Flowers in her hair

Hi There! I am loving spending time art journaling at the moment, so here is a double page spread I have been working on, and how it came together. 
 

I began by tearing around one of the Rainbow Thoughts A5 Catalyst Collage papers to fit it into a 5x5" journal. I stuck it to the page using Matte Medium. 

Next, I selected Distress Oxide inks in Seedless Preserves, Worn Lipstick, Prize Ribbon and Carved Pumpkin. Using a damp paint brush I extended her hair from the collage paper across the second page.  

I used the same colours of ink to stamp two of the smaller doodle Art Mandalas over the inked page. 

Whilst the background was drying, I stamped a selection of flowers from Doodle Art Blooming Blooms and Journaling Essentials #4 stamp sets. I coloured them using ecoline and Gelly Roll Moonlight pens and cut them out. 

I attached these to the right hand page using matte medium. 

I also stamped some of the smallest Blooming Blooms flowers in grey versafine Clair ink in the spaces.

I added a sentiment to the page and coloured in the centres of the small flowers using a gelly roll moonlight pen. 

Here's the finished pages again. 

I used:

 Catalyst Collage papers - A5 Rainbow Thoughts

Doodle Art Mandala Stamp set#1

Doodle Art Blooming Blooms stamp set

Journaling Essentials #4 stamp set

Matte Medium

Distress oxide inks in Seedless Preserves, Worn Lipstick, Prize Ribbon and Carved Pumpkin

Versafine Clair ink in Nocturne and Morning Mist

Ecoline Pens

Gelly Roll Moonlight pens

Dylusions bigger Back Chat stickers

There's an offer on both the Catalyst Collage papers and the Doodle Art Stamps at the moment, so do check that out on the website. 

Thanks for looking! 

Oodles of Circles

 

Hi There! We have a new challenge over on the Bee Crafty Stamps Facebook group with a theme of circles. Here's how my circles journal page came together. 

I began by sponging some Broken China distress oxide ink down the centre of the pages. 

Next, I sprayed a circle dinkable with water, laid it onto the oxide ink and then mopped up the excess water with kitchen towel. 

Once this was dry, I added some Rainbow Bubbles catalyst collage paper on each side with matte medium. I left a gap on the right hand page for the next step. 

I cut out some circles from a sheet of the Circles and Butterflies Catalyst Collage paper and added them to the page, including in the gap I left on the right page.

I cut around the edge of the circles on the edge of the page. 

Using a posca pen and the dinkable from earlier, I added some more circles to the page. 

I used some of the circle stamps from Journaling essentials set 1, along with coordinating Distress Oxide inks to add some subtle stamping to the page.

On a separate sheet of card, I stamped half of the large gerbera and 3 small ones in black versafine clair ink. I coloured them using Dina Wakley gloss drops and cut them out. 

Finally, I added these and a wordy sticker sentiment to the pages using matte medium. 

Here are the finished pages once more. 

I used:

Dinkable set #3

Catalyst Collage papers - I used Rainbow Bubbles and Circles and Butterflies in A5 

Journaling essentials #1 stamp set Available as a part of this bundle

Doodle Art Gerbera stamp set

Distress oxide inks - I used Broken China, Crackling Campfire, Picked Raspberry and fossilized amber.

Black versafine Clair ink

Mister spray

Dina Wakley Gloss Drops

Matte Medium

5x5" journal

I will be doing a Facebook live for Bee Crafty at 8pm this evening so I hope you can join me! 

Thanks for looking! 

Colour Palette inspiration

Hello there! When I saw this week's Bee Crafty Palette I just had to have a play as it is so beautiful! Here's how my journal pages came together. I didn't have distress oxide ink in Evergreen bough so I used Lucky Clover instead as it looks similar. 
 

I began by blending the distress oxide inks across both pages. There were a few marks on the page from the page after this one, but it is amazing how those marks can become a part of the design. 

Next I used the Bakewell inkable to add some of the darker colours to the page. 

I also splattered it with some Picked Raspberry Distress spritz and left it to dry.  

Using the Leaf from Dinkables set 6, I sponged some lucky clover ink to add leaves around the page. 

On a separate piece of card, I stamped two doodle Art Butterflies and coloured them in using coordinating ecoline pens. When these were dry I cut them out.  

Using a scrap of black card, I stamped the sentiment from the Small Words stamp set in embossing ink and used white embossing powder to heat set it. I cut it out. 

On the background I stamped the butterflies so their antennae didn't need cutting out, then glued the butterflies over the top. I also added the sentiment and a few highlights with gellyroll Moonlight pens.

I used:

Big one Inkable - Bakewell

Dinkables set 6

Doodle Art Butterfly stamp set

Small words stamp set

Distress Oxide inks - I used lucky Clover, Speckled egg, Fosilized Amber, Saltwater Taffy and Picked Raspberry

Distress Spritz - Picked Raspberry

Ecoline Pens

Black versafine Clair ink

Embossing ink

White embossing powder

Gelly Roll Moonlight Pens

It's such a lovely combination of colours  - Hope you get the chance to play too! 

Thanks for looking! 

 

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! 

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! 

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.

I added them to the page using matte medium and also stamped the bubbles from the fish set by each fishes mouth. 

Finally I finished the page with a Wordy sticker. 

I used:

Doodle Art Fishes stamp set

Journaling Essentials #9 stamp set

Dinkables set 2 and set 8

Wordy stickers 1B

Distress spritz I used Spiced Marmalade

Black versafine Clair ink

Distress oxide inks - I used Mustard Seed, Ripe Persimmon, Abandoned Coral, Lumberjack Plaid and Aged Mahogany

Distress inks - I used Picked Raspberry and Ripe Persimmon

White gesso

I will be live at 8pm this evening on the Bee Crafty Facebook page. I hope you can join me! Thanks for looking!