Alison CT - Altered Playing Cards

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing three altered playing cards. One for the promot yellow, one for the prompt sunburst and the last one for the prompt spring.

To begin I covered the card with a piece of the media papers.

I then spritzed the card with squeezed lemonade distress oxide spray and when dry squeezed lemonade distress spritz. 

Next I blended fossilized amber distress ink through the Moroccan Tile inkables tag. I then rubbed the Versafine Clair golden meadow ink pad over the back of the numbers inkables tag and used a brayer to press it firmly on the card. 

Next, I stamped the dots stamp, from the Doodle Art Sunflower stamp set,  using Craft Artist Fussion Apricot.

Then I stamped the Sunflower using Craft Artist Fusion Lychee; the Bird, from Journaling Essentials 6, with Craft Artist Fusion Apricot; the Clock and Cog, from the Time is Free stamp set, with versafine clair golden meadow. I then cut them out. I coloured the clock and sunflower with pencils.

Finally I glued everything to the card, added a sentiment and faux stitching.

For the Sunburst prompt I used the sunburst texture disc from set 4, the Burds and Butterflies regular stamp set and the All Hallows Transparency Prints.

For the Spring prompt I used the Sketchy Fliwers stamp set, the Dragonfly stamp set and a sentiment from the Wordy Stickers 1.

Products used:

Media Papers Backgrounds

Inkables Tags 1

Doodle Art Sunflower stamp set

Art Stamps Time is Free

Inkables Texture Discs 4

Birds and Butterflies regular stamp set 

All Hallows Transparency Prints 

Sketchy Flowers stamp set 

Dragonfly stamp set 

Wordy Stickers 1

Journaling Essentials 6

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison

Calee CT -Clocks Canvas

Hi , for my blog this week I thought I would show a step by step guide to one of the samples I made for the new Clocks and Catalyst release . 

As this month challenge theme is texture , I decided I would make a canvas , a great base for lots of different textures .

First had a look in my stash for different cards and papers that I could use to add texture . I used some corrugated card and tissue paper , which I planed to scrunch on to the canvas .

I had also found some flower ribbon ,that I cut into pieces,and stuck all of this down with gel medium and left to dry . 

Next to give everything a uniform colour and make adding paint and ink easier , I gave it all two coats of gesso . Again this needed drying time . 

I wanted a striking back ground so chose two of my brightest Dylusions paints.I used Calypso Teal and Island Parrot . 

When this was dry I added another layer of texture with some paste through a D’inkable from set 14.

While all of these layers were drying thoroughly .I chose a catalyst card from set #3 , in contrasting colours and stamped out clocks and cogs from the Time is FREE stamp set .Putting them aside to cut out later. 

I then returned to my canvas adding some smaller background details with my much used Posca pens. A few crosses , lines and splatters.

Along with my elements stamped on to the catalyst card , I wanted some monochrome pieces , so did a little more stamping . 

The next step was to cut out all of my stamped images and some elements from the catalyst card I had chosen and then I started to build up my canvas .

This is my finished  canvas , with all the pieces stuck down , for this I used gel medium , which I find holds things much better when you are adding them on top of lots of texture . The addition of the Time is FREE sentiment was the finishing touch .

I hope you like my canvas , thank you for stopping by and taking a look .

      Happy crafting, Calee .    

 For this canvas I used :

A cavas , scraps of card , tissue paper and some ribbon.
Gel medium , gesso and Posca pens .
  Stamp sets : Art stamps Time is FREE
                                         Wasted Time 

  Catalyst cards #3

  Dylusions paints : Calypso Teal 

                              :Island Parrot 

  D’inkables  : set 14

                           

                      

Sally CT - Time flies when you're crafting!

 

Hi There! I am here with a super quick vintage journal page in my mini journal today.

I began by cutting a piece of the greyscale ledger catalyst card and inking around it using vintage photo distress oxide ink. 

Next I sprayed a tag inkable using bundled sage distress oxide spray and laid it onto the page. 

Once this was dry, I splattered the page with walnut stain Distress Oxide spray. 

Using versafine Clair Avocado ink I stamped the cogs randomly around the page.

I also stamped some clocks in sand dune too. 

to finish the background I added some stitched border stamping using portobello ink. 

I cut the sentiment from the transparency sheet and added it using matte medium.

on a scrap of catalyst card and a scrap of kraft card I stamped a clock and the doodle art butterfly, Embossing in clear and cutting them out. 

Finally I added these to the page using matte medium. 

Here is the finished page again....

...and next to it's partner in the journal.

I used:

5x5 notebook journal

Catalyst cards set #4 greyscale and set 1 full colour (A5)

Tag inkables set #3

Time is Free Stamp set

Stitchy borders stamp set

Doodle Art Butterfly stamp set

Distress oxide ink in Vintage photo

Distress oxide spray in bundled sage and walnut stain

Versafine Clair ink in Avocado, Sand Dune and Portobello

Clear embossing powder

The best things take time Transparency prints

Matte Medium

I have had so much fun playing with the new stamps. I can't seem to put them away! 

you can find all the new products here:

March release 2025

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

Thanks for looking! 

 

Alison - March 2025 Release Samples

Hi everyone today I'm sharing my samples for the new clocks stamps and catalyst cards release. 

For my first sample, I have used a mix of the greyscale and full colour A6 catalyst cards from set 4 to create the background. I then stamped the clock, leaves and bird onto another piece of the full colour card. After cutting them out I glued them to the card. I added one of the new Transparency Prints sentiments.

