Abstract blue Christmas

 

Hi there! I am here with a little more inspiration for our Blue Challenge over in the Bee Crafty Stamps Facebook group. This sort of card doesn't have to be a Christmas one. You could use it for just about anything. Here is how I made it.

I began by spraying a piece of mixed media card with Blue sprays - I used oxide ink spray and distress spritz.

Once this was dry, I stamped a doodle art Mandala from set #2 onto the background and heat embossed in gold

Next I used the same process to add some doodle art snowflakes

Across the background I used more stamps from the doodle Art snowflake set and stamped in Chipped Sapphire distress oxide ink.

 On a scrap of blue card, I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment in gold. 

Finally I matted and layered the background to a white 5"square card and added the sentiment with 3d foam pads. 

Here it is again capturing the shine from the embossing.

I used:

Doodle Art Mandalas set #2

Doodle Art Snowflakes (Discontinued)

9cm square of mixed media card

Distress oxide sprays - I used prize Ribbon and Salty Ocean

Distress Spritz - I used Uncharted Mariner

Distress oxide ink - I used Chipped Sapphire

Gold embossing powder

5x5" card blank

Coordinating card for matting and layering

Thanks for looking! 

Take time to breathe

Hi There! Thought I would take a little break from Christmas prep and have a few minutes art journaling. This is how the pages came together.
 

I began by spraying distress oxide sprays in spun sugar, Wild Honey and Prize ribbon onto a page in my Dylusions journal. I used a brush to make it a little more evenly spread. 

When this was dry I used a face from the A5 Rainbow Thoughts Catalyst collage papers and added it to the page using Matte Medium.

Using Journaling Essentials #9 stamp set I added some stamping to the background using coordinating distress oxide inks then left to dry completely.

Finally I added a handwritten sentiment using acrylic markers.

Here are the finished pages again.

I used:

Rainbow thoughts A5 Catalyst collage papers

Journaling Essentials #9 stamp set

Distress oxide sprays - I used Spun Sugar, Wild Honey and Prize Ribbon

Distress oxide inks - I used Wild Honey, Broken China, Picked Raspberry and Wilted Violet

Matte Medium

Posca pens or other Acrylic pens

I really enjoyed doing this although writing it myself is still out of my comfort zone! I hope you can join me for my Facebook live over on the bee crafty Facebook page at 8pm this evening. 

Thanks for looking! 

Blues

 

Hi There! We have a new challenge in the Bee Crafty Facebook Group where the theme is Blues, so here is a little inspiration for you.

I began by spraying a piece of mixed media card with 3 shades of Distress oxide sprays. 

I dried this and also smooshed another couple of pieces for future projects with the overspill onto the glass mat.

I used the star Dinkable and the embossing dabber to add embossing ink to 2 thirds of the blue background....

...before adding sparkly clear embossing powder and heat setting it.

Using another dinkable, I added prize ribbon distress oxide to the remaining 3rd of the background. 

I matted and layered this onto a 5" square white card. 

Next, I stamped the Christmas tree in brilliance ink onto a piece of frosted shrink plastic. 

I carefully cut this out trying to avoid smudging the wet ink, before shrinking and drying with a heat gun. If you haven't used shrink plastic before, it is good to have a pokey tool or tweezers to hand as it wriggles as it shrinks. 

Finally I added the tree, along with a wordy sticker sentiment to the card using 3d foam pads. This was a really fun make. 

I used:

Dinkables - I used dinkables from set 1 and set 8

Bee Crafty Doodle Art Christmas tree stamp set

Winter wordy stickers

9cm square mixed media card

Distress Oxide sprays

Embossing dabber

Clear sparkle embossing powder

Shrink plastic

Distress oxide ink - I used Prize Ribbon

Brilliance ink - I used Mediterranean Blue 

5x5" white card

3d foam pads

Thanks for looking!