Crafty Salutations: August 2026

Wednesday, 19 August 2026

More hot colours

Hi There! I have made a journal page using hot colours for todays inspiration for the Bee Crafty Challenge. Here is how it came about.

I began by stamping the leaves from Journaling Essentials #2 in Carrot Orange and Cheerful Versafine Clair ink onto a scrap of card. I cut them out leaving a small white border.

On another piece of card, I stamped three of the large flowers from Journaling essentials #9 in black Versafine Clair ink and coloured them using Ecoline brush pens in various shades of yellow, orange, red and pink. I cut them out.

Using Gellyroll Moonlight Pens, I added faux stitching and dots to the flowers.

I trimmed off the white border from a piece of A5 catalyst Collage paper and stuck it into my A5 journal. I used a couple of the smaller worker stamps from Journaling Essentials #9 to add tiny circles in Carrot orrange ink and small crosses in Charming pink ink to the background.

I arranged the flowers and leaves on the page and fixed them in place using Matte medium.

Finally I added a wordy sticker sentiment, faux stitched border and some white pen hearts to finish it off.

I used:

Journaling Essentials stamp sets #2 and #9

Catalyst Collage papers - I used Daisy Sunshine A5

Wordy Stickers - I used 1B

Versafine Clair ink - I used Carrot Orange, Cheerful, Charming Pink and Nocturne

Ecoline brush pens/ watercolour markers

Gellyroll Moonlight pens

White Posca pen

Matte Medium

There are still another 12 days to enter the hot colours challenge in the Bee Crafty Stamps group. I do hope you can join in!

I will be live at 8pm tonight on the Bee Crafty Facebook page too. Come and join us!

Wednesday, 12 August 2026

Seahorse Blues

Hi There! I am still playing with the beautiful Doodle Art Seahorse. Here is a card I made in shades of blue.

I began by lightly blending a 4.5" square of card with Blueprint sketch and Mermaid lagoon Distress inks.

I used mandala #1inkable and blended ,ore of the same ink over it

on a seperate piece of card I blended the same inks much more heavily and dried it off.

I stamped the seahorse in embossing ink onto this panel and heat embossed in white, before cutting it out.

I matted and layered the 4.5inch square to the front of a 5" square card and added the seahorse using 3d foam pads. I also stamped some bubbles near the seahorse's head.

I used the Versafine clair ink to also stamp some little fishes randomly around the page.

Here is the finished card with room for a sentiment if needed later

I used

Doodle Art Seahorse stamp set

Inkable mandala #1

Distress inks - I used Blueprint Sketch and Mermaid Lagoon

Embossing ink

White Embossing powder

Versafine clair ink - I used Bali Blue

5x5" card blank

4.5" square super smooth card panel

Thanks for looking!

Wednesday, 5 August 2026

Hot, Hot, Hot!

Hi There! Our Challenge theme over on the Bee Crafty Facebook group this moth is to use hot colours. Here's a little bit of inspiration to get you started.

I began by blending distress oxide inks in Mustard Seed, Ripe Persimmon and Abandoned Coral across a double page in my 5x5" journal.

Next I blended some Lumberjack Plaid Distress oxide ink though a Dinkable from set 8.

I gave the pages a little spritz with Spiced Marmalade distress spritz to add a little sparkle.

Once this was dry I used the dots dinkable from set 2 to apply some white gesso.

I used aged Mahogany Distress oxide inks to stamp some of the journaling essentials #9 around the page.

on a separate piece of watercolour card I stamped two of the Doodle Art Fishes in Black versafine clair and coloured them using distress inks in picked Raspberry and Ripe Persimmon before cutting them out.