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Hi There! Here is a page in my little journal that I made. Here's how I did it. 

I began by blending Mermaid Lagoon and Wilted violet Distress oxide ink down the page. 

Next I took a piece of stamping tissue and stamped it with the script background stamp in Bali Blue Versafine Clair.

I added it to the page using matte medium and left it to dry.

Once it was dry I removed the excess tissue from the edges and used the innie from the 4" circle easy frame to draw around with a distress crayon. I blended this with my finger

Using opaque texture paste and a tag inkable I added the swirl bottom left. 

I had a Doodle Art dragonfly already stamped on to catalyst card that matched beautifully. I used a quicky glue pen and some gilding flakes to add a few highlights to the dragonfly and a faux stitched line to the background, before adding the dragonfly using matte medium.

Finally I added the wordy sticker sentiment.

I used:

Background Script stamp

Doodle Art dragonfly stamp set

Easy Frame Circle 4" 

Inkables tag set 4

Bee Crafty Stamping Tissue

Bee Crafty Catalyst card A5

Wordy stickers 3B

Distress oxide ink in Mermaid Lagoon and Wilted violet

Versafine Clair ink in Bali Blue and Nocturne

Matte Medium

Texture paste

Distress Crayon

Quickie glue pen

gilding flakes

Small journal/ sketchbook

Sorry I was missing last week. After 4 months of living with us after they had sold their house, our daughter and her partner got the keys to their new house. We helped them move in over a couple of days and they have been busy unpacking over the weekend. It's not easy when your possessions are spread between both parents houses and a storage unit. It sounds like they are making good progress now. 

I will be live tonight over on the Bee Crafty Facebook page. I hope you can join me! Thanks for looking! 

A Dreamy tag

 Hi There! Thought I would show you how I made this mixed media tag today. 

I began by Gessoing an MDF tag.

Next I added some Distress matte texture paste through a texture disc. Alongside I smoothed on a thin layer of the crackle texture paste too.

Once this was dry I sprinkled liberally with Atlas and Elf explosion powder and spritzed with water, before setting it aside to dry.

On a piece of mixed media card I stamped and gold embossed the mandala 3 times, cutting out layers on each one. 

I used ecolines and a waterbrush to colour the layers

Once these were dry I layered them with ultra thick gel medium onto the tag.

I brushed a little Gilt paint around the edge of the tag and added a ribbon, a gem in the centre of the mandala and a sentiment. 

And here is a close up of that texture! 

I used:

MDF Victorian Tag

Distress texture paste - matte

Distress texture paste - crackle

Elf and Atlas Explosion powders

Texture disc

Doodle Art Mandala stamps set 1

Gold embossing powder

Ecoline pens

Ultra thick gel medium

Handwritten words 2 Stamp Set

Dina Wakely Gilt paint

Thanks for looking! 

A first page in my black journal

Hi There! I thought it was time I did a couple of pages in my Dylusions black journal. I hadn't started it yet, despite having it for several months! 

I began by brayering 5 colours of Dylusions shimmer paint down my pages.

I added distress texture paste at opposite corners through the fernando big ones inkable.

Next I stamped some of the smaller Doodle art Mandala stamps in versafine clair ink in the spaces. 

I also stamped a range of the mandalas from both sets onto scraps of white card. 

I coloured these using highlighter pens (These are Zebra Mildliners and have a fine tipped end that is good to colour with) and cut them out.

I also stamped and cut out the top half of the sentiment from ticker tape 1.

I stuck these onto the page using matte medium. 

Here is the finished page at two different angles so you can see the shimmer. I was tempted to add more stamping in the background, but didn't want to cover up the shimmer paint. 

I used:

Dylusions mini black journal

Shimmer paint in Fresh Lime, Polished Jade, London Blue, Crushed Grape and Bubblegum Pink. 

Ranger Mini brayer

Distress Matte Texture paste

Big ones inkable - Fernando

Doodle art mandalas 1 and 2 (available as a bundle and seperately) 

Ticker Tape 1 stamp set

highlighter pens

Versafine Clair ink

White card scraps

Matte Medium

There is a brand new challenge over in the Bee Crafty Stamps facebook group where you can win £20 worth of stamps. Hope you can come and join in the fun! 

Thanks for looking! 

A journal page for Bee Crafty

 Hi there! Over the last month I have bought a few new goodies with my birthday money, so it was time to try them out! Here is a journal page in my 8x8 dylusions journal using several of them. 

I used:

8x8 Dylusions Journal

Dina Wakely gloss sprays in Blackberry, sky, Ruby and Tangerine

Mandala Inkable #7

Bee Crafty Over the moon Stamp set

Bee Crafty La Luna stamp set

Bee crafty Moon and stars sentiment stamp set

Texture paste

Gel medium

Collage paper

Gold embossing powder

Gold gilding wax

Posca pen

Archival ink

Versamark ink

Gold Liquid pearls

A small piece of black card

Here's what I did:

I applied some texture paste through the mandala stencil to the page and left it to dry.

Next I sprayed it with the Dina Wakely gloss sprays, then left it to dry very thoroughly

I applied gilding wax to the mandala area before setting the journal aside.

I stamped the la Luna and the moon stamps in versamark onto the collage paper and heat embossed with gold powder.

I cut these out and applied them to the page with gel medium.

I used archival ink to stamp some borders and add a few extra details. Some white pen helped to make them stand out a little.

I stamped and embossed the sentiment onto the black card and cut it out.

I added it to the page with the gel medium, and added a few dots of liquid pearls on the circles and at the corners.

This was the first page in my new journal, although it isn't at the front. I want to get used to working on a bigger page before I attempt that. 

If you do a journal page or a tag this month using Bee Crafty products, you can enter it in the current challenge in the Bee Crafty facebook group for a chance to win some stamps!

Thanks for looking! 

An altered journal for Bee Crafty

 

As Bev from Bee Crafty is on Hochanda tomorrow with some really gorgeous Queen Bee Journaling stamps, I thought I would share this journal cover. I had bought a couple of small sketch books/ journals a while ago from a high street store, but they had the most ridiculous sticky labels on the front and by the time I had got them off, I had managed to damage the cover. This is what it looked like

Today I decided it was time to do something about it! I got the Bakewell Inkable big one and attached to the damaged cover with a pice of masking tape.

Next I applied some texture paste through the stencil with a palette knife. I washed my stencil and palette knife and left the paste to dry.

Once fully dry I painted over with black gesso and again left to dry thoroughly.

Next I rubbed a little gilding wax in 2 different colours over the textured surface.

I added a line with gold pen down the edge of where the stencil came to.

I used the larger of the banner dies from the Tag and Banner die set and cut one from some thick white card.

I used the Typewriter Alpha to stamp the word Journal across the die cut

A little black ink was sponged around the edge before attaching to the front of the journal with foam pads.

A couple of drops of liquid pearls finished it off.

Here is the finished journal. I am rather pleased with that rescue! I am going to do something similar with an A5 pad of mixed media paper for my bullet journal for next year. I am looking forward to improving my journaling skills using the templates and stamps on tomorrow's shows rather than buying a diary (My 2020 diary was a bit of a waste, lol).

I do hope you can join Bev (and Sam) on Hochanda at 1pm Tomorrow (Tuesday 15th December) 

Thanks for looking!