Sunday, February 22, 2026

Alison CT - I wish you saw what I see

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a tag created using Journaling Essentials stamps, Texture Discs, Wordy Stickers and the colours from the Bee Crafty Palette week 3. I find looking back at the different palettes can stimulate ideas for my makes.
To begin, I smooshed fossilized amber distress oxide on to a blending mat.  I spritzed this with water,  then dubbed my tag in to it. I dried this, then repeated twice more.
Next, I blended peeled paint distress oxide through one of the texture discs from set 4.
Then, I blended uncharted mariner distress oxide through one of the texture discs from set 2.
I added a faux stitched border to the tag using an orange micron pen. 
After that, I stamped the dangling leaves, from Journaling Essentials 9, on the top and bottom of the tag.  I used tumbled glass distress oxide to do this.
I, then, glued the tag to a piece of black card. 

Next, I used Versafine Clair nocturne to stamp two of the long stem/leaf like stamp on to a piece of card, using the second generation ink to stamp it directly on to the tag. 
Then, I stamped two of the flower on to separate card.  

Whilst waiting for the ink to dry, I added the small crosses stamp to the background of the tag.
I coloured the separate images and those on the tag using fossilized amber,  peeled paint and carved pumpkin distress watercolour pencils. I then cut the separate images out. I added white posca pen to the images.
I glued these to the tag, using foam pads for the flower and its centre.
Finally,  I added a Wordy Sticker sentiment, which I drew a border around using the orange micron pen. 
Products used:
White Tag
White Posca Pen
Orange Micron Pen 
Distress oxide - fossilized amber,  peeled paint,  uncharted mariner, tumbled glass 
Distress Watercolour Pencils - fossilized amber,  carved pumpkin,  peeled paint 

Thank you for taking a look.
Alison 

Thursday, February 19, 2026

Calee CT - Journaling Essentials Stamps Tag


Hi , I am still playing with my journaling stamps and this week have a tag for my step by step guide .


As with the other projects I have made using journaling stamps,I have tried to use just one set of, giving my self a bit of a challenge . So one tag and set # 5 Art Journaling Essentials stamps .


Using 3 distress inks ,Rustic Wilderness ,Saltwater Taffy and Broken China , I created a watery smooshed background . I did dry my tag between each colour to keep the colours crisp .


Next I added some stencilling using Dinkables from sets 11 and 4 ,this time using Distress oxides , kitsch Flamingo and Twisted Citron inks for a more opaque /dense coverage .


Using the same section of inks I then added more stamping to my background ,this was done with the smaller stamps from the same journaling set .The background was then finished with a doodled border using a black fine liner and some white dots added detail to my leaves .


Next ,from this set I stamped both flowers and coloured with a mixture of the inks used for the background and some Ecoline water colour pens .The flowers were then cut out ready to add to my tag .


 Here is my finished tag with the flowers glued on and a wordy sticker from set Autumn B added for my sentiment As this tag is really not autumnal at all , it shows just how versatile this stickers are .

Thank you for stopping by this week. If you haven’t already why not have a go at creating with some journaling stamps and entering this months challenge ?

Happy crafting 
Calee

Below are a list of the products I used for my tag :

A white tag , black fine liner pen and white gel pen.  


Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Sally CT - More Challenge inspiration

Hi There! I am here with a journal page step-by-step tutorial for you today using Catalyst Collage papers and Journaling essentials stamps. Here's how it came together. 

I began by cutting a piece of Catalyst collage paper to fit across the pages. I used collage medium to stick it down. 
Once this was dry, I added distress oxide inks to the two panels either side of the paper. 
Next I sprayed the tag inkable with water, laid it onto the inked areas and blotted with a piece of kitchen roll. 
Once this was dry, I used Journaling Essentials set #9 and Black Versafine Clair to add stamping around the pages. 
I added wordy stickers and some faux stitching with a gelly roll moonlight pen....
along with some sharpie pen to finish off. 
Here is the finished page again. 

I used:
Catalyst Collage papers - Painted Petals and Portraits A5
Distress Oxide inks - I used Faded Jeans, Abandoned Coral and Fossilized Amber
Black Versafine Clair ink
Sharpie

I am really happy with how these pages came together, but I am not totally sure they don't need a couple of flowers added on the right-hand page. 
I will sleep on it and maybe add something extra another day.

