Sally CT - Paint Challenge inspiration

 

Hi There! I am here with a little inspiration for the new challenge over in the Bee Crafty Stamps Facebook group, where the challenge is 'Paint'. 

I began by painting the background of my coaster with Dylusions paints. 

When this was dry I added some white gesso through the Bakewell Big one inkable. 

Using the worker stamps from the doodle Art Cone Flower stamp set, I added a little stamping in black Versafine Clair ink. 

On a separate piece of card, I stamped the smaller cone Flower in the same ink and cut it out. I coloured it using distress inks. 

Finally I added it to the background along with some wordy stickers, adding some faux stitching with a gel pen and a fine liner. 

Here it is once more. 

I used:

Doodle Art Cone Flower stamp set

Big ones inkable - Bakewell 

Black Versafine Clair ink

Distress inks  - I used Ripe Persimmon, Mustard Seed and Rustic Wilderness 

White Gesso

Dylusions paints - I used Crushed Grape, Periwinkle and Polished Jade

Matte Medium

Thanks for looking and I hope it has inspired you to enter the Bee crafty Stamps Facebook Group challenge. 

Alison CT - Embossed Frame

Hi everyone today I'm sharing some embossing inspiration for Sally's challenge in the Bee Crafty Facebook group. You only have a couple of days left to get your entries in. 

To begin, collage off cuts of catalyst collage papers to create a background.  Using a finger apply white gesso lightly over the background. This creates a more cohesive background. 

Next blend picked raspberry and wild honey distress oxide ink through the mandala dinkable from set 15. Then using a black fineliner draw through it on to the top half of the page. Then flip it and draw through it on the bottom half of the page.

Next, cut out three of the cover sheet images from the birds and sunflowers A5 catalyst collage papers.  Draw round the edge of each one with an embossing pen and add white embossing powder.  Tip of the excess and return to the pot. Then heat set with a heat gun.

Glue the little pictures to the page using a mix of wet glue and foam pads.

Finally add a sentiment from the Autumn Wordy stickers. Add a scribbled border and dots to the stickers.

Products used:

Off cuts of A5 catalyst collage papers 

Birds and Sunflowers A5 catalyst collage papers 

Dinkables set 15

Autumn Wordy Stickers 

Distress Embossing pen

Ranger White Embossing Powder 

Distress Oxide - picked raspberry,  wild honey 

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison

Calee CT - Autumn is here .

Hello , as you will hopefully know this months challenge theme is embossing . So this week I have a card to share with you for my step by step . 

I have very little experience with any type of embossing , but in the past I have dabbled ,so thought I would give it another go. 

My first step was to have a go at dry embossing , using an inkable and my die cutting machine . I chose the Bakewell  Big One and ran it through my machine with a piece of white card . 

 This is the embossed piece of card , it is a little hard to see the embossing in a photo but it turned out fairly well .

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Next I added some ink , with a blending brush , to highlight the embossing . I chose two colours of distress ink , Picked Raspberry and Mustard seed. 

I then cut my card to size,  to fit a 6x6 card blank, then added a pink boarder on two sides . It was then mounted on to black card and glued down . 

Next I decided to do some heat embossing , and chose a simple stamped image , these mushrooms from  the Doodle Art Mushroom stamp set . 

I coloured these using Ecoline watercolour pens , adding a few white highlights with a gel pen . 

Next for the embossing , using an embossing ink pad and some clear embossing powder , I embossed the tops of the mushrooms . 

Here are the embossed mushrooms , again a little hard to see the effect of the embossing in a photo , but they were super glossy and the colours looked really bright. 

I have to admit that at this point I got alittle carried away with my embossing , and the collection of  (very under used ) embossing powders  I had found . So much so that I forgot to take a the next photo but as you can see I added in a few rain drops and a puddle  . 

After sticking down my mushrooms , this sentiment from the Autumn B wordy stickers completed my card . 

Thank you for taking a look at my play with embossing .  I did really enjoyed revisiting techniques I haven’t done in a long time  . If you haven’t embossed for a while or even if you have never had a go , then maybe this month’s challenge is the perfect opportunity to have ago .

Happy crafting 

Calee 

Here is a list of the products I use this week : 

Inkables: Big One Bakewell 

Distress inks :Picked Raspberry 

               Mustard Seed

Stamps : Doodle Art Mushrooms 

Wordy stickers :sheet Autumn B

A white card blank , sheets of white and black card , clear embossing powder, a white gel pen and Ecoline water colour pens .

Sally CT - Learn from Yesterday Art journaling

 

Hi There! Here's a journal spread that I created using the latest stamps, Dinkables and Catalyst Collage papers from Bee Crafty. Let me show you how I did it.