For my second sample, I have used one of the A5 full colour catalyst cards from set 3 to create the background. I stamped the clocks from both new sets and the flowers and leaves from Journaling Essentials 2 and 4. I cut these out, then glued them to the card. I added a Transparency Prints sentiment, which I glued to a piece of card before sticking it on. 

For my third sample, I cut a puece of A5 full colour catalyst card, from set 3, to fit my card blank and glued it in place. I stamped the sentiment and cogs directly to the background using a black ink. I then cut a strip of A6 set 3 catalyst card and inking only the word TIME I stamped this on to it, not worrying if it was perfect. I glued this strip to a piece of white card then added it to the card. I used a black ink to stamp the three clocks from the Time is Free stamp set. Having cut them out I added them to the card.

For my fourth sample, I cut a piece of the A5 greyscale catalyst card from set 4 to fit my card blank. I stamped the click, cogs and sentiment directly to the catalyst card using Versafine Clair Strawberry ink. I added the sketchy bird, which I had in my stash.

For my final sample, I cut the white edges off one of the greyscale catalyst cards from set 3. I used stamps from the Ledger and Nibs, Stitched Borders, Script, and Wasted Time to create a background. I then stamped, on seperate card, the Rainbow Bird and a selection of worker stamps from the stamp sets listed below. Having cut these out I then glued them a shown in the photo. I added one of the Transparency Prints sentiments to finish the card.

Products used:

A5 full colour catalyst cards 3

A5 greyscale catalyst cards 3

A5 greyscale catalyst cards 4

A6 greyscale catalyst cards 4

A6 full colour catalyst cards 4

Transparency Prints The Best Things Take Time black on clear

Transparency Prints The Best Things Take Time Clear on Black

Clocks: Time is Free stamp set 

Clocks: Wasted Time stamp set 

Journaling Essentials 2, 4 and 6

Ledger, Inkwell and Nibs stamp set 

Stitched Borders stamp set 

Script Background stamp 

Dragonfly stamp set 

Doddle Art Rainbow Birds 

Doodle Art Dancing Daisy 

Thank you for taking a look. If you want a 10% discount on your purchase from Bee Crafty add code BEEALISON10 at checkout.

Alison

Calee CT -March 25 New Release samples

Hello  , this week for my blog I’m sharing some of my samples from the fabulous new Clocks and Catalyst- March 25 release .

For this first one , a tag with a vintage feel . I used stamps from both the Time is Free and Wasted Time sets , stamping them on to a bright catalyst card . These are on a vintage style background created with the same stamps .

 

The next is a concertina style card using one catalyst card to make 4 similar but different panels . On to this I added some texture paste and then again using stamps from both of  the new sets and lots of bits from my bit box . I worked on all 4 panels at the same to time to help me achieve a good mix of elements .

This journal page was my first sample using the ledger style pages , This is a style I haven’t really crafted with much before , but found I real like them , in fact I sat for ages just flicking through them and enjoyed  that nearly as much as my crafting !

Hoping to make this feel more like an old page I curled the corners and used vintage colours , just adding a pop of colour with the Doodle Art dragon fly.  

 This is a small canvas , I wanted to create a piece that had lots of texture , so felt that a canvas would take lots of texture paste , glue, and paint . This has  elements from the catalyst card and lots of  stamped cogs ( these were a bit of a challenge to cut out ! ) along with the 3 clocks from the Time is Free stamp set . This was all layered up with the addition of some fabric flowers for more texture . 

This is a very simple card , but I think just as effective as some of my other samples . Just few spritzes of some distress sprays and the clock from the Wasted Time stamp set and sentiment from Time is Free stamp set . Stamped directly on to the background . 

This I think is my favourite sample and again fairly simple to make , most of the work was already done for me with these gorgeous catalysts cards  .This large clock from the Wasted Time set  is a great main feature, so I just added 3 butterflies to complement it . 

This last sample is again full of colour , you will have noticed I can’t resist the bright colours of the catalyst cards and there are some gorgeous ones in this new  release. I topped the two panels with the smaller clocks and cogs in the collection , just adding a little colour here  and there. Finished with a sentiment from the transparencies . 

I hope you have enjoyed looking through my samples as much as I enjoyed making them . There are so many lovely  products in this release , absolutely something for everyone , whatever your style of crafting , the possibilities are endless . 

Happy crafting 

Calee

You can find products in the new release on the Bee crafty website 

Clocks and Catalyst March 2025

Sally CT - Samples for March 2025 New Products

 

Hi There! Yesterday we had a fabulous time launching two brand new stamp sets, 2 new sets of Catalyst cards with 3 sizes and full colour or greyscale options and some gorgeous transparency sentiments. My first card was created during my facebook live which you can find here for the next 30 days.  

The new Catalyst cards are absolutely gorgeous and it is very easy to create a quick and simple card like this with them. 

In my journal I created a rainbow background with dylusions paints then used the stamps and transparencies to create these pages.

By stamping a panel of card with the clocks and cogs, I made this clean and simple card. 

This z fold card showcases another of the stunning papers and one of the stamp sentiments. The clock was coloured using inks blended through 2 different texture discs. 

The brand new ledger catalyst cards were perfect for this vintage effect card.

I love the colours on this catalyst card! A perfect backdrop for the simply stamped and embossed clocks. 

I smooshed some ink onto a piece of card that was a perfect fit for the large clock with just enough space for the sentiment. I also added some stamped cogs to that gorgeous design of catalyst card. 

Finally this rainbow card was made by brushing ecoline inks over a piece of watercolour card and adding a few sprinkles of salt. Once it was dry I stamped the clocks and cogs and added the transparency sentiment. 

The new stamps, transparencies and catalyst cards can be found on the website following this link:

March Clocks Transparencies and Catalyst Cards

Thanks for looking!