Alison CT - Face Journal Page

Hi everyone,  today I'm sharing an art journal page created using a couple of distress oxides, two inkables tags and three Transparency Prints. 

To begin I blended seedless preserve and weathered wood distress oxide ink over the page. I then spritzed the page with water and left it to dry.

Next I used the numbers inkable tag with weathered wood distress oxide to add detail to the grey areas of the page.

Then I used the line and circle inkable tag with the seedless preserve distress oxide on to the same coloured area. When I had finished I spritzed the tag with water and pressed this onto the page, too add more texture. This was left to dry.

Next I chose the transparencies I wanted to use and cut them out. 

I then used a wide paintbrush to apply distress collage medium all over the back of each transparency and adhered them to the page.

Products used:

Faces 2 Transparency Print

Creative Words black on clear Transparency Print 

Journal Circles Transparency Print

Inkables Tags 1

Inkables Tags 5

Distress Oxide - weathered wood, seedless preserve 

Thank you for taking a look.

Alison 

Sally CT - Spots and Rainbows!

Hi There! I am still loving playing with the latest stamps, Wordy stickers and D'inkables from Bee Crafty. Today I decided to get inky whilst providing a little more inspiration for the monthly Facebook group challenge, where the theme is spots. 

I began by inking a piece of watercolour card with a rainbow of distress oxide colours. 

Next I sprayed the leaves from the D'inkables with water and laid them on the inked surface. After a few seconds I lifted them off and blotted the excess water. This is known as faux bleaching. 

Once this was dry, I used another of the dinkables to add a little gesso inbetween the leaves.  

I added some more ink (seedless preserves and black soot Distress Oxide) through another D'inkable, along with Some stamping around the edges and in the middle. I set this aside to dry thoroughly.

I cut some circles (you could use dies or punches) from white card in two different sizes. I added faux stitching around them. 

I added wordy stickers to some and stamped on the others using stamps from Journaling Essentials #3

Finally I attached the white spots to the background using 3d foam tape, and attached it to the front of a 6x6" card.

I used:

6" square card blank

5.5" square of watercolour card

Distress Oxide inks in Lumberjack Plaid, Mustard Seed, Lucky Clover, Blueprint Sketch, Seedless Preserves and Black Soot.

Dinkables set 14

Mini mister

gesso

Journaling Essentials #7 stamps

Journaling Essentials #3 stamps

circle punches or dies

Black fine liner pen

Wordy Stickers #3

Foam pads

I hope you like the results and I hope you will join in with the challenge. I will be live this evening at 8pm over on the Bee Crafty Facebook page doing some journaling with the new stamps if you fancy joining me there too. 

Thanks for looking! 

Alison CT - Leaves and Birds

Hi everyone, I've still not put the new stamps away. Today I have a step by step guide to creating this journal page.

To begin I painted a mix of squares and rectangles of colour onto a page using my Kuretake Gansai Tambi Pearl Colour watercolour paints. I left this to dry naturally.

Next I stamped the script background stamp, using versafine clair morning mist ink, along the bottom of the page. 

Next I used prize ribbon and lumberjack plaid distress oxide with part of the ripped hole dinkable from set 14 to give the background some texture. 

Then I used the zig zag stamp from Journaling Essentials 7 with versafine clair nocturne to edge some of the squares of paint.

Next I took the rainbow from Journaling Essentials 1 and used versafine clair strawberry to stamp it three times on the page. I heat set the ink to ensure everything was thoroughly dry before doing the next step.

I used a wow embossing ink pad to stamp the rounded leaf from Journaling Essentials 7 twice on the page. I added white embossing powder and heat set it. I wasn't worried that I had missed a bit of both of the leaves as I could cover it with an image. 

On seperate card I stamped the two largest birds from Journaling Essentials 6. For one I used versafine clair chianti and the other versafine clair very peri. I cut them out.

Next I glued them to the page to make it look like they are perched on the branch. This allowed me to hide the missing embossing on the leaves.

Finally I chose a sentiment from the new transparencies, cut it out and used collage medium to glue it to the page.

