Alison CT - Dancing Daisies

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating this art journal page created using stamps and off-cuts of catalyst cards and gelli plate prints.

To begin, trim the white edge off of one if the A4 full colour catalyst card 4. Glue it to a page in an A4 art journal.

Collage off cuts of catalyst cards and gelli plate prints to create a background. 

Dry brush a thin layer of white gesso over the collaged pieces. Leave to dry.

Apply tree lot and winterberry distress crayon to different parts of the collage focusing on the joins. Blend with a finger.

On seperate card stamp the Dancing Daisy twice. Colour using the same two distress crayons, using a damp paintbrush to apply the colour. Cut them out.

Glue the flowers to the page.

Add a sentiment from the Wordy Stickers 3B after cutting them down a little.

Products used:

A4 Full Colour Catalyst Cards 4

A4 Full Colour Catalyst Cards 3 off-cuts

A5 Full Colour Catalyst Cards 1 off-cuts

Gelli Prints off-cuts

Doodle Art Dancing Daisy stamp set 

Wordy Stickers 3B 

Distress Crayons - squeezed lemonade, tree lot, winterberry

Dina Wakley white gesso 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison

Calee CT - positive Times Tag

Hi , this week I have step by step on how I made this Positive Times tag , combining elements from the newly released collection and the Doodle Art ladybird stamps .

First I chose a catalyst card from set #3 , I find it really hard when choosing which to use as I often think they would all work for every project ! But I hoped the colours on this one would complement my ladybird, which I knew I would colour red this time .

I tore it in half and stuck down on to my tag with a good sized white area left in the middle . 

Next I filled  the gap , I had left , with some stenciling through this inkable from Tags set 1 . I used distress inks Picked Raspberry and Spiced Marmalade ,adding some Picked Raspberry all around the edge to blend everything together . 

To add more detail to my background I used some of the smaller stamps from the Doodle Art ladybird, bending this boarder to create a wavy line. These were stamped in distress ink Mowed Lawn randomly over the tag .  

Then I stamped out the ladybird and 3 sets of leaves on to water colour card and coloured with my Ecoline water colour pens . 

While these dried I returned to my  tag to add a faux stitched boarder in black pen and a little more stamping with these numbers from the Journal Art Elements 3 set . 

When dry I cut out my ladybird and leaves and added some fine details with a white gel pen , I then placed them on my tag but decided that I needed something more . 

Reaching again for my clock stamps I stamped this large clock from the Wasted Time set , onto an old book page  and cut out . 

I played around for a bit with all of my stamped and coloured elements until I was happy with the layout and then glued everything down and adding a sentiment from The  Best Things Take Time transparencies, just adding glue on the back to the solid black areas . 

I hope you like my finished tag , thank you for taking a look . 

Happy crafting 

Calee

For this tag I used-                                                             

Distress inks : Picked Raspberry 

                  Mowed Lawn 

                           Spiced Marmalade 

Catalyst Cards 3.                            

Stamp sets : Doodle Art Ladybird  

                     Clocks - Wasted Time 

                           Journal Art Elements  3   

Transparencies :The Best things take Time

                       Inkables    :Tag Set. 1                                            

Ecoline water colour pens , a white gel pen and                       black fine liner pen on a white tag .       

Sally CT - A Dandedaisy card

 

Hi There! I thought I would show you how I made this card today.

I began by blending some Mustard Seed Distress Ink onto a 14cm square piece of smooth white card.  

Next I stamped the script background stamp over the whole panel also with Mustard Seed Distress Ink. 

I inked up a section of the Bakewell Big One Inkable using Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxide ink. I then spritzed it with water and laid it onto the background. I dried it using a heat tool then repeated this step to add ink to the lower section of the card panel. 

On a separate piece of card I stamped the largest Dandedaisy and painted it using the same distress and distress oxide inks and a little water. Once dry I cut it out.

After sponging more Charted Mariner ink around the edge, I added the panel to the front of a 15cm square card. I stamped the sentiment in the yellow section of the card using Memento clair ink. 

Finally I added the dandedaisy on 3d foam pads  onto the card. 

I used:

Script Background stamp

Bakewell Big one Inkable

Doodle Art Dandedaisy Stamp set

Doodle Art Dancing Daisy stamp set

Mustard Seed Distress ink

Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxide ink

Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink

15cm square white base card

14cm square of white smooth card

I will be live this evening at 8pm over on the bee Craft Facebook page. I hope you can join me! 

Don't forget, if you find yourself on the Bee Crafty Website from my blog post, you can get yourself an extra 10% off by using my discount code! Just pop BEESALLY10 in at the checkout x

Alison CT - Monochrome Inspiration

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing two card created the same way but in different colours as inspiration for Sally's challenge in the Bee Crafty Stamps Facebook group. The theme of the challenge is monochrome. 

To begin, use a blending tool to create a strip of lumberjack plaid and fired brick distress oxide down the centre of a piece of card that is 4.75 x 6.75 inches.

Next place the Fernando big one over the card and use a damp cloth to pull some of the ink away through the stencil. Leave to dry.

Tie a piece of red and white bakers twine around the card, crossing it over at the centre of the front of the card.

Use foam pads to stick this layer on to a 5x7 card blank.

Stamp the leaves from Journaling Essentials 7, one with Strawberry Versafine Clair and the other with Tulip Red Versafine Clair.  Cut them out.

