Spring Zing!

 

Hi There! It's 1st April and time for a new Challenge theme in the Bee Crafty Facebook group. I chose Spring Zing for the theme this month. Think citrus colours and spring themed images for this one. I created this journal page to inspire you. 

I began by blending 3 shades of Distress oxide ink across the pages - I used spiced Marmalade, Twisted Citron and Mustard Seed. 

Next, I lifted off some of the colour, by spraying the Bakewell Big one inkable with water, laying it over the page and blotting with a clean cloth. I then dried it completely with a heat tool. 

In other areas on the page, I used the tag inkable to add some more spiced marmalade and Twisted Citron inks using a blending brush. 

I added stamping using the same inks and the worker stamps from the Daisy stamp set. 

On a separate piece of smooth card, I stamped the daisy in memento ink and coloured it using alcohol markers before cutting it out. I cut the daisy head from the stem as it was too tall for the page. This also allowed me to angle it differently. 

I added this daisy to the background using Matte Medium. 

next I followed the same steps for the larger daisy from the sketchy flowers set. 

on a thin strip of card I stamped the sentiment and cut to separate each word. 

I splattered the page with Spiced Marmalade distress spritz and added the sentiment and the small daisy using Matte Medium.

Finally I added faux stitching and a few highlights using Gelly Roll Moonlight pens.

Here are the finished pages once more. 

I used:

Bee Crafty Doodle Art Daisy stamp set

Sketchy Flowers Stamp set

Big ones inkable - I used Bakewell

Tag inkables - I used set #1

5x5" sketchbook

Distress oxide inks - I used Mustard seed, Twisted Citron and Spiced Marmalade

Black Memento ink

Alcohol markers

Matte Medium

Gelly Roll Moonlight pens 

I do hope you can join in the challenge this month. 

Thanks for looking!