I also added more of the same Distress oxide ink over the paper. 

I stamped the small circles stamp from Journaling Essentials #9 randomly around the page. 

On a separate piece of card I stamped the Doodle Art Cone flower in black Versafine Clair ink and coloured it using Ecoline pens. I then cut it out. 

Finally I attached the Catalyst collage paper to the front of the card, then added the cone flower using matte medium. I have not added a sentiment yet, but will do so when I use it. 

I used:

Catalyst Collage Paper - Autumn Art Journal A4 pack - There is a 10% saving when you buy 6 packs at the moment! 

Bee Crafty Inkables - Big ones - Bakewell

Bee Crafty Stamps - Journaling Essentials #9 set

Bee Crafty Stamps - Doodle Art Coneflower -There is a multibuy offer on Doodle Art stamps too! 

Black Versafine Clair ink

Distress oxide ink - I used Uncharted Mariner

Ecoline Pens

Matte Medium

DL sized blank card

Thanks for looking! 

Alison CT - Snowflake Art Journal Page

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created using Catalyst Card, Inkables and Wordy Stickers.

To begin, I cut a piece of the A5 Greyscale #3 catalyst card to fit my journal page and a puece of the identical full colour card to exactly half the first piece. 

On the grey scale puece, I blended Broken china and prize ribbon distress ink over the 6" Inkable Snowflakes Mask. 

I then glued this to the page in my art journal and added the full colour piece over the top. I used a black fineliner to draw a rough border around the outside of the smaller piece.

On separate card I blended ink through the 6" Snowflake 3 inkable  I used uncharted mariner around the outside ddges and broken china in the middle. I added picket fence ink over the central part. I then fussy cut it out.

Using a white pen I added a faux stitched border to the snowflake.

I glued it centrally on the page.

I decided the page needed a scribbled border like that around the inner piece so I did this with a fineliner pen. 

Finally I added a Winter Words Sticker sentiment to which I had added a scribbly border. 

Products used:

A5 Catalyst Card #3 Greyscale

A5 Catalyst Card #3 Full Colour

6" Inkable Snowflake Mask 

6" Inkable Snowflake 3

Winter Wordy Stickers 

Distress Ink - prize ribbon,  broken china,  uncharted mariner,  picket fence 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison 

Calee CT - Catalyst Collage

Hi this week I have a journal page using catalyst Collage papers ,which is this month’s challenge theme . Aren’t we lucky there are so many beautiful ones choose from ?

For this page, I am using my 8 x 8in  journal and a catalyst collage paper from the Daisy Rainbow Paint  A5 pack.

The first step was tear the paper into pieces and glue them onto my page, to this I then randomly added some script washi tape.  As  I wanted to keep a white border all around my page I taped a small border off using another washi tape.

Next three inks, distress crushed olive, uncharted mariner and distress oxide ripe persimmon and three Inkables from sets 15 and 7 were used to fill in the white space and draw the page together.

After removing the washing tape from around the edges of my page. It was time to add some doodling, hearts and lines were added with a white  Posca pen ,dots added to the Daisies and also some larger lines  of pink dots.

Choosing the doodle Dandedaisy Stamp set, I used the large leaf stamp to add another layer to my background. For this I used a black ink as I would be stamping my main image in black.

As my background was very colourful and busy, I decided my focal image would need to be uncoloured .I wanted a little detail so using the Art stamp Script background, I stamped onto a white sheet of card and then over stamped the Dandedaisy, I could’ve used an old book page for this, but I wanted a white  image.

This is a picture of my completed page. As you can see I decided on two dandedaisies and added a little colour to their centres. I also stamped 3 of the doodle circles from art journal Elements #2 onto the same white card. My page was then finished with a sentiment from the wordage Incredible words Stamp set and finally a white stitched border was added 

Thank you for taking a look at my blog this week. I hope it may have given you a little inspiration to create a project using catalyst college papers and please if you do,enter it into this month challenge.

Happy crafting

Calee

Products use this week are :

Papers- Catalyst collage Rainbow Daisy Paint  A5

Inks - distress Ink uncharted mariner

                    crushed olive

Distress oxide  ripe persimmon 

Inkables -Dinkables Sets 15 and 7 

Stamps - Doodle art Dandedaisy 

                        Art stamps Script background

                Art journal elements #2

Sentiment - wordage incredible words stamps 

8 x 8in Journal, white and pink Posca pens, and some script washi tape 

Sally CT - Resilience is my Superpower

Hi There! Over on the Bee Crafty Facebook Group we have a new Challenge for November where we want to see you using Catalyst Card or Catalyst collage papers. I thought this would be a great opportunity to use one of the Catalyst Collage papers that I've no used yet from the Daisy Rainbow Paint set. I had cut away part of the previous page so wanted some way of decorating my page to reflect that. Here's how I created my journal pages

I began by trimming the Catalyst Collage paper to fit the page, and stuck it down, leaving the area where the page had been cut away without coverage. 