Use foam pads to stick them to the card.

Stamp a sentiment from the Everyday Sentiments stamp set, using the Versafine Clair Strawberry. Cut out and add faux stitching with a red pen. Add to the card with foam pads.

Add faux stitching to the card to match the sentiment. 

To create the blue version follow the steps above but use mermaid lagoon and uncgarted mariner distress oxides and warm breeze and Bali blue versafine clair.

Products used:

Journaling Essentials 7

Fernando big one 

Everyday Sentiments 1

Distress Oxide - fired brick, lumberjack plaid, mermaid lagoon, uncharted mariner 

Versafine Clair - strawberry, tulip red, war breeze, bali blue

Red and blue pens

Thank you for taking a look Which colour would you use? 

Alison

Calee CT - Monochrome

Hi ,  a couple of weeks ago I treated myself to a small black journal , which is something a bit different for me but when this month’s challenge theme - monochrome was announced, that was my inspiration to get busy .

The first step was to choose a catalyst card from set #3 which I tore diagonally across the centre and stuck down onto the bottom corner of my page . 

Next I took one of the leaf D’inkables from set 14  and drew through it to create two leaf shapes . I did this using a black fine liner on the catalyst card and a white gel pen on the black page .These I then coloured in the opposite  colours to the background . For this I used a black ink and a white polychromo pencil .

I then used a white gel pen and black fine liner pen  to add a stitched border around the edge of the page and on the leaves again using the opposite colours - black on white / white on black . I also drew some hearts and added some cross hatches to the background.

In my bit box I had a few stamped out clocks  , and with the addition of some of the small cogs , I decided they would be perfect for the monochrome theme . Some fussy cutting gave this clock a more intricate feel and a little shading with a grey pencil gave the centre of the clock more depth.

My last addition to the clock was a coat of glossy accents to the centre of the clock ,to give a glassy feel and some dimension .

While this was drying I stamped out this sentiment from the Time is FREE set adding a few doodles to create a frame . 

This is my finished monochrome page , the first in my new black journal . I’m  pleased with how it turned out,  as I am definitely a lover of lots of colour in my creativity , but it’s definitely good to challenge yourself sometimes and push out of your comfort zone. 

Thank you for taking a look , hopefully I may have given you some inspiration to create a monochrome project. 

Happy crafting 

Calee 

For this project I used -                                               

                             Catalyst cards set #3

                      D’inkables set 14

                                      Art stamps : Time Wasted 

                                                            Time is FREE 

                                                              Glossy accents 

A black ink pad , white  gel pen , black fine liner and polychromo pencils and in  my small black journal  .         

Sally CT - Monochrome inspiration

 

Hi there! I am here with a step by step tutorial to create this simple journal page.

I began by cutting a piece of the greyscale catalyst card from set 4 (A5) and attached it to the page using Matte Medium.

Next I covered one of the texture discs with black soot distress oxide ink, spritzed with water and pressed it onto the page. I lifted off the texture disk and dried the page using a heat tool.

Using the dotty Dinkable I added more ink using a blending brush, as well as around the edges of the page.

I cut the circles and the word from the transparency prints and added them to the page using Matte Medium.

On a scrap of white card I stamped the sketchy flower and cut it out leaving a small white border.

Finally I added the flower to the page too. Here is the finished page....

And next to it's companion in the journal. 

I used:

Catalyst cards set #4 - A5 greyscale

Distress oxide ink in Black soot

Texture discs set #4

Dinkables set #2 

Transparency Prints - Beautiful and Brave, and Journaling Essentials #1

Sketchy Flowers stamp set
 Versafine Clair Black ink

Matte Medium

Although monochrome is out of my comfort zone, I love how beautifully this contrasts with it's colourful companion! It's also inspiration for the challenge over in the Bee crafty Stamps group. 

Don't forget, if you find yourself on the Bee Crafty Website from my blog post, you can get yourself an extra 10% off by using my discount code! Just pop BEESALLY10 in at the checkout x

I think I will be back to my usual colourful self next week! 

Thanks for looking! 

Alison CT - Look for something positive

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing an art journal page created using the Dream stamp, one of the A4 Catalyst cards and a 6" inkable.

To begin, cut one of the A4 catalyst cards so that it measure 19cm by 19cm. Then stamp Dream, where you want the final image to apear. Use a craft knife to cut her out.

Next, stamp Dream again, but on a piece of white card that is a bit bigger than the hole.

Stamp the crosses and dots and the hearts in a circle, from the Journaling Essentials 1 using black soot distress ink.  Then stamp the strip of hearts from Journal Art Elements 2 using the same ink.

Sponge black acrylic ink through the 6" brick wall inkable, so that it creates a wall around the hole. Leave to dry. Then add white dots, using a posca pen, to the bottom of every brick.

Using foam tape, carefully, stick Dream so that she is looking through the hole.

Stick this to a page in an art journal using foam tape on the back of the catalyst card and wet glue on the back of Dream.

Finally add the sentiment from Ticker Tape 1.

Products used:

Faces: Dream stamp set

A4 Catalyst Cards 3

Brick Wall 6 inch inkable 

Ticker Tape 1 stamp set

Black Acrylic Paint 

Sponge

Versafine Clair Nocturne 

Black Soot Distress Ink