Products used:

Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolour shimmer paints

Paintbrush

Versafine Clair ink  - strawberry,  chianti, very peri, morning mist,  nocturne 

Background Script stamp 

Journaling Essentials 1

Journaling Essentials 6

Journaling Essentials 7

Dinkables set 14

Transparency Prints  - Creative Words black on clear

Distress Oxide ink pads - lumberjack plaid, prize ribbon 

Wow embossing ink pad

Ranger embossing powder - white

Distress Collage Medium 

Thanks for taking a look. 

Alison 

Sally CT - Spots!

  

Hi there! After last week's launch I was asked how I made a similar card to this, so here is a step by step tutorial to show you.

I began by selecting the papers - the same design but one in greyscale and one in colour. 

Next I used circle punches to cut circles from the colour sheet, which I then stuck onto the greyscale sheet in the correct position using matte medium. 

I blended a little coordinating ink around the edge then matted and layered onto an A6 base card.

I selected a sentiment from the transparency sheet and trimmed and added to the card with Matte Medium.

Next I stamped the leaves from Journaling Essentials #7 using two shades of Versafine Clair, clear embossed and cut it out. 

Finally I attached the leaf to the card using 3d foam pads. 

Here's another example using the same techniques, but with added stamping to create a border. 

For today's card I used:

A6 base card

A6 Bee Crafty Catalyst cards #1 in greyscale and colour

Transparencies - A5 creative words

Journaling essentials #7 (and #6 for the bird version)

Versafine Clair ink - I used Charming Pink and Summer Breeze

Clear Embossing Powder

Matte medium

Paper/ card for matting and layering

I've chosen the theme of spots for this month's challenge over in the Bee Crafty Stamps Facebook group, so please come and join in! 

Alison CT - Sample for the May 2024 release

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing some of the samples that I created for the May release. I'm not including all of them, as this would be the longest post ever, as I just can't stop playing with all the lovely goodies and adding older stamp sets with them.

The new release consists of 2 new Journaling Essentials stamp sets, an mdf book cover, 4 gorgeous packs of catalyst card in different sizes and colours, a new dinkables set, 2 new sheets of wordy stickers and some absolutely stunning transparency sheets. Links to all products will be at the end of the post 

My first sample uses one of the A6 greyscale catalyst cards, the white on black wordy stickers and both stamp sets.

My second sample uses one of the A5 full colour catalyst cards, one of the leaf transparencies, the white on black wordy stickers and the freehand borders stamp set.

My third sample was created using a Dina Wakley tag with distress ink and the Journaling Essentials 1, 4, 6 and 7 stamp sets, one of the the new dinkables from set 14, and the white on black wordy stickers. 

My fourth sample uses one of the leaf transparencies, Journaling Essentials 1 and 6, the white on black wordy stickers and the leaf dinkables from set 14.

My fifth sample uses one of the A6 full colour catalyst cards, Journaling Essentials 6 and 7 stamp sets and the black on white wordy stickers.

My sixth sample uses one of the A6 greyscale catalyst cards and stamps from the Journaling Essentials 6 and 7 stamp sets,. The sentiment is from the white on black wordy stickers.

My seventh sample was created in my A5 black journal using one of the A5 full colour catalyst cards, Journaling Essentials 6, one of the birds from the transparency prints, the black on white wordy stickers and the 6" circle easy frame.

Products used:

Journaling Essentials 1

Journaling Essentials 4

Journaling Essentials 6

Journaling Essentials 7

A5 Full Colour Catalyst Cards

A5 Greyscale Catalyst Cards 

A6 Full Colour Catalyst Cards

A6 Greyscale Catalyst Cards 

Bee Crafty Wordy Stickers 3B white on black

Bee Crafty Wordy Stickers 3 black on white

Bee Crafty Transparency Prints  Creative Words  black on clear

Bee Crafty Transparency Prints  Creative Word clear on black

Bee Crafty Transparency Prints Journaling Birds and Sprigs

Dinkables set 14

Inkables Easy Frames - Circle

Thank you for taking a look and I hope I've inspired you to use these new products.

Alison