Love Bird journal page

 Hi There! As it is February I thought I would have a little play with some hearts in my 5x5 notebook journal.

I began by cutting a piece of catalyst card to fit the page, rounding the corners and sticking it down.

Next, I used the same design of catalyst card but in greyscale to cut a heart from. I matched it up to the design and drew through the 4" easy frame heart inkable.

Once I had cut out the heart, I sponged some uncharted Mariner around the heart and around the edge of the page. 

Using a blue pen from the gellyroll moonlight pen set, I added some hearts through the dinkable at the top of the page. 

I stuck down the greyscale heart, matching up the papers and added some faux stitching and highlights with the blue and white gellyroll pens.  

On a scrap of white card I stamped the words love and you from Mixed Messages #3 in versafine clair inks. I also stamped a small bird from Journaling essentials #6, cutting them all out. 

Finally, I added them to the page using matte medium and shaded a little pencil around love on the greyscale heart. 

Here is a look at the finished page again alongside the one opposite that I completed in my facebook live last week. you can find it here.

I used:

Catalyst Cards set #1 A5 in both Greyscale and full colour

4" heart easy frame

Dinkables set #14

Journaling essentials #6

Wordage Mixed Messages #3

Versafine Clair ink - I used Warm Breeze and Paradise

Coordinating distress oxide ink - I used uncharted Mariner

Gelly Roll Moonlight pens

Pencil for shading. 

Don't forget, if you find yourself on the Bee Crafty Website from my blog post, you can get yourself an extra 10% off by using my discount code! Just pop BEESALLY10 in at the checkout x

Thanks for looking! 

Beautiful Butterflies!

 

Hi There! I am here today with a step by step tutorial for this journal page. 

I began by spreading matte medium over the page and adding scraps of map, music paper and book pages. I also added some tissue that had been used to mop up some distress oxide sprays (Wild Honey and Salvaged patina)

Next I smooshed some cracked pistachio over the whole page. 

Using the Dinkable from set 13, I added some uncharted Mariner Distress Oxide and inked around the edge of the page.

I also added some texture paste through the dinkable from set 2

Once the texture paste was dry I gave it a little spray with uncharted Mariner Distress spritz, tilting the page to make it run, before setting aside to dry.

On a separate piece of card I stamped the doodle art butterfly twice in Memento ink and coloured with alcohol markers. I cut these out.

using the stamp without an acetate block I added the antennae and body of the butterfly to the page twice. I also stamped a couple of one of the small worker stamps by the page edge.

Finally I added the butterflies, some white splatters, a wordy sticker and some gelly roll moonlight pen highlights to the page. 

Here is the page once more...

...and here is a close up of one of the butterflies.

I used:

5x5" notebook

Matte Medium

Scraps of book paper, music, map, tissue or catalyst card

Distress Oxide inks - I used Cracked Pistachio and Uncharted Mariner

Bee Crafty Dinkables sets 2 and 13

Texture paste

Distress Spritz - I used Uncharted Mariner

Doodle Art Butterfly stamp set

Memento black ink

Alcohol markers

Gelly Roll Moonlight pens

Posca pen for white splats

Wordy stickers - I used 2B

I think this fits the the theme on our bee Crafty Stamps group challenge at the moment, which is Vivid. Hope you can join in! 

Thanks for looking! 

Butterflies galore!

 

Hi There! Thought I would do a journal spread in my black journal for a change, especially with a few new things to play with. Here is how I did it.

I began by drawing around the 6" and 4" butterfly inkable easy frames on the black journal page in white gelly roll pen and on the catalyst paper in black. I cut out the butterfly shapes from the catalyst paper and tore a piece to add to the left hand page.  

I stuck these to the page using matte medium. 

I added a few spots of coordinating shimmer paint with my finger. 

Once this was dry, I used white ink to stamp some of the Journaling Essentials sets 2 and 3 around the page.

I then added a few spots of London Blue shimmer paint in the spaces and set the page aside to dry.

On a scrap of card, I used the shimmer paints to add some colour. I let this dry then heat embossed the Doodle Art butterfly in black.

I cut this out then added it to the page using Distress Collage medium.

Finally I added some faux stitching and accents with Gelly Roll moonlight pens.

Here is the page again. I still can't decide whether to put a sentiment on it, lol. Might add one of the new ones that are out on Monday.

I used:

Mini Black Journal

Catalyst Papers 1 

Inkables Easy Frames 4" and 6"

Dylusions shimmer paint in Pure Sunshine and London Blue

Hero Arts Unicorn White ink

Journaling Essentials #2 stamp set

Journaling Essentials #3 stamp set

Gelly Roll Moonlight Pens

Black versafine clair ink

Ranger black fine detail embossing powder

On Monday at 4pm Bev and Sam are on Hobby Maker with 4 sets of gorgeous new stamps! Hope you can tune in... Here is a sneaky peek! 

They really are stunners! 

Thanks for looking! 

A simple ladybird card

 

Hi There! Thought I would show you how I made this card today. 

I began by smooshing memento ink (anything water based can be smooshed) onto a piece of mixed media card. 

I used the same ink to stamp the background using Journaling essentials 1. 

I stamped some of the freehand borders 1 around the edge and across parts of the background. I also sponged some of the ink around the edges of the card

Next I stamped the Doodle Art Ladybird in black ink in the centre of the card and onto a scrap of white card. I coloured the wings of the ladybird using ecoline pens and attached to the one on the card using 3d glue. 

Finally I added a wordy sticker sentiment along with some gelly roll moonlight neon pink highlights.  

Here's the finished card. 

I used:

Blank white 15x15cm card

14x14cm of Mixed media card

Memento ink in Bahama Blue and Lilac Posies  (Distress ink or Distress oxides would also work)

Journal art Elements #1 stamp set

Freehand Borders#1 stamp set

Doodle Art Ladybird stamp set

Wordy stickers 1b

Black versafine Clair ink

Gelly Roll Moonlight pens

Last Sunday I took part in a Northern Zone Karate tournament. I was an official for some events, judging kata and kumite and also helped to keep the paperwork in order on one of the rings. I entered Team Kata, individual kata and individual kumite (The latter two for over 50s) I was delighted to come away with 3 silver medals and our Nottingham team achieved amazing results! Here are a few photos from the day.

 Thanks for looking! 

Butterflies

Thanks for all your lovely comments on Sunday's posts. I will try and catch up with you over the weekend. Thought I'd pop on with another card I made with some of my Christmas presents, 'Backgrounds 2', 'Happiness is' and Butterfly Script' backgrounds from Inky Doodles. I used antique Linen, tea dye and tumbled glass distress inks for all the backgrounds, then coloured the butterfly with a mixture of Sakura gellyroll pens - some glaze and some star.
Here is a closer picture of the butterfly where you can see some of the sparkle

I also made an easel calendar for my friend who I went to Rwanda with.

This time I decoupaged the butterflies wings too, and dusted clouds onto the background.
I've been doing data analysis every evening all week, and I can't tell you how much my craft table is calling me! I'd written most of this post last weekend, so it didn't need much time to post it.
Thanks again for all the lovely comments. I'd better go - One more year group to analyse and then I'm done until February!
Thanks for looking!