Hope this has inspired you to enter the Facebook Group challenge this month where all we ask is you use one of the 9 sets of Journaling Essentials stamps or transparencies that you can find here

Thanks for looking! 

Sunday, February 15, 2026

Alison CT - Create Your Future Self

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a card created using Journaling Essentials stamps as inspiration for Sally's challenge in the Bee Crafty Facebook group. I've also used the colours from the week 4 palette as it was one that particularly inspired me.
To begin, I created a background by smoothing worn lipstick distress oxide on to a blending mat, then spritzing with water.  I dipped my card into this ink three times, drying with a heat gun between dips.
Using an aqua green Posca, I drew through the line and circles inkable tag, from set 5.
I then stamped the dots, from Journaling Essentials 9, using Charming Pink Versafine Clair ink. 
Using Versafine Clair Monarch ink, I stamped the grid from Journaling Essentials 9 four times onto the background. 
On separate card, I stamped four of the flower from Journaling Essentials 8 and three of the leaves from Journaling Essentials 4. I stamped one leaf with Worn Lipstick and two with Spun Sugar distress oxide. 
I coloured one flower with Worn Lipstick and one with Spun Sugar.  The other two I left white. I, then, cut them out. 
Next, I edged the background piece with Spun Sugar distress oxide ink and glued it to a 5 x 7 card blank before decoupaging the flower and adding it and the leaves to the card.
Finally,  I added a sentiment from the The Best Things Take Time transparency prints sheet.
Products used:

Thank you for taking a look. Why not have a go and enter the challenge to be in with a chance of winning a £20 voucher to spend at Bee Crafty. 

Alison

Thursday, February 12, 2026

Calee CT - Joy & Happiness

Hello , this week I have simple card design for my step by step , combining inspiration for this weeks colour palette and Sally’s challenge theme of using Journaling Essentials stamps .


My first step was to collect some inks , both distress and distress oxide, which fitted within the colour palette and a white piece of card . 


Choosing two of the inks , Evergreen Bough and Cracked Pistachio I created a smooshed background using some acetate and spritz of water . 


After adding a little Villainous Potion in the same way . I choose stamp set Journaling Essentials #9 ,intended to use just one set of stamps to create this card .


Using the smaller stamps and this week’s palette of colours, some random stamping added to my background. 


Taking the large flower stamp from this set I stamped and coloured two flowers , These were coloured with a combination of distress inks and Ecoline water colours pens . White details were added with a gel pen. 


After trying the coloured flowers on my background , I decided to use just one and added a stamped stem and leaves.This was done using Journaling Essentials #3 and stamping directly on to my background . A stitched border was added at this stage with white posca pen.

My card was finished off with a sentiment from the wordage stamp set , Phrases and Sentiments 1 . Then mounted on to a white card blank. 

This is fairly simple card design , and although I did use  two sets of journaling stamps in the end , I hope it shows what you can create with just a few products . 
Thank you for stopping by by this week 
Happy crafting
Calee
Here is a list of the products I used  : 
A sheet of white card , a white card blank and Ecoline water colour pens . 

                                                   





Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Sally CT - Journaling on index cards

 


Hi There! I am here with a couple of index cards for my blog post today. These are a great way to art journal in miniature without the expense of a purpose made journal. I used the Bee Crafty Palette for this week. I also used Journaling Essentials stamps so these are more inspiration for our challenge in the Bee Crafty Stamps facebook group. 


I began by smooshing the index cards with distress inks. I used a piece of acetate to apply the inks with. 

I used a couple of Dinkables to apply some Villainous Potion distress ink to the inked background.

Using Journaling Essentials sets #5 and #8, I used the prize ribbon and iced spruce to add some stamping to the background. 

I chose focal images from the same stamp sets and stamped these in Black versafine clair onto the backgrounds. 
 
I stamped the flowers again onto some white card, cut them out and coloured them using ecoline markers. 
finally I added these along with some wordy stickers to the backgrounds. Some faux stitching using a gelly roll moonlight pen finished them off.
Here are each of the cards.


I used:
Index cards
Wordy stickers
Distress inks - I used iced spruce, Prize ribbon, Twisted citron, Villainous potion
Versafine Clair black ink
Ecoline markers

Thanks for looking! 

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