I began by painting the right page of a double in my Kraft journal with white gesso.

Next, I added some drops of laidback lilac, peony blush and pure sunshine Dylusions paint, and spread them around with my fingers.

Once this was dry I used the lines Dinkable to add some polished jade dylusions paint...

and some white gesso through the Dotty Dinkable. 

I added my selected Catalyst collage paper, torn to fit, to the left page with matte medium. 

Using the same dinkables and paint I added some dots and lines to the left page. I also added a few scraps left over from the papers to the right page with matte medium. 

On a piece of white card, I stamped the largest cone flower and coloured it with coloured pencils. Then I cut it out. 

Finally, I added it to the right page with matte medium, along with some wordy stickers. 

Here are the finished pages again.

I used:

Catalyst Collage papers - I used Birds and Sunflowers A5

Dinkables set 15

Doodle art Cone Flower Stamp set

Wordy Stickers 3B

Dylusions paint - I used laidback lilac, peony Blush, Pure sunshine and polished jade

White gesso

Black ink - I used Versafine Clair Nocturne

Coloured pencils

Matte Medium

There's almost a week left of September , so please don't forget to get your entries in the Bee Crafty Stamps Facebook Group challenge, where the theme is Embossing.

Thanks for looking! 

Alison CT - Painted Petals and Portraits

Hi everyone today I'm sharing an art journal page created mixing some of the new products with older products, as they work together so well.

To begin, I chose one of the Painted Petals and Portraits catalyst collage papers that didn't have a portrait and cut it down to fit my 8 x8 inch journal page. I used matte medium to glue it to the page.

Next I cut out the top three pictures from the cover sheet and glued them to black card. I cut them out leaving a narrow black border.

Then I stamped just the heads of both sizes of Cone Flower, 2 of the large and 3 of the small. I coloured them with distrsss oxide inks and a damp paintbrush.  After adding white posca pen highlights I cut them out.

I used Versafine Clair nocturne ink to stamp some of the pointed leaf stem from the Journaling Essentials 2 stamp set. I then cut parts of these out. I did not want the full length of them.

Next I glued the 3 panels to the page, I used glue for the first one, then for the second one layer of foam tape and the third with a double layer of foam tape.

Next I added the cone flower and leaves, tucking some under the panels and others over the panels.

I added a wordy sticker sentiment on which I drew a scribble border around the edges.

Finally I added a black posca pen faux stitch border to the page.

Products used:

A4 Painted Petals and Portraits catalyst collage papers 

Doodle Art Cone Flower stamp set

Journaling Essentials 2 stamp set 

Wordy Stickers 3

White and Black Posca Pens

Versafine Clair nocturne ink 

Distress Oxide - mustard seed, picked raspberry,  spiced marmalade 

Thank you for taking a look and I can't wait to see what you create with the new products. 

Alison 

Calee CT -Sunflower

Hi , this week for my step by step I have a 6x6 journal page for you . I was really excited  to use the new set of D’inkables for my background so this was my main focus.

My first step then was to choose this grey scale script catalyst card from the #3 pack . This gave my a neutral space to add my stenciling to .

My next step was to look at all of the D’inkables in set 15 and try to choose the ones I wanted to use, not an easy task ! 

I decided to use three of them and then choose 3 Distress ink colours .Two which compliment each other and one contrasting, I used Blue Print Sketch , Lucky Clover and Spiced Marmalade.

They Next I choose a catalyst card from the #2full colour pack with similar colours to my inks .I then tore off a few strips to add to my page . 

While looking for a paper to use I found this sunflower from the Birds and sunflowers catalyst collage papers , which was left over from another project . I decided to use this on my page , so added a stitched out line with a white gel pen around all the petals .

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So my next step was  to create my background with my stencils and inks . To this I added one of my catalyst card strips and and some stamping using the Journaling Essentials # 9.

Next I played around with how I would place my sunflower , deciding it would need a stem . This one is from the large cone flower from the Doodle Art Cone flower stamp set and again was left over from a previous project . 

Here is my finished page , I added a few doodled circles with green and yellow Posca pens and a sentiment from the Wordy stickers Autumn B sheet which I gave a border of  white dots . 

Thank you for taking a look , the products I use this week are below . 

Happy crafting  

Calee

Catalyst cards : #2 & #3.                

                  Catalyst Collage papers :Birds and Sunflowers  

Stamps : Journaling Essentials #9

                   Doodle Art Cone Flower 

Wordy stickers :Autumn B.           

D’inkables: set 15.