Buzzy Goings on at Bee Crafty Bidford: 02/01/2023

Sunday, February 26, 2023

Alison CT - Grafix Media Journal Page

Good morning. Today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating this art journal page using the 9x6 Grafix Mixed Media Journal. I have used one of the matte dura-lar pages.

To begin I placed three small blobs of my chosen colours of paint down the side of my gelli plate. I then used a brayer to spread this evenly over the surface. Clean the brayer on a spare piece of card.

Next I placed the stencil over the paint. Then I placed the front of the dura-lar page over the stencil and rubbed gently over it. I then pulled this off and left it to dry naturally.

So as not to waste the paint on the stencil and gelli plate, I spritzed the stencil with water and pressed it down onto another piece of card. I then placed a piece of card over the paint on the gelli plate and created another pull. Some paint remained, so I applied a thin layer of white gesso to the gelli plate, then placed a piece of card over this and created a much lighter pull. These I put away to use on other projects.

Next I put some drops of teal alcohol ink onto my gelli plate. I placed the back of my dura-lar page onto this and rubbed gently. This mived the ink around and coated large areas of the back. I did this on the back of the page for a more subtle effect, so as not to hide the stenciling.

Then I stamped areas of the script stamp with stazon teal ink free hand (not on an acrylic block) on the front of the page. Some I did with second generation.

Next I stamped the grid, from the journal art elements 3 stamp set, with stazon cactus green ink, and the numbers, from the same set, using stazon jet black ink. Both were stamped on the front of the page.

On a piece of white card, I stampedthe three flying dragonflies, from the Dragonfly stamp set, using versafine clair nocturne ink. I coloured them with Ecoline pens then cut them out and glued them to the page with gel medium.

Finally, I stamped the word dragonfly using stazon jet black ink.

Products used:

Grafix mixed media journal 6x9

Gelli plate

Inkables big ones - fern flourish

Dylusions paints - mushy peas, lemon zest and calypso teal

Alcohol ink - teal

Art stamps - dragonfly, script background and journal art elements 3

Dina Wakley gel medium

Stazon ink - jet black, teal blue and cactus green

Ecoline pens - bronze green, bluish green

Thank you for stopping by and having a look at my project.

Alison

Saturday, February 25, 2023

Sally CT - Dreamy Dragonflies

Hi There! I am here with a journal page I created for a class recently. Here is how I made it.

i began by giving the page a coat of white gesso, then added some Dylusions paint with a wet brush, spraying with a little water to get a more pastel effect.

Next I stamped some of the Doodle Art Mandala stamps onto stamping tissue using Versafine Clair ink

I cut them out and added them to the page using matte medium.

Using the circles Big one inkable and peacock Feathers distress ink I added a bit of stencilling to the background.

I stamped the Script background stamp onto stamping tissue using versafine clair ink and tore it into pieces, adding them around the page with more matte medium.

I did the same with the dotty circle stamp.

I had some doodle art dragonflies that I had coloured in with pastel ecolines and cut out. I added them to the page along with the ticker tape sentiment stamped on to white card with black ink. A splatter of white paint and some faux stitching with a posca pen finished it off.

Here is the finished page again.

I used:

White gesso

Dylusions paint in Peony Blush, Lemon Zest and Blue Lagoon

Doodle Art mandalas #2 stamp set

Journal Art Elements #3 stamp set

script background stamp

Doodle Art Dragonfly stamp set

Wordage Ticker tape 4 stamp set

Stamping tissue

Versafine Clair ink in Black, Summer Breeze, Purple Delight and Golden Meadow

Peacock feathers distress ink

Inkable Big one Circles 1

Ecolines

Matte Medium

Posca pen

Thanks for looking!

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Journal Butterflies

By Ann

We all get butterflies from time to time, starting a journal page can do just that to me! I hope these blogs help you to start creating, even if you end up doing something different !

Journal

Paint: Dylusions Fresh Lime, Periwinkle Blue & Lemon Zest.

Texture Paste

Stamps: Doodle Art Butterfly

Inkables: 6x6 Scales

Big Ones: Circles 1

DInkables: Set 7 & Set 2

Scribble Sticks

Gelly Roll Moonlight Pens (white pen in pack)

Wordy Stickers set 1

Inks : Hero Arts & Versafine Clair Nocturne

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Spread some Dylusions, Fresh Lime paint with a little water over your journal page, leaving some white space…

Add some Periwinkle Blue, with a little water…

Use the small scales DInkable to soften the Periwinkle Blue into the lime ….

I felt my page needed another colour & added some Lemon Zest…

Continue to soften & integrate the colours using the dots DInkables & the blue…

Dry the page, then spread some texture paste through the Circles 1 Big One …

Leave the paste to dry.

Stamp 3 Doodle Art Butterflies onto a separate piece of paper with Versafine Clair Nocturne…

I used a combination of watercolours & Scribble Sticks to colour the butterflies, sadly I forgot to take a photo!

Once the texture paste has dried, use white & yellow Gelly Roll pens through the large Scales & the Dots, Inkables…

To add a little black into the background I added the doodle line ( from stamp set) with some Hero Arts Ink…

To finish decide where to place the butterflies. Scrunch up some black thread & glue the butterflies with a bit of thread under each one…

Find a sentiment from the Wordy Stickers, glue to a slightly larger piece of black paper to frame it, add to your page…

Add some dots & dashes with black & white Posca pens…

Thank you for stopping by… Ann xxx

Sunday, February 19, 2023

Alison CT - Denim Journal Page

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing how I created this denim journal page in my Dina Wakley Media blue journal.

To begin, I placed a blending mat behind my chosen denim page, to protect the page below. I then painted circles using the three colours of Dylusions paint.

Next I ripped four pieces from the background Bee Crafty media papers. I used a wet paint brush to outline where I wanted to tear to make it easier. I also chose a sentiment from the word sheet. I glued these to the page using distress collage medium.

Next I used a white posca pen to add marks to the circles and the denim page.

Then I carefully ripped three flowers from the Elements collage papers from Dina Wakley and glued them to the page using distress collage medium.

Finally I splatted white gesso onto the page using a paintbrush.

Products used:

Dina Wakley Media Journal Blue

Bee Crafty A4 blending mat

Dylusions Shimmer Paint - bubblegum pink

Dylusions Paint - blue hawaiian, calypso teal

Bee Crafty Media Papers - backgrounds 1

White Posca pen

Dina Wakley Media white gesso

Dina Wakley Collage Papers - Elements

Ranger Distress Collage Medium

Dina Wakley paintbrushes

Thank you for taking the time to have a look at my project.

Alison

Saturday, February 18, 2023

Sally CT - Wit Woo Journal page

Hi There! I've been having a play with my dylusions paints that I got recently and made this journal page in my mini Dylusions Journal. Here's what I did:

I began by painting the page with Bubblegum Pink and Laidback Lilac Dylusions paint.

Once this was dry, I used a white scribble stick through the 4" easy frame heart to add two hearts.

Next I drew several hearts using the posca pen and the Hearts 6x6 inkable around the edges of the page.

I used black soot distress oxide and the texture disc to add some darker areas to the page.

Next, I stamped some of the texture borders around the page and added some lines in black pen around the larger hearts.

Whilst the ink dried, I cut out two of the faces from the faces #4 transparencies and added white posca pen to the eyes. I used matte medium to attach these and a sentiment from the wordy stickers to my background, and finished with a splatter of white Dina Wakely gloss spray.

Here is the finished page again.