Ali CT - Tree Anniversary

This week I'm sharing how to make this clean and simple card using one of the Bee Crafty Easy Frames and one of the Beautanical silhouette stamps, any of the silhouettes would work with technique but I do have a thing for Tree stamps 🌳

Cut a piece of white card 6 1/4" x 6 1/4", pick 3 shades of blue plus a purple distress oxide.

Lay the 6" Circle Easy Frame over the white card, a little towards the top. Colour the centre with Tumbled Glass, blend Broken China around this, then Blueprint Sketch and finally Villainous Potion around the edge of the circle.

Spritz water over the coloured circle, wait for a few moments and then dab off the water using kitchen paper. Remove the Easy Frame and dry the card using a heat gun.

The silhouette tree is a big stamp so a stamping platform is very useful. Wipe an anti static pad over the dry card, position the stamp over the left hand side and stamp the tree using Black Versafine ink. Multi stamp to get a solid black image. 

Heat emboss with clear embossing powder.

Stamp some of the flying birds from the Art Stamps Birds & Moons, over the edge of the coloured circle and clear heat emboss. I cut the stamp into 2 rather than mask off the other 3 birds.

Pick a sentiment from Everyday Sentiments 2 - XL, stamp this in black at the bottom right, partly over the coloured section and clear heat emboss.

Attach the panel to a black card matt leaving a border of 1/8" and fix it to a 7" x 7" white card blank,

Admire your finished card. 

You could add a couple of gems at the top right and some sparkly highlights with a stardust gelly roll pen but I held back as I know my son in law is not a fan of sparkly things and the simple glossy sheen from the embossing will do.

 

 I hope you have enjoyed this post and thank you for stopping by xxx

Products used

• Bee Crafty Inkables Easy Frames Circle 6"
• Bee Crafty BEAUtanicals Silhouette Tree Perennial
• Bee Crafty Art Stamps - Birds & Moons
• Bee Crafty Everyday Words 2 XL
• Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide
• Broken China Distress Oxide
• Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide
• Villainous Potion Distress Oxide
• Black Versafine Clair ink pad
• Water Spritzer
• Clear Embossing powder
• 7" x 7" white square card blank
• Black and White card
• anti static pad, stamping platform, heat tool, pva glue

Alison CT - Doodle Art Bee

Hi everyone, today I thought I would share how I created this card using the doodled bee stamp.

To begin, cut a piece of Talens Art Creation watercolour paper to 6.5 x 4.5 inches and spritz with water. Scribble the pastel blue Ecoline pen onto a super skinny slim. Using a wet paint brush pick up the ink and apply to the card. Repeat with the sky blue Ecoline pen. Ensure you dry the super skinny slim between colours, so that you don't contaminate your pen with water. Add a few splatz of the darker blue.  Leave to dry naturally.

Using the honeycomb multi 6x6 inkable with a 005 micron pen, draw areas of honeycomb across the background.

Stamp the plain scribbled circle, from the Journal art elements 2 stamp set, three times using Versafine Clair Nocturne.

Stamp the bee both on your background and on a seperate piece of card. I do this to save fussy cutting out the legs and antennae. 

Colour the bee using Ecoline brush pens and a paint brush. 

Cut the bees body and wings out.

Glue directly over the one stamped on the background. Stamp your chosen sentiment.

Mount on to a piece of blue card, then a 7 x 5 inch card blank. 

Products used:

Talens Art Creations watercolour paper

Ecoline pens - sky blue 578, pastel blue 580, deep yellow 202

Super skinny slim

Sakura Micron 005 pen

Inkable 6 x 6 - honeycomb multi

Art stamps - journal art elements 2

Doodle Art - bee

Wordage - small words 1

Versafine Clair - nocturne

Thank you for taking a look and I hope you enjoyed see how I created this card.

Alison

Sally CT - Busy Bee

 

Hi there! I am here with a quick and simple card for you today. Here is how I made it.

I began by blending distress oxide ink through the inkable.
 

Next I stamped some of the honeycomb stamp from the XL Doodle Art Bee set  in the same ink. I also stamped the border in brown Versafine Clair ink. 

I took a piece of watercolour paper and stamped the largest bee in black versafine ink

I coloured it with ecoline pens and cut it out, using a waterbrush to blend the colours on the wings

I attached it to the card using 3d glue and coloured the border. I had left a little fingerprint so disguised it by adding the splatters from the regular sunflower set in vintage photo distress ink. I also stamped 4 flowers from the sunflower set, coloured with moonlight gelly roll pens and a water brush, and added them at the corners. A few more highlights with the gelly roll pens on the bee, plus a sentiment finished it off. 

I used:

Honeycombe multi inkable 

XL Doodle art Bee set (This is discontinued, but the regular is available here)

Doodle Art Sunflower set

Wild Honey distress oxide ink

Black and Brown Versafine Clair ink

Ecoline pens

Gelly Roll Moonlight pens

Thanks for looking! 

CT Sharon - Memories

 Memories - CT Sharon

We've had some lovely weather here in Scotland this week and it always makes me bring out the bright colours. I think this card fits the bill for bright colours.

To start with I added acrylic paint to my gel press in stripes with a brayer. I then laid my stencil onto the press.

I took a print still keeping the stencil on. Keep this spotty piece you can use it for a later project. 

Keeping the stencil in the same place brayer over a contrasting colour. It will fill all the holes.

                                                       

Still keeping the stencil on stamp over the holes. No ink just the stamp. 

                  Peel off your stencil and then take your print with your chosen card/paper. Here's how mine came out. 