Next I stamped the Sunflower head 3 times onto a scrap of white card using black ink. 

I cut these out and attached them to the left hand page using matte medium. This also allowed the gerbera to peek through from the previous page.

Whilst the medium dried, I added some stamping using Journaling essentials #9 set to the background. 

Next, I coloured the Sunflowers using Ecoline brush Pens. 

I cut out the word Resilience from the  Resilience Transparency print and decided on where I was going to position it before cutting the word into two pieces so the pages would still fold. I stuck it down with Matte Medium. 

Underneath the transparency print I used my white posca pen to add 'is my superpower'. I had intended to  make it either straight or at more of an angle, but as usual when I add my own writing I didn't quite get the result I was looking for 😂

Finally I outlined the letters with a Sakura fine liner. 

Here is the finished spread again. 

I used:

Bee Crafty Autumn Florals stamp set

Bee Crafty Journaling Essentials #9 stamp set

Bee Crafty Catalyst Collage Papers - Daisy Rainbow Paint A5

Bee Crafty Transparency Prints - Resilience words

Black versafine Clair ink

Ecoline pens

Matte Medium

White posca pen 

Black fine liner pen 

Thanks for looking and I hope I have inspired you to enter the challenge! 

Alison CT - Catalyst Collage Inspiration

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing some inspiration for using the catalyst collage papers with some of the Journaling Essentials and Handwritten Words stamps.

To begin,  I cut the white border off the A5 Painted Gaze Catalyst Collage paper and glued it centrally to a page in my A4 journal. 

Next, I blended salty ocean, picked raspberry and mustard seed distress oxides over the white space of the page, taking some on to the edges of the catalyst collage paper. I used first, second and third generation stamping to add the sentiment from the Handwritten Words stamp set using Versafine Clair nocturne ink. 

Next I used 2 of the circles, from Journaling Essentials 2,  with Versafine Clair nocturne to add more detail to the background.

I filled any gaps using the large dots stamp from Journaling Essentials 9.

Then, I cut out the pink, yellow and blue daisy from the A5 Daisy Rainbow Paint Catalyst Collage paper and the pink and blue ones from the A4 version.

I added these to the page using foam pads and trimmed off any excess. 

I stamped the sentiment on to seperate card and blended the three distress oxides over it. I then cut it out and edged it with black pen before gluing it to the page.

Products used:

A5 Daisy Rainbow Paint Catalyst Collage 

A4 Daisy Rainbow Paint Catalyst Collage 

A5 Painted Gaze Catalyst Collage 

Handwritten Words 1 stamp set 

Journaling Essentials 2 stamp set 

Journaling Essentials 9 stamp set 

Versafine Clair nocturne 

Distress oxide - mustard seed,  picked raspberry,  salty ocean 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison

Calee CT - Week 43 palette colours

Hello , this week I have been having a play in my journal with the eek 43 palette colours .

My first step was to collect together inks and Ecoline water colour pens in the colour palette and find a new page in my A5 journal .

Choosing the greens from this colour palette , distress inks cracked pistachio and lucky clover. I lay down colour all over the page using a scrunched up plastic bag , which gave a lovely texture to my first layer of background.

This was followed by some stencilling using distress oxide wilted violet and the centre section of the swirling circles Inkable . At this stage I also inked around the edge of my page with the same ink .

Introducing another colour from the palette , villainous potion and using stamps from the Journal art elements 3 stamp set ,a border of hearts was added along with some random clusters of hearts .  Using the sun stamp from the Doodle Art Rainbow birds a sun was stamped into the centre of each spiral of  circles . These were coloured yellow and some yellow circles stamped again using stamps from the Journal  art elements set .

My focal images for this page were stamped from the Doodle Art Rainbow Birds , Journaling essentials #4  and Autumn Floral Art stamp sets . These were all coloured with inks and water colour pens from the week 43 colour palette.

When these were dry I  added white highlights with a gel pen and some previously stamped tape measure borders from the Art stamp set stitch borders .

My page was finished by gluing down all of my stamped elements on the my background and choosing a sentiment from the wordy stickers sheet  3B and drawing a bold black stitched border .

Thank you for stopping by this week  , hopefully you found my steps useful.

Happy crafting 

Calee 

Here a list of the products used :

Inks - Distress oxides Fossilised Amber 

                               Wilted Violet 

Distress Cracked pistachio 

Lucy clover  

 Villainous potion 

Inkables - swirling circles 

          Stamps -  Doodle Art Rainbow birds 

Art stamps -  Journal  Art elements 3

                        Journaling essentials #4 

         Stitch borders 

          Autumn florals 

Sentiment - wordy stickers 3B

Ecoline water colour pens , a white gel pen and black sharpie pen .