     Next I added some textures with stamps, inks and a white posca pen. I found it easier to apply clear embossing powder over the inked pieces and emboss.

When I was applying my first layer of acrylic paint I ran my brayer over some copy paper to clean it. It's a shame to waste all that paint and it comes in handy as you'll see.

Using that copy paper I stamped and fussy cut out some butterflies. I then used their die cuts to cut the layers in black card. I stamped and white embossed some sentiments from the winter words set and chopped them up to make the sentiment I wanted.

I took a blank white card and added a black card layer slightly smaller. I then added my gel press panel. I adhered  the coloured butterflies onto the black layers but only using glue down the middles. Because the copy paper is so thin it curls up naturally making for some beautiful wing layers. I then added white highlights and a little bit of stickles to the middles. I then added the sentiment and went around them in the white pen. 

Enjoy your Jubilee weekend!

Products used:

Bee Crafy Inkables: Big ones - Circles #1

Bee Crafty Art Stamps: Faces - See me

Bee Crafty Art Stamps: Journal Art Elements #3

Bee Crafty Art Stamps: Birds & Butterflies stamps & dies

Bee Crafty Wordage: Winter words

Versafine Clair - Nocturne

Ranger: White embossing powder

Ranger: Clear embossing powder

Posca pen: White

Sue CT - Jubilee

Sue CT– Jubilee

 

Hi everyone. I hope you are all enjoying the Platinum Jubilee celebrations happening this week. Because of this, I have decided to use my 6x6 journal and the generous download that Bev included in the Bee Crafty Facebook group of Union flag pennants. If you don’t already belong to the group, come and join us for loads of fun and a great group of Bee Crafty addicts.

 

Products I Have Used

Union Flag Pennants available from the Bee Crafty Facebook Group

Bee Crafty Stamps

Doodle Art Bird House and Matching Dies

Doodle Art Sky Terrace and Matching Dies

Doodle Arts Villa Rose and Matching Dies

Ticker Tape Words 3

Inkables

Big Ones Clouds

Inkable Skyline – Horizons 1

Inkable Skylines – Horizon 2

Ranger Distress Texture Paste Matte

Ecoline Printable Paper

Black Versafine Clair Ink

Micron Pen

6x6 Dina Wakley Journal

Scraps of White Card

Scraps of Black Card

Inktense Blocks

 

I decided to use my Inktense blocks this week for a change, but you could use colouring medium that you like to create the background. I started by painting a random skyline on the page and then allowed to dry.

 

Next, I used the clouds Inkable and Ranger Matte texture Paste to create the clouds in the backgrounds. Once this was dry, I used the Inkable Skylines to create a series of hills with my Inktense blocks.

 

I then resized the pennants from Bev’s download, printed them several times and cut them out.

 

Next, I stamped the Sky Terrace house on Ecoline paper along with several trees and clouds from this and the other sets listed.

I painted them with the Inktense blocks and then die cut them out using the matching dies. They are fairly easy to cut but the dies make it a lot quicker and easier as you can cut several different shapes with just one pass of your machine.

 

Using a pokey tool, I made a small hole in the corners of the pennants and threaded them onto a piece of sewing cotton to give the impression of flying. I then attached them to the corners of the 2 houses I was using to look festive.

Finally, I stamped the words onto a scrap of white card and backed them onto black to make them stand out. I used a black micron pen to create a border around the edge of the page.

 

 Thank you for looking at the blog this week. I hope you all enjoy the Jubilee weekend and get a chance to relax.

 

 

 

  

Summer Vibes By DT Ann

 

Summer Vibes

By Ann

Don’t know about you but I’m ready for some brighter & warmer days.This week I decided to use this Flower Palm stencil, it reminds me of daisies…

I used: 

Dina Wakley 6x6 journal 

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Sprays: Salty Ocean, Wild Honey,Stormy Sky, Tumbled Glass & Antique Linen

Inkable: Flower Palm Big One, Regular Dots 

Dinkable: “scales” from set 7, Sunset from set 3

Versamark Ink

Stazon Ink

Versafine Clair Cheerful & Nocturne 

Embossing Powders white & yellow 

Birds & Butterflies stamp & die set

Handwritten Words 2 stamp set

Distress Oxide Inks: Tumbled Glass, Antique Linen, Salty Ocean & Wild Honey

Ranger Enamel Dots:  Blue Ribbon, Glacier White, Yellow 

Sakura Gelly Roll Pens

Gesso - white 

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Spritz 3 colours of Distress Oxide Spray Inks across a double page… 

Use some white gesso through the Flower Plalm Inkable… 

Dry both pages.. Then line up the Inkable with the gesso’d image & ink with Versamark. Sprinkle over white embossing powder, shake off & heat set…

  I used gesso first but needed the white to be stronger! 

When cooled, add some interest to the background with the ‘Scales’ DInkable & Tumbled Glass. Then Regular Dots  Salty Ocean & Antique Linen Oxide Inks … 

Inks … 

On a piece of paper stamp the butterfly x3, in Versafine Clair Cheerful Ink, sprinkle with Ranger Buttercup Embossing Powder & heat set. Die cut each one …

Create a ‘sun’ using the small Sunset DInkable & Wild Honey Distress Oxide ink… 

Stamp a sentiment, I used one of the new ones from the Handwritten Words 2 set, onto acetate, using Stazon ink. Cut around the sentiment & save… 

Add some doodles with Sakura Gelly Roll & Posca Pens

Use some Enamel Accents to add dots…

Glue your sentiment & the butterflies using Glossy Accents… all done! 

Thanks for stopping by… Ann xxx